10 257034 House of Commons Home Office Migrants: Domestic Abuse Jess Phillips 2019-05-21 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to hold discussions with migrant women survivors of domestic abuse on the draft Domestic Abuse Bill. Home Office 1 2019-06-07T13:29:10.05Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-07 Biography information for Victoria Atkins <p>The Government is committed to supporting all victims of domestic abuse and continues to engage with victims, survivors and the sector on this issue.</p><p>On 8 March 2018 the Government published the consultation, Transforming the Response to Domestic Abuse, setting out our proposed approach to tackling domestic abuse. The consultation received over 3200 responses from a range of sources including, victims and survivors, support organisations and research experts. The knowledge and expertise extracted from the consultation have informed the measures included in the draft Domestic Abuse Bill and package of non-legislative initiatives.</p><p>On 15 May 2019, I, together with the Minister for Immigration (Caroline Nokes), the Minister of State for Equalities (Baroness Williams of Trafford) and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice (Edward Argar) co-hosted a Round Table on migrant women affected by domestic abuse. Representatives from the sector were invited to discuss the issues facing migrant women affected by domestic abuse and the opportunities to tackle these issues.</p><p>The Home Secretary and I are committed to continue this engagement with domestic abuse survivors and representatives from the sector, to ensure the Bill and supporting programme of work is effective and achieves our aim to transform the Government’s response to domestic abuse.</p> Birmingham, Yardley Home Office false 1 Biography information for Jess Phillips false Disability: Access 2019-06-11T14:58:15.313Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-11 <p>The Equality Act 2010 contains strong, enforceable protections for disabled people who experience discrimination, including a failure by employers or service providers to make reasonable adjustments to enable disabled people to access work and services like everybody else.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018 the Government committed to the commencement of section 36 of the Equality Act, which will enable disabled tenants to require that landlords and building owners to make reasonable adjustments to the common parts of dwellings, such as entry points, landings and stairs. Work to determine the cost of implementation is proceeding and an announcement will be made in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which enforces the Equality Act, recently delivered a Legal Support Project to increase access to justice for people experiencing disability discrimination. It offered groups £189,000 for legal assistance across 94 cases in areas including employment.</p><p> </p><p>The EHRC has increased its capacity to advise on discrimination cases in its new strategic plan, and has supported several court cases which resulted in strengthened rights for disabled people, including those wishing to make reasonable adjustments to their homes and disabled children who may demonstrate a tendency to physical abuse as a result of their disability, whose schools must now make reasonable adjustments in such cases.</p> Biography information for George Eustice Women and Equalities 1 Women and Equalities 256978 George Eustice Camborne and Redruth To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to improve enforcement of requirements of the Equality Act 2010 on access to facilities for disabled people. Women and Equalities 2019-05-21 31 Mosques: Security 2019-05-21 Biography information for Imran Hussain Home Office Home Office 1 Imran Hussain Home Office 1 false To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report, column 468, whether places of faith other than places of worship will qualify for funding for the Ramadan Package. Bradford East 257052 2019-06-07T13:24:02.643Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-07 <p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p> 257054 257055 Imran Hussain Mosques: Security 1 1 2019-06-07T13:25:33.41Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-07 <p>Over its first three years, the Places of Worship protective security scheme has approved grants worth approximately £1.5m to 134 places of worship. During that time, Ministers have approved 49 grants to mosques worth £638,906.34.</p><p>Following the Finsbury Park terror attack in June 2017, we also announced a £1m fund to protect vulnerable faith institutions. Under this scheme, we approved funding to 38 faith institutions including 19 mosques and one Muslim community centre. These grants were worth over £260,000.</p> 257053 false To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the security funding for places of worship has been allocated to protect (a) Mosques and (b) other Muslim places of faith since 2016. Home Office Home Office Bradford East Home Office 2019-05-21 Home Office Home Office Mosques: Security 1 1 Home Office Imran Hussain 2019-06-07T13:24:02.69Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-07 <p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p> 257052 257055 false Bradford East 2019-05-21 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report, column 468, whether places of worship will be required to demonstrate proof of a previous attack to qualify for the Ramadan Package. 257054 false Bradford East Mosques: Security Home Office 257055 Home Office 2019-06-07T13:24:02.77Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-07 <p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p> 257052 257054 Imran Hussain 2019-05-21 1 1 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report,column 468, how much funding his Department has allocated to date from the Ramadan Package. Home Office Biography information for Carolyn Harris 2019-05-21 Home Office 2019-06-07T13:16:45.097Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-07 <p>Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) are an independent source of advice for trafficked children and somebody who can speak up on their behalf.</p><p>The Government has successfully rolled out ICTAs to one third of all local authorities in England and Wales, in line with the commitment made in July last year. Where the service is available, all children that are potential victims of trafficking are eligible for support.</p><p>The Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act led by Frank Field, Baroness Butler-Sloss and Maria Miller has recently considered Section 48 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which makes provisions for ICTAs. The Review’s final report can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report</a></p><p>The Government is currently carefully considering the recommendations of the review on the improvements we can make to the ICTA service, and we remain committed to rolling ICTAs out nationally.</p> false 1 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to increase the availability and quality of specialist care and support for child victims of trafficking. 257104 Carolyn Harris Home Office Home Office Swansea East Human Trafficking: Children 1 257017 Andrew Rosindell To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to enable (a) communities and (b) victims to have a greater input into policies and approaches on tackling antisocial behaviour. 1 Home Office 2019-06-07T13:19:15.37Z Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins false 2019-06-07 <p>The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced two measures that give communities and victims an input into policies and approaches on tackling anti-social behaviour. They are the Community Trigger and the Community Remedy.</p><p>The Community Trigger, also known as the anti-social behaviour case review, gives victims of persistent anti-social behaviour the ability to demand a formal case review (where a locally defined threshold is met), in order to determine whether there is further action which can be taken. Any individual, community or business can make an application for a case review, and the relevant bodies must carry out a case review if the threshold is met.</p><p>The Community Remedy gives victims of low-level crime and anti-social behaviour a say in the punishment of perpetrators who receive an out of court punishment.</p> false Home Office Antisocial Behaviour 2019-05-21 Biography information for Andrew Rosindell Home Office Romford 1 Biography information for Lord Mann 10 John Mann Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Digital, Culture, Media and Sport To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in which year the responsible local authority last carried out emergency evacuation tests at each (a) Premier League and (b) Championship football stadium. Football: Sportsgrounds Bassetlaw 1 false 2019-06-24T13:42:08.507Z Eastleigh Mims Davies false 2019-06-24 Biography information for Mims Davies <p>My Department does not hold such information. While the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is responsible for the sports grounds safety legislation, responsibility for the safety of spectators lies at all times with the ground management of individual sports grounds. Certifying and regulating those sports grounds is primarily a matter for individual local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance with recommendations in the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds, published by the Sports Grounds Safety Authority, ground management should prepare contingency plans for the evacuation of all people in the event of an emergency from all areas of the ground to a place of safety.</p> Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 256938 2019-05-21 0 1 9