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1020573

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Department has taken to honour its commitment to implement the Dubs amendment; what assessment he has made of whether his Department has met that commitment.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	199927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>We continue to work very closely with participating States France, Greece and Italy, local authorities and delivery partners to relocate the specified number of 480 children under Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 as soon as possible. Over 220 children are already in the UK and transfers are ongoing.</p><p><br>We recently took the positive decision to remove the date criterion for the referral of unaccompanied children in Europe to be relocated to the UK un-der section 67. Participating States will now be able to refer the most vul-nerable children whose best interests are served by relocation to the UK, regardless of when they arrived into Europe. We expect this to increase the rate of referrals from participating States. Relocation of eligible children to the UK is also dependent on the availability of appropriate local authority care placements.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/12/2018 17:43:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1020584

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Early Intervention Youth Fund
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 effectiveness of the Early Intervention Youth Fund; and what accomplishments that fund has achieved.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	199932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Our Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22 million is already supporting 29 projects in England and Wales. Over £17 million has already been allocated to projects delivering interventions to young people at risk of criminal involvement, gang exploitation and county lines.</p><p>The successful bids were announced in November 2018 and so it is too early to make an assessment of the Fund’s effectiveness and any accomplishments.</p><p>We will be appointing an independent evaluation partner who will support local partnerships with monitoring arrangements and will gather qualitative and quantitative data over the course of the project. This work will contribute to a programme wide evaluation, including an overview of what we have learnt about good practice. The projects will also be required to provide regular updates on their progress.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/02/2019 15:04:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1020585

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service
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 make meaningful progress on the Disclosure and Barring Service modernisation programme.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	199933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has taken full account of the findings and recommendations of the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee reports earlier this year on its modernisation programme. The DBS will be procuring a new supplier to deliver IT services and has agreed a short contract extension with the current provider to enable a smooth transition so that all operational services are protected.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/02/2019 13:15:39 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019938

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) outcomes and (b) agreements were that he reached on online child grooming with representatives of (i) Microsoft, (ii) Facebook, (iii) Google, (iv) Snap and (v) Twitter on his recent visit to the US.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Between 6-8 November, the Home Secretary held a series of meetings with Microsoft, Twitter, and Snap, Google and Facebook. In those meetings, the Home Secretary reiterated his personal commitment to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation and reinforced his key demands of tech companies, which he set out in his speech on combating child sexual exploitation and abuse at the NSPCC on 3 September.</p><p>The Home Secretary also pushed for increased transparency across all their efforts to tackle abuses of their platforms and stressed the need for companies to demonstrate they were enforcing their terms and conditions.</p><p>The companies affirmed their commitment to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse on their platforms; set out steps they are taking to develop new technologies and policies to make their platforms safer; and agreed to continue to engage closely with the government on taking further actions to detect grooming (including sharing appropriate information with partners and deploying new tools) that were appropriate for their platforms.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/12/2018 17:33:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019942

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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: Social Media
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 encourage social media companies to tackle the grooming of young children on the platforms of those companies.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Tackling online grooming is one of our highest priorities, and we are in-creasing our investment in law enforcement and legislating on online harms to bear down on the threat. In November the Home Secretary also co-hosted a ‘Hackathon’ in the US, where tech companies developed an artificial intelligence product to detect online grooming that will be licensed free of charge to technology companies worldwide.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/12/2018 17:34:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019951

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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 guidance his Department has issued to police forces on tackling online child abuse.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The College of Policing, as the professional body for the Police Service is responsible for providing guidance to the police. The College of Policing’s “Vulnerability” training package, aimed at ensuring a consistent approach across all police forces, includes a programme on Child Sexual Exploitation. Further details are provided on their website:<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing</a></p><p>We have begun to drive a step change in our approach to dealing with crimes against vulnerable children and people across the country and have invested significantly in a programme of reform to help the police to respond to changing crimes. This includes significant extra investment through the Police Transformation Fund (PTF) to transform policing in response to crimes against vulnerable individuals such as child sexual abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 198818 question first answered 12/12/2018 17:37:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019954

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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, whether his Department has issued guidance to police services on using an intelligence-led approach to identify children who are at risk of online exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The College of Policing, as the professional body for the Police Service is responsible for providing guidance to the police. The College of Policing’s “Vulnerability” training package, aimed at ensuring a consistent approach across all police forces, includes a programme on Child Sexual Exploitation. Further details are provided on their website:<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing</a></p><p>We have begun to drive a step change in our approach to dealing with crimes against vulnerable children and people across the country and have invested significantly in a programme of reform to help the police to respond to changing crimes. This includes significant extra investment through the Police Transformation Fund (PTF) to transform policing in response to crimes against vulnerable individuals such as child sexual abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 198817 question first answered 12/12/2018 17:37:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019957

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime Prevention: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and for Justice on tech companies preventing their platforms being used for criminal activity.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have regular meetings as part of the process of policy development and delivery, including on illegal activities taking place on social media.</p><p>As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/12/2018 17:35:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019958

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish the joint White Paper with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on online harms.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish a White Paper in Winter 2018/19, which will set out our plans to tackle online harms and set clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:31:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1007839

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Economic Crime Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the National Economic Crime Centre is planned to help increase the number of prosecutions for crimes such as bribery and corruption.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	191903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) will deliver a step change in the UK's response to - and impact on economic crime, including bribery and corruption.</p><p>For the first time, the NECC brings together enforcement and justice agencies (HM Revenue and Customs, the City of London Police, the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office and the Crown Prosecution Service), other government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down economic crime in the UK.</p><p>It will leverage the 'whole system' approach to enhance and coordinate our collective capabilities to target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm serious and organised criminals, including corrupt elites. Where appropriate this will include prosecutions.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 23/11/2018 12:12:03 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord