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800490

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Ethnic Groups: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what comparative assessment she has made of the difference in the reported level of in-person bullying against BAME people and the reported level against non-BAME people.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	117111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 prohibits certain forms of conduct – including harassment – in employment and the provision of goods, services and public functions. Harassment is defined as unwanted conduct related to someone’s protected characteristics and which has the purpose or effect of violating their dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them. However, “bullying” is not a term used in the Act, and incidents of “bullying” are not recorded.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Advisory and Support Service, a Government-sponsored helpline that offers free advice and support to people who feel that they have been victims of unlawful discrimination, records and makes available statistics on all the customer contacts that it receives.</p><p> </p><p>Between 1 October 2016 - when the current service provider took over running the contract - and 28 February 2018, the Service recorded 1443 customer contacts concerning harassment across all the protected characteristics covered by the Act, 310 (21%) of which were related to race.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/04/2018 10:29:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

818681

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will include in the information published on the Government's gender pay gap portal a total headcount column for each company.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	121445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>We will launch an updated gender pay gap viewing service in April 2018 that will allow employers to benchmark themselves against similar organisations. This will include information on the size of organisations.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/01/2018 17:57:52 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

819794

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Local Government: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to enforce Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 for Local Authorities.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	121866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to creating a country that works for everyone, where success is based on merit, not privilege, and where everyone has the chance to go as far as their talents and hard work will take them. That is why the Government has in place a number of strategies to address social mobility and improve outcomes for those who experience disadvantage.</p><p>Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 is the public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities, which has not been commenced. The Government has no plans to commence or enforce the duty because we believe that specific programmes designed to address social mobility problems in particular areas will be a more effective approach than blanket legislation of this type.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/01/2018 11:27:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

752735

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that industry codes of practice allow users to remove compromised telephones from cloud accounts.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	5137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2018 answer text <p>The Digital Economy Act requires the Secretary of State, before issuing a code of practice, to consult social media providers to whom the code is intended.</p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport are consulting on introducing a social media code of practice as part of the Internet Safety Strategy which was published on 11 October 2017.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/09/2018 14:30:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

754154

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Risk Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria the police in England and Wales (a) used in 2010 to determine whether a person suspected of extremism was a risk to the public and (b) are used for that purpose now.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	6082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>Unlike terrorism, there are no specific criminal offences for extremism in the UK, and as such no criteria to meet. This was the case in 2010 and today. Any risk posed to the public is assessed on the evidence and intelligence available to the police and their professional judgment.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/04/2018 11:17:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

757735

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Written Statement of 12 July 2017 HCWS39, on extremism, whether the Government plans to review its policy on arms exports to Saudi Arabia as a result of her Department's review.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	8688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no intention of reviewing its policy on arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the findings of the review into funding of Islamist extremist activity in the UK do not support one.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/04/2018 09:44:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

758235

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Sign Language
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 takes to provide (a) information on its services in British Sign Language (BSL) and (b) correspondence in BSL to people whose principal language is BSL.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	9007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department publishes information on its services on GOV.UK. Documents we publish can be requested in an alternative format, in line with the Equalities Act 2010, and this includes British Sign Language.</p><p>When hosting staff events we provide a British Sign Language signer where one has been requested in advance.</p><p>We have existing frameworks in place to provide communication support services which includes BSL Interpreters. In circumstances where this service is not suitable for the individuals requirements we have arrangements in place to provide alternative support though the Crown Commercial Service framework agreements.</p><p>We ask our customers if they require any reasonable adjustments and aim to meet their bespoke needs.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/02/2018 11:26:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

760124

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Devolution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the dates were of the most recent meetings between Ministers of her Department and their counterparts in the devolved administrations; and what the dates are of the next planned meetings.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	10401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>The former Home Secretary the Rt. Hon Amber Rudd last meeting with a Scottish Minister was in Glasgow on 27 July 2017. The Home Secretary has yet to meet with with Scottish Ministers but looks forward to doing so in due course and in line with departmental business.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/07/2018 15:12:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

765548

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Licensing Laws
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the success rate of appeals against decisions taken by local authorities' licensing committees to limit the supply of cheap, super-strength alcohol has been in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	106050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not collect information relating to the success rate of appeals against decisions taken by local authorities’ licensing committees to limit the supply of cheap, super-strength alcohol.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/02/2018 11:27:57 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

766160

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Licensing Act 2003
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to respond to the House of Lords Select Committee's post-legislative scrutiny report on the Licensing Act 2003, published on 4 April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	106287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is carefully considering the detailed recommendations made by the House of Lords Select Committee’s post-legislative scrutiny report on the Licensing Act 2003 and published its response on the 6 November.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/01/2018 17:48:08 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock