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755868

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Acids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on transactions involving substances listed in Part 3 of Schedule 1A to the Poisons Act 1972 which may be used both as an explosive precursor and as an offensive weapon.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	7517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Poisons Act 1972 requires a supplier to report any relevant transaction(s) that they deem to be suspicious that involve substances listed in Part 3 of Schedule 1A.</p><p>Our policy is based on the following key strands:</p><p>Effective partnerships with relevant trade associations, suppliers and online retailers to help them understand which products are within scope of the Act, what action they should take to ensure compliance. Working with them and providing guidance to ensure they are able to spot and report suspicious transactions in a timely fashion.</p><p>Effective law enforcement by providing guidance to police officers on identifying non-compliance, preventing attacks, searching potential perpetrators for harmful substances and responding to victims at the scene.</p><p>Identifying where less harmful alternatives are available which achieve the same legitimate use.</p><p>Ensuring legislation covering the use of substances listed in Part 3 of Schedule 1A to the Poisons Act 1972 including acid and other corrosives is fit for purpose, that it is understood and consistently applied.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/09/2017 16:02:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

438707

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud: 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 call-handling staff are employed by the Action Fraud helpline; and how many of those employees were employed on (a) 1 May 2015 and (b) 1 November 2014.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	20202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>With regards to the number of call-handling staff employed by the Action Fraud helpline:</p><p>• As of December 2015 there were69.78 FTEs</p><p>• As of May 2015 there were 81.92 FTEs</p><p>• As of November 2014 there were 84.67 FTEs</p><p>With regards to the number of frontline staff employed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB): The NFIB is overseen by the City of London Police, it is not a public facing part of the Force, so does not employ any frontline staff.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 20204 question first answered 05/01/2016 12:07:13 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

688023

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud: 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 call-handling staff are employed by Action Fraud.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	63934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2017 answer text <p>As of January 2017, there were approximately 75 Full Time Employee call handling staff.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 21/02/2017 10:47:56 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927965

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Cameroon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has received any applications for asylum on the grounds of persecution because of political opinion from persons originating in Southern Cameroon within the last nine months.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	155757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on asylum claimants is held on both the asylum case file and the main immigration database. This will include personal details of claimants and relatives such as claimed dates and places of birth, claimed religion, claimed ethnicity, as well as details of their asylum claims. The way this information is stored is such that it is often not possible to report on these information fields without conducting a manual search of both paper and electronic records. Therefore, we cannot identify how many asylum claims have been granted or refused leave from specific parts of countries of origin or as a result of political opinion<br>Published data relating to the outcomes of asylum claims from each country (including Cameroon) can be found in tab as_02 at volume 1 of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 11:37:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

714179

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children accepted under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 that would otherwise have been eligible for transfer to the UK under the family-reunification provisions of the Dublin III Regulation.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	69288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government has confirmed that the specified number under section 67(1) of the Immigration Act 2016 will not include cases transferred to the UK under the Dublin III Regulation.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/04/2017 08:20:49 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

675571

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Burglary
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was for police to visit a burglary scene following a reported burglary in each police force area in England and Wales in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	60925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2017 answer text <p>Decisions on the allocation of the Metropolitan Police’s resources are a matter for Chief Officers, in association with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). The police have the resources to do their important work.</p><p> </p><p>We have provided a fair provisional funding deal for 2017/18. It provides stable funding for the police and enables essential policing reform and transformation to go further and faster so that we help the vulnerable, cut crime and support our communities.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested on the average time for the police to visit a burglary scene is not captured centrally by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 60924 question first answered 25/01/2017 15:28:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

675572

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Burglary: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of resources to attend to reported burglaries in (a) London and (b) West Ham constituency on 28 December 2016.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	60924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2017 answer text <p>Decisions on the allocation of the Metropolitan Police’s resources are a matter for Chief Officers, in association with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). The police have the resources to do their important work.</p><p> </p><p>We have provided a fair provisional funding deal for 2017/18. It provides stable funding for the police and enables essential policing reform and transformation to go further and faster so that we help the vulnerable, cut crime and support our communities.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested on the average time for the police to visit a burglary scene is not captured centrally by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 60925 question first answered 25/01/2017 15:28:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1017303

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Care Leavers and Children in Care: Criminal Proceedings
	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 resources required for the police effectively to implement the national protocol on reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of looked-after children and care leavers.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	197428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The national protocol on reducing criminalisation of looked-after children and care leavers sets out best practice; implementing it does not place any new statutory burdens on the police or other agencies. The protocol was developed with the leaders of the relevant sectors including the National Police Chiefs’ Council and endorsed as a positive step forward.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/12/2018 11:31:41 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

901251

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Chemicals: Electronic Commerce
	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 updated leaflet entitled Sell Chemical Products Responsibly, published by her Department on 4 April 2018, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of that leaflet in giving guidance to online retailers on their statutory duty to report suspicious purchases under the Poisons Act 1972.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	142822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>The “Sell Chemical Products Responsibly” leaflet was re-issued following amendments to Schedule 1A to the Poisons Act 1972 laid on 3 April. It was designed with face to face transactions in mind, providing some indicators of suspicious transactions as well as how to identify products of concern and report suspicions. Specific, tailored guidance has been shared with online retailers to support their reporting obligation under the same Act.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 17/05/2018 14:08:14 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927960

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Chemicals: Electronic Commerce
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May to Question 142822 on Chemicals: Electronic Commerce, if he will publish an example of the guidance that has been provided to online retailers to support their reporting obligation under the Poisons Act 1972.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	155755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>We do not make this guidance publicly available owing to concerns surrounding national security.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 26/06/2018 10:48:22 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown