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1051295

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ministers of Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Minister of Religion visas have been granted (a) within and (b) outside of the three week timescale target time in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	214615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The published quarterly transparency data does not separate the sub-categories within the wider Tier 2 route. We have therefore provided the published data for all Tier 2 subcategories which includes General, Intra Company Transfers, Minister of Religion and Sportspeople.</p><p><br>Link to the latest published data:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 14:53:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1051365

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Modern Slavery Act 2015 Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to the recommendations of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 Review: Second Interim Report, published on 22 January 2019, and whether he intends to accept the findings in the report.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	214630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office will formally respond to the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act, following submission of its final report and recommendations to the Home Secretary by the end of March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 12:11:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1051367

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Exploitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of being unable to access public funds on the ability to leave exploitative employment of workers under the (a) seasonal agricultural workers scheme pilot and (b) proposed 12-month short-term work visa scheme.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	214632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Seasonal Workers pilot will use scheme operators to ensure that migrant workers are matched with suitable UK employers.</p><p>The short-term work visa proposals set out in the recent White Paper are consistent with our approach to our existing mobility arrangements, which do not permit access to public funds.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 16:56:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1051369

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to Question 193518 of 20 November 2018 tabled by the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	214599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The response for UIN 193518 was given on the 4th March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/03/2019 17:26:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1051372

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the consultation on his 19 December 2018 White Paper entitled The UK’s future skills-based immigration system will include the two proposed short-term work visas described in chapter 6 of that paper; and when that consultation will (a) begin and (b) conclude.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	214634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government published its White Paper “The UK’s future skills-based immigration system” (Cm 9722) on 19 December 2018. The Home Office is launching a 12-month engagement process to enable businesses and other stakeholders to shape the final details of policy and processes contained within the White Paper.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 16:54:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1051379

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the scale of child sexual abuse images online.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	214554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>We have already made significant progress in combating online child sex abuse and exploitation, but it’s clear that we have much, much more to do.</p><p>The WePROTECT Global Alliance Global Threat Assessment 2018 highlighted that the scale, complexity and danger of the online child sexual abuse threat has increased over the past three years. This has been facilitated through the ubiquity of mobile devices, anonymous access and encryption.</p><p>In 2017, 82,109 individual industry referrals were received by the National Crime Agency (NCA), from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a 700% increase since 2013.</p><p>The Government has invested £7.5m in a ground-breaking Centre of Expertise to identify, generate, and share high-quality evidence of what works to prevent and tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation.</p><p>The Centre published a revised assessment of the scale and nature of child sexual abuse in August 2018, which highlighted that online is a new context for child sexual abuse and exploitation and is generating new forms of abuse which are difficult to track accurately. Measuring the scale of abuse in the UK will be an ongoing priority for the Centre.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 14:19:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1051381

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department plans to take to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material online.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	214555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse has been declared a national threat, and the Govern-ment is investing millions of pounds to enable officers to actively seek out and bring offenders to justice.</p><p>We have announced a £40m package of measures to protect children and young people from sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking, and to crack down on offenders. This includes a significant increase in resources to the National Crime Agency, leading to a near doubling of the CEOP Command's investigative capability.</p><p>In the Home Secretary’s speech on online child sexual abuse at the NSPCC on 3 September, he announced that the Home Office will be investing an extra £21 million over the following 18 months to bolster the response of our law enforcement agencies to these types of crimes.</p><p>This money will be used to improve how our agencies reduce the volume of offending and pursue the most dangerous and prolific offenders.</p><p>He also announced a further £2.6 million to collaborate with child protection organisations to improve our understanding of offender behaviour and prevent future offending. This includes support to the Lucy Faithfull Foundation which aims to change the behaviour of offenders and potential offenders by highlighting the harm and suffering that takes place behind every image.</p><p>We have also made £250,000 available to support new ideas on how to de-tect and disrupt the live-streaming of abuse.</p><p>Furthermore, in November the Home Secretary co-hosted the Microsoft-led Hackathon in America, where he met with leading industry stakeholders to identify robust ways to tackle and prevent child sexual abuse on the internet. A prototype tool was developed at the Hackathon that can be used to automatically flag potential conversations taking place between online groomers and children, which will be licensed free of charge to technology companies worldwide.</p><p>We have already committed to legislate and will set out our plans in the forthcoming Online Harms White Paper. The White Paper will set out new laws to tackle the full range of online harms and set clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 12:14:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1051382

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet Watch Foundation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Internet Watch Foundation in removing child sexual abuse material from the internet in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	214556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has had significant success in reducing the amount of child sexual abuse material hosted in the UK. Since 2014, the IWF has proactively searched for and removed illegal imagery of children. As a result of IWF’s work to flag material to companies for removal, its most recent annual report (for 2017) states that less than 1% of child sexual abuse imagery continues to be hosted in the UK, down from 18% in 1996 when IWF was first set up.</p><p>IWF’s latest statistics, published in January, show that more than 100,000 webpages showing the sexual abuse and sexual torture of children have been removed from the internet thanks to the IWF in 2018 – up by one third on the year before. In 2018, 4 out of 10 of the webpages the IWF actioned for removal displayed the sexual abuse of children aged 10 years old and younger, with infants and babies featuring more than 1,300 times.</p><p>The IWF has been at the centre of work providing industry with hashes — digital fingerprints - of known abuse images which originate from UK law enforcement's Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). So far, thousands of hashes have been shared leading to webpages containing child sexual abuse imagery being blocked or removed.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2019 12:16:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1051401

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	101 Calls: Derbyshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the 101 service response times were for Derbyshire in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Erewash
tabling member printed	Maggie Throup
uin	214594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information. The handling of 101 calls, including response times and performance targets, is an operational matter for the police.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/02/2019 12:07:16 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup

1051404

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications have been made to the EU settlement scheme (a) in total and (b) on each date on which it has been open to applications.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	214608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>EU citizens make a huge contribution to our economy and society, and we want them to stay. The EU Settlement Scheme enables them to do so. They will only need to complete three key steps - prove their identity, show that that they live in the UK, and declare any criminal convictions.</p><p>The EU Settlement Scheme opened on a trial basis at the end of August and the second phase of live testing ended on 21 December. In light of the posi-tive progress, we commenced the wider public implementation of the scheme on 21 January. This will allow us to further test and develop the scheme, which will be fully open by 30 March.</p><p>Over the two private beta test phases, over 30,000 applications have been received and the majority of those individuals have already been successfully processed through the scheme and granted status under it. A smaller propor-tion of cases were held pending further evidence of residence to be submitted from the applicant. Caseworkers are working directly with applicants on these cases.</p><p>We have published two separate reports on the both private beta phases and we have committed to provide further details in due course of the planned phased implementation of the scheme. We will continue to update Parliament as part of that process. Please see the private beta reports here:<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752872/181031_PB1_Report_Final.pdf." target="_blank"> https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752872/181031_PB1_Report_Final.pdf.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-private-beta-2/eu-settlement-scheme-private-beta-testing-phase-2-report." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-private-beta-2/eu-settlement-scheme-private-beta-testing-phase-2-report. </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 214609 214610 214611 214612 question first answered 06/02/2019 17:00:21 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day