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458922

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
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 take steps to increase the proportion of domestic abuse perpetrators who receive specialist intervention to change their behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	30440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government published a new Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy on 8 March and committed funding of £80 million between 2016 and 2020 to protect women and girls from violence. This increased funding will help to deliver our goal to work with local commissioners to deliver a secure future for rape support centres, refuges and FGM and Forced Marriage Units, whilst driving a major change across all services which promotes early intervention and prevention.</p><p>The Strategy identifies that some sectors of society can experience multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage or additional barriers to accessing support. These include women and girls from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&amp;T) victims. The increased funding of £80 million, and our support for local areas to improve local commissioning, will help to ensure that the needs for LGBT and BME victims are met through specialist support.</p><p>The new Strategy also recognises that a sustainable approach to preventing abuse is dependent on changing the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators. As part our renewed focus on early intervention and breaking the cycle of violence, the Government will work with local areas on changing the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators, to make sure rehabilitation, mental health interventions and other appropriate perpetrator programmes are in place.</p><p>In recent years there has been a step change in the number of domestic abuse crimes recorded by the police. The new Strategy sets out that we will continue to drive a culture change in the police response to recognise domestic abuse as the serious crime that it is, and encourage more victims, including BME victims of domestic abuse, to report to the police. We will also ensure that women can seek help in a range of settings as they go about their daily lives and have easy access to community based support at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 30480 30481 question first answered 15/03/2016 17:16:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

458926

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to exercise her powers under section 101(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 only with the agreement of Ministers of the Scottish Government, as set out under section 101(7) of that Act.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	30428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are housed across the UK under voluntary agreements between national government and local authorities that have been in place since 2000.The Home Office maintains an active partnership with local governments across the UK, including those in Scotland, and funds Strategic Migration Partnerships to plan for the most appropriate dispersal of asylum seekers. The partnerships consider the impact on communities and local services so that adjustments to dispersal patterns can be made where appropriate.</p><p>Local authorities are consulted before asylum seekers are placed in their area, so that the potential impact on communities and local services is fully considered. We continue to work closely with a wide range of local authorities, including those in Scotland, to increase the number of areas that voluntarily accommodate and support people seeking asylum and protection – every local authority is encouraged to contribute.</p><p>There are powers in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to designate areas of the country as “reception zones” if it is believed that a local authority covering the particular area has suitable housing that can used to accommodate destitute asylum seekers. The Home Office has not used these powers, but would consult fully with local authorities and Ministers of the Scottish Government if they were minded to use them.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/03/2016 14:27:58 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

458927

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
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 takes to investigate complaints about outsourced asylum accommodation centres; and whether she has received complaints on the operation in Glasgow of her Department's outsourced asylum accommodation contract with Serco and its sub-contractor Orchard and Shipman.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	30429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>All accommodation providers are monitored closely to ensure accommodation meets contractual standards; this includes measures to ensure issues and complaints are quickly addressed. Failure of accommodation providers to resolve issues within strict time limits may result in the application of service credits.</p><p>Asylum seekers are encouraged to report issues about their accommodation to their accommodation provider for them to resolve. The Department also provides information to all asylum seekers, including direct telephone numbers to local and national UKVI staff where they can raise issues about the condition of their accommodation. As a result of recent improvements to the Home Office inspection regime the Contract Compliance Team measures service delivery via a short questionnaire to assess the level of contact, welcome briefing and support from the provider.</p><p>We are taking further steps to ensure asylum seekers’ voices are heard so that they feel confident to report complaints about their accommodation or any concerns they are having about their safety. To help achieve this, an advisory Board has been established which will enable the Home Office to discuss accommodation related issues with key NGO stakeholders, including those that pertain to issues raised regarding accommodation in Glasgow.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/03/2016 14:27:32 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

458928

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dedicated Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) police officers transferred to the National Crime Agency in 2013; and how many police officers are in the CEOP Command in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	30503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Although NCA officers can be designated with the Powers of a Constable (and other powers), NCA officers are not police officers, nor were the SOCA officers that formed the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. When the NCA was launched on 7 October 2013, 99 posts were transferred into the NCA from the SOCA-affiliated Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The NCA CEOP Command currently has 129 core posts.</p><p>At the WePROTECT Children Online Global Summit in December 2014, the Prime Minister announced an additional £10m would be provided in 2015/16 to create further specialist teams in the National Crime Agency to focus on the worst online child sexual exploitation and abuse offenders. This funding is enabling the National Crime Agency to target more offenders, strengthen victim identification and create additional intelligence and child protection advisor capabilities. This has included 174 additional posts (an increase on the 168 new posts envisaged when the NCA Annual Report and accounts were published last year). These 174 posts, are in addition to the NCA’s core posts and are all dedicated to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse, within the CEOP Command and supporting functions.</p><p>Specific funding for NCA investigations into non-recent child sexual abuse is provided through alternative arrangements. All of the National Crime Agency commands contribute to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse. NCA commands work collaboratively and are supported by specialist capabilities drawn from across the Agency.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 30499 30500 30502 question first answered 15/03/2016 15:18:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

458929

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: LGBT+ People
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 take steps to improve the provision of support from specialist services for LGBT victims of domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	30480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government published a new Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy on 8 March and committed funding of £80 million between 2016 and 2020 to protect women and girls from violence. This increased funding will help to deliver our goal to work with local commissioners to deliver a secure future for rape support centres, refuges and FGM and Forced Marriage Units, whilst driving a major change across all services which promotes early intervention and prevention.</p><p>The Strategy identifies that some sectors of society can experience multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage or additional barriers to accessing support. These include women and girls from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&amp;T) victims. The increased funding of £80 million, and our support for local areas to improve local commissioning, will help to ensure that the needs for LGBT and BME victims are met through specialist support.</p><p>The new Strategy also recognises that a sustainable approach to preventing abuse is dependent on changing the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators. As part our renewed focus on early intervention and breaking the cycle of violence, the Government will work with local areas on changing the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators, to make sure rehabilitation, mental health interventions and other appropriate perpetrator programmes are in place.</p><p>In recent years there has been a step change in the number of domestic abuse crimes recorded by the police. The new Strategy sets out that we will continue to drive a culture change in the police response to recognise domestic abuse as the serious crime that it is, and encourage more victims, including BME victims of domestic abuse, to report to the police. We will also ensure that women can seek help in a range of settings as they go about their daily lives and have easy access to community based support at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 30440 30481 question first answered 15/03/2016 17:16:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

458930

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Ethnic Groups
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 take steps to encourage BAME victims of domestic abuse to report that abuse to the police.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	30481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government published a new Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy on 8 March and committed funding of £80 million between 2016 and 2020 to protect women and girls from violence. This increased funding will help to deliver our goal to work with local commissioners to deliver a secure future for rape support centres, refuges and FGM and Forced Marriage Units, whilst driving a major change across all services which promotes early intervention and prevention.</p><p>The Strategy identifies that some sectors of society can experience multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage or additional barriers to accessing support. These include women and girls from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&amp;T) victims. The increased funding of £80 million, and our support for local areas to improve local commissioning, will help to ensure that the needs for LGBT and BME victims are met through specialist support.</p><p>The new Strategy also recognises that a sustainable approach to preventing abuse is dependent on changing the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators. As part our renewed focus on early intervention and breaking the cycle of violence, the Government will work with local areas on changing the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators, to make sure rehabilitation, mental health interventions and other appropriate perpetrator programmes are in place.</p><p>In recent years there has been a step change in the number of domestic abuse crimes recorded by the police. The new Strategy sets out that we will continue to drive a culture change in the police response to recognise domestic abuse as the serious crime that it is, and encourage more victims, including BME victims of domestic abuse, to report to the police. We will also ensure that women can seek help in a range of settings as they go about their daily lives and have easy access to community based support at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 30440 30480 question first answered 15/03/2016 17:16:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

458931

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 168 posts advertised for the National Crime Agency in 2015 were allocated to Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	30499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Although NCA officers can be designated with the Powers of a Constable (and other powers), NCA officers are not police officers, nor were the SOCA officers that formed the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. When the NCA was launched on 7 October 2013, 99 posts were transferred into the NCA from the SOCA-affiliated Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The NCA CEOP Command currently has 129 core posts.</p><p>At the WePROTECT Children Online Global Summit in December 2014, the Prime Minister announced an additional £10m would be provided in 2015/16 to create further specialist teams in the National Crime Agency to focus on the worst online child sexual exploitation and abuse offenders. This funding is enabling the National Crime Agency to target more offenders, strengthen victim identification and create additional intelligence and child protection advisor capabilities. This has included 174 additional posts (an increase on the 168 new posts envisaged when the NCA Annual Report and accounts were published last year). These 174 posts, are in addition to the NCA’s core posts and are all dedicated to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse, within the CEOP Command and supporting functions.</p><p>Specific funding for NCA investigations into non-recent child sexual abuse is provided through alternative arrangements. All of the National Crime Agency commands contribute to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse. NCA commands work collaboratively and are supported by specialist capabilities drawn from across the Agency.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 30500 30502 30503 question first answered 15/03/2016 15:18:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

458932

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the £10 million allocated to the National Crime Agency to address child sexual exploitation is applied to investigations of historic child sexual abuse.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	30500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Although NCA officers can be designated with the Powers of a Constable (and other powers), NCA officers are not police officers, nor were the SOCA officers that formed the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. When the NCA was launched on 7 October 2013, 99 posts were transferred into the NCA from the SOCA-affiliated Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The NCA CEOP Command currently has 129 core posts.</p><p>At the WePROTECT Children Online Global Summit in December 2014, the Prime Minister announced an additional £10m would be provided in 2015/16 to create further specialist teams in the National Crime Agency to focus on the worst online child sexual exploitation and abuse offenders. This funding is enabling the National Crime Agency to target more offenders, strengthen victim identification and create additional intelligence and child protection advisor capabilities. This has included 174 additional posts (an increase on the 168 new posts envisaged when the NCA Annual Report and accounts were published last year). These 174 posts, are in addition to the NCA’s core posts and are all dedicated to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse, within the CEOP Command and supporting functions.</p><p>Specific funding for NCA investigations into non-recent child sexual abuse is provided through alternative arrangements. All of the National Crime Agency commands contribute to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse. NCA commands work collaboratively and are supported by specialist capabilities drawn from across the Agency.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 30499 30502 30503 question first answered 15/03/2016 15:18:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

458933

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces in England have had investigative assistance from the National Crime Agency.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	30501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>As a national law enforcement agency, the National Crime Agency (NCA) works closely with and in support of all police forces in the UK in tackling serious and organised crime. Since its inception in October 2013 the NCA has provided investigative assistance to all police forces in England across a range of law enforcement activities and capabilities.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 15/03/2016 17:07:31 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

458934

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which commands in the National Crime Agency have worked on child sexual abuse cases in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	30502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Although NCA officers can be designated with the Powers of a Constable (and other powers), NCA officers are not police officers, nor were the SOCA officers that formed the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. When the NCA was launched on 7 October 2013, 99 posts were transferred into the NCA from the SOCA-affiliated Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The NCA CEOP Command currently has 129 core posts.</p><p>At the WePROTECT Children Online Global Summit in December 2014, the Prime Minister announced an additional £10m would be provided in 2015/16 to create further specialist teams in the National Crime Agency to focus on the worst online child sexual exploitation and abuse offenders. This funding is enabling the National Crime Agency to target more offenders, strengthen victim identification and create additional intelligence and child protection advisor capabilities. This has included 174 additional posts (an increase on the 168 new posts envisaged when the NCA Annual Report and accounts were published last year). These 174 posts, are in addition to the NCA’s core posts and are all dedicated to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse, within the CEOP Command and supporting functions.</p><p>Specific funding for NCA investigations into non-recent child sexual abuse is provided through alternative arrangements. All of the National Crime Agency commands contribute to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse. NCA commands work collaboratively and are supported by specialist capabilities drawn from across the Agency.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 30499 30500 30503 question first answered 15/03/2016 15:18:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent