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385706

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: France
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the statement by Lord Bates on 24 June (HL Deb, col 1591-3), how much they, the government of France, and the operator of the Channel Tunnel and terminal paid respectively towards the installation of fencing around parts of Calais and roads approaching the terminal, the provision of scanners and detection technology, and to the ongoing operating costs of these measures, including dog searches.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Port perimeter fencing installed in the autumn of 2014 and the current work to fence the Port approach road have been financed from the UK/France Joint Fund - established in September 2014 - including £12m from the UK Government. Border Force and the French Authorities meet their respective operating costs. On 2 July, the Home Secretary and the French Interior Minister reaffirmed the determination of both countries to strengthen and complete their joint strategy to deal with this common challenge, including by increasing the intervention fund to secure access to the Channel Tunnel.</p><p>In addition, the UK has invested £2 million to detect people hiding in lorries by upgrading vehicle scanning equipment with the latest technology; and a further £1million to increase the number of sniffer dogs stationed at Calais and other ports. The Government has also strengthened physical security further by investing nearly £200,000 in perimeter detection security cameras.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 13/07/2015 10:50:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

385708

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Cameras
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many police officers in England and Wales they expect to be equipped with body-worn camera technology by the end of 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>PCCs and chief officers make the decisions on what technology is procured and how it is used by officers at a local level. It is not for the Home Office to set targets or expectations. It is right that PCCs and their forces are free to invest in technology that aligns to local priorities and addresses the specific challenges they face. The majority of police forces are either already using Body Worn Video (BWV) on a day-to-day basis, or are in the process of rolling this technology out to their officers. The Home Office does not hold information as to how many officers are equipped with BWV. As part of the 2014/15 Police Innovation Fund (PIF), the Home Office awarded a total of £4m to eight bids relating to the roll-out of BWV. We supported the Police ICT Company to bring these eight bids together, with Nottinghamshire Police developing a BWV procurement framework, which is now available to all forces. Other forces either using, or considering the use of, the framework include: Merseyside, North Wales, Bedfordshire, Hampshire and the MPS. The value of PIF bids for BWV for 2013/14 was £1,567,625. Police forces also procure BWV outside of the Police Innovation Fund as part of their own digitisation programmes.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 09/07/2015 14:13:48 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

385709

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Cameras
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to the data storage requirements arising from the increasing use of body-worn camera technology by the police.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and chief officers will make the decisions on how technology will be used by officers at a local level, including the data storage requirements arising from increased use of body worn videos.</p><p>Although storage solutions are an operational issue for policing, we are clear more needs to be done to enable forces to utilise body worn video in the most effective way to ensure that data can flow smoothly throughout the criminal justice system. This is why we are working with policing to embed interoperability between forces and encouraging the use of common standards. These standards will support data sharing across the criminal justice system, including policing, in a way that anyone can access and understand. Open standards along with the work of the Police ICT Company, will help to create an open and active market to deliver better value for police ICT spend.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 02/07/2015 16:00:40 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

385710

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Cameras
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had about the evidential use of images captured by the use of body-worn camera technology by police officers.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The evidential use of body worn images is a matter for policing, with input from the criminal justice system. As the professional body for policing, the College of Policing published interim operational guidance in July 2014; this was developed in conjunction with a number of partners, including the courts and Crown Prosection Service. This guidance sets out the procedures police forces must use to ensure the integrity of body worn video evidence. Body Worn Video (BWV) footage is accepted as evidence in courts and there is real enthusiasm from the judiciary for its potential to encourage early guilty pleas and lead to significantly higher conviction rates.</p><p>However the College’s current guidance is clear that BWV material should be used to corroborate, rather than replace, traditional written statements and users should not rely on BWV for providing their evidence. Although a BWV recording may provide compelling evidence, it will not necessarily prove all aspects of a case and users must always be prepared to provide written evidence of anything pertinent to the case and not wholly represented by the recording.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 02/07/2015 16:01:43 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

385711

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metropolitan Police
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Home Secretary expects to decide whether to authorise the Metropolitan Police to use, under appropriate operational circumstances, the water cannons that the Mayor of London has purchased; and whether this decision will be made before the water cannons become usable.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>A key element of the established process for the approval of less lethal weapons, including water cannon, is an assessment by the Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal weapons. This has only recently been received. There are a number of scientific, medical, operational and ethical issues which need careful consideration.</p><p>The authorisation process states: “only less lethal weapons that have been approved by the Secretary of State may be used by the UK police service.” The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and the Metropolitan Police have stated that the water cannon would not be used until, and unless, they are authorised for use by the Home Secretary.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 30/06/2015 15:49:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

385805

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the next progress report on the Government's Tackling child sexual exploitation action plan, published in November 2011; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	4233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>Responsibility for leading the Government’s work to tackle child sexual exploitation sits with the Home Office.</p><p>On 3 March 2015, the previous Government published its response to the failures in the Rotherham, which were identified by Professor Alexis Jay and Louise Casey in their reviews. The report, Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation, sets out the Government’s approach to tackling sexual exploitation. It includes a comprehensive, targeted set of actions, bringing together healthcare, social care, education, law enforcement, criminal justice agencies, and local and national government.</p><p>The Government is taking a forward theses actions and we will update Parliament and the public in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/07/2015 14:23:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

385866

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Calais
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 review the funding she committed in September 2014 to strengthening border security measures at Calais to (a) bring forward planned expenditure and (b) increase the funding available.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	4380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The £12 million Joint Fund is fully committed to a programme of security infrastructure and other improvements. The infrastructure improvements to security at juxtaposed ports which are part of this are scheduled to be completed over the summer 2015.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 02/07/2015 10:40:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

385867

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism
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 speed up the process of removing Muslim extremists living in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	4364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>We seek to deport or remove foreign nationals whose presence in the UK is contrary to the public interest, including those who hold extremist views. The Government takes very seriously the need to respond to the threat from all types of extremism.</p><p>In April a number of changes to the appeals and removals system introduced by the Immigration Act 2014 came into effect. These include the streamlining of the appeals process and a single power of removal to mitigate the abusive use of the judicial system by immigration offenders to obstruct their removal or deportation. These measures apply equally to foreign nationals whose character and conduct is unacceptable, including those engaged in extremism. Such individuals would be liable to removal and have any existing leave or status in the UK revoked. British nationals cannot be removed or deported from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/07/2015 17:23:54 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

385868

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
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 increase the number of Syrian refugees entering the UK.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	4402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) was launched in January 2014 to provide sanctuary in the UK for displaced Syrians who are most at risk. The scheme runs in parallel with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Syria Humanitarian Admission Programme. The VPR scheme is based on need rather than quota and we envisage that it will support several hundred people over three years. From the start of the scheme until the end of March 2015, 187 of the most vulnerable Syrians have been relocated to the UK. At the Global Security Forum on 19 June, the Prime Minister announced the scheme would be expanded to a greater number of vulnerable people who cannot be supported in the region.</p><p>The Government will also continue to consider Syrian asylum claims under our normal rules. Since the crisis began in 2011 the UK has granted asylum or other forms of leave to over 4,200 Syrian asylum seekers.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 02/07/2015 10:40:57 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

385869

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which local authorities have agreed to take refugees under the resettlement programme for the most vulnerable Syrian refugees programme; and how many such refugees will be taken by each such authority.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	4387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>A number of local authorities already participate in the scheme and several more have expressed an interest in participating. As the scheme is based on vulnerability, including women and children at risk, people with medical needs and survivors of torture and violence, it would not be appropriate for us to release details of where individuals are currently being placed or where they may be placed in the future, as this may undermine their privacy and recovery.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/06/2015 15:57:50 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson