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1122456

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Personation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps he has taken to tackle identity fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	246557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government takes the threat from all types of fraud, including identity fraud seriously and recognises the devastating impacts frauds can have on victims. Frauds are often facilitated by the misuse of personal details acquired lawfully or otherwise.</p><p>We have set up the Joint Fraud Taskforce to bring together industry, law enforcement and government to tackle fraud in a truly collaborative way, harnessing our collective powers and resources to make it much more difficult for fraudsters to operate. This includes educating the public on steps they can take to protect their personal details. The joint public / private Take Five to Stop Fraud awareness campaign provides practical tips individuals can do to protect their personal details from use by criminals.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/04/2019 13:07:28 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1122457

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Personation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of identity fraud have been reported in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	246558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information as identity theft is not a specific criminal offence but a way in which fraud can be enabled.</p><p>It is not possible to separately identify identity theft within the various categories of fraud which are reported to the Home Office by the police.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/04/2019 13:56:41 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1123713

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Religious Buildings: Security
	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 recent shooting at the San Diego synagogue, what urgent steps he is taking to provide additional funding for security at places of worship.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	248748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>The police are aware of events taking place around the world such as San Diego, Sri Lanka and Christchurch and adapt their operational policing plans, including increased high visibility patrolling, to protect and reassure all our faith communities.</p><p>On 19 March, the Home Secretary announced a boost in funding for the hate crime Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme to £1.6 million for 2019/20 (excluding synagogues). This is double the amount awarded in 2018/19. Furthermore, £5 million over three years has also been committed to providing security training to places of worship in England and Wales. This will enable staff and volunteers to develop the security understanding necessary to make security measures work more effectively.</p><p>On 27 February, the Home Secretary announced increased funding for the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant to £14 million for 2019/20. Although this fund is focussed primarily on security at Jewish Schools a proportion of funding is allocated to the security of synagogues. This Grant was introduced in 2015 following a number of terrorist attacks on Jews and Jewish sites in Europe.</p><p>More widely, the Home Secretary has committed to consulting with faith communities to understand what more could and should be done to help protect faith communities at their places of worship.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 08/05/2019 13:52:09 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

536703

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the consequences are for the security situation in the UK of the attack in Nice on 14 July 2016; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	42879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the Home Secretary’s statement which she delivered to Parliament on 18 July. The statement can be found here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-18/debates/16071818000002/TerroristAttackNice</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/07/2016 11:36:30 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

662987

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Motor Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department intends to review security procedures in relation to terrorist attacks using vehicles following the attacks in Berlin on 19 December 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	58577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>Similar to the reviews which took place after the Nice attacks, the police and the security and intelligence agencies have reviewed security measures in place to ensure that there are robust plans and procedures in place to ensure the safety and security of the public from terrorist threats following the Berlin attack. This is a routine activity for the police and intelligence agencies, which is undertaken on a regular basis.</p><p>We continue to work with owners and operators of events and other crowded places sites to consider what more can be done to reduce vulnerabilities to vehicle attacks. We also regularly test our response to terrorist attacks, including learning the lessons from attacks like those we have seen recently in Germany and France, through national exercises which involve the Government, military, police, ambulance, fire and rescue service, and other agencies.</p><p>In addition we keep our preparedness under constant review, and looked again at our response following the terrorist attacks in Paris last year, delivering an uplift in our specialist response capability, including a £144 million programme over the next five years to uplift our armed policing resource.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 11/01/2017 12:52:17 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

662988

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Motor Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department reviewed security procedures in relation to terrorist attacks using vehicles following the attacks in Nice in July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	58578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>Following the Nice attack, the police and the security and intelligence agencies took steps to review our own security measures, to ensure that we had robust plans and procedures in place to ensure the safety and security of the public from terrorist threats.</p><p>All police forces reviewed upcoming events taking place in their regions to ensure that security measures were appropriate and proportionate in light of events in Nice, and intelligence and threat reporting. These operational activities (often working together with partner agencies) routinely seek to mitigate threats, or implement regimes to protect, detect and deter such attacks.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 11/01/2017 12:53:32 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732273

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funds her Department has allocated to counter-terrorism policing budgets in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The level of counter-terrorism police funding is published annually in a Written Ministerial Statement on the Police Grant Report. These figures are set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013/14*</p></td><td><p>£563m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15*</p></td><td><p>£564m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16*</p></td><td><p>£564m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£640m resource and £30m capital</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£633m resource and £42m capital</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Prior to 2016/17 no figure was published for CT policing capital.</p><p>In addition, since 2016-17 the Government is investing £144m over five years to increase armed policing capability and capacity.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 30/06/2017 07:49:22 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732274

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support counter-terrorism units.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>For reasons of national security we do not publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by force area or by capability.</p><p>Overall this Government has protected counter-terrorism police spend in real terms over the Spending Review period, and invested in counter-terrorism policing to grow key capabilities, including providing £144m to increase armed policing capability. We remain committed to increasing cross-government spending on counter-terrorism by 30%, from £11.7 billion to £15.1 billion, including funding an additional 1,900 officers at our security and intelligence agencies.</p><p>We know that the recent horrific attacks have put pressure on the police across the country. We are already working closely with policing, including with Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan Police Service, to help manage the cost of the immediate response to the recent attacks.</p><p>The Government has a constructive dialogue with policing to ensure that the right powers, capabilities and resources are in place.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 966 967 968 969 question first answered 30/06/2017 07:55:48 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732275

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: City of Westminster
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources her Department has allocated to the police forces that were involved in and are investigating the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>For reasons of national security we do not publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by force area or by capability.</p><p>Overall this Government has protected counter-terrorism police spend in real terms over the Spending Review period, and invested in counter-terrorism policing to grow key capabilities, including providing £144m to increase armed policing capability. We remain committed to increasing cross-government spending on counter-terrorism by 30%, from £11.7 billion to £15.1 billion, including funding an additional 1,900 officers at our security and intelligence agencies.</p><p>We know that the recent horrific attacks have put pressure on the police across the country. We are already working closely with policing, including with Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan Police Service, to help manage the cost of the immediate response to the recent attacks.</p><p>The Government has a constructive dialogue with policing to ensure that the right powers, capabilities and resources are in place.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 965 967 968 969 question first answered 30/06/2017 07:55:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

732276

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: London Bridge
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources her Department has allocated to the police forces that were involved in and are investigating the London Bridge terrorist attack.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>For reasons of national security we do not publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by force area or by capability.</p><p>Overall this Government has protected counter-terrorism police spend in real terms over the Spending Review period, and invested in counter-terrorism policing to grow key capabilities, including providing £144m to increase armed policing capability. We remain committed to increasing cross-government spending on counter-terrorism by 30%, from £11.7 billion to £15.1 billion, including funding an additional 1,900 officers at our security and intelligence agencies.</p><p>We know that the recent horrific attacks have put pressure on the police across the country. We are already working closely with policing, including with Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan Police Service, to help manage the cost of the immediate response to the recent attacks.</p><p>The Government has a constructive dialogue with policing to ensure that the right powers, capabilities and resources are in place.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 965 966 968 969 question first answered 30/06/2017 07:55:48 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West