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575551

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
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, what steps she is taking to ensure that the police and security services have the necessary powers to apprehend people planning terrorist attacks in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Graham Evans
uin	906097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>We continue to strengthen our Counter Terrorism powers. The 2015 Counter Terrorism &amp; Security Act provided the police with new powers and created a general duty on public bodies to prevent people being drawn into terrorism. To apprehend terrorist suspects the police and security agencies need to collect intelligence to support arrests and develop evidence to secure prosecutions.</p><p>Therefore the government is taking forward the Investigatory Powers Bill, which will provide them with powers fit for the digital age.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 05/09/2016 16:26:19 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

575552

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
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 is taking to tackle people trafficking.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	906094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Tackling human trafficking and modern slavery remains a top priority for this government. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 provides law enforcement agencies the tools to tackle trafficking and modern slavery. In July, the Prime Minister announced a new taskforce to accelerate progress. The PM also pledged £33.5m of development assistance funding to tackle slavery in countries from where we know victims are regularly trafficked to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/09/2016 16:25:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

575553

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Confiscation Orders
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 is taking to confiscate money from criminals; and what plans she has to further strengthen the asset recovery regime.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	906098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to attacking criminal finances, by making it harder for criminals to move, use and hide their proceeds of crime. The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, as amended by the Serious Crime Act 2015, provides a robust set of provisions for confiscating assets from criminals, and further reforms will be brought forward in the forthcoming Criminal Finances Bill. These reforms will significantly improve our ability to recover the proceeds of crime, tackle money laundering and corruption, and counter terrorist financing.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/09/2016 16:26:30 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

575554

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Rural Areas
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 is taking to support policing in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
tabling member printed	Chris Davies
uin	906102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>It is an operational decision for individual Chief Constables to determine how their resources are deployed and it is for Police and Crime Commissioners to hold their forces to account, including on how they tackle the crimes that matter most to residents and businesses in rural and urban areas alike.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/09/2016 16:27:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4376 label Biography information for Chris Davies

575555

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
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 recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of cybercrime.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	906099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>As crime falls, we know that it is also changing. The internet and new technology offer criminals new opportunities to commit crimes such as fraud and cyber crime. This is why we have committed to spending a further £1.9 billion on cyber security over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/09/2016 16:26:52 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

575556

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Right of Abode: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with people from other EU countries living in the UK since the EU referendum on their right to live in the UK after an exit from the EU.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	906096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Government Ministers and officials engage with a wide range of stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has been clear that she wants to protect the status of EU nationals here. The only circumstances in which that would not be possible are if British citizens’ rights in other EU Member States were not protected in return.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 05/09/2016 16:26:04 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

575557

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
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, what steps she is taking to protect people from fraud and its effect on families and communities.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Craig Williams
uin	906101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Fraud is a heinous crime which can have a devastating effect on individuals, families and the most vulnerable members of society. That is why this Government launched the Joint Fraud Taskforce last February with law enforcement and banks, and has committed to spending £1.9bn over the next five years on cyber security, including to tackle cyber enabled fraud. The Taskforce is working to protect the public from fraudsters, to maximise every opportunity to catch the criminals and to help victims.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/09/2016 16:27:18 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4438 label Biography information for Craig Williams

541728

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Action: Parliamentary Scrutiny
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each government department, from January to June 2016, on how many occasions the scrutiny reserve resolution in (1) the House of Lords, and (2) the House of Commons, was overridden, and in respect of how many documents an override occurred in (1) both Houses, or (2) either House.
tabling member printed	Lord Boswell of Aynho
uin	HL1405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Between January and June 2016, 484 Explanatory Memoranda on EU documents were submitted for scrutiny.</p><p>There were 37 occasions when the Government supported decisions in the EU Council of Ministers before the scrutiny procedures had been completed by either one or both Scrutiny Committees.</p><p>In each case the Government explained to the Scrutiny Committees why it was important for the proposal to be supported before the scrutiny process could be completed or where the Committees were unable to provide a waiver for the Government to support the proposal whilst retaining the issue under scrutiny. As with previous six-monthly periods, the largest category of instrument were fast-moving EU restrictive measures where there were 27 such instruments (73% of the total number) which were adopted before scrutiny could be completed.</p><p>The figures requested are set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Department</p></td><td><p>(1). House of Lords Override</p></td><td><p>(2). House of Commons override</p></td><td><p>(1). No. of overrides in both Houses</p></td><td><p>(2). Total no. of overrides</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office*</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Culture, Media and Sport</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Home Office</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Justice</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Work and Pensions</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Totals</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* In addition to the formal overrides listed here, there were 27 occasions when Council Decisions were adopted prior to scrutiny by the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee due to their limite marking (ie internal EU limited distribution marking for content not intended to be in the public domain).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 05/09/2016 16:24:59 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	352 label Biography information for Lord Boswell of Aynho

542087

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Hunting Act 2004
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been since 2010 under the Hunting Act 2004.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	43936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the Hunting Act 2004 in England and Wales from 2010 to 2015 (latest available) is available in the outcomes by offence tables in the annual publication, which is linked below. The relevant section is ‘121A – Offences under the Hunting Act 2004’ in the summary non motoring offences section. Statistics covering 2016 are scheduled for publication in May 2017.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/09/2016 10:29:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

542088

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the current workstream priorities are of the Policy Innovation Policy Lab team.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	43965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Policy Lab is currently collaborating with departmental policy teams on homelessness, work and health (including the Work &amp; Health Innovation Fund) and the future of rail. Policy Lab’s work is determined by departments, which approach them for support in employing the latest digital, design and data techniques to help address specific policy challenges.</p><p>There are six full time staff in the Policy Lab.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 43966 question first answered 05/09/2016 08:33:48 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest