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1135793

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
	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 implications for his Department’s policies in relation to the definition of applicable crime in Part 3 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 of the finding of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Watson & Others that surveillance data retained for the purposes of fighting crime should be restricted solely to serious crime.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	271353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The retention of, and ability to access, communications data is an essential tool for intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The Government is committed to ensuring that our investigatory powers legislation is compliant with EU law.</p><p>The Government gave careful consideration to judgments by the European Court of Justice and the domestic Courts, implementing changes to UK law to ensure our communications data regime was compliant, while still ensuring our intelligence and law enforcement agencies have the powers they need to solve crimes, catch child sexual offenders and protect the public.</p><p>After consulting widely on our proposed changes and following scrutiny by both Houses of Parliament, the Government passed the Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations in October 2018 which introduced a serious crime threshold for acquiring events communications data.</p><p>In deciding on the definition of serious crime in the context of communications data, the Government fully considered the intrusiveness of the power.</p><p>This approach is consistent with EU case law, which states that the offence must be serious to justify a serious level of intrusion involved in accessing communications data. The Government’s approach reflects this level of intrusion. Events data is more intrusive than entity data and therefore a higher threshold must apply, but it is not as intrusive as interception powers, which can only be acquired if the definition of seriousness set out at section 263 of the Investigatory Powers Act is met. <br>The approach taken by the Regulations seeks to reflect the fact the level of intrusion will vary depending on the data sought and the circumstances of the case while also establishing a clear bar below which the acquisition of the more intrusive communications data is prohibited.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 15:46:19 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1135173

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Funds Transfer: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions his Department has had with banks on the retrospective application of the Authorised Push Payment Scams voluntary code.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	270386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>A new industry voluntary Contingent Reimbursement Model Code for Authorised Push Payment Scam was introduced on 28 May 2019.</p><p><br>Customers of those payment service providers that are signatories are protected under the Code from this date. At the outset of the design of the Code, the steering group stated that it will only apply to APP scams occurring after its implementation.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 15:43:30 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1134864

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fraud: Criminal Investigation
	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 Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services report entitled Fraud: Time to Choose: An inspection of the police response to fraud, published in April 2019, what steps he has taken in response to the recommendations in that report on improving the police response to fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	269769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The former Home Secretary commissioned this report because we wanted a much clearer view of how fraud was being investigated and what improvements were needed.</p><p>We welcome the report and we are now working to ensure the report’s recommendations are implemented effectively, including supporting the City of London Police to develop a national fraud policing strategy which sets out the roles and responsibilities of each organisation involved in tackling fraud and how the police response to fraud at the national, regional and local level will be improved.</p><p>We are also working closely with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to understand how they plan to respond to the report’s recommendations that fall to them to implement.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 15:42:27 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1134865

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	City of London Police: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional funding he has made available to the City of London Police in their capacity as the national lead for fraud to support a cohesive response to fraud across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	269770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>We have allocated £2.25m to the City of London Police this financial year for them to carry out their duties as national lead for fraud.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 15:40:56 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1134868

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Economic Crime: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to open more economic crime victim care units.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	269773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Victim Care Unit pilot is led by the City of London Police. Working with the Metropolitan Police Service, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Nottingham and Kent police forces, the pilot is determining how to provide a service to the large numbers of victims of fraud and cyber crime while ensuring every victim gets the right level of support dependent on their individual need. Further roll out of the service to other police force areas will be dependent on a full evaluation.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 15:38:03 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1134869

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Trading Standards: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding he has allocated for the National Trading Standards local multi-agency hubs.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	269774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The former Home Secretary commissioned this report because we wanted a much clearer view of how fraud was being investigated and what improvements were needed.</p><p>We welcome the report and we are now working to ensure the report’s recommendations are implemented effectively, including supporting the City of London Police to develop a national fraud policing strategy which sets out the roles and responsibilities of each organisation involved in tackling fraud and how the police response to fraud at the national, regional and local level will be improved.</p><p>We are also working closely with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to understand how they plan to respond to the report’s recommendations that fall to them to implement.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 15:34:10 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore