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1176702

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the prevalence of online live-streaming of the sexual exploitation of children that originates from (a) the UK and (b) other countries.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	13537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government set out in the Serious Organised Crime Strategy 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/serious-and-organised-crime-strategy-2018 that companies must be at the forefront of efforts to deny offenders access to children and child sexual abuse material via their platforms and services, and that a priority area is to stop the live streaming of child sexual abuse.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment 2018 <a href="https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/173-national-strategic-assessment-of-serious-and-organised-crime-2018" target="_blank"> https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/173-national-strategic-assessment-of-serious-and-organised-crime-2018/file</a>described self-broadcast live-streaming as a growing concern, with 1 in 8 teens having broadcast on Instagram and 1 in 10 on Facebook. Children were then being coerced and extorted into streaming child abuse content. Such images can be harvested and redistributed leading to blackmail and extortion for further images. The NCA has assessed in the National Strategic Assessment 2019 <a href="https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/296-national-strategic-assessment-of-serious-organised-crime-2019/file" target="_blank">https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/296-national-strategic-assessment-of-serious-organised-crime-2019/file</a> that livestreaming is a key threat, with some UK offenders paying overseas facilitators to abuse children.</p><p>The 2019 WePROTECT Global Alliance global threat assessment <a href="http://www2.paconsulting.com/rs/526-HZE-833/images/WePROTECT%202019%20Global%20Threat%20Assessment%20%28FINAL%29.pdf" target="_blank">global threat assessment</a> <a href="http://www2.paconsulting.com/rs/526-HZE-833/images/WePROTECT%202019%20Global%20Threat%20Assessment%20%28FINAL%29.pdf%20" target="_blank">http://www2.paconsulting.com/rs/526-HZE-833/images/WePROTECT%202019%20Global%20Threat%20Assessment%20%28FINAL%29.pdf </a>on demonstrates the nature, scale and complexity of online child sexual exploitation and abuse. The assessment outlined that technology increasingly enables the live streaming of child sexual abuse material.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/03/2020 19:09:55 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1174846

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Convictions
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 increase conviction rates for coercive control.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	10471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s domestic abuse consultation in 2018 asked whether further action should be taken to strengthen the coercive control offence introduced in 2015. In the response to that consultation the Government agreed to update the statutory guidance and Crown Prosecution Service legal guidance on the offence.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office will also work with other departments to improve understanding of the offence throughout the justice system, and seek to dispel stereotypes by promoting the updated statutory guidance for the offence through the courts and justice system. This will help to increase the number of cases that are brought, charged and convicted under this offence.</p><p> </p><p>We have been reviewing the effectiveness of the existing coercive control legislation, both in terms of understanding and awareness, but also how adequately the legislation protects victims of this type of abuse. The findings of the review will be announced later this year.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018/19, the conviction rate across all domestic abuse-related offences was 76.5% - the highest rate ever recorded.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/02/2020 13:41:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1174849

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 6772 on Devolution: Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to ensure that immigration status offered to family members of people in Northern Ireland will not reduce the rights conferred under EEA regulations.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	10483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office intends to change the Immigration Rules to enable eligible family members of the people of Northern Ireland to apply for UK immigration status on broadly the same terms as the family members of Irish citizens in the UK. This route will be opened in the near future.</p><p>Any rights held by such individuals by virtue of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 will be unaffected by the implementation of this route.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 10484 question first answered 06/04/2020 16:22:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1174850

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 6772 on Devolution: Northern Ireland, whether the immigration route to be offered to the family members of people in Northern Ireland will come into force before the end of the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	10484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office intends to change the Immigration Rules to enable eligible family members of the people of Northern Ireland to apply for UK immigration status on broadly the same terms as the family members of Irish citizens in the UK. This route will be opened in the near future.</p><p>Any rights held by such individuals by virtue of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 will be unaffected by the implementation of this route.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 10483 question first answered 06/04/2020 16:22:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1174851

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration raids took place in (a) Sheffield, (b) Rotherham, (c) Barnsley and (d) Doncaster in the 2019 calendar year.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	10485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.</p><p>Information about enforcement visits is not available in our published data.</p><p>Our published data is available at the following links:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-august-2019</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/summary-of-latest-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/summary-of-latest-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 10486 question first answered 10/06/2020 09:44:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1174852

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration raids took place in Yorkshire and the Humber in the 2019 calendar year.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	10486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.</p><p>Information about enforcement visits is not available in our published data.</p><p>Our published data is available at the following links:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-august-2019</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/summary-of-latest-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/summary-of-latest-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 10485 question first answered 10/06/2020 09:44:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1174880

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals to allow (a) digital and (b) physical documents to be accepted under the terms of the Licensing Act 2003, in line with proof of settled status.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	10444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that there needs to be an agreement on what constitutes an acceptable form of digital ID for age verification purposes. We will continue to engage across Government and with companies working to develop digital age-verification so that an appropriate framework can be developed and tested.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2020 16:16:43 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1174881

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish her Department's response to the Violence and abuse toward shop staff: call for evidence, which was published on 5 April 2019.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	10445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>We intend to publish the government’s response in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/02/2020 15:12:25 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1174933

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the implications of the quadrennial review of police pensions in 2020-21; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	10411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>Following the most recent valuation of the police pension schemes, the additional cost to policing in 2020-21 of employer contributions to police pensions is currently estimated to be £316 million.</p><p>The 2020-21 police funding settlement will increase funding available to the policing system by £1.1 billion next year. This includes general Government grant funding, pensions grant, council tax precept and investment in national priorities, and is the biggest funding increase in a decade. This substantial increase in funding will enable forces to meet their financial pressures as well as to invest in the recruitment of additional officers.</p><p>The written ministerial statement on the settlement, including details of the proposed pensions grant, can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-01-22/HCWS51/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-01-22/HCWS51/</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/02/2020 16:58:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1174943

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Civil Service Agencies: 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 additional security and intelligence staff have been employed across all Government agencies since 2015.
tabling member constituency	South West Surrey
tabling member printed	Jeremy Hunt
uin	10337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>Cutting crime is a priority for this Government and we recognise that there are strong links between drug misuse and crime. Tough enforcement is a fundamental part of our approach to tackling drugs and we are working across Government to address the drivers behind drug-related crime and help prevent further substance misuse and offending.</p><p>We continue to surge law enforcement action to tackle county lines and its associated violence and exploitation. The Home Secretary has announced £25m of targeted investment across 19-20 and 20-21 to significantly increase law enforcement’s response to the issue. The Home Office has also announced that a UK Drugs Summit will take place on 27 February, which will bring together all four nations of the United Kingdom, to consider the challenges we are facing and to reflect on what more can be done to address drug supply and reduce drug harms.</p><p>The Prime Minister has also established a Cabinet committee on crime which will help to drive cross-Government action in this area.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/02/2020 17:30:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt