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62796

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the incidence of physical, sexual and emotional abuse experienced by transgender individuals placed in mixed-sex Immigration Removal Centres.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gould of Potternewton
uin	HL476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Men and women only mix at two immigration removal centres (IRC); Yarl's Wood family accommodation and Dungavel IRC. Transsexual people may be held in any IRC. <br><br>Transsexual people in detention are managed in accordance with Detention Services Order 11/2012. This order requires centres to produce a management care plan outlining how the detainee will be managed safely and decently within the detention environment and to put in place measures to manage the risk of transphobic harassment and transphobic hate crime. <br><br>An assessment of the incidence of physical, sexual and emotional abuse experienced by transgender individuals placed in IRCs is not possible as the information is not centrally recorded and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 02/07/2014 16:17:53 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	3573 label Biography information for Baroness Gould of Potternewton

62489

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to prevent alcohol and drug abuse in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Dundee
uin	HL418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Coalition Government's approach to preventing drug and alcohol abuse in the UK is captured in the 2010 Drug Strategy and the 2012 Alcohol Strategy.<br><br>The Drug Strategy 'Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug-free life' balances three key themes: reducing the demand for drugs, restricting the supply of drugs, and supporting individuals to recover from dependence. We continue to do all we can to prevent people from using drugs in the first place and intervene early with those who start to develop problems. For example, we are taking action to break intergenerational paths to drug misuse by supporting the UK's most troubled families and supporting practitioners working with young people through the production of an on-line Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service.<br><br>We are confident that our strategic approach is producing good results. Drug use has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1996, and people going into treatment today are more likely to free themselves from dependency than ever before. <br><br>The Alcohol Strategy proposed a range of measures to radically reshape the approach to alcohol and reduce excessive drinking and tackle the crime and health harms associated with it. We have provided more powers for local areas to restrict opening and closing times, control the density of licensed premises, and charge a late night levy to support policing. In May we introduced a ban on the worst cases of very cheap and harmful alcohol sales and are taking forward a wide range of action to tackle alcohol-related crime and disorder. This includes working with 20 Local Alcohol Action Areas to cut alcohol-related crime and disorder, and reduce the damage caused to people's health. Underpinning this work is the goal of promoting diverse and vibrant night-time economies that do not centre on drinking alcohol.<br><br>Through the Responsibility Deal, the alcohol industry has adopted a core commitment to ‘foster a culture of responsible drinking which will help people to drink within guidelines'. This includes a pledge to give consumers a wider choice of lower strength products and take one billion units out of the market by 2015. From April 2013, the NHS Healthcheck included an alcohol risk assessment for adults aged 40-75 year olds, with an assessment every five years. The Chief Medical Officer (Dame Sally Davies) is also reviewing the alcohol guidelines for adults.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 30/06/2014 16:29:31 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	2735 label Biography information for The Earl of Dundee

62501

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what investigations they intend to make into the UK Border Agency's refusal of an entry visa to Nabil Al-Raee, Artistic Director of Jenin Freedom Theatre.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Due to its obligations under the Data Protection Act, the Home Office is unable to comment on individual cases.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 30/06/2014 13:49:10 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

62520

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Taylor of Holbeach on 6 May (WA 322), what form the review of asylum support rates will take; and which stakeholders will be consulted.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review is an internal Home Office one, to ensure that the payments provided to destitute asylum seekers are sufficient to cover their essential living needs consistent with the judgement of 9 April. The Home Office has met with represenatives of &quot;Still Human Still Here&quot;, a coalition of organisations with an established interest in the issue. The review will take full account of both their views and the details of the judgment of 9 April.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 26/06/2014 15:48:13 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

62665

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Hartlepool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide additional funding for Cleveland Police to assist in (a) retaining and (b) increasing the number of police officers in operation in Hartlepool constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	201205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Like all parts of the public sector the police must play their part in <br>reducing the deficit and the vast majority of forces are rising to the <br>challenge of reducing costs, maintaining services and cutting crime. <br>Ultimately what matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them <br>there are and, in Cleveland, police recorded crime has fallen by 14 per cent <br>since 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 30/06/2014 12:07:10 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

62666

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police Community Support Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers there were in (a) Coventry, (b) Coventry North East constituency, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	201195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The following table contains the requested data for police community support <br>officers in:<br>(a) Coventry Basic Command Unit, from 31 March 2009 to 31 March 2011. Figures <br>at basic command unit level ceased to be collected from then to reduce the <br>administratvie burden on the police.<br>(b) figures for Coventry North East constituency are not collected by the Home <br>Office.<br>(c) (d) the West Midlands police force, the West Midlands region and England, <br>from 31 March 2009 to 30 September 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 23/06/2014 11:35:52 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name PQ 201195 - table.xlsx title How many police Community support
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

62668

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Violent and Sex Offender Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who were convicted of a sexual offence have been prosecuted for having failed to notify their personal details to the police in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	201213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Figures for the number of registered sex offenders who were either cautioned or convicted for breaches of their notification requirement in England and Wales are contained in the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Annual Report, published by the Ministry of Justice. The MAPPA reports for 2009-2013 may be found on the GOV.uk website. Reports published prior to 2009 may be found on the national archives website. <br><br>Management of sex offenders is a devolved matter, so the figures do not include Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 24/06/2014 14:15:33 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 4316 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

62670

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding under which categories of expenditure her Department has allocated to domestic and sexual violence support services in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	201164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>Domestic and sexual violence are devastating crimes and are not acceptable <br>within our society. The Coalition Government's continued approach to tackling <br>such violence and abuse is set out in our Violence against Women and Girls <br>Action Plan, updated in March 2014. <br><br>Supporting victims is at the heart of this approach, which includes giving <br>victims more confidence to report, and it is encouraging that police recorded <br>crime figures show more victims are having the confidence to come forward. <br><br>The Government has ring-fenced nearly £40 million of stable funding from 2010 <br>up to 2015 for specialist local domestic and sexual violence support services, <br>rape crisis centres, the national domestic violence helplines and stalking <br>helpline. <br><br>Over the spending review period the Home Office funding of £28 million provides <br>for: <br>144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers, 87 dedicated Independent <br>Sexual Violence Advisers, 54 Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference <br>Co-ordinators, and funding to Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse <br>to provide support and advice to MARACs, as well as running a programme <br>of quality assurance and £1.2 million for three years from 2012 to improve <br>services for young people suffering sexual violence in major urban areas. <br>£900,000 a year is used towards the running costs of national helplines for <br>victims of domestic violence and stalking.<br><br>In 2013, the Home Secretary commissioned Her Majesty's Inspectorate of <br>Constabulary to undertake a comprehensive review on how the police deal with <br>domestic violence and abuse. HMIC's report exposed significant failings. In <br>response to the Review, the Home Secretary has established a National <br>Oversight Group, which she is chairing, and on which I sit, to ensure HMIC's <br>recommendations are acted upon. The Group met for the first time on 10 June. <br><br>The Home Secretary has also written to chief constables making it clear that <br>every police force must have an action plan in place by September 2014, to <br>improve their response to domestic violence and abuse.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 01/07/2014 15:16:03 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 4315 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

62671

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to tackle domestic violence and sexual abuse since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	201159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>Domestic and sexual violence are devastating crimes and are not acceptable <br>within our society. The Coalition Government's continued approach to tackling <br>such violence and abuse is set out in our Violence against Women and Girls <br>Action Plan, updated in March 2014. <br><br>Supporting victims is at the heart of this approach, which includes giving <br>victims more confidence to report, and it is encouraging that police recorded <br>crime figures show more victims are having the confidence to come forward. <br><br>The Government has ring-fenced nearly £40 million of stable funding from 2010 <br>up to 2015 for specialist local domestic and sexual violence support services, <br>rape crisis centres, the national domestic violence helplines and stalking <br>helpline. <br><br>Over the spending review period the Home Office funding of £28 million provides <br>for: <br>144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers, 87 dedicated Independent <br>Sexual Violence Advisers, 54 Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference <br>Co-ordinators, and funding to Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse <br>to provide support and advice to MARACs, as well as running a programme <br>of quality assurance and £1.2 million for three years from 2012 to improve <br>services for young people suffering sexual violence in major urban areas. <br>£900,000 a year is used towards the running costs of national helplines for <br>victims of domestic violence and stalking.<br><br>In 2013, the Home Secretary commissioned Her Majesty's Inspectorate of <br>Constabulary to undertake a comprehensive review on how the police deal with <br>domestic violence and abuse. HMIC's report exposed significant failings. In <br>response to the Review, the Home Secretary has established a National <br>Oversight Group, which she is chairing, and on which I sit, to ensure HMIC's <br>recommendations are acted upon. The Group met for the first time on 10 June. <br><br>The Home Secretary has also written to chief constables making it clear that <br>every police force must have an action plan in place by September 2014, to <br>improve their response to domestic violence and abuse.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 01/07/2014 15:14:05 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 4313 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

62672

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the reporting of domestic and sexual violence offences by victims.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	201160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>Domestic and sexual violence are devastating crimes and are not acceptable <br>within our society. The Coalition Government's continued approach to tackling <br>such violence and abuse is set out in our Violence against Women and Girls <br>Action Plan, updated in March 2014. <br><br>Supporting victims is at the heart of this approach, which includes giving <br>victims more confidence to report, and it is encouraging that police recorded <br>crime figures show more victims are having the confidence to come forward. <br><br>The Government has ring-fenced nearly £40 million of stable funding from 2010 <br>up to 2015 for specialist local domestic and sexual violence support services, <br>rape crisis centres, the national domestic violence helplines and stalking <br>helpline. <br><br>Over the spending review period the Home Office funding of £28 million provides <br>for: <br>144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers, 87 dedicated Independent <br>Sexual Violence Advisers, 54 Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference <br>Co-ordinators, and funding to Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse <br>to provide support and advice to MARACs, as well as running a programme <br>of quality assurance and £1.2 million for three years from 2012 to improve <br>services for young people suffering sexual violence in major urban areas. <br>£900,000 a year is used towards the running costs of national helplines for <br>victims of domestic violence and stalking.<br><br>In 2013, the Home Secretary commissioned Her Majesty's Inspectorate of <br>Constabulary to undertake a comprehensive review on how the police deal with <br>domestic violence and abuse. HMIC's report exposed significant failings. In <br>response to the Review, the Home Secretary has established a National <br>Oversight Group, which she is chairing, and on which I sit, to ensure HMIC's <br>recommendations are acted upon. The Group met for the first time on 10 June. <br><br>The Home Secretary has also written to chief constables making it clear that <br>every police force must have an action plan in place by September 2014, to <br>improve their response to domestic violence and abuse.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 01/07/2014 15:15:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 4314 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth