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1051490

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Loans: Mozambique
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 28 January to Question 210062 on Loans: Mozambique, whether UK authorities plan to take action under the 2010 Bribery Act in relation to the allegations of K-based banks role in the $2 billion of loans to three state-owned companies in Mozambique.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	214663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>As stated in the Answer of 28 January to Question 210062, the relevant UK authorities have considered the allegations against UK-based banks for undisclosed loans to three state owned enterprises in Mozambique and have offered assistance to Mozambique in relation to their investigations.</p><p>Any action to be taken pursuant to investigations, including under the 2010 Bribery Act, will be a matter for law enforcement authorities. The Government does not comment on law enforcement action for live investigations.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 08/02/2019 12:10:23 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1051369

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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 he plans to respond to Question 193518 of 20 November 2018 tabled by the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	214599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The response for UIN 193518 was given on the 4th March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/03/2019 17:26:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1051365

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Modern Slavery Act 2015 Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to the recommendations of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 Review: Second Interim Report, published on 22 January 2019, and whether he intends to accept the findings in the report.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	214630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office will formally respond to the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act, following submission of its final report and recommendations to the Home Secretary by the end of March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 12:11:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1051379

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the scale of child sexual abuse images online.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	214554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>We have already made significant progress in combating online child sex abuse and exploitation, but it’s clear that we have much, much more to do.</p><p>The WePROTECT Global Alliance Global Threat Assessment 2018 highlighted that the scale, complexity and danger of the online child sexual abuse threat has increased over the past three years. This has been facilitated through the ubiquity of mobile devices, anonymous access and encryption.</p><p>In 2017, 82,109 individual industry referrals were received by the National Crime Agency (NCA), from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a 700% increase since 2013.</p><p>The Government has invested £7.5m in a ground-breaking Centre of Expertise to identify, generate, and share high-quality evidence of what works to prevent and tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation.</p><p>The Centre published a revised assessment of the scale and nature of child sexual abuse in August 2018, which highlighted that online is a new context for child sexual abuse and exploitation and is generating new forms of abuse which are difficult to track accurately. Measuring the scale of abuse in the UK will be an ongoing priority for the Centre.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 14:19:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1051381

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department plans to take to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material online.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	214555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse has been declared a national threat, and the Govern-ment is investing millions of pounds to enable officers to actively seek out and bring offenders to justice.</p><p>We have announced a £40m package of measures to protect children and young people from sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking, and to crack down on offenders. This includes a significant increase in resources to the National Crime Agency, leading to a near doubling of the CEOP Command's investigative capability.</p><p>In the Home Secretary’s speech on online child sexual abuse at the NSPCC on 3 September, he announced that the Home Office will be investing an extra £21 million over the following 18 months to bolster the response of our law enforcement agencies to these types of crimes.</p><p>This money will be used to improve how our agencies reduce the volume of offending and pursue the most dangerous and prolific offenders.</p><p>He also announced a further £2.6 million to collaborate with child protection organisations to improve our understanding of offender behaviour and prevent future offending. This includes support to the Lucy Faithfull Foundation which aims to change the behaviour of offenders and potential offenders by highlighting the harm and suffering that takes place behind every image.</p><p>We have also made £250,000 available to support new ideas on how to de-tect and disrupt the live-streaming of abuse.</p><p>Furthermore, in November the Home Secretary co-hosted the Microsoft-led Hackathon in America, where he met with leading industry stakeholders to identify robust ways to tackle and prevent child sexual abuse on the internet. A prototype tool was developed at the Hackathon that can be used to automatically flag potential conversations taking place between online groomers and children, which will be licensed free of charge to technology companies worldwide.</p><p>We have already committed to legislate and will set out our plans in the forthcoming Online Harms White Paper. The White Paper will set out new laws to tackle the full range of online harms and set clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 12:14:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1051382

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet Watch Foundation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Internet Watch Foundation in removing child sexual abuse material from the internet in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	214556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has had significant success in reducing the amount of child sexual abuse material hosted in the UK. Since 2014, the IWF has proactively searched for and removed illegal imagery of children. As a result of IWF’s work to flag material to companies for removal, its most recent annual report (for 2017) states that less than 1% of child sexual abuse imagery continues to be hosted in the UK, down from 18% in 1996 when IWF was first set up.</p><p>IWF’s latest statistics, published in January, show that more than 100,000 webpages showing the sexual abuse and sexual torture of children have been removed from the internet thanks to the IWF in 2018 – up by one third on the year before. In 2018, 4 out of 10 of the webpages the IWF actioned for removal displayed the sexual abuse of children aged 10 years old and younger, with infants and babies featuring more than 1,300 times.</p><p>The IWF has been at the centre of work providing industry with hashes — digital fingerprints - of known abuse images which originate from UK law enforcement's Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). So far, thousands of hashes have been shared leading to webpages containing child sexual abuse imagery being blocked or removed.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 12:16:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1051935

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asia Bibi
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the comments of Hafiz Entisha Ahmed published in the Guardian on 30 January that Asia Bibi “deserves to be murdered”; and, following the decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to uphold her acquittal following nine years’ incarceration on death row, why she has not immediately been offered asylum in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL13272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister set out on 14 November, the release of Asia Bibi will be very welcome news to her family and to all those who have campaigned in Pakistan and around the world for her release. We welcome the assurances the Government of Pakistan has given on keeping her and her family safe, and it is important that all countries seek to uphold the rule of law and afford security and protection for the rights of all citizens irrespective of faith or belief.</p><p>It is a longstanding Government policy not to comment on individual cases. In accordance with our duty of confidentiality, we cannot confirm whether an asylum claim has been received or the outcome of such a request. Departing from this policy may put individuals and their family members in danger.</p><p>We remain deeply concerned by the misuse of the blasphemy laws in Pakistan, and the fact that religious minorities are disproportionately affected. The harsh penalties for blasphemy, including the death penalty, add to these concerns.</p><p>We regularly raise our human rights concerns with the Government of Pakistan at a senior level; and we have urged them to take steps to prevent the misuse of the blasphemy laws. My Foreign and Commonwealth colleague, the Minister of State for Commonwealth and the UN, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, discussed our concerns about Freedom of Religion or Belief and the protection of minority religious communities with Pakistan’s Human Rights Minister, Dr Shireen Mazari, in September 2018. We will continue to press the new Government of Pakistan to adhere to its international obligations and uphold the rule of law.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/02/2019 16:35:51 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1051946

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Motorways: Cameras
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect type approval to be issued for the cameras needed to properly enforce regulations on smart motorways; and whether they intend to postpone the opening of further sections of smart motorway until such approval has been received.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL13281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is working towards providing type approval for this technology.</p><p>Decisions about postponing the opening of further sections of smart motorway until such type approval is provided would be a matter for Highways England</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/02/2019 16:34:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1051950

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Forensic Science
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, since the closure of the Forensic Science Service, how many in-house police forensic scientists have previously been police officers.
tabling member printed	Lord Fox
uin	HL13284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/02/2019 16:33:51 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4322 label Biography information for Lord Fox