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date	18/03/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what strategic priorities her Department has given to the National Wildlife Crime Unit in each of the last five years; and on what key areas her Department has instructed that unit to focus until 2016.
tabling member constituency	Newbury
tabling member printed	Richard Benyon
uin	192538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office recognises the importance of wildlife crime, and is providing specific funding of £136,000 for the National Wildlife Crime Unit in each of the next two financial years.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office does not set specific priorities for the National Wildlife Crime Unit, other than to tackle wildlife crime. The Unit produces a tactical assessment of wildlife crime across the UK every six months. This assessment is then considered by the UK Tasking and Co-ordinating Group, which includes the Home Office and Defra.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 25/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon

43801

registered interest
date	18/03/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Declaration of the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, what consideration her Department has given to ensuring that wildlife crime offences are made recordable offences.
tabling member constituency	Newbury
tabling member printed	Richard Benyon
uin	192539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2014 answer text <p>Offences relating to the illegal purchase and sale of the world's most highly endangered species are already included in the Home Office Counting Rules for police recorded crime, with the specific crime recording code of 99/3. This includes the illegal trade in iconic species such as elephants, rhinoceroses and tigers, which provided the focus to the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 25/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon