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1141618

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Arrests: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many National Crime Agency-led arrests there have been in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months; and how many convictions there have been as a result of those arrests.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	281638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) works in partnership with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) when operating in Northern Ireland, including through the Paramilitary Crime Task Force (PCTF), a multi-agency effort to protect the communities of Northern Ireland by tackling all forms of criminality linked to paramilitarism.</p><p>In the last 12-month period (July 2018 – June 2019) NCA-led activity has led to three arrests and seven convictions in Northern Ireland.</p><p>Convictions are not necessarily linked to arrests in the same period as the individuals convicted may have been arrested in a previous reporting period.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 03/09/2019 16:09:21 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1141649

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Sopra Steria
	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 of the (a) quality and (b) value for money of services provided by Sopra Steria for HM Passports Office; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	281609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The contract with Sopra Steria for the provision of BPO services contains clauses and performance measures (KPIs) designed to ensure the timeliness and quality of service provision. HMPO has a rigorous contract compliance regime in place supported by a dedicated Supplier Management Team with responsibility for ensuring the provider delivers to the required performance standards set out in the contract.</p><p>The contract also requires Sopra Steria to maintain an “Open Book” policy. This provides HMPO with transparency of costs and allows HMPO to closely monitor costs and to ensure value for money.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/09/2019 16:12:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1141650

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the potential savings to the public purse of producing an in-house bid for HM Passport Office work.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	281610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department considered a range of options before launching the ongoing procurement for Scanning Validation and Storage services, which included assessing bringing these services in house.</p><p>It was determined that the specialist technology required to efficiently and accurately validate and scan documents submitted to Her Majesty’s Passport Office was more cost effectively accessed via an outsourced contract than by the Department procuring and supporting this technology directly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/09/2019 16:10:53 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1141651

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the options analysis for HM Passports Office produced by his Department assessed the merits of returning outsourced work to in-house.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	281611
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department considered a range of options before launching the ongoing procurement for Scanning Validation and Storage services, which included assessing bringing these services in house.</p><p>It was determined that the specialist technology required to efficiently and accurately validate and scan documents submitted to Her Majesty’s Passport Office was more cost effectively accessed via an outsourced contract than by the Department procuring and supporting this technology directly.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/09/2019 16:22:39 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1141660

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Money Laundering: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the UK has not opted into EU Directive 2018/1673 on combating money laundering by criminal law.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	281754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Eighth Annual Report to Parliament on the Application of Protocols 19 and 21 to the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the Union (TFEU) in Relation to EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Matters (1 December 2016 – 30 November 2017) (Cm 9580), the UK Government decided not to opt into the EU Directive on combating money laundering by criminal law as our domestic legislation is already largely compliant with the Directive’s measures, and in relation to the offences and sentences set out in the Directive, the UK already goes much further. Therefore, it was not considered that opting in would enhance the UK’s approach to tackling money laundering.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 03/09/2019 16:12:02 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1141661

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Money Laundering: EU Law
	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 equivalence of the UK's corporate liability regime achieve with article 7 (the liability of legal persons) of EU Directive 2018/1673 on combating money laundering by criminal law.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	281755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Eighth Annual Report to Parliament on the Application of Protocols 19 and 21 to the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the Union (TFEU) in Relation to EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Matters (1 December 2016 – 30 November 2017) (Cm 9580), the UK Government decided not to opt into the EU Directive on combating money laundering by criminal law as our domestic legislation is already largely compliant with the Directive’s measures, and in relation to the offences and sentences set out in the Directive, the UK already goes much further. Therefore, it was not considered that opting in would enhance the UK’s approach to tackling money laundering.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 03/09/2019 16:14:03 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1141687

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Emergency Services Network
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff have been employed in the programme team to deliver the Emergency Services Network, in each month since that Network was established.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	281773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/09/2019 16:55:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1141691

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Airwave Service and Emergency Services Network: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department plans to use to allow police forces to assess the comparative performance of Emergency Services Network and Airwave.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	281776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Home Department has already committed to respond to the Hon. Member for Moray and the Home Affairs Select Committee in writing on this issue, within the required timescale.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 14:34:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1141705

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to provide mental health support to immigration removal centre staff.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	281599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.</p><p>In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.</p><p>The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.</p><p>Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 281600 281601 281602 281603 question first answered 06/09/2019 14:42:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

1141763

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to provide support to individuals employed in immigration removal centres who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	281600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.</p><p>In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.</p><p>The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.</p><p>Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 281599 281601 281602 281603 question first answered 06/09/2019 14:42:42 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint