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1013112

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date	23/11/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Money Laundering: Convictions and Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many estate agents have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for high-end money laundering by the (i) Serious Fraud Office and (ii) Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	195060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Sections 327, 328, 329 and 330 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 create provisions to deal with offences of money laundering. The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions and convictions under POCA where money laundering is the principal offence. There is no legal definition or specific criminal offence of “high end” money laundering. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of defendants prosecuted for, and convicted of these offences. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>CPS holds limited information on the number of offences which were charged and which reached a first hearing in the Magistrates Court. This does not equate to the number of defendants charged as single defendant may be charged with more than one offence. The figures for the period since 2014 are provided in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>2017-2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sections 327 to 330 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002</p></td><td><p>4,542</p></td><td><p>4,866</p></td><td><p>4,813</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has prosecuted four individuals for money laundering offences since 2014. Two of these prosecutions resulted in a successful conviction in 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 28/11/2018 09:49:33 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1013113

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into high-end money laundering have been opened by the National Crime Agency in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	195061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p><br>The number of new investigations launched by the National Crime Agency into high end money laundering by financial year since 2014 are as follows:</p><p><br>• 2014/15 – 2 new</p><p>• 2015/16 – 5 new</p><p>• 2016/17 – 8 new</p><p>• 2017/18 – 20 ne</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/01/2019 16:07:27 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1013114

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the investigations into high-end money laundering opened by the National Crime Agency have resulted in charging decisions since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	195062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of investigations into high end money laundering opened by the National Crime Agency which have resulted in charging decisions since 2014 are as follows:</p><p>• 2014/15 – 34</p><p>• 2015/16 – 17</p><p>• 2016/17 – 8</p><p>• 2018/19 – 10</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/01/2019 10:19:12 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1013115

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to protect women's eligibility for the right to buy discount in situations when they are not entitled to that discount due to their previous tenancy being entirely in their ex-husband or partner’s name.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	195063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Where a married couple live together under a public sector tenancy, they individually accrue tenancy periods which count towards eligibility for the Right to Buy. This applies whether the tenancy is in both names; or if the tenancy is only in a single name. The accrued periods still apply individually if the couple separate or divorce. This is set out in Schedule 4 of the Housing Act 1985; and in the department's booklet for tenants: <em>Your Right to Buy Your Home</em> ; and in the guidance for landlords: <em>Right to Buy - A Guide for Local Authorities. </em></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/11/2018 15:55:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1013116

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure parity of esteem between children’s physical and mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	195098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to moving towards parity of esteem between mental health and physical health services, ensuring that high quality mental health support is available for those that need it, in appropriate, safe settings. Funding for mental health services will grow as a share of the overall National Health Service budget over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>Last year alone the Government invested over £1 billion in children’s mental health services, which will help ensure that an additional 70,000 children will receive mental health support by 2021. In December 2017, we published a joint health and education Green Paper, and will be rolling out new Mental Health Support Teams to provide early intervention support for mental health in and near schools and colleges, as well as piloting a four-week waiting time standard.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the NHS to develop a long-term plan and has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 17:46:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1013117

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all children and young people referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are seen within six weeks.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	195099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>There is no general six week target for access to specialist National Health Service children’s mental health services. The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health is at the heart of Government plans to transform mental health services and a key part of this is ensuring a reduction in waiting times for key services. Following publication of the Five Year Forward view, the Government agreed the following waiting times and access targets with NHS England to be achieved by 2020/21:</p><p>- For accessing ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ services 75% of referrals should be seen within six weeks and 95% should be seen within 18 weeks.;</p><p>- For eating disorder services 95% of referrals should be seen within four weeks for routine cases and 95% of urgent referrals should be seen within one week; and</p><p>- For the Early Intervention in Psychosis programme 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis should start a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended package of care within two weeks of referral, rising to 60%.</p><p>We are on track to meet these targets, which are tracked on the Five Year Forward View dashboard. The Five Year Forward View can be accessed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 17:47:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1013118

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are sufficiently staffed.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	195100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>‘Stepping Forward to 2020/21: The Mental Health Workforce Plan for England’ was published in July 2017 and sets the ambition to deliver 21,000 new posts across the mental health system, with the expectation that 19,000 of these places will be filled by staff employed directly by the National Health Service by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The plan aims to increase the size of the mental health workforce, including the workforce for children and young people’s mental health services, through increased recruitment, improved retention and through development of new roles and ways of working to improve efficient use of the most qualified staff.</p><p> </p><p>All regions have developed and are implementing mental health workforce plans which include plans to expand the number of professionals working in children and young people’s mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 17:27:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1013119

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the variations in (a) shift and (b) holiday patterns of (i) directly employed and (ii) contractor staff working on offshore oil and gas installations on the UK Continental Shelf.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
uin	195101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Variations in shift and holiday patterns of directly employed or contracted staff working on offshore oil and gas installations on the UK Continental Shelf is a matter for the companies concerned and not for Government.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/12/2018 10:43:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley

1013120

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nigeria: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect of false information spread by social media platforms on perpetuating conflict in the Middle Belt in Nigeria.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	195102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>We are concerned that false information on social media platforms is stoking longstanding rivalries and fuelling intercommunal violence across multiple states of Nigeria. False reports and images of gruesome attacks, often with no link to Nigeria, are regularly circulated as evidence of intercommunal violence, prompting reprisal attacks.</p><p>We are working with international partners to support the Nigerian government in their strategic response, and encouraging them to address the complex causes of the violence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/11/2018 16:04:25 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1013121

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Africa: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps she is taking to support national governments in Africa to tackle false information and fake news on social media platforms.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	195103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>​We have no organised programmes helping African states with disinformation, although we would consider any specific requests for support.</p><p>HMG communications experts already work in Posts across Africa, supporting proactive and reactive media and communications activity in African countries. Over the coming months, we will hire more communications specialists to provide greater resource for proactive communications and campaigns in Africa. Such campaigns could be used to help counter misinformation, where needed.</p><p>The government is supporting BBC World Service to expand in Africa, including on digital platforms.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/11/2018 16:44:10 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill