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93078

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) pre-charge decisions, (b) out-of-court disposals, (c) prosecutions and (d) convictions there have been for each offence created by the (i) Terrorism Act 2000, (ii) Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, (iii) Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, (iv) Terrorism Act 2006 and (v) Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to date.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	210500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Data on counter-terrorism arrests, charges and convictions are available in the Home Office statistical release ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes and stops and searches’. This statistical release can be accessed from the Gov.UK website at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/home-office" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/home-office</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 20/10/2014 14:11:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

93083

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
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, how many confiscation orders were imposed by the CPS on individuals convicted of offences related to human trafficking in each of the last five years; what the size of these orders was; and how much has been recovered under such orders.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	210496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to fighting human trafficking. Over £5.5 million has been recovered from those convicted of human trafficking offences in the last five years. Full available details are shown in the following table. <br /><br />A human trafficker may, as an alternative, be charged and prosecuted for a different offence, such as prostitution or money laundering, which could incur a confiscation order. But this would not be recorded as a trafficking offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/10/2014 16:18:51 question first ministerially corrected 03/11/2014 17:22:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name 2014_10 HT PQ Thornberry table.docx title Table 1 - human trafficking previous answer version 24409 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

49339

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with which countries the UK has asset sharing agreements for the purposes of freezing, confiscating and repatriating the proceeds of crime; and how many such agreements have been reached since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	197341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>he UK is party to a number of multilateral international agreements that <br>contain asset recovery and asset sharing provisions. These include the Council <br>of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the <br>Proceeds from Crime, the UN Convention Against Corruption and the UN Convention <br>Against Transnational Organised Crime. The UK does not require a formal <br>international agreement to be able to cooperate with another country in respect <br>of freezing, confiscating and sharing or repatriating the proceeds of crime but <br>does have 37 bilateral mutual legal assistance agreements with other countries <br>including such provisions. These are -</p><p> </p><p>1. Algeria<br>2. Antigua and Barbuda<br>3. Argentina<br>4. Australia<br>5. Bahamas<br>6. Bahrain<br>7. Barbados<br>8. Brazil<br>9. Canada<br>10. Chile<br>11. Colombia<br>12. Ecuador<br>13. Grenada<br>14. Guyana<br>15. Hong Kong SAR<br>16. India<br>17. Ireland<br>18. Italy<br>19. Jordan<br>20. Libya<br>21. Malaysia<br>22. Mexico<br>23. Netherlands<br>24. Nigeria<br>25. Panama<br>26. Paraguay<br>27. Philippines<br>28. Romania<br>29. Saudi Arabia<br>30. Spain<br>31. Sweden<br>32. Thailand<br>33. UAE<br>34. Ukraine<br>35. Uruguay<br>36. USA<br>37. Vietnam</p><p> </p><p>The agreements with Jordan and Malaysia have been concluded since 2010.<br><br>There are a further six bilateral agreements limited to the issue of asset <br>sharing. These are -</p><p> </p><p>1. Canada<br>2. Jersey<br>3. Hong Kong SAR<br>4. Ireland<br>5. Jamaica <br>6. Netherlands<br><br>These were all concluded prior to 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 8358 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

47462

registered interest
date	08/04/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Crown Prosecution Service conviction rate was in cases of homicide involving (a) two, (b) three, (c) four and (d) five or more defendants in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	195840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The requested conviction rates are given in the table. The information is <br>taken from the Home Office Homicide Index. Data for 2013/14 will be published <br>in early 2015.<br><br>The circumstances surrounding a homicide can be complex and it can take time <br>for cases to pass through the criminal justice system. As a result, the <br>conviction rates in the table for recent years will be lower (than for earlier <br>years) but will rise as more of these cases flow through the system and will <br>therefore be higher in future publications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><strong>Table A Conviction rate<sup>2</sup> for offences currently recorded as homicide by number of suspects, 2008/09 to 2012/13</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>England and Wales</strong></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Number of suspects</strong></td><td><strong>2008/09</strong></td><td><strong>2009/10</strong></td><td><strong>2010/11</strong></td><td><strong>2011/12</strong></td><td><strong>2012/13</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><em>Conviction rate (%)</em></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Two</td><td>82</td><td>75</td><td>67</td><td>63</td><td>53</td></tr><tr><td>Three</td><td>82</td><td>80</td><td>52</td><td>73</td><td>56</td></tr><tr><td>Four</td><td>90</td><td>75</td><td>78</td><td>25</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Five or more</td><td>75</td><td>80</td><td>67</td><td>56</td><td>50</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Source: Home Office Homicide Index</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">1. As at 8 November 2013; The circumstances surrounding a homicide can be complex and it can take time for cases to pass through the criminal justice system. As a result the figures for convicted suspects will increase as the cases pass through the criminal justice system.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">2. Conviction rate is the proportion of homicide offences that resulted in a conviction for at least one of the suspects.</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

47300

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2014, Official Report, columns 615-6W, on proceeds of crime, whether the requests for repatriation of assets arose from charges against public officials suspected of corruption offences or wider criminal charges.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	195600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>It is the usual policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence, content or status of any individual requests to repatriate assets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

47301

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2014, Official Report, columns 615-6W, on proceeds of crime, how many requests from juristictions overseas to repatriate frozen assets the Government has received; and which jurisdications made those requests.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	195601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>It is the usual policy to neither to confirm nor deny the existence, content or status of any individual requests to repatriate assets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

44942

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assets of criminal origin have been repatriated from the UK to jurisdictions overseas in each year since 2008-09.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	193656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Serious and Organised Crime Strategy sets out how the Government intends to <br>improve the tackling of criminal finances both in the UK and overseas. This <br>includes developing asset sharing agreements with other countries in order to <br>improve international co-operation on asset recovery. Although no assets have <br>been repatriated to another country since 2008-09, there are a number of ongoing <br>investigations, particularly as part of the Arab Spring Asset Recovery <br>Taskforce, about which it is not possible to comment further at this stage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry