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174437

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	221227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Department does not hold centrally details of expenditure on recruitment agency fees so this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Expenditure on outplacement agency fees for displaced or <br>redundant staff for the financial years prior to 2014/15 was not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The fully audited figures for 2014/15 will be available in July 2015.<br><br>The total staff training costs for the financial years 2010/11 to 2013/14 are set out below:<br><br>2010-11 - £13,598,237<br>2011-12 - £14,860,807<br>2012-13 - £16,986,868<br>2013-14 - £24,715,417<br><br>The full-year audited figures for total staff training expenditure for 2014-15 will be available in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/01/2015 15:01:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 39696 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

384400

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for her Department and its subsidiary agencies are paid less than the living wage.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	3317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>All permanent members of staff directly employed by the Home Office are paid the Living Wage or above.</p><p>All temporary agency staff are employed in accordance with the Agency Workers Regulations which ensures parity with directly employed staff after 12 weeks.</p><p>The Home Office only keeps information on the legal minimum standards of pay of staff employed by organisations contracted to provide services within the Home Office, not the living wage.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/06/2015 14:30:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 7796 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

426821

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising in real terms in each year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	15305
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes monthly spending data for temporary agency staff, consultants and non-payroll staff. This information is available online, and can be found here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2015 &gt;</p><p>Transparency Data was introduced by the coalition government in 2010, to enable the public to hold the Government to account, with the aim of reducing administration costs. The information available online through Transparency Data includes departmental spending on temporary staff, consultants and non-payroll staff. The previous administration did not compile or collate that information, and it is therefore not possible to provide comparative figures, or to establish what was previously spent, on the same basis.</p><p>The Home Office has reduced administration expenditure budgets by 50 per cent since 2010-11 in real terms. The Home Office is committed to a further 30 per cent reduction by 2019-20 over Spending Review 2015 period.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/12/2015 17:31:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 29886 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

426822

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) the amount of any underspend expected against departmental expenditure limits in the current fiscal year and (b) her Department's latest forecast of total AME spend for this year are; and what the forecasts were for those two sums at the time of the Summer Budget 2015 and March Budget 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	15315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <p>(a) At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL)</p><p>At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL)</p><p>(b) At the close of September 2015, we were forecasting a total Annual Managed Expenditure (AME) spend for 2015-16 of £1,616 million.</p><p>At the time of the Summer Budget 2015 – when we had closed the accounts for June – we were forecasting:</p><p>• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £1,618 million AME for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>At the time of the Spring Budget we were forecasting:</p><p>• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £1,616 million AME for the whole of 2015-16</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 20/11/2015 14:45:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 29887 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

174776

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the average length of time each police force has taken to return Disclosure and Barring Service checks since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	221314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The average number of days taken by each police force to return disclosure <br>checks is provided in the table below. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) <br>works closely with any forces which miss their service level agreements. The <br>DBS was established in December 2012. Data prior to this date relates to the <br>Criminal Records Bureau.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/02/2015 16:17:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 221314 _ table.xls title Police force disclosure checks previous answer version 39934 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

428695

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department plans to allocate to domestic and sexual violence support services after April 2016; and for how long she plans for that funding to be available.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	16626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>Tackling violence against women and girls remains a priority for this Government. Allocation of funding for domestic and sexual violence support services is dependent on the outcome of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/11/2015 17:22:31 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31147 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

431761

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timetable she plans to set for ratification of the Istanbul Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	17189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The previous Government signed the Istanbul Convention in June 2012. We will only commit to ratification when we are absolutely satisfied that we comply with all articles. The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles but primary legislation is required to comply with the extra-territorial jurisdiction provision set out in Article 44 of the Convention. We are liaising with the devolved administrations about ratification, including the further legislative steps required.</p><p>We will continue to lead efforts to tackle violence against women and girls. End Female Genital Mutilation and combat early and forced marriage, both at home and abroad.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/11/2015 17:39:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 32344 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

387859

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Northern Ireland
	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 reduce people trafficking into Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	5643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to tackling all forms of modern slavery, regardless of where or how it occurs. The Northern Ireland Executive is part of the UK’s Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group on Modern Slavery, which leads the co-ordinated response to this terrible crime across the UK.</p><p>The Border Policing Command of the National Crime Agency leads, supports and coordinates partners at the UK border in a multi-agency response to tackle international modern slavery crime before it reaches the UK.</p><p>The Home Office’s Border Force has established a dedicated programme of activity to strengthen its capabilities to detect potential victims and traffickers and it runs regular operations on targeted flights. All border staff in Northern Ireland have received human trafficking training, to ensure they know how to spot trafficking.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/07/2015 10:03:26 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 13214 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

451329

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting: Camberwell and Peckham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service from people living in Camberwell and Peckham constituency have taken more than 60 days to process in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	26179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The number of applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service from people living in Camberwell and Peckham constituency that have taken more than 60 days to process in each of the last 12 months is listed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Total Applications Issued to Applicants from the Constituency of Camberwell and Peckham</p></td><td><p>Applications that took longer than 60 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>1,106</p></td><td><p>211</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-15</p></td><td><p>1,355</p></td><td><p>204</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-15</p></td><td><p>1,181</p></td><td><p>179</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-15</p></td><td><p>1,213</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-15</p></td><td><p>1,286</p></td><td><p>184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-15</p></td><td><p>1,364</p></td><td><p>263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-15</p></td><td><p>1,041</p></td><td><p>154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-15</p></td><td><p>1,241</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-15</p></td><td><p>1,311</p></td><td><p>215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-15</p></td><td><p>1,099</p></td><td><p>216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-15</p></td><td><p>954</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-16</p></td><td><p>1,023</p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>14,174</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,371</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/02/2016 16:16:30 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 45166 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

348753

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the UK has not ratified the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	1296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles to the convention including the criminalisation of forced marriage which was one of the pre-requisites of ratification as required by Article 37. Primary legislation will be needed to comply with the remaining extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before it can be ratified. The UK Government is liaising with the devolved administrations about ratification, including any further legislative steps that may be necessary.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/06/2015 15:18:42 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 3586 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan