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690387

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that unaccompanied child refugees do not fall victim to human trafficking.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	64122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government takes child trafficking extremely seriously and is determined to continue to take action to combat it. The Government will publish a safeguarding strategy for unaccompanied asylum seeking children by 1 May 2017. This will bring together a number of strands of ongoing work to develop a more holistic and comprehensive approach to safeguarding unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, on 16 February 2017 the Home Secretary announced a range of measures to protect children including unaccompanied asylum seeking children, from the risk of trafficking. These measures included the launch of the Child Trafficking Protection Fund which will provide nearly £2.2m for projects protecting vulnerable children in the UK and overseas who are at risk of trafficking. In addition, the Government made clear its intention to roll out Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) in Wales, Hampshire and Greater Manchester ahead of full national rollout. ICTAs will provide specialist support and act in the best interests of trafficked children.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/02/2017 11:18:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

707662

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that animal testing does not cause undue harm.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	66510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Delivery of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, through the UK’s regulatory system, ensures that animal research and testing is carried out only where no practicable alternatives exist, and under controls which keep suffering to the minimum.</p><p>This is achieved through robustly applying the principles of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement) which require that, in every research proposal, animals are replaced with non-animal alternatives wherever practicable; that the number of animals used is reduced to the minimum needed to achieve the results sought; and that, for those animals which must be used, procedures are refined as much as practicable to minimise their suffering.</p><p>All applications for animal research are assessed by Home Office Inspectors to assess the harms, benefits and likelihood of delivery, including the effective implementation of the 3Rs. A judgement is then made, in a harm benefit analysis, as to whether the likely harms are justified by the expected benefits. Only after completion of this process will the Home Office consider granting a licence for the proposed work to go ahead. Once a licence is granted, establishments are regularly inspected by Home Office inspectors for compliance with the terms of their licence and the legislation.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/03/2017 15:46:00 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

690527

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Textiles: Slavery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to encourage transparency within supply chains for the textile industry to ensure that workers are not victims of modern slavery.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	64128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The Modern Slavery Act 2015 includes a ground breaking transparency in supply chains provision, which requires large commercial organisations operating in the UK to set out the steps they have taken to ensure there is no modern slavery in their business or supply chains. This includes large businesses in the textile industry.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/02/2017 14:23:20 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

692663

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	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, what measures are in place to ensure that companies which find evidence of modern slavery within their supply chains are required to report such evidence.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	64745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has published guidance for businesses on tackling modern slavery which sets out how businesses should report incidents of modern slavery to the relevant authorities. The guidance is available on the gov.uk website here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-in-supply-chains-a-practical-guide" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-in-supply-chains-a-practical-guide</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 01/03/2017 16:00:55 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

706831

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing compensation for losses women who have already reached their state pension age have incurred through changes to the state pension law made by the 1995 and 2011 Pension Acts.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	66237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government will not be revisiting the State Pension age arrangements for women affected by the Pensions Act 1995 and Pensions Act 2011. These women will receive their State Pension either at the same age as men or earlier as we remove the current inequality. A concession was made prior to the passing of the 2011 Act which reduced the delay that anyone would experience in claiming their State Pension, relative to the previous timetable, to 18 months. This concession benefited almost a quarter of a million women, who would otherwise have experienced delays of up to two years. A similar number of men also benefited from a reduced increase, and the concession was worth £1.1 billion in total.</p><p> </p><p>It is worth noting that the average woman who reached SPa in 2015 gets a higher state pension income over her lifetime than an average woman reaching SPa at any point before. Also, over a lifetime, the average woman who reached State Pension age in 2015 will still receive more than the average man in spite of the rise in women’s state pension age.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 08/03/2017 11:17:26 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

707326

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Taxis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Government plans to publish its response to the Law Commission's 2014 recommendations on the reform of taxi and private hire vehicles legislation.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	66387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government are currently considering all the recommendations in the report, against the background of a rapidly changing industry. We will formally respond to the Law Commission and announce our intentions once that scrutiny is completed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 08/03/2017 14:06:07 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

692638

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Records: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) procedures and (b) timescales are by which findings of not guilty are entered into the criminal record database; and at what point a person found not guilty receives a clear Disclosure and Barring Service check.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	64746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2017 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service is responsible for ensuring that case outcome and sentence information, including whether the defendant was found guilty or not guilty, is sent to the police for inclusion on the Police National Computer (PNC). The average time taken to send case results to the police in the financial year 2015/16 was 1.3 working days.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has no further involvement in Disclosure and Barring Service processes and is a matter for the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 03/03/2017 11:55:54 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

691874

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to tackle unduly lenient sentencing for animal cruelty offences.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	64497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>Sentencing is a matter for the courts, which are independent from government. When deciding what sentence to impose the courts take into account the circumstances of the offence and any mitigating and aggravating factors, in line with the sentencing guidelines.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 02/03/2017 15:39:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

690425

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the abolition of the Defence Cost Order on people who have self-funded the cost of their legal defence at trial.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	64306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>In 2012, the Government changed the law to restrict reimbursement of the legal costs of defendants who have been acquitted of a criminal offence. Defendants who were entitled to legal aid (i.e. those facing trial in the Crown Court) but chose to pay privately, were no longer able to recover legal costs. Where legal costs were allowed, e.g. in the magistrates’ court, they were limited to the equivalent of legal aid rates. A post-implementation review of the legal aid changes made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 will be conducted by April 2018.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 27/02/2017 16:04:09 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

707698

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Modern Slavery Act 2015: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for offences under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 since that legislation came into force.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	66482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts for offences specifically under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in England and Wales in 2015 can be found in the ‘Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly: December 2015’ on Gov.uk</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>Data for calendar year 2016 is planned for publication in May 2017.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 13/03/2017 12:53:53 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman