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347130

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new psychoactive substances have been identified by the Forensic Early Warning System in each month since its was introduced; and how many of these substances have subsequently been (a) classified under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and (b) subject to a temporary banning order.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government introduced the Psychoactive Substances Bill in the House of Lords on 28 May. This provides for a blanket ban on the production, distribution, sale and supply of new psychoactive substances (NPS), to protect young people from exposure to these new drugs. The Home Office Forensic Early Warning System (FEWS) was set up in January 2011 to bolster national capacity to identify NPS available in the UK. It brings together expertise from forensic laboratories and chemical standard suppliers, UK-wide law enforcement agencies and experts in the field. The system continues to develop a co-ordinated UK-wide approach to laboratory testing and analysis of law enforcement seizures and test purchasing to identify these substances. The number of NPS not previously encountered either in the UK or at EU level, identified by FEWS from January 2011 until March 2014, is not recorded on a monthly basis. The annual figures are set out in the answer to your question of 26 February (PQ 225633). Analysis for 2014/15 will be published in due course. Twenty-two new substances identified under the system up to March 2014 are controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, of which one is currently controlled under a temporary class drug order. FEWS continues to enable us to effectively assess the availability of NPS and take appropriate action.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 270 question first answered 03/06/2015 16:46:30 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

347158

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to increase awareness of new psychoactive substances and their dangers in the last five years; and what the cost of such work has been.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>To increase awareness of the risks of new psychoactive substances (NPS), the Government has recently introduced the Psychoactive Substances Bill, which will bring in a blanket ban of NPS by prohibiting and disrupting production, distribution, sale and supply in the UK. The Bill will give police and other law enforcement agencies greater powers to tackle the trade in NPS, targeting suppliers who profit from their sale with complete disregard for the potential risks and consequences. The Home Office ran two advertising campaigns in 2013 and 2014 targeted at young people, with the objective to raise awareness of the dangers of NPS and signpost the FRANK website for further information and advice. In March 2015, we published a resource pack, written in partnership with front line practitioners, to enable those working with young people to have conversations with NPS users and challenge their drug use by raising awareness of the risks and consequences. Total spend on this NPS communications activity in 2013 to 2015 was £180,556. From 2010 to 2013, the Home Office ran a national campaign raising awareness of FRANK, the national drug information and advice service. The FRANK website contains information about the dangers of NPS. Every year since 2009, Ministers have written to approximately 50 festival organisers highlighting NPS dangers and calling on them to adopt a ‘no-legal highs’ policy for their festivals</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 02/06/2015 16:07:48 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

347160

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what facilities and resources her Department has to assess the chemical content of suspected new psychoactive substances that are identified in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government introduced the Psychoactive Substances Bill in the House of Lords on 28 May. This provides for a blanket ban on the production, distribution, sale and supply of new psychoactive substances (NPS), to protect young people from exposure to these new drugs. The Home Office Forensic Early Warning System (FEWS) was set up in January 2011 to bolster national capacity to identify NPS available in the UK. It brings together expertise from forensic laboratories and chemical standard suppliers, UK-wide law enforcement agencies and experts in the field. The system continues to develop a co-ordinated UK-wide approach to laboratory testing and analysis of law enforcement seizures and test purchasing to identify these substances. The number of NPS not previously encountered either in the UK or at EU level, identified by FEWS from January 2011 until March 2014, is not recorded on a monthly basis. The annual figures are set out in the answer to your question of 26 February (PQ 225633). Analysis for 2014/15 will be published in due course. Twenty-two new substances identified under the system up to March 2014 are controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, of which one is currently controlled under a temporary class drug order. FEWS continues to enable us to effectively assess the availability of NPS and take appropriate action.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 278 question first answered 03/06/2015 16:46:30 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

223663

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual harm prevention orders and sexual offences prevention orders were issued in each of the last five years; and how many such orders were made after a request from a Chief of Police under section 104(5) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	225480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>Sexual harm prevention orders were introduced by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Policing and Crime Act 2014, and will come into force very shortly. <br><br>The Home Office does not collate figures on the number of sexual offences prevention orders imposed by the courts. However, figures for the period from <br>2009 to 2014 are contained in the annual Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements report, published by the Ministry of Justice on the Gov.uk website. The latest report covering the period from April 2013 to March 2014 is available at:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-reports-2013-14" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-reports-2013-14</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 02/03/2015 14:19:30 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

223665

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were under section 14 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	225479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Ministry of Justice</p><p> </p><p>The Government takes very seriously all matters relating to the sexual abuse of children and the protection of society’s most vulnerable. Our laws in this area are some of the most robust in the world and we have sought to strengthen them further by changing the offence of child sexual grooming (to reduce the number of prior contacts that an adult has to have with a child before the offence can be committed from two to one) and creating a new offence of sexual communication with a child amongst other reforms.</p><p> </p><p>Court proceedings data for 2014, including statistics for defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of offences under Section 14 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, are planned for publication in May 2015.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 02/03/2015 17:37:48 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

223666

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sexual Risk Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are subject to sexual risk orders in each police force area.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	225478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>Sexual risk orders were introduced by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Policing and Crime Act 2014, and will come into force very shortly</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 02/03/2015 14:14:05 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

167806

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of images which will be included in the Child Abuse Image Database as its launch.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	217090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>At its launch, the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) contained around 4.4m unique images. This includes every file from the Cheshire Constabulary image library, which sits alongside the interim National Hash Set Database, that has been graded as an indecent image of a child or related material by at least one police force - around 3.53m images. Approximately 870,000 additional images which did not previously appear in the Cheshire library have been provided by other police <br>forces. <br><br>All 4.4m images appearing on CAID have an indicative categorisation based on police force grading. At present, the number of these images that have three independent, undisputed votes is approximately 600,000. This figure will <br>increase as the database is used by more forces.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 216997 question first answered 18/12/2014 14:46:54 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 32153 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

167811

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided for (a) the creation and maintenance of the National Hash Set Database and (b) the creation of the Child Abuse Image Database.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided £41,000 in 2013/14 and £75,000 in 2014/15 from the National Cyber Security Programme to fund the interim National Hash Set Database, which is run by Cheshire Police. The total cost of the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) over three years to March 2017 is currently £3.3 million, chargeable to UK forces and the National Crime Agency.<br><br>iNHSD is a single database managed by a single officer in Cheshire Constabulary and includes only basic meta data alongside an image’s ‘hash’ identifier. CAID provides far more features and functionality for multiple users in each force in the UK and NCA-CEOP and will support enhanced analysis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 17/12/2014 18:16:59 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

167813

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures she has put in place to enable images identified by (a) the Internet Watch Foundation, (b) the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, (c) Interpol and (d) other international law enforcement bodies to be added to the Child Abuse Image Database.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2014 answer text <p>All access to the Child Abuse Image Database will be covered by formal agreements with the relevant parties. These agreements are being developed. It is absolutely our intention to receive images from a wide range of sources, <br>including the Internet Watch Foundation, the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, Interpol, and law enforcement partners internationally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/12/2014 16:58:55 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 32150 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

167816

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of images which will be transferred from the National Hash Set Database to the Child Abuse Image Database and (b) the number of those images which have been verified by three experts.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>At its launch, the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) contained around 4.4m unique images. This includes every file from the Cheshire Constabulary image library, which sits alongside the interim National Hash Set Database, that has been graded as an indecent image of a child or related material by at least one police force - around 3.53m images. Approximately 870,000 additional images which did not previously appear in the Cheshire library have been provided by other police <br>forces. <br><br>All 4.4m images appearing on CAID have an indicative categorisation based on police force grading. At present, the number of these images that have three independent, undisputed votes is approximately 600,000. This figure will <br>increase as the database is used by more forces.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 217090 question first answered 18/12/2014 14:46:54 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 32152 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson