Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1005721

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Vivastreet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department is working with the company Vivastreet on issues pertaining to prostitution.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	190478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Officials from the Home Office have met with the online classified advertisement company <em>Vivastreet</em> on several occasions to discuss initiatives to identify, prevent and disrupt sex-trafficking enabled via online platforms.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/11/2018 14:55:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1002147

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Highway Code
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of including horse riders and carriage drivers in the forthcoming review of the highway code.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	188207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government announced on 18 October 2018 that, as part of the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS) Safety Review, The Highway Code would be reviewed to help keep cyclists and pedestrians safe on the roads. The Government recognises that horse riders and carriage drivers are also vulnerable road users and that advice on, for example, overtaking or passing cyclists applies equally to them.</p><p> </p><p>The full scope of the review has yet to be determined but in accordance with normal practice it will be conducted in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, including those representing equestrians.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/11/2018 16:12:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

997140

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forced Labour: Social Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the validity of the methodology in his Department's July 2018 report on the Economic and social costs of modern slavery which found that the emotional costs of labour exploitation exceed those of sexual exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	184975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>In common with other Home Office Research Reports, the methodology used in the “Economic and Social Costs of Modern Slavery” report was reviewed by two independent academics. The estimate uses a technique used in health economics to quantify and monetise these harms to the victim.</p><p>The reasongiven for the emotional costs of labour exploitation exceeding that for sexual exploitation is due to the greater likelihood of victims of labour exploitation experiencing alcohol dependency as a result of their exploitation. There is a likelihood of other emotional harms (fear, anxiety, depression and drug dependency) for labour and sexual exploitation. This information on the likelihood of harm was gathered through interviews with a sample of victim service providers and police officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 01/11/2018 17:19:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

997170

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, with reference to his 3 September 2018 speech Keeping children safe online, to what specific law enforcement agency work he plans to allocate the £21 million of additional funding to tackle child sexual exploitation online.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	184987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>In September, the Home Secretary announced an extra £21.5m investment in law enforcement over the next 18 months to reduce the volume of offending and pursue the most hardened and dangerous abusers. The majority of this funding will go to UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tackle the most determined and dedicated abusers.</p><p>Due to the sensitive nature of this work and the policy of successive Governments, the spending of the intelligence agencies’ activities cannot be revealed, but some of the law enforcement funding will expand the Joint Operations Team (a jointly managed National Crime Agency (NCA) and GCHQ capability), increase funding for the Regional Organised Crime Units and improve digital forensic capability.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment 2018 has assessed the risk that anonymisation tools, including the use of the dark web, pose to children online. It states that fast, ‘secure’ and anonymous operating environments will enable all levels of criminality. The full document can be found here: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file</a></p><p>Online Offenders often move between the open and dark web. For this reason, statistics held on online CSEA are not broken down into where the offences are committed.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment for 2018 has assessed that livestreaming is a growing threat. In his speech at the NSPCC on the 3 September, the Home Secretary highlighted awareness of this risk to children due to improving technology and the growing ease of money transfers across borders.</p><p>The Home Secretary stated that he expects a more effective partnership between technology companies, law enforcement, the charity sector and Government. Therefore, the Home Office will be making £250,000 available to support new ideas on how to detect and disrupt the live-streaming of abuse.</p><p>In November, the Home Secretary will be visiting US based social networks and other technology companies to discuss progress on steps to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation online, including the development of a tool to detect online child grooming.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 184988 184989 184990 question first answered 06/11/2018 16:22:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

997171

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, if he will (a) make an assessment of the risk of online child exploitation posed by and (b) collect data on the number of those offences committed on the dark web.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	184988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>In September, the Home Secretary announced an extra £21.5m investment in law enforcement over the next 18 months to reduce the volume of offending and pursue the most hardened and dangerous abusers. The majority of this funding will go to UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tackle the most determined and dedicated abusers.</p><p>Due to the sensitive nature of this work and the policy of successive Governments, the spending of the intelligence agencies’ activities cannot be revealed, but some of the law enforcement funding will expand the Joint Operations Team (a jointly managed National Crime Agency (NCA) and GCHQ capability), increase funding for the Regional Organised Crime Units and improve digital forensic capability.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment 2018 has assessed the risk that anonymisation tools, including the use of the dark web, pose to children online. It states that fast, ‘secure’ and anonymous operating environments will enable all levels of criminality. The full document can be found here: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file</a></p><p>Online Offenders often move between the open and dark web. For this reason, statistics held on online CSEA are not broken down into where the offences are committed.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment for 2018 has assessed that livestreaming is a growing threat. In his speech at the NSPCC on the 3 September, the Home Secretary highlighted awareness of this risk to children due to improving technology and the growing ease of money transfers across borders.</p><p>The Home Secretary stated that he expects a more effective partnership between technology companies, law enforcement, the charity sector and Government. Therefore, the Home Office will be making £250,000 available to support new ideas on how to detect and disrupt the live-streaming of abuse.</p><p>In November, the Home Secretary will be visiting US based social networks and other technology companies to discuss progress on steps to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation online, including the development of a tool to detect online child grooming.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 184987 184989 184990 question first answered 06/11/2018 16:22:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

997172

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, with reference to the 18 October 2018 NSPCC news release Livestreaming and video-chat risks highlighted in latest survey, what recent assessment he has made of the risk of abuse faced by children in the UK through livestreaming sites; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	184989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>In September, the Home Secretary announced an extra £21.5m investment in law enforcement over the next 18 months to reduce the volume of offending and pursue the most hardened and dangerous abusers. The majority of this funding will go to UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tackle the most determined and dedicated abusers.</p><p>Due to the sensitive nature of this work and the policy of successive Governments, the spending of the intelligence agencies’ activities cannot be revealed, but some of the law enforcement funding will expand the Joint Operations Team (a jointly managed National Crime Agency (NCA) and GCHQ capability), increase funding for the Regional Organised Crime Units and improve digital forensic capability.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment 2018 has assessed the risk that anonymisation tools, including the use of the dark web, pose to children online. It states that fast, ‘secure’ and anonymous operating environments will enable all levels of criminality. The full document can be found here: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file</a></p><p>Online Offenders often move between the open and dark web. For this reason, statistics held on online CSEA are not broken down into where the offences are committed.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment for 2018 has assessed that livestreaming is a growing threat. In his speech at the NSPCC on the 3 September, the Home Secretary highlighted awareness of this risk to children due to improving technology and the growing ease of money transfers across borders.</p><p>The Home Secretary stated that he expects a more effective partnership between technology companies, law enforcement, the charity sector and Government. Therefore, the Home Office will be making £250,000 available to support new ideas on how to detect and disrupt the live-streaming of abuse.</p><p>In November, the Home Secretary will be visiting US based social networks and other technology companies to discuss progress on steps to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation online, including the development of a tool to detect online child grooming.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 184987 184988 184990 question first answered 06/11/2018 16:22:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

997173

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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: Social Media
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 steps that social networks have taken to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation since his 3 September 2018 speech Keeping children safe online.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	184990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>In September, the Home Secretary announced an extra £21.5m investment in law enforcement over the next 18 months to reduce the volume of offending and pursue the most hardened and dangerous abusers. The majority of this funding will go to UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tackle the most determined and dedicated abusers.</p><p>Due to the sensitive nature of this work and the policy of successive Governments, the spending of the intelligence agencies’ activities cannot be revealed, but some of the law enforcement funding will expand the Joint Operations Team (a jointly managed National Crime Agency (NCA) and GCHQ capability), increase funding for the Regional Organised Crime Units and improve digital forensic capability.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment 2018 has assessed the risk that anonymisation tools, including the use of the dark web, pose to children online. It states that fast, ‘secure’ and anonymous operating environments will enable all levels of criminality. The full document can be found here: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/905-national-strategic-assessment-for-soc-2018/file</a></p><p>Online Offenders often move between the open and dark web. For this reason, statistics held on online CSEA are not broken down into where the offences are committed.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment for 2018 has assessed that livestreaming is a growing threat. In his speech at the NSPCC on the 3 September, the Home Secretary highlighted awareness of this risk to children due to improving technology and the growing ease of money transfers across borders.</p><p>The Home Secretary stated that he expects a more effective partnership between technology companies, law enforcement, the charity sector and Government. Therefore, the Home Office will be making £250,000 available to support new ideas on how to detect and disrupt the live-streaming of abuse.</p><p>In November, the Home Secretary will be visiting US based social networks and other technology companies to discuss progress on steps to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation online, including the development of a tool to detect online child grooming.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 184987 184988 184989 question first answered 06/11/2018 16:22:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

994298

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons his Department's publication, Economic and social costs of crime, published in July 2018 did not include an estimate of the costs of crime against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	183517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Economic and Social Cost of Crime does include the costs of crime against all victims, including women and girls.</p><p>It does not contain a separate breakdown for the economic and social costs of domestic abuse, but further analysis is being undertaken to estimate this.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 01/11/2018 16:47:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

993774

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to continue to consult with trans and non-binary people on reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	182780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>From 3 July to 22 October the GEO received responses from a range of individuals and organisations as part of the public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act 2004. We asked how we might reform the Act to make it less bureaucratic and intrusive to change legal gender and we received many responses from trans and non-binary people.</p><p>The GEO met over 100 organisations in the run up to, and during this public consultation. We are now preparing to analyse the written submissions and evidence collected so far.</p><p>We are aware there are a range of views on reform and that this is a complex issue that we want to get right. That is why we will continue to meet with stakeholders as we develop the Government’s response.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/10/2018 16:07:33 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

993775

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Transphobia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle transphobic hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	182781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p><br>On 16 October 2018 the Government published Action Against Hate: the Government’s plan for tackling hate crime – two years on.</p><p>The Action Plan includes a number of commitments addressing all forms of hate crime, including a review of hate crime legislation by the Law Commission, projects to tackle prejudice, and an upcoming public awareness campaign to address the issue.</p><p>Specific commitments addressing transphobic hate crime include: the Crown Prosecution Service working with partners to improve the recording and monitoring of equalities data for LGBT victims of hate crime and reviewing and refreshing its LGBT Hate Crime Schools Pack; further Government Equalities Office funding for anti-bullying interventions in schools from March 2019 to March 2020; new guidance for Door Supervisors to increase their awareness of transgender hate crimes; and continued engagement with LBGT stakeholders informed by the findings from Government’s LGBT survey (published this summer) and the ideas generated at Galop’s anti-LGBT hate crime roundtable in July 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/10/2018 16:56:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion