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	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud
	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 of people who attempted to make reports of fraud to Action Fraud over the latest 12-month period for which data is available; of those who attempted to make such reports how many were successful over that period; how much enforcement activity was undertaken as a result of those reports; by which police authorities such action was undertaken; how many telephone calls were made to Action Fraud over that period; and, of those calls, how many were answered by Action Fraud.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	192788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>Action Fraud provide online and telephone based services which enable the reporting of both fraud and cyber dependent crime.</p><p>Between October 2017 and September 2018 the service received 505,497 calls.</p><p>Of these callers, 314,668 callers spoke to a member of staff. The 190,829 callers that did not speak to a member of staff will include callers that chose to use the online service or callers who waited but did not receive an answer.</p><p>505,587 reports were made in this period, by phone or online, of which 318,629 were classified as crimes as set out in the Home Office Counting Rules. In the same period 57,181 crimes were disseminated for enforcement, by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which analyses reports of crime made via Action Fraud. The NFIB disseminated a further 20,075 reports in this period either as intelligence or as a result of concern for the victim, this is in addition to victim based referrals made by contact centre staff direct to their local police force.</p><p>Force breakdown for outcomes are also available at this webpage <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2017-to-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/11/2018 17:29:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

691976

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department operates a ban the box employment policy in respect of ex-offender job applicants with unspent convictions; and how many employees of her Department have unspent convictions.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	64475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office operates a ban the box policy in line with Cabinet Office guidance and does not ask for information about convictions at the start of the application process. We do not hold central records on how many employees have unspent convictions.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/02/2017 11:37:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

896358

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of knife crime incidents recorded in England in the last year for which figures are available were linked to criminal drug taking activity; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	140648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects data on the number of selected offences involving a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales.</p><p>It is not possible to tell from this information whether an offence was related to criminal drug taking activity or not.</p><p> </p><p>The most recently published data for offences involving knives or sharp instruments is for the calendar year 2017 and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/05/2018 17:03:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

926622

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Pregnancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is an aggravated offence for a pregnant women to use (a) cannabis, (b) ecstasy, (c) heroin and (d) other illegal or street drugs during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	154632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>There is no specific offence for drug use. It is an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 for any person to possess a controlled drug. The penalty will depend on: the class and quantity of drug, where a person and the drugs were found, their personal history and other aggravating or mitigating factors. <br>The Government is determined to protect vulnerable women from drug misuse. Advice about alcohol and drugs is available to pregnant women as part of their routine antenatal care. Pregnant women who misuse alcohol or drugs will be put in contact with a midwife or doctor who has special expertise in the care of pregnant women with alcohol or drug problems. They will be able to refer them to an alcohol or drug treatment programme and other organisations that can help.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 26/06/2018 11:32:25 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

829826

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Vietnam
	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 location of Vietnamese victims of modern slavery found in the UK in the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	124601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Information about the region of exploitation of potential victims of modern slavery referred to the national referral mechanism is collected where known.</p><p>This data is published in the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery 2017 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery</a> However the published data is not disaggregated by nationality of potential victims.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/01/2018 15:07:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous