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170464

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: English Language
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 15 December 2014 to Question 218042, how many and what proportion of candidates took their English language tests online in each country in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
uin	218716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Secure English language tests for visa purposes require attendance in person at an invigilated test centre. As such there are no online tests that can be taken from home.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:57:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

170465

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
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 Answer of 28 March 2011 to Question 45398, whether it remains the policy of her Department that a ban on the testing of household products on animals will apply to both finished products and ingredients; whether there is now a definition of household products; and when the ban will be implemented.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Sanders
uin	218697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>We have made a commitment to ban the testing of household products on animals. Although superficially straightforward, this issue has not been easy to resolve. The key issue is around ingredients. We are currently engaging with <br>stakeholders to develop a solution that is workable, but does not have a chain of unforeseen circumstances. <br><br>Any solution has to be legally viable since we cannot ban testing which may be required under UK or EU law. The solution we develop must not preclude research that is a lawful requirement nor that which has significant benefits to people, the environment or animals. Nor should it drive research overseas.<br><br>There is, at present, no authoritative definition of household products in the United Kingdom or European legislation. Through stakeholder engagement we are seeking to develop an agreed definition.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 18/12/2014 14:51:25 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	237 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Sanders

170466

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many animals were used for testing (a) finished household products and (b) household product ingredients in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Sanders
uin	218698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of animals used in scientific procedures for testing (a) finished household products or (b) household product ingredients. It does however collect data on the number of <br>animals used in procedures undertaken for the testing of substances used in the household, in Great Britain.<br><br>In 2010 there were 24 animals used in procedures for the testing of substances used in the household. In 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013 there were no animals used in procedures for the testing of substances used in the household.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 18/12/2014 14:59:50 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	237 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Sanders

170467

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: English Language
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 15 December 2014 to Question 218042, how many cases of fraud or abuse in relation to English language testing have been identified in each country in each of the last five years; and what proportion such cases were of the total number sitting those tests in each country.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
uin	218720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>The data requested is not held centrally and the costs of gathering the information would involve disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:50:31 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

170468

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: English Language
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 15 December 2014 to Question 218042, what steps her Department takes to ensure that the candidate sitting a test online is the same person who completed the secure online verification process.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
uin	218718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>English language tests for visa purposes require attendance in person at an invigilated test centre. It is incumbent upon Secure English Language Test (SELT) providers to check the identity of individuals sitting their tests. The secure online verification process is the system delivered by the SELT test providers which the Home Office uses to check results relied on in support of an immigration application.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:58:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

170469

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: English Language
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 15 December 2014 to Question 218042, how many concerns regarding fraud or abuse in relation to English language testing were reported to her Department by English language testing providers in each country in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
uin	218719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:57:46 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

170470

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: English Language
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 15 December 2014 to Question 218042, what licences were awarded to which companies testing English language skills in connection with visa applications for travel to the UK in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
uin	218717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>In April 2011 this Government introduced a requirement that certain immigration routes required a Secure English Language Test (SELT) as evidence of English language ability. When SELTs were introduced in 2011, 5 providers were licensed to provide SELTs for Immigration purpose. These were Trinity, Pearson, Cambridge, City &amp; Guilds and ETS. All of these providers were already providing English language tests for certain immigration purposes prior to <br>2011. In December 2012 a sixth provider, Cambridge International Examinations, was added as an approved SELT provider for UK Immigration purposes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:59:03 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

170471

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crossbows
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what controls there are on the sale of crossbows.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	218630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The sale of crossbows is subject to the Crossbows Act 1987, as amended by the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. Under this legislation, it is an offence to sell or hire a crossbow, with a draw weight of 1.4 kilogrammes or greater, to <br>persons under the age of 17, and it prohibits persons aged under 17 from possessing a crossbow unless supervised by someone aged 21 or over. The maximum penalty on summary conviction is six months imprisonment or a £5,000 fine or <br>both.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 18/12/2014 15:01:42 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

170472

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: G4S and Serco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many tenders from (a) Serco and (b) G4S for contracts let by her Department have been successful in each year since May 2010; how much her Department paid to each of those companies for the execution of contracts in each such year; how many contracts which terminate after 2015 each company hold with her Department; and what the monetary value is of all outstanding contracts between her Department and each company.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	218604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s Transparency Agenda the Home Department publishes all its contracts over £10,000. Contracts are publically available on the Contracts Finder portal. <br><br>www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/<br><br>Contract data fields will contain the information requested. Where any monetary value sections are incomplete, this is because the information has been deemed commercially sensitive and may be detrimental to both the Department or the <br>supplier to release.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/01/2015 14:58:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

170473

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
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 Criminal Finances Improvement Plan 2014, what steps she is taking to work with the private sector to maximise asset recovery.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	218614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Attacking criminal finances is central to our Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. Under the criminal finances improvement plan we are working across Government and with operational partners to explore how private sector skills and capabilities can be deployed to maximise asset recovery.<br><br>Our work with private sector partners specifically includes:<br>• The Government is exploring new ways of working with the private sector to improve the enforcement of confiscation orders. <br>• The Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office have completed a review of the use of receivers to enforce confiscation orders, resulting in the launch of an improved framework for the use of enforcement receivers. <br>• HM Courts and Tribunal Service is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services for criminal financial impositions. This includes the collection and enforcement of fines, compensation, prosecutor costs, victims surcharge, fixed penalties and Confiscation Orders.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/12/2014 17:52:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey