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77262

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to respond to the Independent Monitoring Board's Annual Report 2013 on Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre and in particular its finding in respect of the provision of appropriate accommodation for those with mental health or behavioural problems.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stern
uin	HL996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Harmondsworth published its 2013 report on 30 June. An action plan to address the recommendations in the report will be agreed by 11 August. Plans to make changes to the configuration of the healthcare unit to address the provision of appropriate accommodation for those with mental health or behavioural problems are under discussion with the new healthcare provider at Harmondsworth. This is in advance of the transfer of healthcare commissioning to NHS England on 1 September. Individuals who claim to be under the age of 18 following their detention are managed in accordance with Detention Services Order 14/2012 for the care and management of age dispute cases. This sets out the policy and procedures to follow in individual cases where there is a lack of physical or definitive documentary evidence to prove the person is under the age of 18. This also details the circumstances in which release by case owners is appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 22/07/2014 17:28:25 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	2475 label Biography information for Baroness Stern

76998

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Business: Cybercrime
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 deter and punish the perpetrators of cyber-crime attacks on UK businesses.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	205272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Combating cyber crime is a core part of the National Cyber Security Strategy, <br>which is underpinned by the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP) and £860 <br>million of investment over five years. The Government has so far committed £70 <br>million of NCSP funding to build law enforcement capabilities to tackle cyber <br>crime. This includes the establishment of the National Cyber Crime Unit in the <br>National Crime Agency (NCA), and cyber teams within each of the Regional <br>Organised Crime Units across England and Wales. We are also developing the <br>capability and awareness of local police forces. The NCA has led efforts to <br>arrest and disrupt cyber criminals, including warning individuals who may have <br>access to malicious software that they are known to the agency and that any <br>movement into criminality will result in action. NCSP also funds the Action <br>Fraud, the national reporting service for fraud and financially motivated cyber <br>crime, and the National Fraud Intellligence Bureau. Both of these are run by <br>the City of London Police, the country’s national lead force for fraud <br>investigations. My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Home Secretary, visited the City of <br>London Police earlier this month with the Member for Hove and Portslade in <br>order to see the good work that the force is doing. <br><br>In addition, the Government has introduced a new offence as part of the Serious <br>Crime Bill to capture cyber attacks which cause, or create a significant risk <br>of, serious damage. This will ensure that serious cyber attacks carry <br>sentences that reflect the impact they can have. Where cyber attacks result in <br>loss of life or serious damage to national security, the maximum sentence will <br>be life imprisonment. Where an attack results in serious economic or <br>environmental damage, the maximum sentence will be 14 years’ imprisonment.<br><br>Furthermore, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has delivered a <br>range of measures to help protect businesses against cyber crime, including <br>producing best practice guidance, providing innovation vouchers to help <br>businesses boost their cyber defences, and delivering a campaign of <br>awareness-raising and behaviour change activities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/07/2014 14:49:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 10553 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

77187

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police Custody: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 17 year olds were held in police custody in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	205269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/07/2014 14:21:19 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 10306 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

77186

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hughes Chang
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 fully to comply with the High Court judgment in the Hughes Chang case.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	205268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office has taken steps to ensure that it complies fully with the Hughes-Chang court judgement. Mandatory changes have been made to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Codes of Practice C and H, which came into effect in October 2013, which require the police to provide 17 year olds with an appropriate adult and to inform their parents of their detention.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/07/2014 14:19:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 10300 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

77185

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Young Offenders
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 21 October 2013, Official Report, column 65W, on young offenders, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to redefine juveniles to include those older than 16.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	205267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is working with policing and criminal justice partners to review those remaining circumstances where current legislation treats 17 year olds as adults while in police custody.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/07/2014 14:15:45 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 10297 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

77173

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of her Department's budget she expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	205218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>This table shows what was spent on contracted out activities in the period <br>2009-10 to 2014-15, as a proportion of the Home Office's budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p>Figures in £ Millions</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>FY 09/10</p></td><td><p>FY 10/11</p></td><td><p>FY 11/12</p></td><td><p>FY 12/13</p></td><td><p>FY 13/14</p></td><td><p>FY 14/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spend on activities which were contracted out</p></td><td><p>32.30</p></td><td><p>74.53</p></td><td><p>47.88</p></td><td><p>40.84</p></td><td><p>48.52</p></td><td><p>118.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit Budget</p></td><td><p>9,026.05</p></td><td><p>12,346.68</p></td><td><p>11,679.05</p></td><td><p>11,051.87</p></td><td><p>10,567.52</p></td><td><p>10,729.81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion as a percentage</p></td><td><p><strong>0.36 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0.60 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0.41 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0.37 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0.46 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.10 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note that: <br>• Her Majesty’s Passport Service was omitted from our 09/10 figures. At the <br>time, HMPO had its own accounts and budgets.<br>• For 14/15, expenditure on Information Technology and Communications was reclassified from an internal cost, to a contracted out service.<br>• Expenditure on Information Technology and Communications was reclassified <br>from an internal cost, to a contracted out service. <br>• Between 09/10 and 10/11we restated the Core Tables to reflect the inclusion <br>of a Police Grant (relating to the rates) that was previously paid by DCLG, but <br>which at that time became part of Home Office’s remit. This accounts for the <br>£3 billion step-change in Home Office expenditure</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/07/2014 11:45:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

77188

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of salaries for staff allocated to the tackling tobacco smuggling strategy for those staff (a) engaged in detection, (b) engaged in investigations, (c) working on intelligence matters and (d) in total in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	205204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Details of staffing resources deployed to specifically deal with tobacco <br>smuggling were not kept, so we are unable to provide information as to the <br>salary costs.<br>In order to ensure the effectiveness of our current operations and maintain <br>border security, Border Force is unable to provide information on the numbers <br>of staff involved in any current or historical operations. Border Security must <br>be our prime consideration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/07/2014 13:21:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

77184

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in the UK Border Agency were assigned to implementing the tackling tobacco smuggling strategy in (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13; and how many such staff were engaged in (i) detection, (ii) intelligence gathering and analysis, (iii) investigations and (iv) the provision of legal advice.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	205202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>UK Border Agency (UKBA) was responsible for customs functions until March 2012. <br>Detection and intelligence work on illegal commodities, including illegal <br>tobacco, is now carried out by Border Force, in partnership with Civil Service <br>and law enforcement colleagues.<br>As operations undertaken by UKBA and Border Force targeted a range of <br>commodities, the numbers of staff working specifically on the tobacco strategy <br>are not available. To release more general information about the numbers of <br>staff involved in such operations would jeopardise the effectiveness of our <br>current customs activities. Border Security must be our prime consideration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/07/2014 13:24:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

77182

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people who urgently need to travel within seven days are charged for upgrading their passport application.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Secretary announced to the House on 12 June 2014 that people who need <br>to travel within the next seven days and who have waited more than the three <br>weeks standard processing time for straight-forward passport renewals through <br>no fault of their own, will have their application fast tracked at no extra cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/07/2014 14:39:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77132

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Extradition: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he discussed the extradition proceedings of Raymond Varley on his recent trip to India; and if he will continue to monitor the case.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Mrs Linda Riordan
uin	205190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Home Secretary has not made any recent trips to India. Raymond Varley’s <br>discharge was ordered by the District Judge sitting at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. <br>The Crown Prosecution Service, which represents the Government of India in the <br>court proceedings, is appealing against that decision. The appeal is due to be <br>heard on 10 October 2014. UK Ministers have no involvement in the court proceedings <br>and it would not be appropriate for me to comment further.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/07/2014 14:46:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1525 label Biography information for Mrs Linda Riordan