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773243

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding applications for asylum there were in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	108520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes the number of pending applications for asylum in the quarterly <em>Immigration Statistics </em>release. The latest figures are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017</a></p><p>Table as_01_q contains the total number of applications, the total number of initial decisions (broken down by decision type), and the total number of cases where a decision is pending, in each quarter.</p><p>Further information on the outcomes of asylum applications raised in a given year is available in Table as_06.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/10/2017 11:43:57 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

759751

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Borders: Personal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many exit checks were conducted at each UK border point of exit in each of the last 12 months; and how many of those checks resulted in (a) temporary and (b) permanent detention by police or other authorities.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	10280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Since 8 April 2015 departure data has been collected on all scheduled commercial services departing the UK from air and sea ports and from international rail stations except those services not within the scope of the exit checks programme.</p><p> </p><p>Border Force hold data for outbound alerts issued by Border Force at the National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC) where feedback has been received, such as those which have been progressed for pre-departure intervention.</p><p> </p><p>A variety of agencies, including Border Force, undertake outbound interventions, as a result of this various activity there is no single record held on their respective outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 04/10/2017 13:26:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

759765

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Syria
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 from Syria have been granted indefinite leave to remain in each of the last 12 months; and how many are resident in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	10279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Annual statistics on the number of Syrian nationals granted settlement (indefinite leave to enter or remain) are published in settlement table se_03 in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, April - June 2017’ <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#settlement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#settlement</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how many Syrian nationals granted settlement are resident in each local authority area is not available.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/09/2017 15:31:55 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

757728

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Brook House Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether proceedings are being (a) considered and (b) brought against any individual members of (i) her Department's and (ii) G4S staff as a result of investigations arising from BBC Panorama's investigation into Brook House.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	8709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government takes detainee welfare very seriously. Immediate action has been taken in response to the allegations raised by BBC Panorama. Sussex police has begun an investigation to establish whether criminal offences have been committed.</p><p> </p><p>G4S has suspended ten officers and is carrying out full investigations. The Home Office has suspended a former G4S officer, now a Home Office employee, and is carrying out an investigation.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/09/2017 15:38:21 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

747171

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with social media and technology companies on tackling online extremism.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	900136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>This Government has been clear there should be no safe space online for terrorists and their supporters to radicalise, recruit, incite, or inspire. We continue to work closely with industry to come up with new innovative ways for tackling terrorist use of the internet. Working with international partners we continue to push industry to take a more proactive approach to terrorist and extremist content on their platforms.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2017 16:44:09 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

732707

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	South Wales Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many armed police officers were trained for deployment in the South Wales Police in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14, (d) 2014-15 and (e) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	1044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office annually publishes statistics on the number of authorised firearms officers (AFOs) in the ‘Police use of Firearms statistics, England and Wales’ series. An AFO is a police officer who has been selected, trained, accredited and authorised by their chief officer to carry and use a firearm.</p><p>The data tables for the latest publication can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-england-and-wales-april-2015-to-march-2016-data-tables" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-england-and-wales-april-2015-to-march-2016-data-tables</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 3 of the data tables gives the number of AFOs by force for the years ending 31 March 2009 to 31 March 2016.</p><p>The Home Office will publish ‘Police use of Firearms statistics, England and Wales, 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017’ in July.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 29/06/2017 15:14:14 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

731585

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Wales
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 list the number of police officers, by rank, employed in each of the four geographic forces in Wales in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	51
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data biannually on the total number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales. These data can be found in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.</p><p>Detailed data on the number of officers by rank is collected and published on an annual basis only. The statistics for each of the four geographic forces in Wales, representing the picture as at 31 March 2016, can be found in Table_H4 accompanying the main release here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016</a></p><p>Data for previous years can be found in the Open Data tables, available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539270/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539270/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods</a></p><p>The next release of ‘Police workforce’ statistics is due to be published on 20<sup>th</sup> July, and will represent the picture as at 31 March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 27/06/2017 08:51:53 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

711043

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Social Media: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Facebook, (b) Twitter, (c) Google+, (d) YouTube, (e) Snapchat and (f) WhatsApp accounts have been closed or suspended on request of the Government due to involvement in (i) terrorism, (ii) hate crime and (iii) targeted harassment in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	67847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>This Government takes seriously the issue of online terrorist content, hate crime, and abuse.</p><p> </p><p>We work in partnership with major technology firms across the spectrum of online harms, identifying ways to tackle threats.</p><p>In the UK our dedicated police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) refers content that they assess as contravening UK terrorism legislation to industry. If industry agree that it breaches their terms and conditions, they remove it voluntarily. Through this process, in 2016 CTIRU secured the removal of over 120,000 pieces of terrorist material. The Home Office can only obtain the specific data requested on terrorism at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Last year we published a new Hate Crime Action Plan which focuses on reducing hate crime both on and offline, increasing reporting and improving support for victims.</p><p>As part of this, we agreed with internet service providers including Google, Facebook and Twitter that they would remove illegal content within 24 hours of it being posted, meaning people are better protected online. Snapchat and Whatsapp both contain end to end encryption on their messages, which means the content sent between their users is not publically viewable.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/03/2017 14:52:56 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

694250

registered interest
date	24/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of hate crime have been (a) reported and (b) prosecuted in each of the last 12 months in each police force area in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	65502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collect and publish statistics on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police on an annual basis. In 2015/16, the most recently published data, the police recorded 2,405 hate crimes in Wales. The statistical bulletin, which includes the number of hate crimes recorded by police force area (Appendix Table 2.01), can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on the number of hate crimes prosecuted in the last 12 months. Data for the number of prosecutions for the year ending March 2016 is to be published by the Ministry of Justice in May 2017. The Home Office does hold some data on the outcomes of hate crimes recorded by the police, which can be found in the hate crime bulletin referenced above, but it is not broken down by police force area.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 01/03/2017 15:57:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

694251

registered interest
date	24/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: South Wales
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 were referred to the Channel programme in South Wales Police Force area in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	65503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>Channel is a voluntary and confidential programme. Due to the likelihood of small numbers being involved, and therefore the risk of personal identification, we do not provide breakdowns of Channel data by police force area.</p><p>Since 2012, over 1,000 people have received support through Channel. The vast majority of those who receive support go onto leave the programme with no further terrorism-related concerns.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/03/2017 16:59:33 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty