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1608385

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to introduce a Minister for Economic Crime.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	175647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>Ministerial appointments are a matter for the Prime Minister’s office.</p><p>The Home Office and HM Treasury lead the policy response to tackling economic crime for government. It is right that these two departments jointly lead the government’s approach, to support system leadership that fully considers the long-term ramifications of decisions that impact both the UK’s prosperity and security. The Treasury leads on supervision and regulation, while the Home Office leads on law enforcement capabilities and related legislation</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 03/04/2023 11:39:40 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1608388

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Funds Transfer: Fraud
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 tackle authorised push payment fraud, including that which targets vulnerable people.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	175650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>Authorised Push Payment scams are often highly sophisticated and emotionally manipulative and it is unacceptable that victims may lose their money as a result. The Government is working with industry, including the banking and tech sectors to ensure that victims are protected from these crimes in the first place and are not left out of pocket because of them</p><p>The government is legislating through the Financial Services and Markets Bill to give the Payment Systems Regulator the powers it needs to make all Payment Service Providers reimburse victims of authorised fraud on the Faster Payments System in circumstances where the victim hasn’t been grossly negligent. We expect that this will materially improve outcomes for victims and provide enhanced incentives for firms to prevent these scams in the first place. The Payment Systems Regulator has consulted on the mechanism for reimbursement and industry liability and will publish its response shortly.</p><p>We are focused on stopping unscrupulous fraudsters in their tracks and supporting victims so they can recover and protect themselves. Raising awareness and safeguarding victims will form a key part of the Government’s forthcoming fraud strategy.</p><p> </p><p>We are already taking concrete steps to protect the most vulnerable victims:</p><ul><li>The Home Office is working with City of London Police to expand the Action Fraud National Economic Crime Victim Care Unit across England and Wales for victims whose cases are not investigated by the police. These units aims to make victims feel safer and more confident following contact, whilst assisting them to cope and recover from the crime and to significantly reduce the likelihood of repeat victimisation. The Home Office is working with City of London Police to deliver a nationwide rollout of these units.</li></ul><p>.</p><ul><li>We are working with industry to do more to protect victims from fraud. We have re-launched the Joint Fraud Taskforce which brings together the public and private sectors to combat fraud and we have agreed voluntary sector charters with the banking, telecommunications and accountancy sectors that among other things have resulted in fewer scam messages reaching victims.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>We continue to support the National Trading Standards on the roll out of call blocking devices to vulnerable people and the National Economic Crime Centre have recently provided further funding for the delivery of additional devices. These devices have helped to provide protection against nuisance and scam calls.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>We have established a Victims of Fraud Working Group which brings together key stakeholders from law enforcement, victim support services and the private sector to create a forum to discuss the victim support landscape, share best practice, close vulnerabilities in the system and ensure that victims of fraud and cyber crime are consistently receiving the right level of support.</li></ul> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 03/04/2023 11:41:49 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1607048

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's data on ministerial travel costs for October to December 2022 on 23 March, how much of the £713.07 spent on her visit to Paris on 13 November 2022 was spent on (a) Eurostar tickets, (b) overnight accommodation and (c) other expenses.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	173000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>Costs for the Home Secretary’s trip to Paris can be broken down as follows -</p><ul><li>Flight from London Heathrow to Paris Charles de Gaulle: £460.07</li><li>Eurostar from Paris Gare du Nord to London St Pancras: €253.00 = £222.38 (approx.).</li><li>There were no accommodation or expenses charged to the Home Office in Paris as the HS stayed at HM Ambassador’s Official Residence in Paris.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Total spend = £682.38</p><p> </p><p>When the original cost was included in the transparency report, the cost of Eurostar Travel was not correctly converted from Euro to GBP.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/04/2023 14:04:24 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1607056

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2022 to Question 83745 on Police: Travellers, for what reason the Home Office does not hold information on the number of police forces which have adopted Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community (a) engagement strategies, (b) liaison officers and (c) points of contact for engagement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	173048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>We are clear that all police force across England and Wales should engage and work with all of their local communities, including Gypsy and Roma Traveller Groups. However, issues relating to how engagement is undertaken with those communities is a matter for operationally independent Chief Constables of each police force to consider. They are best placed to make decisions on how best to engage with and meet the needs of those communities, based on their local knowledge and expertise.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/04/2023 14:36:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1607057

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who went missing were subsequently found and returned to safety in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	173049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of those in our care is our primary concern. We have safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in hotels are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All contingency sites have security staff on site and providers liaise closely with local police to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable residents.</p><p>Since July 2021, when unaccompanied asylum seeking children were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 447 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). 186 of these young people are still missing.</p><p>This is based on local management information and therefore liable to change.</p><p>If a young person goes missing from a care setting, including a UASC hotel, the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed. A multi-agency, missing persons meeting is chaired by the local authority to establish the young person's whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe. When used correctly, similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p><p>The Home Office work with the police and local authorities to ensure the children in our care are safe and the Police are responsible for locating any missing children.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 173050 question first answered 03/04/2023 15:04:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1607058

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
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 help (a) find and return to safety and (b) prevent the further disappearance of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	173050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of those in our care is our primary concern. We have safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in hotels are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All contingency sites have security staff on site and providers liaise closely with local police to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable residents.</p><p>Since July 2021, when unaccompanied asylum seeking children were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 447 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). 186 of these young people are still missing.</p><p>This is based on local management information and therefore liable to change.</p><p>If a young person goes missing from a care setting, including a UASC hotel, the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed. A multi-agency, missing persons meeting is chaired by the local authority to establish the young person's whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe. When used correctly, similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p><p>The Home Office work with the police and local authorities to ensure the children in our care are safe and the Police are responsible for locating any missing children.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 173049 question first answered 03/04/2023 15:04:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1607076

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made with Cabinet colleagues of the threat posed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to (a) the UK, (b) the UK's interests in the Middle East and (c) Iranians critical of the Iranian regime who are living in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	173096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on operational or intelligence matters, however the UK will always stand up to threats from foreign nations.</p><p> </p><p>As I announced in my statement to the House on the 20 February, HMG have responded to 15 credible threats to kidnap or even kill UK-based individuals by the Iranian regime. We continually assess potential threats in the UK, and will continue to take the protection of individuals’ rights, freedoms, and safety in the UK very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government has been clear about its continued concerns over destabilising activity of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the UK and overseas. This includes IRGC political, financial and military support to a number of militant and proscribed groups in the region, including Hizballah in Lebanon and Syria, militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen. The UK already sanctions the IRGC in its entirety and on the 20 March, 7 further individuals were sanctioned.</p><p> </p><p>In concert with partners, the Home Office is leading work on countering Iranian-state threats, making use of the full breadth and expertise of the government and our extraordinary and courageous police, security, and intelligence agencies.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 03/04/2023 13:29:34 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1607078

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pakistan: Ahmadiyya
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she has made an assessment of the threat posed by potential hate preachers supporting the persecution of and attacks on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the UK; and whether her Department holds data on the number of visas refused due to the individual supporting the persecution of Ahmadiyyas.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	173098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling those who spread views that promote violence and hatred against individuals and communities in our society, particularly minority groups. We assess all evidence of those that support for or justify violence and will not tolerate those who spread divisive and harmful narratives.</p><p>We are aware of hate preachers and wider organisations in the UK who spread such harmful and inflammatory narratives against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Such narratives have called for the boycott and even death of Ahmadi Muslims. We are continuing to work with law enforcement agencies and multi-agency partners to ensure this is appropriately tackled and that we continue to increase our understanding of this threat.</p><p>Information on the reasons why visas have been refused is not available without a manual search of individual records.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 03/04/2023 13:25:59 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1607091

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Official Gifts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication of data on ministerial gifts for October to December 2022 on 23 March, whether any (a) import VAT or (b) customs duty was paid on the gifts she received from the (i) French interior minister on 13 November 2022 or the (ii) Italian interior minister on 16 November 2022, upon their transport back to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	173004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>Relief is available to any member of an official body, public authority or group carrying on an activity in the public interest, on return to the UK after paying an official visit. Such travellers are not required to pay duty and VAT on the importation of gifts they receive from the host authority during their official visit or after their return to the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The principles on tax treatment of gifts are set out in the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fhmrc-internal-manuals%2Fvat-official-gifts-received-in-the-context-of-international-relations%2Fofgif2100&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLaura.Evans6%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce7e374585e284351764f08db30310403%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638156759288883721%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=0NmmY97a7IwleNzcNyxSpYYEZSSeSMVCHJbwsgJBM1A%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">OFGIF2100 - General principles: tax treatment of gifts received by UK ministers and officials during the course of overseas visits - HMRC internal manual - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/04/2023 14:55:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1607092

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Official Gifts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the transparency data entitled Home Office: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, October to December 2022, published on 23 March 2023, whether the Fortnum and Mason hamper for the French interior minister contained any dairy products.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	173005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>No. Home Office Ministers give gifts only when diplomatic protocol or cultural context makes it appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/04/2023 14:58:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry