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1345292

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the relative safety of the use of (a) waking watch fire patrols and (b) professionally installed fire alarm systems in buildings with unsafe building materials.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	29758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the FSO), the Responsible Person for each building is required to ensure appropriate fire safety measures are in place within their building. If a responsible person uses a waking watch as part of a wider building fire safety strategy to mitigate the risks in a particular building, as informed by a fire risk assessment, it is for them to ensure its adequacy.</p><p>The Government and NFCC make available guidance to support those responsible in complying with the FSO and ensuring their premises remain safe for continued use but does not monitor service providers. The National Fire Chiefs Council has recently revised its Simultaneous Evacuation Guidance which reflects best practice and can be located at <a href="https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance</a>.</p><p>This guidance encourages greater use of more cost-effective measures such as alarm systems to replace or reduce dependency on waking watch wherever possible.</p><p>Local fire and rescue authorities and other enforcers of the FSO can take action where the fire safety measures fall short of compliance.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 29759 29760 29761 question first answered 16/07/2021 10:57:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1345293

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what regulation is in place to oversee companies offering waking watch fire patrols in buildings with unsafe cladding materials.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	29759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the FSO), the Responsible Person for each building is required to ensure appropriate fire safety measures are in place within their building. If a responsible person uses a waking watch as part of a wider building fire safety strategy to mitigate the risks in a particular building, as informed by a fire risk assessment, it is for them to ensure its adequacy.</p><p>The Government and NFCC make available guidance to support those responsible in complying with the FSO and ensuring their premises remain safe for continued use but does not monitor service providers. The National Fire Chiefs Council has recently revised its Simultaneous Evacuation Guidance which reflects best practice and can be located at <a href="https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance</a>.</p><p>This guidance encourages greater use of more cost-effective measures such as alarm systems to replace or reduce dependency on waking watch wherever possible.</p><p>Local fire and rescue authorities and other enforcers of the FSO can take action where the fire safety measures fall short of compliance.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 29758 29760 29761 question first answered 16/07/2021 10:57:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1345294

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on businesses providing waking watch services in buildings with unsafe cladding materials.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	29760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the FSO), the Responsible Person for each building is required to ensure appropriate fire safety measures are in place within their building. If a responsible person uses a waking watch as part of a wider building fire safety strategy to mitigate the risks in a particular building, as informed by a fire risk assessment, it is for them to ensure its adequacy.</p><p>The Government and NFCC make available guidance to support those responsible in complying with the FSO and ensuring their premises remain safe for continued use but does not monitor service providers. The National Fire Chiefs Council has recently revised its Simultaneous Evacuation Guidance which reflects best practice and can be located at <a href="https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance</a>.</p><p>This guidance encourages greater use of more cost-effective measures such as alarm systems to replace or reduce dependency on waking watch wherever possible.</p><p>Local fire and rescue authorities and other enforcers of the FSO can take action where the fire safety measures fall short of compliance.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 29758 29759 29761 question first answered 16/07/2021 10:57:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1345296

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 plans to take to ensure that local authorities have access to a list of approved providers of waking watch fire patrol.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	29761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the FSO), the Responsible Person for each building is required to ensure appropriate fire safety measures are in place within their building. If a responsible person uses a waking watch as part of a wider building fire safety strategy to mitigate the risks in a particular building, as informed by a fire risk assessment, it is for them to ensure its adequacy.</p><p>The Government and NFCC make available guidance to support those responsible in complying with the FSO and ensuring their premises remain safe for continued use but does not monitor service providers. The National Fire Chiefs Council has recently revised its Simultaneous Evacuation Guidance which reflects best practice and can be located at <a href="https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance</a>.</p><p>This guidance encourages greater use of more cost-effective measures such as alarm systems to replace or reduce dependency on waking watch wherever possible.</p><p>Local fire and rescue authorities and other enforcers of the FSO can take action where the fire safety measures fall short of compliance.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 29758 29759 29760 question first answered 16/07/2021 10:57:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1345363

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel: Quarantine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 30 June 2021 to Question 21249, which body holds the data on fixed penalty notices that have been issued for breaches of covid-19 hotel quarantine restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	29828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>Data on the number of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) issued under the COVID-19 regulations by police forces in England and Wales is collected by policing and published by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on a monthly basis and can be found on the NPCC website.</p><p> </p><p>The latest publication from 28<sup>th</sup> June 2021 can be found here:</p><p>(<a href="https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/fefef3f0ea8241018b9bda2d33fa95be.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/fefef3f0ea8241018b9bda2d33fa95be.pdf</a>)</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/07/2021 12:44:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1345424

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to counter ransomware attacks against businesses (1) in the UK, and (2) in other Western countries.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL1858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s priority, working alongside law enforcement and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is to do all we can to mitigate any harm to the UK from ransomware.</p><p>The Home Office provides funding for cyber teams in Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs) across England and Wales, to bolster the regional response to crime, provide protect advice to businesses and individuals, and to divert people vulnerable to cyber criminality.</p><p>The NCSC as the UK’s technical authority for cyber threats, continually reviews its advice and guidance to reflect new trends and how individuals and organisations can protect themselves, as well as providing swift support to organisations which fall victim to ransomware attack.</p><p>The National Crime Agency’s (NCA) National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) provides the focus for our national response to combating serious cyber criminals. It is using its operational resources to deliver arrests and disruption, using the NCA’s enhanced intelligence picture to target criminals where they are most vulnerable.</p><p>The NCSC and NCA continue to monitor and respond to the cyber threat, including ransomware.</p><p>The Government is working collaboratively with our international partners specifically the Five Eyes to address the ransomware threat.</p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 22/07/2021 16:05:03 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1344611

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud: Mobile Phones
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 the increase in the number of sophisticated scam text messages being received and resultant financial losses by the victims of those scams.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	28971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>Fraudsters will use any means they can, including through highly deceptive and sophisticated techniques such as text messaging scams, to trick people into handing over their hard-earned money.</p><p>This Government is committed to protecting people from all types of fraud and pursuing those who perpetuate these crimes wherever possible. It is for this reason as part of the 2020 Spending Review, the Government committed a further £63m to the Home Office to tackle economic crime, including fraud. In May, we published a Statement of Progress on the Economic Crime Plan which committed to developing a comprehensive Fraud Action Plan.</p><p>We are working closely with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) and the telecommunication industry to tackle fraud carried out through texts and calls and close those vulnerabilities criminals too easily exploit. We are also engaging with the banking sector to ensure victims are not left out of pocket through no fault of their own. Certain banks are subject to the Contingent Reimbursement Model; a voluntary code signed up to by some banks, which commit them to reimbursing victims of fraud. More information on this can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk/contingent-reimbursement-model-code/" target="_blank">www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk/contingent-reimbursement-model-code/</a>.</p><p>We continue to encourage the public to forward suspicious text messages to 7726 (which is free of charge) and anyone who has been a targeted by fraud to report it. Action Fraud is the national reporting service for all victims of fraud and cybercrime and can be contacted by phone on 0300 123 2040 or through their website:</p><p><a href="http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_fraud" target="_blank">http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_fraud</a>.</p><p>All of this information is being used by the City of London Police, the National Cyber Security Centre, and the National Crime Agency to identify, disrupt and stop fraudsters.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/07/2021 16:31:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1344285

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
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, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that all children and young people in the care of local authorities, who were eligible to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme and where no application was made, can have their stay regularised.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	28133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>Starting in 2018 the Home Office recommended Local Authorities (LAs) and, in Northern Ireland, Health and Social Care Trusts (HSCT), with existing statutory duties towards looked after children (LAC) and care leavers, conduct a review of their existing cohort of LAC and care leavers to identify those eligible to apply to the EUSS.</p><p>The Home Office have been working closely with LAs and HSCT to monitor their progress in making applications to the EU Settlement Scheme on behalf of their looked after children and care leavers and carried out a survey of local authorities earlier this year.</p><p>This survey indicated, as of 23 April 2021, 3660 looked after children and care leavers had been identified as eligible to apply to EUSS. At that stage applications had already been submitted by or for 2,440 (67 per cent) of those. Further information on the survey is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-home-office-looked-after-children-and-care-leavers-survey-2020" target="_blank">EU Settlement Scheme: looked-after children and care leavers survey 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>In line with the Citizens’ Rights Agreement, there remains scope, indefinitely, for a person eligible for status under the EUSS to make a late application to the scheme where there are reasonable grounds for their failure to meet the deadline applicable to them.  We have now published guidance for caseworkers on reasonable grounds for making a late EUSS application.</p><p>The guidance, which reflects our engagement with stakeholders on this issue, is not exhaustive and all cases will be considered on a flexible and pragmatic basis in light of their particular circumstances. Examples of reasonable grounds will include, but are not limited to:</p><ul><li>where a parent, guardian or local authority has failed to apply on behalf of a child;</li><li>where a person had a serious medical condition, which meant they were unable to apply by the relevant deadline;</li><li>if someone is a victim of modern slavery or is in an abusive or controlling relationship;</li><li>someone who is isolated, vulnerable or did not have the digital skills to access the application process;</li><li>where a person was unable to apply by the relevant deadline for compelling practical or compassionate reasons, including in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.</li></ul><p>You can find the guidance at pages 26-44 of the main EUSS caseworker guidance: see ‘Making an application: deadline’ in ‘EU Settlement Scheme: EU, other EEA and Swiss citizens and their family members’ at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/988540/main-euss-guidance-v12.0-gov-uk.pdf" target="_blank">EU Settlement Scheme: EU, other EEA and Swiss citizens and their family members (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 28130 28132 question first answered 12/07/2021 12:08:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1344293

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Boats
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from which country and which location in that country each boat in the service of Border Force was procured from.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	28091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>Cutters - HMC Seeker, Searcher, Vigilant and Valiant were procured from Holland and HMC Protector was procured from Finland.</p><p>Coastal Patrol Vessels (CPVs) – Active, Alert, Eagle, Nimrod, Hunter and Speedwell were procured in the UK.</p><p>RHIBs – All 5 current RHIBs in service were procured in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/07/2021 15:36:54 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1344303

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Boats
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from which country and location in that country each boat in the service of the police was procured from.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	28098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>We do not hold this information in the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/07/2021 14:41:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones