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436288

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bookmakers: Emergency Calls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the causes of recent trends in the number of police call outs to bookmakers.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	19068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect information centrally on the locations to which police officers are called out and has made no assessment of recent trends in the number of call outs to bookmakers.</p><p>It is for Police and Crime Commissioners to decide police priorities at a local level, and for Chief Constables to determine the most appropriate response in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/12/2015 13:07:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

436291

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Personation: Internet
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 is taking to prevent online identity theft.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	19211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <p>Cyber Streetwise is a cross Government campaign designed to improve the online safety knowledge, behaviour and confidence of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and individuals; driving down crime, saving victims’ money and reinforcing perceptions of the UK as a safe place to do business. Since its launch in January 2014, approximately 2 million adults have adopted safer online behaviours that will better protect them. Our 2015/16 strategic approach aims to drive measurable shifts in three key behaviours: using strong passwords made up of three random words; installing security software on all devices; and regularly downloading software updates which experts agree will provide SMEs and individuals with the most protection against cyber-crime.</p><p>The City of London Police and Action Fraud have also brought together advice from a range of sources through the ‘Not With My Name’ campaign, to help people protect their identity, including online. The campaign is supported by the Metropolitan Police Service, Experian, Cifas, Financial Fraud Action UK, Get Safe Online and Cyber Streetwise.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/12/2015 13:09:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

436294

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether victims of crime are informed (a) when prisoners appeal against their sentences and (b) the progress of such appeals.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	19160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Victims of crime are informed of any notice of appeal; the date, time and location of any hearing and the outcome of that appeal, including any changes to the original sentence in accordance with the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime.</p><p>Victims are notified of this information on appeals from the magistrates’ courts to the Crown Court within one working day. For appeals from the Crown Court to the Court of Appeal, vulnerable or intimidated victims will receive this information within one working day and for all other victims of crime within five working days.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/12/2015 12:35:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

436315

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fines: Surcharges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the victims' surcharge has been (a) imposed, (b) collected, (c) cancelled and (d) outstanding for people receiving a (i) conditional discharge, (ii) fine, (iii) suspended sentence, (iv) community sentence and (v) custodial sentence in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the value of victim surcharge orders imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding since April 2011.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Victim Surcharge</strong></p></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><strong>Victim surcharge imposed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge cancelled in the same year of imposition (administrative and legal cancellations) </strong><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge outsanding at end of year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge collected regardless of imposition date </strong><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge legally cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge outstanding regardless of imposition date </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Data is only available in this format from April 2011 onwards 4</p></td><td><p>£501,887</p></td><td><p>£473,116</p></td><td><p>£7,219,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£12,199,956</p></td><td><p>£6,810,532</p></td><td><p>£645,381</p></td><td><p>£4,744,043</p></td><td><p>£10,281,567</p></td><td><p>£1,355,514</p></td><td><p>£1,163,017</p></td><td><p>£10,121,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£15,508,307</p></td><td><p>£7,607,886</p></td><td><p>£888,027</p></td><td><p>£7,012,395</p></td><td><p>£10,517,641</p></td><td><p>£1,605,519</p></td><td><p>£1,384,779</p></td><td><p>£12,084,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£33,726,535</p></td><td><p>£15,343,460</p></td><td><p>£2,265,389</p></td><td><p>£16,117,686</p></td><td><p>£19,548,368</p></td><td><p>£2,395,662</p></td><td><p>£2,937,982</p></td><td><p>£21,110,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£38,631,424</p></td><td><p>£17,302,260</p></td><td><p>£2,350,532</p></td><td><p>£18,978,631</p></td><td><p>£24,569,735</p></td><td><p>£2,362,914</p></td><td><p>£3,711,748</p></td><td><p>£29,381,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><p>The HMCTS Trust Statement also provides financial information on fines, victim surcharge and other types of financial impositions ordered in the criminal courts for each financial year since 2010-11.</p><br /><p>It is not possible to subdivide the value of victims’ surcharge imposed, collected and cancelled into the categories of adults, youths and organisations nor report on how many times the victims’ surcharge was imposed, collected and cancelled for various sentences; to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p><br /> <br /><p>Data notes:</p><p>1. The value of victim surcharge that was cancelled in the same year of imposition cannot be broken down into administrative and legal cancellations.</p><p>2. The ‘total value of victim surcharge collected in a year’ includes the ‘value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition.</p><p>3. The figures representing the total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled include the values of those victim surcharge impositions administratively cancelled in the same year of imposition. Impositions are only administratively cancelled in accordance with a strict criteria. Legal cancellations occur after the case has been reconsidered by a Judge or Magistrate.</p><p>4. The reporting functionality from which this data has been extracted has only been in existence since April 2011 and it is not possible to break the data for 2010 down in the same format.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 19285 19286 19287 question first answered 14/12/2015 15:05:28 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

436321

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fines: Surcharges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value is of victims' surcharge (a) imposed, (b) collected, (c) cancelled and (d) outstanding in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the value of victim surcharge orders imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding since April 2011.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Victim Surcharge</strong></p></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><strong>Victim surcharge imposed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge cancelled in the same year of imposition (administrative and legal cancellations) </strong><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge outsanding at end of year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge collected regardless of imposition date </strong><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge legally cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge outstanding regardless of imposition date </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Data is only available in this format from April 2011 onwards 4</p></td><td><p>£501,887</p></td><td><p>£473,116</p></td><td><p>£7,219,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£12,199,956</p></td><td><p>£6,810,532</p></td><td><p>£645,381</p></td><td><p>£4,744,043</p></td><td><p>£10,281,567</p></td><td><p>£1,355,514</p></td><td><p>£1,163,017</p></td><td><p>£10,121,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£15,508,307</p></td><td><p>£7,607,886</p></td><td><p>£888,027</p></td><td><p>£7,012,395</p></td><td><p>£10,517,641</p></td><td><p>£1,605,519</p></td><td><p>£1,384,779</p></td><td><p>£12,084,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£33,726,535</p></td><td><p>£15,343,460</p></td><td><p>£2,265,389</p></td><td><p>£16,117,686</p></td><td><p>£19,548,368</p></td><td><p>£2,395,662</p></td><td><p>£2,937,982</p></td><td><p>£21,110,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£38,631,424</p></td><td><p>£17,302,260</p></td><td><p>£2,350,532</p></td><td><p>£18,978,631</p></td><td><p>£24,569,735</p></td><td><p>£2,362,914</p></td><td><p>£3,711,748</p></td><td><p>£29,381,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><p>The HMCTS Trust Statement also provides financial information on fines, victim surcharge and other types of financial impositions ordered in the criminal courts for each financial year since 2010-11.</p><br /><p>It is not possible to subdivide the value of victims’ surcharge imposed, collected and cancelled into the categories of adults, youths and organisations nor report on how many times the victims’ surcharge was imposed, collected and cancelled for various sentences; to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p><br /> <br /><p>Data notes:</p><p>1. The value of victim surcharge that was cancelled in the same year of imposition cannot be broken down into administrative and legal cancellations.</p><p>2. The ‘total value of victim surcharge collected in a year’ includes the ‘value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition.</p><p>3. The figures representing the total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled include the values of those victim surcharge impositions administratively cancelled in the same year of imposition. Impositions are only administratively cancelled in accordance with a strict criteria. Legal cancellations occur after the case has been reconsidered by a Judge or Magistrate.</p><p>4. The reporting functionality from which this data has been extracted has only been in existence since April 2011 and it is not possible to break the data for 2010 down in the same format.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 19165 19286 19287 question first answered 14/12/2015 15:05:28 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

436322

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fines: Surcharges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value is of victims' surcharge (a) imposed, (b) collected, (c) cancelled and (d) outstanding for (i) adults, (ii) youths and (iii) organisations in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the value of victim surcharge orders imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding since April 2011.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Victim Surcharge</strong></p></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><strong>Victim surcharge imposed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge cancelled in the same year of imposition (administrative and legal cancellations) </strong><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge outsanding at end of year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge collected regardless of imposition date </strong><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge legally cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge outstanding regardless of imposition date </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Data is only available in this format from April 2011 onwards 4</p></td><td><p>£501,887</p></td><td><p>£473,116</p></td><td><p>£7,219,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£12,199,956</p></td><td><p>£6,810,532</p></td><td><p>£645,381</p></td><td><p>£4,744,043</p></td><td><p>£10,281,567</p></td><td><p>£1,355,514</p></td><td><p>£1,163,017</p></td><td><p>£10,121,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£15,508,307</p></td><td><p>£7,607,886</p></td><td><p>£888,027</p></td><td><p>£7,012,395</p></td><td><p>£10,517,641</p></td><td><p>£1,605,519</p></td><td><p>£1,384,779</p></td><td><p>£12,084,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£33,726,535</p></td><td><p>£15,343,460</p></td><td><p>£2,265,389</p></td><td><p>£16,117,686</p></td><td><p>£19,548,368</p></td><td><p>£2,395,662</p></td><td><p>£2,937,982</p></td><td><p>£21,110,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£38,631,424</p></td><td><p>£17,302,260</p></td><td><p>£2,350,532</p></td><td><p>£18,978,631</p></td><td><p>£24,569,735</p></td><td><p>£2,362,914</p></td><td><p>£3,711,748</p></td><td><p>£29,381,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><p>The HMCTS Trust Statement also provides financial information on fines, victim surcharge and other types of financial impositions ordered in the criminal courts for each financial year since 2010-11.</p><br /><p>It is not possible to subdivide the value of victims’ surcharge imposed, collected and cancelled into the categories of adults, youths and organisations nor report on how many times the victims’ surcharge was imposed, collected and cancelled for various sentences; to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p><br /> <br /><p>Data notes:</p><p>1. The value of victim surcharge that was cancelled in the same year of imposition cannot be broken down into administrative and legal cancellations.</p><p>2. The ‘total value of victim surcharge collected in a year’ includes the ‘value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition.</p><p>3. The figures representing the total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled include the values of those victim surcharge impositions administratively cancelled in the same year of imposition. Impositions are only administratively cancelled in accordance with a strict criteria. Legal cancellations occur after the case has been reconsidered by a Judge or Magistrate.</p><p>4. The reporting functionality from which this data has been extracted has only been in existence since April 2011 and it is not possible to break the data for 2010 down in the same format.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 19165 19285 19287 question first answered 14/12/2015 15:05:29 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

436323

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fines: Surcharges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total is of (a) uncollected and (b) cancelled victims' surcharges.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the value of victim surcharge orders imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding since April 2011.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Victim Surcharge</strong></p></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><strong>Victim surcharge imposed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge cancelled in the same year of imposition (administrative and legal cancellations) </strong><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of victim surcharge outsanding at end of year of imposition</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge collected regardless of imposition date </strong><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge legally cancelled regardless of imposition date 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of victim surcharge outstanding regardless of imposition date </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Data is only available in this format from April 2011 onwards 4</p></td><td><p>£501,887</p></td><td><p>£473,116</p></td><td><p>£7,219,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£12,199,956</p></td><td><p>£6,810,532</p></td><td><p>£645,381</p></td><td><p>£4,744,043</p></td><td><p>£10,281,567</p></td><td><p>£1,355,514</p></td><td><p>£1,163,017</p></td><td><p>£10,121,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£15,508,307</p></td><td><p>£7,607,886</p></td><td><p>£888,027</p></td><td><p>£7,012,395</p></td><td><p>£10,517,641</p></td><td><p>£1,605,519</p></td><td><p>£1,384,779</p></td><td><p>£12,084,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£33,726,535</p></td><td><p>£15,343,460</p></td><td><p>£2,265,389</p></td><td><p>£16,117,686</p></td><td><p>£19,548,368</p></td><td><p>£2,395,662</p></td><td><p>£2,937,982</p></td><td><p>£21,110,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£38,631,424</p></td><td><p>£17,302,260</p></td><td><p>£2,350,532</p></td><td><p>£18,978,631</p></td><td><p>£24,569,735</p></td><td><p>£2,362,914</p></td><td><p>£3,711,748</p></td><td><p>£29,381,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><p>The HMCTS Trust Statement also provides financial information on fines, victim surcharge and other types of financial impositions ordered in the criminal courts for each financial year since 2010-11.</p><br /><p>It is not possible to subdivide the value of victims’ surcharge imposed, collected and cancelled into the categories of adults, youths and organisations nor report on how many times the victims’ surcharge was imposed, collected and cancelled for various sentences; to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p><br /> <br /><p>Data notes:</p><p>1. The value of victim surcharge that was cancelled in the same year of imposition cannot be broken down into administrative and legal cancellations.</p><p>2. The ‘total value of victim surcharge collected in a year’ includes the ‘value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition.</p><p>3. The figures representing the total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled include the values of those victim surcharge impositions administratively cancelled in the same year of imposition. Impositions are only administratively cancelled in accordance with a strict criteria. Legal cancellations occur after the case has been reconsidered by a Judge or Magistrate.</p><p>4. The reporting functionality from which this data has been extracted has only been in existence since April 2011 and it is not possible to break the data for 2010 down in the same format.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 19165 19285 19286 question first answered 14/12/2015 15:05:29 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

435905

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Driving Offences: Speed Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Police and Crime Commissioners have powers to instruct the police to impose fines on motorists found to be travelling at 71 mph in 70 mph zones.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	18955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <p>How the police enforce road traffic law, including in respect of speeding offences, is a matter for their professional judgement and operational discretion.</p><p>Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) do not have powers to instruct the police in operational policing matters. The operational independence of the police is a fundamental principle of British policing. The Policing Protocol Order 2011, which sets out how the relationship between PCCs and Chief Constables should work, is explicit when it states that “At all times the Chief Constable, their constables and staff, remain operationally independent in the service of the communities that they serve.”</p><p>Regardless of the PCC in office, the police have the discretion to use their judgment when deciding who to investigate or arrest, and must by law be wholly without influence of the PCC in respect of operational policing.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/12/2015 13:13:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

435913

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the system for reporting cybercrime.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	18910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <p>Action Fraud is the national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime, and takes reports on behalf of all police forces in England and Wales. In June, it was extended to cover Northern Ireland. Action Fraud was set up to improve reporting of what has traditionally been an under-reported crime type. Official figures support the decision to centralise reporting: in the year ending June 2015, recorded fraud offences more than trebled from 72,000 before the centralisation of reporting to over 230,000.</p><p>Action Fraud works in conjunction with the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB): as of April 2014 both are operated by the City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud, which means one organisation is responsible for the whole process of taking reports and analysing them. The NFIB analyses Action Fraud crime reports and attempts to match them with other crimes and identify viable lines of enquiry so that an intelligence package can be passed to the police force best able to launch an investigation (usually where the suspect is believed to be located).</p><p>Not all crimes recorded by Action Fraud and analysed by the NFIB will have viable investigative leads: fraudsters and cyber criminals may be based overseas or use false details. Nevertheless, in 2014/15, the number of crimes sent to police forces was almost 62,000. This was an increase of over 50% on 2013/14. The City of London Police are working with local forces to share expertise on how to investigate these types of crimes. City of London Police will be introducing a new IT system in May 2016, comprising of a new and much easier to use online reporting tool and a new data analytics platform within the NFIB. It will improve the identification of viable crimes to be passed to police forces, and the ability to provide improved victim service and care.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/12/2015 13:11:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

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registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to tackle online fraud.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	18897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes fraud including online fraud incredibly seriously. That is why we established the Economic Crime Command and the National Cyber Crime Unit in the National Crime Agency to tackle the most sophisticated international cybercriminals and fraudsters. We have also made significant investment in Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, both operated by City of London Police, to improve our intelligence on fraud and provide a better disruption response.</p><p>We are also investing in regional and local police capabilities to tackle fraud. This includes, establishing cyber teams at a regional level to support the National Crime Agency and local forces in more complex digital investigations, training police officers and staff in how to identify and secure evidence on digital devices, and launching a network of police officers to offer advice on cybercrime and fraud to individuals and businesses across the country.</p><p>Furthermore, as the Chancellor announced on 17 November, we plan to almost double investment in cyber security, including cyber crime, to £1.9billion. Many successful frauds and cybercrimes could be prevented. Through the most recent phase of our Cyber Streetwise campaign, we are helping to educate the public and businesses on the importance of adopting simple security measures, such as installing security software and stronger passwords.</p><p>Industry also has a role to play in fraud and cyber crime prevention. That is why we are working with the banking sector and law enforcement agencies to more effectively disrupt fraudsters and protect victims. This work will be a key part of the Government’s Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, which the Government intends to publish next year.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/12/2015 17:31:06 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman