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174437

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	221227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Department does not hold centrally details of expenditure on recruitment agency fees so this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Expenditure on outplacement agency fees for displaced or <br>redundant staff for the financial years prior to 2014/15 was not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The fully audited figures for 2014/15 will be available in July 2015.<br><br>The total staff training costs for the financial years 2010/11 to 2013/14 are set out below:<br><br>2010-11 - £13,598,237<br>2011-12 - £14,860,807<br>2012-13 - £16,986,868<br>2013-14 - £24,715,417<br><br>The full-year audited figures for total staff training expenditure for 2014-15 will be available in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/01/2015 15:01:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 39696 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227905

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	227962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2014 Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES) provided employment data for all Civil Service departments, although this does not break down to all the categories requested. The data revealed that in the Home Department:<br><br>• 18,720 (68.59%) of employees identified as White <br>• 5,760 (21.10%) of employees identified as Black or Minority Ethnic (BME) <br><br>This data is based on a total of 27,290 permanent Home Department employees on payroll. Of these, 2,800 (10.26%) staff had not declared their ethnicity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/03/2015 16:18:34 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

173112

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many equality impact assessments her Department produced in each year since 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	220340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office considers equality issues in exercising its functions, to comply with equality legislation and to ensure it understands how its activities will affect different people. It provides information about this consideration in various ways. In the specified period since 2006, this information was sometimes published in the form of an equality impact assessment. Information about the number of such documents published by the Home Office is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/01/2015 14:57:43 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

176515

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what further steps she is taking to protect UK citizens from telephone scammers.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	222361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes all types of fraud, including those operating through telephones, extremely seriously. We consider all types of fraud to have been committed by criminals, not scammers. We are working closely with Action Fraud <br>and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau to ensure that the public has the information they need to protect themselves. When a serious threat or a new type of fraud is identified, Action Fraud places an alert on its website with <br>advice for individuals to protect themselves from becoming victims. Members of the public can sign up to receive these alerts by email. We are supporting local forces and agencies to deliver effective protective advice to the public <br>on fraud, including telephone scams, in collaboration with the City of London Police. <br><br>We are also working closely with Financial Fraud Action UK and the British Bankers’ Association who have issued advice to consumers on how to protect themselves from fraudsters who target people on the phone.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/02/2015 14:10:49 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

173216

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery
	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 modern slavery have been made in each police force area in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	220425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>Data showing the number of police investigations for modern slavery in 2014 is not yet available. The National Policing Lead for modern slavery, Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer, is currently developing the approach to improving the management of modern slavery related data across all 43 police forces in England and Wales. These improvements in managing modern slavery data will result in greater cohesion across policing, which in turn will improve our strategic understanding and operational responses.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, modern slavery offences have been added to the Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) for the first time. The HOCR provides guidance to police forces about how crime reported to the police should be recorded, meaning that from 1st April 2015 all modern slavery crimes reported to the police will be properly recorded.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has introduced a new statutory role, the Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner, responsible for improving awareness and detection by law enforcement, as well as working with partners to increase the number of successful prosecutions of the perpetrators of modern slavery. Kevin Hyland was appointed as the designate Commissioner in November 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 20/01/2015 16:38:40 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

173217

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Merseyside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of her Department's budget was allocated to (a) the Wirral and (b) Birkenhead in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	220426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not allocate budget or record expenditure according to the location where the funds were spent. <br><br>It is not possible to break down Home Office expenditure in this way as much of the Department's work - for instance on national security or protecting our borders - is done for the benefit of the United Kingdom as a whole.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 19/01/2015 14:29:21 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

222607

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value of contracts her Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	224662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Details of contracts above the value of £10,000 awarded to private sector <br>providers are published on the Contracts Finder website, <br>www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk .<br><br>The total value of contracts the Home Office has with private sector providers <br>in each of the years for which records are available is as follows:<br><br>Financial Year Aggregated Spend against contracts with private sector providers<br><br>2009/10 Data Not Available<br>2010/11 £2.45 billion<br>2011/12 £2.40 billion<br>2012/13 £2.13 billion<br>2013/14 £1.99 billion<br><br>The aggregated spend data provided shows a reduction in private <br>sector contract spend of £460 million since 2010-11.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/02/2015 14:23:53 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

173434

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is provided to police forces on timescales for responses to referrals from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	220574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between the Disclosure and Barring Service and each local police force set out the following service standards:<br>• 85% of police checks must be completed in 14 days;<br>• 90% of police checks must be completed in 18 days;<br>• 95% of police checks must be completed in 25 days; and<br>• 100% of police checks must be completed in 60 days.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/01/2015 14:03:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

173433

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines her Department provides for timescales for completing a disclosure and barring check.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	220573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The current Disclosure and Barring Service service standard is to issue 88% of all Disclosures within 40 working days. The latest published data for the year to date (covering April –November 2014) shows that 95.9% of disclosures were <br>issued within this timeframe.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/01/2015 14:03:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

174776

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the average length of time each police force has taken to return Disclosure and Barring Service checks since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	221314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The average number of days taken by each police force to return disclosure <br>checks is provided in the table below. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) <br>works closely with any forces which miss their service level agreements. The <br>DBS was established in December 2012. Data prior to this date relates to the <br>Criminal Records Bureau.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/02/2015 16:17:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 221314 _ table.xls title Police force disclosure checks previous answer version 39934 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe