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909284

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contractors currently employed by his Department are paid £1,000 or more per day.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	146797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2018 answer text <p>The Home Department has one contractor currently engaged on a day rate that exceeds £1,000 per day. The contractor is engaged on a part time basis for six days per month providing specialist advice to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 30/05/2018 13:16:21 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

909292

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Emergency Calls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of 999 calls to (a) Humberside Police and (b) each police force in England that are responded to within 60 minutes by a police officer (i) attending the crime scene, (ii) taking initial witness statements and (iii) commencing initial investigations of that crime scene within 60 minutes of that call being made in each year between 2010 and 2017.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	146836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>Anyone calling 999 should expect their calls to be responded to within a reasonable time. The Home Office expect the crimes reported to the Police are taken seriously and investigated. However, the Home Office does not collect this data as the handling of 999 calls is an operational matter for the police. It is for elected Police Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables to decide how best to manage their communications and response to the public.</p><p>In March 2018, as part of its annual effectiveness reports on all police forces in England and Wales, HMICFRS briefly assessed the police’s response to calls from the public.</p><p>The report for the Humberside Police can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/peel-police-effectiveness-2017-humberside.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/peel-police-effectiveness-2017-humberside.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/05/2018 15:37:10 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

909293

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police
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 police officers were employed as detectives in (a) Humberside and (b) each police force in England between 2010 and 2017.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	146837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales. These data are broken down by rank, which includes: Chief officer, Chief superintendent, Superintendent, Chief inspector, Inspector, Sergeant and Constable. Information on the number of officers employed as detectives is not collected.</p><p>Data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/05/2018 10:04:51 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

909294

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	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, what assessment he has made as to the reasons why between 2014 and 2017 recorded offences of violence with injury rose by 25 per cent while charges fell by 12 per cent; what steps he is taking to ensure those who commit criminal acts of violence and cause injury are charged; and what projections his Department has made of changes in the level of recorded offences and charges brought over the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	146838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics has pointed to improvements to recording processes and practices by forces as key drivers of increases in police recorded crime. These include expanded offence coverage, and an increased willingness of victims to come forward and report certain crimes (particularly domestic abuse in the cases of violence offences) to the police. In addition there are likely to be genuine increases for some crime types. Changes in charges are likely to reflect this increasingly complex caseload, which may lead to it taking longer for police forces to apply a charge to a crime recorded by them.</p><p>We recognise that demand on the police is changing. We have responded positively by providing a strong and comprehensive settlement that is increasing total investment in the police system by over £460m in 2018/19. This includes £50m for Counter-Terrorism, £130m for national priorities and £280m in force funding from increases in Council Tax precept income.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/05/2018 15:34:37 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

909295

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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 information will be required of EU citizens applying for (a) temporary and (b) settled status.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	146702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The application system for the EU exit settlement scheme will be streamlined, user-friendly and draw on existing government data to minimise the burden on applicants to provide evidence.</p><p>Every applicant will be required to provide proof of their identity and nationality, and declare any criminal convictions. They will also need to provide basic contact details and a recent photograph of themselves. Those that have them will also be asked to provide their national insurance number and the reference numbers of any documents previously issued to them by the Home Office.</p><p>In some cases, where the existing government data is not sufficient to confirm the applicant’s qualification for either settled or temporary status, they may need to provide additional evidence of their residence in the UK.</p><p>We will publish further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/06/2018 16:31:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

909296

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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, how many civil servants will be engaged in the function of handling applications by EU citizens for temporary or settled status in the UK in the period between that application process opening and the end of the implementation period for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	146703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2018 answer text <p>We are fully committed to ensuring that our operational teams have the re-sources they need to run an efficient and effective migration system. To this end, recruitment is underway to bring existing UKVI European Casework staffing levels to circa 1,500 ahead of the EU Exit Settlement Scheme launch at the end of this year.</p><p>Operational units across the Home Office actively monitor workflows to ensure sufficient resources are in place to meet demand. Any resultant changes to resource requirements will be factored into strategic planning.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 30/05/2018 13:59:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

909317

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has received evidence that sessions of Toeic tests administered by ETS before 2014 included both genuine and fraudulent entries.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	146690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>As previously set out to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), where ETS analysis found no direct evidence of cheating but they could not be confident in the test result because of the large number of confirmed invalid results at the same test centre, a test result would be deemed “questionable”.</p><p>Nobody with a questionable test certificate should have action taken against them on this basis without first being given the chance to re-sit a test and attend an interview.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/06/2018 12:43:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

909318

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Synergy Business College of London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what concerns were brought to the attention of the Home Office following the unannounced audit visits to Synergy College in May 2012 and January 2013; and what steps he has taken in response to these concerns.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	146691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Under the terms of the licence agreement in place at the time it was the responsibility of the test provider to ensure that tests were delivered in a secure environment. Following the discovery of widespread fraud in 2015 new, strengthened arrangements for Secure English Language Testing (SELT) were introduced.</p><p>These arrangements included a reduction in the number of providers approved to deliver SELT, a reduction in the number of test centres and a requirement that these test centres are run directly by the provider rather than sub-contracted to other private organisations. Security requirements were also improved – test centres are required to video all test sessions and the Home Office now directly audits test centres both in the UK and overseas. The scheduling of these audits is based on volume and risk.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/06/2018 12:45:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

909358

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detainees: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the minimum compensation payment made was to an individual wrongly detained by the Home Office in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	146868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not record ‘Wrongful detention’ as a payment type. The figures the Home Office has for compensation are recorded as “unlawful detention”.</p><p>Our records indicate that the lowest compensation payments for unlawful detention for FYs 2014/15 in cases where nominal damages are awarded are listed below:</p><p><br>FY 2014/15 £1<br>FY 2015/16 £1<br>FY 2016/17 £1</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/10/2018 10:59:41 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

909360

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: 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 Home Office staff have been redeployed to the Windrush task force from work on citizenship applications.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	146870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department has deployed 53 staff from Citizenship casework operations to support the work of the Windrush Taskforce.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 13:37:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty