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157018

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Breast Ironing
	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 commission a study to establish the prevalence of breast-ironing in the UK amongst the Western, Eastern and Central African disapora communities.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	215393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The government condemns violence against women and girls in all its forms and is clear that political or cultural sensitivities must not get in the way of preventing, identifying and prosecuting practices like breast ironing.<br><br>There are currently no plans to commission a study to establish the prevalence of breast-ironing in the UK amongst the Western, Eastern and Central African disapora communities.<br><br>However, the government is working with local areas to support them to identify areas of need in their communities in order that they provide services to victims.<br><br>Where breast ironing is practised on girls it is child abuse and should be treated as such by all frontline professionals.<br><br>The clear legal frameworks that apply to child abuse apply to breast ironing.<br><br>As with any other form of child abuse, any cases should be referred to the police who will investigate and where appropriate work with the CPS to prosecute.<br><br>It is important that affected communities come together to speak out against such abhorrent practices and denounce them for the crimes they are.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 25/11/2014 14:39:03 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

157016

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Borders: Security
	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 19 November 2014 to Question 213850, what estimate she has made of the total number of vehicles entering the UK which were not subject to screening by either body scanning machines or dogs in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	215376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>We have made no such estimate as the use of screening is conducted on an intelligence led basis as part of Border Force's multi-layered approach. <br><br>The screening of vehicles by Border Force is undertaken through a range of methods. These include Passive Millimetric Wave Imagers, carbon dioxide probes, body detection dogs and heart beat detectors. Border Force has investment in <br>detection technology over the last 18 months, includes a £2 million scanner upgrade, a further £400,000 committed to infra red camera technology, and a £1.3 million investment in specialist dog search teams, at the juxtaposed <br>controls.<br><br>The selection of vehicles for screening is made on an intelligence led basis. Border Force staff, their contractors and detection technology are deployed to meet the risk. <br><br>In 2013/14 Border Force and its contractors detected 18,000 clandestine attempts to enter the UK illegally at our juxtaposed controls. This represents an increase of over 60% from 2012/13. <br><br>The UK and French Governments have signed a joint declaration agreeing to work together to improve the quality of border controls. <br><br>Border Force deploys 7,500 specialist staff, five cutters at sea and spends £518 million a year protecting our borders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/12/2014 12:19:13 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 29846 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

157013

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to answer Question 214026, tabled by the hon. Member for Newport West on 10 November 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	215443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to PQ 214026 answered on the 20th November 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/11/2014 16:33:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

157015

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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, how many Suspicious Activity Reports relating to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 have been submitted to the National Crime Agency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	215386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The number of Suspicious Activity Reports relating to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 submitted to the National Crime Agency, or its predecessor the Serious Organised Crime Agency, over the last five reporting years (October to September inclusive) is as follows:<br><br>2013-14 – 352,844<br>2012-13 – 315,671<br>2011-12 – 277,970<br>2010-11 – 246,939<br>2009-10 – 239,983</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 25/11/2014 16:17:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

157011

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	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 make an estimate of what it would have cost to have continued paying police widows' pensions to those widows or widowers who lost their serving husbands or wives between 1987 and 2006, before officers had the option to opt in to a scheme which permitted payments to continue to a surviving spouse on remarriage.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
	uin	215397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made. The police pension schemes are administered locally by police forces, so data on this specific issue is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 25/11/2014 14:23:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

157014

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department expects to be shown successive versions of the final report and associated documents in the historic child abuse inquiry.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	215413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The final report of the Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will be shared with the Home Department before it is published. Decisions about how the Inquiry will interact with the Home Office on the final report will be taken when the Chairman is identified and is in place.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 25/11/2014 14:37:21 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

157012

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Australasia
	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 amend visa regulations affecting citizens of Australia and New Zealand to allow them to stay in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Beckenham
	tabling member printed	Bob Stewart
	uin	215446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>On 17 November we expanded our Registered Traveller (RT) scheme: Australians and New Zealanders being two of only five nationalities who may join the scheme. The scheme gives regular travellers to the UK who meet the qualifying <br>criteria use of our ePassport gates or the EEA/RT lanes at Heathrow and Gatwick. We estimate that up to 75,000 Australians and 18,000 New Zealanders could now be eligible to join RT, expediting their clearance through the UK border. More details about RT can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/registered-traveller" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/registered-traveller</a><br><br>There are a wide range of opportunities available to citizens of Australia and New Zealand to stay in the UK. We currently have no plans to change the Immigration Rules beyond these.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/12/2014 12:43:54 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	3919 label Biography information for Bob Stewart