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834752

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January to Question 124249, if she will make it her policy to publish an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations contained Stephen Shaw's review of the implementation of the recommendations on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, before publication of updated guidance on the Adults at Risk policy; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	126178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>As was stated in the answer referred to by the hon. Member, the Government is currently considering the judgment made by the High Court on 10 October 2017 in respect of the statutory guidance relating to the policy on adults at risk in immigration detention. Home Office officials will shortly be meeting a range of bodies with an interest in immigration detention as part of the process of revising the guidance. The Home Office will also carefully consider any further recommendations or findings made by Stephen Shaw.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2018 16:47:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

828577

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to make an assessment of the potential merits of the review conducted by Stephen Shaw on the implementation of the recommendations on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons, in advance of issuing updated guidance on her Department's adults at risk policy; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	124249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is currently considering the judgment made by the High Court on 10 October 2017 in respect of the statutory guidance relating to the policy on adults at risk in immigration detention and will, in the near future, be engaging with a range of bodies with an interest in immigration detention as part of the process of revising the guidance. The Home Office will carefully consider any further recommendations or findings made by Stephen Shaw.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 15:32:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

828881

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
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, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effect of social media on trends in knife crime; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	124497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>As part of our work to develop a new Serious Violence Strategy the Home Office has considered a range of factors that may be driving increases in serious violence including the role of social media.</p><p>The Home Office is aware that gangs make use of a number of social media platforms to incite violence and taunt rival gangs and we work closely with the police to identify good practice in tackling this issue and to encourage the police to take action. Operation Domain is an ongoing successful Metropolitan Police Service project taking action against gang-related activity online, working with social media companies to remove relevant content.</p><p>The new Serious Violence Strategy will be published early this year.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/01/2018 16:00:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

828888

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: 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 recent discussions she has had with representatives from (a) Facebook, (b) Google/YouTube, (C) Twitter, (d) Snapchat and (e) other social media platforms on tackling the prevalence of videos and other forms of social media content that glorify gang and knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	124503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office is aware that gangs make use of a number of social media platforms to incite violence and taunt rival gangs and we work closely with the police to identify good practice in tackling this issue and to encourage the police to take action. Operation Domain is an ongoing successful Metropolitan Police Service project taking action against gang-related activity online, working with social media companies to remove relevant content.</p><p>The Government has been clear that social media companies should be going further and faster when taking down content. Ultimately, this material should not be made available in the first place. I intend to meet these companies in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/01/2018 16:33:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

824622

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Torture
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 has taken to review the definition of torture used in the Adults At Risk policy.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The adults at risk in immigration detention policy came into force in September 2016 and was part of the Government’s response to Stephen Shaw’s review of the welfare of vulnerable people in immigration detention. It is based on a case by case assessment of the appropriateness of detention for each individual, depending on the nature and evidence of vulnerability available in their particular case. It involves a balancing of vulnerability considerations against immigration factors (how soon removal is due to take place, public protection concerns, and compliance with immigration law). If an individual is identified as being at risk in the terms of the policy, they will be detained (or their detention continued) only when the immigration factors outweigh the evidence of risk. <br>As such, the policy strengthens the existing presumption against detention. It does not, however, represent an automatic exclusion from immigration detention for any group of vulnerable, or potentially vulnerable, individuals and the Government has no plans to put in place a framework which fully prohibits the detention of any group of individuals.</p><p>Victims of sexual or gender based violence already fall explicitly within the scope of the policy. Individuals who have suffered severe physical or psychological violence are not explicitly referenced, but it is highly likely that such individuals would in any case fall within its scope in that they would meet one of the other indicators of risk set out in the policy (for example, suffering from a mental health condition or impairment, or suffering from a serious physical health condition, or suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or having been a victim of torture).</p><p>Following the High Court judgment on 10 October 2017 in the case of Medical Justice and Others v the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Government has been considering how it can best address the Court’s findings in relation to the statutory guidance in respect of the adults at risk in immigration detention policy. This includes consideration of the definition of torture that should apply in the policy. On 16 January 2018, Home Office officials wrote to a range of non-governmental organisations, including Medical Justice and Freedom from Torture, to propose a series of meetings in order to elicit their views as part of the process for developing statutory amendments.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123433 123436 123437 question first answered 25/01/2018 12:50:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

824632

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Torture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans his Department has to hold discussions on the review of its Adults at Risk policy with (a) Freedom from Torture, (b) Medical Justice and (c) Survivors Speak OUT.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The adults at risk in immigration detention policy came into force in September 2016 and was part of the Government’s response to Stephen Shaw’s review of the welfare of vulnerable people in immigration detention. It is based on a case by case assessment of the appropriateness of detention for each individual, depending on the nature and evidence of vulnerability available in their particular case. It involves a balancing of vulnerability considerations against immigration factors (how soon removal is due to take place, public protection concerns, and compliance with immigration law). If an individual is identified as being at risk in the terms of the policy, they will be detained (or their detention continued) only when the immigration factors outweigh the evidence of risk. <br>As such, the policy strengthens the existing presumption against detention. It does not, however, represent an automatic exclusion from immigration detention for any group of vulnerable, or potentially vulnerable, individuals and the Government has no plans to put in place a framework which fully prohibits the detention of any group of individuals.</p><p>Victims of sexual or gender based violence already fall explicitly within the scope of the policy. Individuals who have suffered severe physical or psychological violence are not explicitly referenced, but it is highly likely that such individuals would in any case fall within its scope in that they would meet one of the other indicators of risk set out in the policy (for example, suffering from a mental health condition or impairment, or suffering from a serious physical health condition, or suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or having been a victim of torture).</p><p>Following the High Court judgment on 10 October 2017 in the case of Medical Justice and Others v the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Government has been considering how it can best address the Court’s findings in relation to the statutory guidance in respect of the adults at risk in immigration detention policy. This includes consideration of the definition of torture that should apply in the policy. On 16 January 2018, Home Office officials wrote to a range of non-governmental organisations, including Medical Justice and Freedom from Torture, to propose a series of meetings in order to elicit their views as part of the process for developing statutory amendments.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123423 123436 123437 question first answered 25/01/2018 12:50:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

824635

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of replacing the Adults at Risk policy with a framework which prohibits the detention of all victims of torture and other vulnerable people from immigration detention.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The adults at risk in immigration detention policy came into force in September 2016 and was part of the Government’s response to Stephen Shaw’s review of the welfare of vulnerable people in immigration detention. It is based on a case by case assessment of the appropriateness of detention for each individual, depending on the nature and evidence of vulnerability available in their particular case. It involves a balancing of vulnerability considerations against immigration factors (how soon removal is due to take place, public protection concerns, and compliance with immigration law). If an individual is identified as being at risk in the terms of the policy, they will be detained (or their detention continued) only when the immigration factors outweigh the evidence of risk. <br>As such, the policy strengthens the existing presumption against detention. It does not, however, represent an automatic exclusion from immigration detention for any group of vulnerable, or potentially vulnerable, individuals and the Government has no plans to put in place a framework which fully prohibits the detention of any group of individuals.</p><p>Victims of sexual or gender based violence already fall explicitly within the scope of the policy. Individuals who have suffered severe physical or psychological violence are not explicitly referenced, but it is highly likely that such individuals would in any case fall within its scope in that they would meet one of the other indicators of risk set out in the policy (for example, suffering from a mental health condition or impairment, or suffering from a serious physical health condition, or suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or having been a victim of torture).</p><p>Following the High Court judgment on 10 October 2017 in the case of Medical Justice and Others v the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Government has been considering how it can best address the Court’s findings in relation to the statutory guidance in respect of the adults at risk in immigration detention policy. This includes consideration of the definition of torture that should apply in the policy. On 16 January 2018, Home Office officials wrote to a range of non-governmental organisations, including Medical Justice and Freedom from Torture, to propose a series of meetings in order to elicit their views as part of the process for developing statutory amendments.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123423 123433 123437 question first answered 25/01/2018 12:50:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

824636

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
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 improve immigration detention safeguards for victims of torture and other vulnerable people, including people who have suffered from severe physical, psychological or sexual violence; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The adults at risk in immigration detention policy came into force in September 2016 and was part of the Government’s response to Stephen Shaw’s review of the welfare of vulnerable people in immigration detention. It is based on a case by case assessment of the appropriateness of detention for each individual, depending on the nature and evidence of vulnerability available in their particular case. It involves a balancing of vulnerability considerations against immigration factors (how soon removal is due to take place, public protection concerns, and compliance with immigration law). If an individual is identified as being at risk in the terms of the policy, they will be detained (or their detention continued) only when the immigration factors outweigh the evidence of risk. <br>As such, the policy strengthens the existing presumption against detention. It does not, however, represent an automatic exclusion from immigration detention for any group of vulnerable, or potentially vulnerable, individuals and the Government has no plans to put in place a framework which fully prohibits the detention of any group of individuals.</p><p>Victims of sexual or gender based violence already fall explicitly within the scope of the policy. Individuals who have suffered severe physical or psychological violence are not explicitly referenced, but it is highly likely that such individuals would in any case fall within its scope in that they would meet one of the other indicators of risk set out in the policy (for example, suffering from a mental health condition or impairment, or suffering from a serious physical health condition, or suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or having been a victim of torture).</p><p>Following the High Court judgment on 10 October 2017 in the case of Medical Justice and Others v the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Government has been considering how it can best address the Court’s findings in relation to the statutory guidance in respect of the adults at risk in immigration detention policy. This includes consideration of the definition of torture that should apply in the policy. On 16 January 2018, Home Office officials wrote to a range of non-governmental organisations, including Medical Justice and Freedom from Torture, to propose a series of meetings in order to elicit their views as part of the process for developing statutory amendments.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123423 123433 123436 question first answered 25/01/2018 12:50:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

824638

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
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 issue further guidance on tackling county lines exploitation; and when that guidance will be shared (a) across Government, (b) with the police, (c) the National Crime Agency, (d) local authorities and (e) voluntary sector partners.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>In July last year we published guidance on county lines for frontline <br>practitioners to help them identify and respond to county lines exploitation. This guidance has been well received by a wide range of partners including the police, local authorities, and voluntary and community sector organisations.</p><p>More widely, the National Working Group on County Lines is driving delivery of a programme to tackle the issue of county lines and we will outline further measures in our forthcoming serious violence strategy which will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/01/2018 15:54:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

822984

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information she holds on the number of Hezbollah (a) members and (b) supporters there are in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	122667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The department does not collect data on specific numbers of Hezbollah members or supporters in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 18/01/2018 16:43:07 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan