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100739

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Meat: Smuggling
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 prevent the illegal importation of bushmeat into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Stuart
uin	211776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Border Force is responsible for enforcing anti-smuggling controls at points of entry into Great Britain to detect imports of illegal meat and other products of animal origin arriving from outside the European Union. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is responsible for these controls at points of entry into Northern Ireland. <br><br>Border Force seizes animal products that are imported outside the veterinary checks regime under the Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 in England and equivalent regulations covering Scotland and Wales. <br><br>Border Force liaises with local authorities when meat is detected arriving from another country within the European Union.<br><br>Border Force operates intelligence led anti-smuggling controls on meat to detect illegal imports carried by arriving passengers, in freight and in postal traffic. Border Force works closely with the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to ensure its targeting is responsive to the latest animal disease risk assessments and changing threats at the border. Most recently Border Force has been involved in the cross government response to the current outbreak of Ebola and has adjusted its targeting of illegal meat to take account of this risk. Border Force also deploys a pool of detector dogs specifically trained to detect illegal meat.<br><br>Border Force treats all meat as potentially hazardous and infected and all seized meat is secured and incinerated strictly in accordance with animal health regulations.<br><br>Meat seized by Border Force will include bushmeat, for which there is no precise definition but is accepted to be the meat of wild animals hunted for food. <br><br>In addition to the enforcement activity carried out at the border, Border Force works closely with the National Crime Agency who can investigate and prosecute serious offenders. Border Force and Defra actively deter the illegal importation of Products of Animal Origin by communicating clearly what the legal requirements are for bringing meat into the UK and why the controls are needed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/10/2014 13:32:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24614 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

100743

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Parliament Square: Demonstrations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the police response to the demonstration in Parliament Square on 21 October 2014; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	211761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have received no representations relating to the police response to the demonstration in Parliament Square on 21 October.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 29/10/2014 11:13:05 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

100744

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Food: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to the police on co-operation with the Food Standards Agency and the new Food Crime Unit; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	211751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office has not issued any guidance to the police. The City of London Police will second police officers to the Food Crime Unit as part of their role as the national lead for fraud. It is the responsibility of the College of Policing's national policing business areas to appoint, as appropriate a national business policing lead for this work and to secure the engagement of forces nationally with this initiative.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 29/10/2014 11:12:41 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

100745

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on lowering the minimum income threshold limit required by those wishing to bring family members to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Joan Walley
uin	211715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>We keep the family Immigration Rules under regular review in light of all feedback on their operation. However, we have no plans to lower the minimum income threshold required to bring family members to the UK under those rules. In its 11 July 2014 judgment in MM and Others the Court of Appeal upheld the lawfulness of the requirement and found that it strikes a fair balance between the interests of those affected and the community in general.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/10/2014 14:18:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	286 label Biography information for Joan Walley

100747

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has reclassified fraud as a notifiable recorded offence.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Fraud is a group of offences that consists of several different offence types. Fraud offences have always been recorded as notifiable offences. There has not been any recent major reclassification of these offences.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 29/10/2014 13:30:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

100750

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Databases
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 the future of the Childbase database of known online child abuse; how she envisages this database interacting with the Child Abuse Image Database; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	211722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The Childbase database ceased to be active in 2011 and is no longer live. All forces have access to the interim National Hash Set Database which will be replaced by the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). The CAID is being developed to support analysis by police of devices seized during investigations; to support victim identification; and to provide hash set data to the internet industry, to allow them to remove these appalling images from their networks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 29/10/2014 13:36:08 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 24622 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

100751

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on commissioning the Child Abuse Image Database; whether this database will include all image-data known to Interpol; what steps she has taken to ensure that police forces can access this database; what specialist software regional police forces will require to access this database; and what additional funds she is making available to cover the costs of such software.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	211721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Departmental spend on commissioning the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) for the first year is £1,473,179, which is being recharged to police forces. It is estimated that CAID will save the police £7.474 million by March 2017 by speeding up police processes.<br><br>The project has been developed using data from Interpol and, where appropriate, this information will be included in the initial database load for CAID.<br><br>The CAID system will be available to all police forces in the UK and National Crime Agency – Child Exploitation and Online Protection (NCA-CEOP) Command via the police secure network. All forces will be accredited to access this data supported by the Home Office project team and security advisers. The CAID system allows the use of forces’ existing image grading and hashing software. <br><br>Any additional software needed to access CAID and to upload new material from the forces/NCA-CEOP Command to the database is provided as part of the central project at no cost to the forces. <br><br>Each force is responsible for its own set-up costs to establish the connectivity of their force High Tech Crime Unit or Grading Unit in an <br>enhanced, secure way to the police secure network that already exists in their forces.<br><br>It is expected that the CAID will cost forces approximately £20,000 per year in service costs (which are used to maintain and improve the database). This cost has been agreed with the National Policing lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 29/10/2014 13:37:13 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 24642 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

100752

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime Prevention
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 effectiveness of the use of predictive analytics as a law enforcement tool.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	211675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>A number of police forces are using predictive policing techniques, particularly to reduce crimes like burglary. The Home Office has undertaken no <br>formal assessment of these techniques, but the College of Policing has plans to release a technical assessment of different predictive crime mapping models and software. This will inform police forces’ decisions about appropriate analytical tools and techniques.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 29/10/2014 11:13:29 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

100818

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	G4S
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether G4S records (a) telephone calls made to it by asylum seekers who have ended the call as they have not been able to explain that they need an interpreter and (b) all other telephone calls received in connection with its contract to deliver accommodation for asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Ian Swales
uin	211808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>All providers are required under the COMPASS contracts to provide a minimum level of support to asylum seekers accommodated in their properties, this includes briefing the service user in a language that they understand, on how to contact the provider and the Home Office to make complaints.<br><br>G4S does make a record of all telephone calls they receive from asylum applicants accommodated in their property and refers service users to their interpreters where it is clear that an interpreter is required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/10/2014 14:19:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4045 label Biography information for Ian Swales

100429

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will arrange for the hon. Member for Walsall North to receive a reply to her letter to the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration of 22 September 2014 on behalf of a constituent, CTS reference M13587.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
uin	211458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State can confirm that a reply will be despatched to the hon. Member for Walsall North’s letter, CTS ref M13949/14, on 29th October 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/10/2014 13:32:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24356 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick