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registered interest
date	12/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: G4S and Serco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions (a) Serco and (b) G4S have tendered for contracts let by her Department in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	218573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>Both Serco and G4S have operated contracts issued by the Home Office under different governments for more than a decade.<br><br>The number of contracts that Serco have tendered for and has been let by the Secretary of State for the Home Department since May 2010 is 5. <br><br>For the purposes of this question we have used the date that the tender process commenced as the relevant date.<br><br>Serco <br>2010/11 – 1<br>2011/12 – 1<br>2012/13 – 1<br>2013/14 – 2<br>2014/15 – 0<br>Total = 5<br><br>The number of contracts that G4S have tendered for and has been let by the Secretary of State for the Home Department since May 2010 is 9. <br><br>For the purposes of this question we have used the date that the tender process commenced as the relevant date.<br><br>G4S<br>2010/11 – 3<br>2011/12 – 1<br>2012/13 – 2<br>2013/14 – 1<br>2014/15 – 2<br>Total = 9</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/01/2015 15:21:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

169866

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Airports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of policing each airport in the East of England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	218403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/12/2014 12:14:49 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

169867

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average and (b) target time taken between the completion of an immigration tribunal and the implementation of that tribunal's decision is.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	218322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested in part (a) covers a broad range of casetypes and is not held centrally for in country cases. It could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. For international appeals the average time for allowed appeals to be implemented from January 2014 to September 2014 was 45 calendar days. <br><br>The Home Office has 14 days to consider whether to appeal an allowed First-tier or Upper Tribunal decision (although this can be longer in some Upper Tribunal decisions where the last avenue to appeal is direct to the Court of Appeal). <br><br>The relevant unit responsible for implementation will be notified once a decision has been made not to appeal. There are currently no set targets in place governing implementation of appeals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:57:29 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

169868

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pornographic images of children were removed from the internet as a result of investigations by (a) police forces and (b) her Department's agencies in the areas of (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	218402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. The Internet Watch Foundation runs the UK reporting centre for indecent images of children, and works with its internet industry partners to take down websites hosting such images in the UK. It is also part of a global network of agencies to whom it refers cases involving websites hosted overseas, where the majority of images are found.</p><p /> <p>The Internet Watch Foundation will use the hash set database that forms part of the Child Abuse Image Database to proactively search for and remove indecent images of children.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 18/12/2014 17:55:08 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

169871

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tickets: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with representatives of (a) primary ticketing agencies and (b) secondary ticketing platforms on enhancing the prevention and detection of (i) the use of botnets and (ii) ticket fraud.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	218377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers and officials have had no meetings with primary ticketing <br>agencies or secondary ticketing platforms on this issue. <br>Ministers in the Home Office, Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the <br>Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have discussions and correspond <br>together on a wide range of issues, and this has included agreeing the content <br>of the Consumer Rights Bill. Officials from those Departments are in regular <br>contact, including regarding the issue of resale of tickets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/12/2014 17:18:37 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

169872

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres and Prisons: Film
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests from broadcasters her Department has received to film (a) prisons and (b) immigration removal centres in the last five years; and how many such requests have been granted.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	218363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not have responsibility for prisons so requests for filming would be made to the Ministry of Justice.We do not have a central record of how many times broadcasters have requested to film immigration removal centres or how many times those requests have been granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:40:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

169873

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel
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 (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office is performing well in reducing spending while protecting and improving our services. Against an 09/10 baseline, Government has saved £1.4billion through centralising arrangements for common goods and services. <br><br>Since 2009/10 we hve reduced the use of taxis by over 30% and we have cut spending on first class rail travel by 92% since 2010/11. Between 2006-2010 and 2010-2014, we have cut spending on taxis by £1.4m, on first-class rail by £3m, and all air travel by £4m.<br><br>The spend for taxis, first class train tickets and business class air travel in the last five years are as follows. <br><br>Taxis*<br>2009-2010 £768,623.66<br>2010-2011 £531,192.09<br>2011-2012 £318,944.83<br>2012-2013 £534,167.57<br>2013-2014 £529,919.39<br><br><br>First Class Train Tickets**<br>2010-2011 £203,884.12<br>2011-2012 £26,051.22<br>2012-2013 £23,232.63<br>2013-2014 £22,934.14<br><br><br>Business Class Air Travel***<br>2010-2011 £678,187.04<br>2011-2012 £861,537.43<br>2012-2013 £667,298.69<br>2013-2014 £1,010,037.59<br><br>It is not possible to separately identify the cost of first class train tickets and business class air travel in 2009/2010.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 18:38:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169874

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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, how many times she or Ministers in her Department have met their counterparts in the (a) Welsh Government, (b) Scottish Government and (c) Northern Ireland Executive to discuss the provisions of the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	218352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill is an urgently-needed response to the increased terrorist threat. It therefore relates to the matters of counter-terrorism and national security, which are reserved, non-devolved or excepted matters.<br><br>The Home Office is having ongoing discussions, at both Ministerial and official level, with the Devolved Administrations on the measures within the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill. I have spoken and written to Ministers in the Welsh Assembly Government, Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive. On Monday 15 December, the Prime Minister chaired the Joint Ministerial Committee, attended by the First Ministers of each Devolved Administration, at which the Bill was discussed.<br><br>Consultation with colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continues, particularly in relation to the measures in Part 5 of the Bill (‘Risk of being drawn into terrorism’).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:47:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 33967 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

169875

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Abortion
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 bring forward legislative proposals to enforce a designated area around abortion clinics and pregnancy advisory bureaux within which anti-abortion activity cannot take place; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	218335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office is aware of a number of recent protests outside some abortion clinics which we take extremely seriously. This country has a proud history of allowing free speech but the right to peaceful protest does not extend to <br>harassment or threatening behaviour. The law currently provides protection against such acts.<br><br>The police have a range of powers to deal with protests outside clinics. Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, makes it an offence to display threatening, or abusive words or images that, within the sight of someone, is <br>likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 allows the police to place conditions on the location, duration or numbers attending a public assembly. This can be applied where the police <br>believe that the assembly may result in serious public disorder, serious damage to property, serious disruption to the life of the community, or that the purpose by the assembly organisers is to intimidate others to compel them not <br>to do an act that they have a right to do.<br><br>The police have dispersal powers (in public places) under sections 34 and 35 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, to remove or reduce the likelihood of members of the public being harassed, alarmed or distressed, or <br>to prevent local crime or disorder.<br><br>The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 includes criminal offences that protect individuals, who are conducting lawful activities, from harassment by protestors.<br><br>The policing of protests and the use of powers are an operational matter for the police.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 218266 question first answered 16/12/2014 16:54:20 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

169876

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	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 staff are employed in her Department's headquarter buildings.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	218311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The ministers of the Home Department are based in 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1 4DF. As at 30 November 2014, this was the main office location for 3,941 full time equivalent staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 17/12/2014 17:36:57 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman