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1041344

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
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: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of fires in (a) publicly and (b) privately owned high rise residential blocks in each of the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	208350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office do not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 17/01/2019 17:39:12 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

1041262

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
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 risks of smart home and internet-connected devices being used to enable domestic violence.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	208306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Last year we launched a public consultation on the Government response to domestic abuse in which we asked about the risk of technology being used to perpetrate abuse.</p><p>We will be publishing a response to the consultation and draft Domestic Abuse Bill soon.</p><p>The Government will also shortly publish a white paper detailing how we will tackle online harms, including domestic abuse.</p><p>We have also provided Refuge with £250,000 of funding through the Tampon Tax to provide specialist nationwide support to staff and survivors who experience technologically facilitated abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 208307 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:26:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1041263

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to prevent the misuse of smart home and internet-connected devices to enable domestic violence.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	208307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Last year we launched a public consultation on the Government response to domestic abuse in which we asked about the risk of technology being used to perpetrate abuse.</p><p>We will be publishing a response to the consultation and draft Domestic Abuse Bill soon.</p><p>The Government will also shortly publish a white paper detailing how we will tackle online harms, including domestic abuse.</p><p>We have also provided Refuge with £250,000 of funding through the Tampon Tax to provide specialist nationwide support to staff and survivors who experience technologically facilitated abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 208306 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:26:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1041272

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Forensic Science
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 announcement entitled, National operation to retest manipulated forensic samples continues, published by the National Police Chiefs' Council in December 2018, for which company does the independent expert employed to analyse the retest results work.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	208314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is not responsible for the independent expert, who is employed by the National Police Chief’s Council to conduct the retesting work.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 17/01/2019 17:40:04 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1041314

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it remains his Department's policy to consider an asylum-seeker's claim for asylum less favourably if that person did not claim asylum in the first safe country they reached; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	208342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has a proud tradition of providing sanctuary to those in need of protection. Where we are responsible for deciding asylum claims we will consider all cases on their individual merits.</p><p>Our domestic legislation and Immigration Rules underline the importance of claiming asylum in the first safe country, which is reflected in section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of claimants etc.,) Act 2004. This clearly states that a failure to take advantage of a reasonable opportunity to claim asylum in a safe country shall be taken into account in assessing the individual’s credibility.</p><p>In light of the recent sharp increase in the number of migrants attempting perilous Channel crossings to the UK in small boats, I have asked my officials to look at what more we can do to deter asylum seekers from travelling to the UK – often dangerously – from other safe countries in the first place.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/01/2019 16:02:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1041315

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
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 is taking to ensure a smooth transition in the transfer of asylum accommodation contracts; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	208242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has designed the new contracts to replace the current COMPASS services to ensure a smooth transition from the old contractual obligations to the new contractual requirements. <br> <br>The timetable allows eight months for mobilisation and transition activities, which is consistent with the timeline for transition to operationalise the current contracts.</p><p>The Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract (AASC) mobilisation transition plans have also built on a number of lessons, including the creation of an appropriately resourced function with suitable experience, expertise and understanding of the new contracts.</p><p>We will be working with local authorities to ensure an effective transition</p><p><br>A Written Ministerial Statement was laid before the House on 8 January 2019 with further details of this contract transition;<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-01-08/HCWS1237/" target="_blank"> https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-01-08/HCWS1237/</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/01/2019 16:10:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1041333

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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 long it is taking on average to process applications made by EU nationals to the pilot EU settled status scheme.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	208223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Applications under the pilot phases of EU Settlement Scheme have been processed very quickly. Some applicants have needed to provide additional information and we have worked with them to ensure they know what information they need to provide. For these cases decisions could take longer as we will rely on the applicant providing that information in order to progress their application.</p><p>Further details will be provided in the second private beta report which will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/01/2019 17:01:28 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1041354

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
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, pursuant to Answer of 10 December 2018 to Question 198924 on Immigration: EU Nationals, which private sector organisations could be involved in the use of the data.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	208354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is the data controller for all data processed within the EU Settlement Scheme, this includes where organisations are contracted to act on behalf of the Home Office as the Home Office.</p><p>The Home Office may share information with other organisations, but only where the information needs to be shared and there is an appropriate legal basis for doing so. Further detail on this is set out in the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System privacy information notice:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship</a>.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/01/2019 17:07:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1041357

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detection Rates
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 he has made of trends in the level of unsolved crime in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	208190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of trends in the level of unsolved crime in the UK or regionally.</p><p>It is the responsibility of Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners to make sure criminal cases are investigated properly. Together with the Crown Prosecution Service they must make sure cases are charged where there is sufficient evidence, and it is in the public interest to do so.</p><p>The Home Office collects outcomes data for police recorded crime. These data are published quarterly. The latest figures, for the year ending June 2018 can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>In the year ending June 2018, there were 4,978,455 crimes recorded by the police. 2,322,169 of these offences were closed with no suspect identified (46.6% of recorded crime).</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 17/01/2019 17:38:15 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1041361

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any changes have been made to the operational roll-out of Operation Gull in Northern Ireland as an Immigration Enforcement intelligence led operation in the past two months.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	208205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>No changes have been made to Operation Gull in the past two months.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/01/2019 16:04:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell