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1699947

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date	12/04/2024
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
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 13 March 2024 to Question 17274 on Offences against Children, on what evidential basis the National Crime Agency has stated that the number of child sex offenders in the UK is between 550,000 and 800,000.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	20851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency publishes an overview of the Child Sexual Abuse threat annually as part of the National Strategic Assessment. This includes an estimate of the number of UK based adult offenders who pose varying degrees of risk to children. An explanation of the CSA Scale Methodology has been <a href="https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/images/campaign/CSA_Scale_Methodology_2023.pdf" target="_blank">published as an Annex</a> to the National Strategic Assessment.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 17/04/2024 14:20:33 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1694270

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of the number of serious child abuse offences committed in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	17274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The term child abuse covers a broad range of offences including, but not limited to, sexual offences, violence against the person and cruelty and neglect. It is not possible to identify all child abuse offences recorded in official data.</p><p>In January 2020, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published experimental analysis which looked at a range of indicators from different data sources to enable understanding of child abuse. This report can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/childabuseinenglandandwales/january2020" target="_blank">Child abuse in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>As the Home Secretary stated in his written statement of 10 January 2024, we are working with the ONS to explore whether a new survey could more effectively measure the current scale and nature of child abuse and neglect, including child sexual abuse. The ONS is currently developing the questionnaire and safeguarding procedures for the proposed survey, which will then be piloted.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 13/03/2024 17:53:11 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1670280

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugee integration loans were made in each of the last 5 years for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	2060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the data requested in a reportable format and it would require a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 2061 question first answered 20/11/2023 13:27:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1670282

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of refugee integration loans have been repaid in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	2061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the data requested in a reportable format and it would require a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 2060 question first answered 20/11/2023 13:27:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1668361

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of refugee integration (a) loans and (b) repayments made since January 2007 is.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Refugee Integration Loans were introduced in 2007 following a public consultation and is intended to help people with the costs of integrating into UK society. They are funded by the Home Office who make the initial decisions on applications. They are then administered and recouped by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).</p><p>Refugee integration loans are interest-free loans with favourable repayment terms for individuals who are over 18 and meet the following eligibility criteria:</p><ul><li>a refugee</li><li>you have humanitarian protection</li><li>a dependant of a refugee or someone with humanitarian protection</li></ul><p> </p><p>Individuals are currently able to borrow between £100 and £500. Between £100 to £780 can be borrowed if submitting a joint application with a partner.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data for the value of refugee integration repayments made since January 2007 in a reportable format and it would require a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/11/2023 17:00:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope