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171647

registered interest
date	18/12/2014
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, what (a) legislative measures and (b) further reviews have been instigated as a result of the Arab Spring Asset Recovery Taskforce Review led by Michael Beloff; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
uin	219531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Although no assets have been repatriated since 1 January 2014, there are a number of ongoing investigations and the UK authorities are assisting a number of overseas jurisdictions in their continuing efforts to recover criminal <br>funds. In 2011, the EU adopted restrictive measures in view of the situations in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, including an asset freeze on funds and economic resources owned or controlled by designated persons and entities. These <br>measures are implemented by EU Regulations, which have direct effect in the UK and are separate to those which enable the UK to restrain funds domestically for criminal or civil confiscation under the Proceeds of Crime Act. <br><br>HM Treasury publishes the names of those subject to such EU financial sanctions on the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK, which can be found on gov.uk. HM Treasury is unable to publicly release information about <br>assets frozen in the UK or EU belonging to particular individuals due to restrictions imposed by EU and domestic law, both under sanctions and data protection legislation, as well as for reasons of confidentiality. <br><br>The Serious Crime Bill will implement one of the key recommendations of the policy review undertaken by the Asset Recovery Task Force, by lowering the legal test required to secure a restraint order to freeze assets. Other <br>recommendations of the review are to be delivered through the recently published UK Anti-Corruption Plan. These include the creation of a new central Bribery and Corruption Unit, bringing together resources from the National <br>Crime Agency and those of the Metropolitan Police’s Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and the review of the Suspicious Activity Report regime</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 219530 219532 question first answered 05/01/2015 16:46:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

171648

registered interest
date	18/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Freezing of Assets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the UK has imposed an asset freeze on an individual with reference to former regimes in the Arab Spring countries since the creation of the Arab Spring Asset Recovery Taskforce; what the value is of such assets; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
uin	219532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Although no assets have been repatriated since 1 January 2014, there are a number of ongoing investigations and the UK authorities are assisting a number of overseas jurisdictions in their continuing efforts to recover criminal <br>funds. In 2011, the EU adopted restrictive measures in view of the situations in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, including an asset freeze on funds and economic resources owned or controlled by designated persons and entities. These <br>measures are implemented by EU Regulations, which have direct effect in the UK and are separate to those which enable the UK to restrain funds domestically for criminal or civil confiscation under the Proceeds of Crime Act. <br><br>HM Treasury publishes the names of those subject to such EU financial sanctions on the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK, which can be found on gov.uk. HM Treasury is unable to publicly release information about <br>assets frozen in the UK or EU belonging to particular individuals due to restrictions imposed by EU and domestic law, both under sanctions and data protection legislation, as well as for reasons of confidentiality. <br><br>The Serious Crime Bill will implement one of the key recommendations of the policy review undertaken by the Asset Recovery Task Force, by lowering the legal test required to secure a restraint order to freeze assets. Other <br>recommendations of the review are to be delivered through the recently published UK Anti-Corruption Plan. These include the creation of a new central Bribery and Corruption Unit, bringing together resources from the National <br>Crime Agency and those of the Metropolitan Police’s Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and the review of the Suspicious Activity Report regime</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 219530 219531 question first answered 05/01/2015 16:46:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

171649

registered interest
date	18/12/2014
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 assets of criminal origin have been repatriated from the UK to jurisdictions overseas since 1 January 2014.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
uin	219530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Although no assets have been repatriated since 1 January 2014, there are a number of ongoing investigations and the UK authorities are assisting a number of overseas jurisdictions in their continuing efforts to recover criminal <br>funds. In 2011, the EU adopted restrictive measures in view of the situations in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, including an asset freeze on funds and economic resources owned or controlled by designated persons and entities. These <br>measures are implemented by EU Regulations, which have direct effect in the UK and are separate to those which enable the UK to restrain funds domestically for criminal or civil confiscation under the Proceeds of Crime Act. <br><br>HM Treasury publishes the names of those subject to such EU financial sanctions on the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK, which can be found on gov.uk. HM Treasury is unable to publicly release information about <br>assets frozen in the UK or EU belonging to particular individuals due to restrictions imposed by EU and domestic law, both under sanctions and data protection legislation, as well as for reasons of confidentiality. <br><br>The Serious Crime Bill will implement one of the key recommendations of the policy review undertaken by the Asset Recovery Task Force, by lowering the legal test required to secure a restraint order to freeze assets. Other <br>recommendations of the review are to be delivered through the recently published UK Anti-Corruption Plan. These include the creation of a new central Bribery and Corruption Unit, bringing together resources from the National <br>Crime Agency and those of the Metropolitan Police’s Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and the review of the Suspicious Activity Report regime</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 219531 219532 question first answered 05/01/2015 16:46:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

171085

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Typhoon Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions since Typhoon aircraft were redeployed to RAF Lossiemouth from RAF Leuchars such aircraft were required to use Leuchars as a diversionary airfield; how many such aircraft were involved on each occasion; and what the reasons were for those diversions.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
uin	219126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>There has been one occasion, on 12 December 2014, when RAF Leuchars has been used as a diversionary airfield for Typhoon aircraft since their re-deployment to RAF Lossiemouth. A total of seven Typhoons diverted. The runway at RAF Lossiemouth was temporarily unavailable as a Typhoon, which had suffered a minor technical issue and engaged the runway arrestor cable, needed to be recovered from the runway and the arrestor cable reset.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 05/01/2015 16:52:39 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

171088

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Typhoon Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2014 to Question 202098, what the cost is of Typhoon Force-related capital works at RAF Lossiemouth; what estimate he has made of the cost of each infrastructure item for facilitating the future operation of the Typhoon Force and the Northern Quick Reaction Alert facility at RAF Lossiemouth.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
uin	219121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>The estimated capital costs for facilitating Typhoon Force-related operations, including the Northern Quick Reaction Alert facility, at RAF Lossiemouth is anticipated to be some £87 million.</p><p>The estimated cost of each infrastructure item is shown below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Infrastructure Item</p></td><td><p>Costs (£million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Facilities for Squadron 1</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Facilities for Squadron 2 - Initial Operating Capability</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Facilities for Squadron 2 - Full Operating Capability</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Facilities for Squadron 3</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Global Support Systems</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quick Reaction Aircraft North</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Emulated Deployed Cockpit Trainer</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Typhoon Propulsion Support Facility</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Installed Engine Test Facility</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Typhoon Availability Service</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 05/01/2015 16:54:57 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

170363

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Babcock International
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements he plans to put in place for monitoring the performance of his Department's private sector partner Babcock, the preferred bidder for the privatisation of the Defence Support Group.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
uin	218714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Ministry of Defence (MOD) teams already monitor the performance of the Defence Support Group (DSG) Trading Fund. When Babcock, as the new owner of the DSG land business, commences operations on 1 April 2015, the MOD will review performance against a set of Key Performance Indicators and assure the quality of work on a regular basis against the agreed contractual performance measures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 05/01/2015 16:29:42 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem