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90938

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Gangmasters: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times prosecutions have been brought against those who have had their licence revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	208482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>No prosecutions have been brought by the Crown Prosecution Service against those who have had their licence revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in any of the last three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 11/09/2014 12:53:17 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

90937

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Forced Labour: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many successful prosecutions for forced labour there were in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	208480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) indicate the number of offences charged, in which a prosecution was commenced at a magistrates’ courts rather than the identifying the number of people prosecuted or convicted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 creates the offence of holding someone in slavery or servitude, or requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>During each of the last three years the number of offences charged by way of Section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act, and Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act as conspiracies to commit the offences, is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coroners and Justice Act 2009 { 71 }</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Law Act 1977 { 1(1) } - Conspiracy</p><p>to hold a person in slavery, servitude or</p><p>perform forced or compulsory labour</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management</p><p>Information System</p><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding, or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation. It is often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence against the same victim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to the offence of trafficking for forced labour, the CPS will also prosecute for offences of trafficking.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 11/09/2014 12:46:33 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

91049

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the maximum time spent in a detention centre for the purpose of immigration control by (a) women and (b) men in each category of detainee was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	208560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Published figures on people detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers include those held in short term holding facilities, pre departure accommodation and immigration removal centres. Figures exclude those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants. The period of detention starts when a person first enters the Home Office detention estate. <br>If the person is then moved from a removal centre to a police cell or Prison Service establishment, this period of stay will be included if the detention is solely under Immigration Act powers. <br>The table below shows the longest length of detention (in days) as at the last day of each year, by gender, for people in detention, for the last five years.<br><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><strong>Longest length of detention, by sex, in days</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>Female</td><td>Male</td></tr><tr><td>as at the last day of 2009</td><td>852</td><td>1,520</td></tr><tr><td>as at the last day of 2010</td><td>1,093</td><td>1,885</td></tr><tr><td>as at the last day of 2011</td><td>751</td><td>2,250</td></tr><tr><td>as at the last day of 2012</td><td>1,117</td><td>1,620</td></tr><tr><td>as at the last day of 2013</td><td>649</td><td>1,428</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within Immigration Statistics: April – June 2014, from the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a>.</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/09/2014 15:29:08 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

91058

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangmasters: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many licences have been revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	208481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The following table shows licence revocations for the following completed financial years:<br><br>2013/14 – 18<br>2012/13 – 16<br>2011/12 – 30<br><br>NOTE: These are ‘finalised’ revocations where the licence holder’s name has been removed from the GLA public register and any submitted appeals have been concluded (withdrawn, dismissed or dealt with in court) or the deadline for appeals to be lodged have lapsed.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/09/2014 15:02:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

91050

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2014
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time spent in detention for the purposes of immigration control by (a) women and (b) men in each category of detainee was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	208559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Published figures on people detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers include those held in short term holding facilities, pre <br>departure accommodation and immigration removal centres. Figures exclude those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants. The period of detention starts when a person first enters the Home Office detention estate. If the person is then moved from a removal centre to a police cell or Prison Service establishment, this period of stay will be included if the detention is solely under Immigration Act powers.<br><br><br>The table below shows the available information on length of detention, in bands, as at the last day of each year for the last five years. The Home Office publishes length of detention figures in bands as average figures can be skewed by the small number of people detained for longer periods.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within <br>Immigration Statistics: April - June 2014, from the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/09/2014 17:23:46 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay