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92653

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Victim Support Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of money spent by her Department on victim support is spent on direct theraupeutic counselling to victims of abuse.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	209995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The department with overall responsibility for victim support is the Ministry of Justice. The Home Office and other departments provide funding for specific services. This is part of the government’s commitment that all victims of abuse have access to the support they require.<br><br>The Government has ring-fenced nearly £40 million of funding up to 2015 for specialist local support services and national helplines. The Home Office contribution is £28 million over the spending review period, and of this £1.72 million is provided per year to part-fund 87 Independent Sexual Violence Advisors, and £150,000 on their training. A further £400,000 per year is spent on funding 13 Young Persons Advocates to provide direct support to young women who have been victims, or are at risk of sexual violence from gangs.<br><br>These roles provide support to victims of abuse, including signposting further specialist support including therapeutic counselling. The proportions allocated to different types of support, and to victims who are now adults and whose abuse occurred in their childhood, is a local decision. The Home Office does not collate figures on this.<br><br>This support is in addition to the funding allocated from the Ministry of Justice Rape Support Fund to rape support centres, Department of Health support to Sexual Assault Referral Centres and Child &amp; Adolescent Mental Health Services, and Department for Education’s support for counselling via their Innovation Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 15/10/2014 16:46:23 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 21948 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

92655

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Victim Support Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spends annually to fund victim support.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	209996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The department with overall responsibility for victim support is the Ministry of Justice. The Home Office and other departments provide funding for specific <br>services. This is part of the government’s commitment that all victims of abuse have access to the support they require.<br><br>The Government has ring-fenced nearly £40 million of funding up to 2015 for specialist local support services and national helplines. The Home Office contribution is £28 million over the spending review period, and of this £1.72 million is provided per year to part-fund 87 Independent Sexual Violence Advisors, and £150,000 on their training. A further £400,000 per year is spent on funding 13 Young Persons Advocates to provide direct support to young women who have been victims, or are at risk of sexual violence from gangs.<br><br>These roles provide support to victims of abuse, including signposting further specialist support including therapeutic counselling. The proportions allocated to different types of support, and to victims who are now adults and whose abuse occurred in their childhood, is a local decision. The Home Office does not collate figures on this.<br><br>This support is in addition to the funding allocated from the Ministry of Justice Rape Support Fund to rape support centres, Department of Health support to Sexual Assault Referral Centres and Child &amp; Adolescent Mental Health Services, and Department for Education’s support for counselling via their Innovation Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 15/10/2014 16:51:11 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 21947 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

92664

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Victim Support Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the money spent by her Department on direct therapeutic counselling of victims of abuse is spent on people now adults and whose abuse occurred in their childhood.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	209997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The department with overall responsibility for victim support is the Ministry of Justice. The Home Office and other departments provide funding for specific services. This is part of the government’s commitment that all victims of abuse have access to the support they require.<br><br>The Government has ring-fenced nearly £40 million of funding up to 2015 for specialist local support services and national helplines. The Home Office contribution is £28 million over the spending review period, and of this £1.72 million is provided per year to part-fund 87 Independent Sexual Violence Advisors, and £150,000 on their training. A further £400,000 per year is spent on funding 13 Young Persons Advocates to provide direct support to young women who have been victims, or are at risk of sexual violence from gangs.<br><br>These roles provide support to victims of abuse, including signposting further specialist support including therapeutic counselling. The proportions allocated to different types of support, and to victims who are now adults and whose abuse occurred in their childhood, is a local decision. The Home Office does not collate figures on this.<br><br>This support is in addition to the funding allocated from the Ministry of Justice Rape Support Fund to rape support centres, Department of Health support to Sexual Assault Referral Centres and Child &amp; Adolescent Mental Health Services, and Department for Education’s support for counselling via their Innovation Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 15/10/2014 16:52:51 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 21946 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

78065

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Billing
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 is of duplicate supplier payments identified by her Department since 2010; and what proportion of such payments have since been recovered in each of the last two financial years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	205974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information requested is shown in the following table:</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The volume and value of duplicate supplier payments identified since the 2010-11 Financial year up to June 2014 is 54 payments for a total value of £2,495,793.63. We have recovered 53 payments totalling £2,494,661.63; the remaining payment was partially recovered and the company went into liquidation with the balance outstanding.<br><br>In the last two financial years the proportion of duplicate payments recovered by value was:<br>2013-14: 100%<br>2012-13: 99.53% (amount outstanding is for a company that went into liquidation after partial payment).<br><br>The volume and value of duplicate payments since 2010 have decreased significantly compared to the financial years prior to 2010-11.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 28/07/2014 13:39:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 205974 Table.xls title Table 205974
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

65731

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Children: Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish (a) all submissions and memos to Ministers and (b) correspondence with other government departments relating to the review by officials of the Geoffrey Dickens dossiers.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	203924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2014 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has appointed Peter Wanless - the Chief Executive of NSPCC, and Richard Whittam QC to undertake a review of the investigation commissioned by the Permanent Secretary in response to allegations raised about the handling of information from Geoffrey Dickens by the Home Office. Terms of reference of this review were placed in the House Library on 7 July and make clear that the review will consider the information that was available to the investigator, as well as any further information they feel is relevant. We expect that they will report in 8 – 10 weeks and will publish this report in full.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 25/07/2014 17:11:04 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

65739

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
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 4 March 2014, Official Report, column 730W, on British nationality, how many orders stripping people of citizenship have been made since 4 March 2014; what the nationality of each person so affected was; and what the grounds of the decision were in each additional case.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	204031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Since March 2014 fewer than five individuals have been deprived of their <br>British citizenship.<br>The grounds for the deprivation orders made during this period were either that:<br>• The Secretary of State was satisfied that such deprivation was conducive to <br>the public good and the person would not be made stateless as a result, or;<br>• the individual obtained their British citizenship by means of fraud, false <br>representation or concealment of material fact.<br><br>Due to the small number of cases involved, revealing the other nationalities of <br>the individuals deprived may make it possible to determine their identity and <br>so this detail will not be released. <br>This information has been provided from local management information and is not <br>a national statistic. As such it should be treated as provisional and therefore <br>subject to change</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 08/07/2014 13:44:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

65028

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 666W, on offences against children: internet, whether the intelligence packets were divided up into police authority areas based on the address of the suspected purchaser; and how many intelligence packages were sent to each police force in the UK.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	203249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I refer the Hon. Member to the reply given on 30 June 2014, Official Report, <br>column 377W.<br>National Crime Agency intelligence packages are disseminated to the most <br>appropriate police force based on information drawn from an investigation. This <br>was the case in Operation RESCUE/CALANDO.<br>The information requested on the number of intelligence packages sent to each <br>police force in the UK is operational and cannot be released because of the <br>possibility that there are related investigations or judicial processes <br>ongoing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 08/07/2014 14:16:50 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

63314

registered interest
date	23/06/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 667W, on offences against children: internet, to which police forces intelligence packages were disseminated; and how many such packages were sent to each such force.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	201832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I refer the Hon Member to the reply given on 19 June 2014, Official Report, columns<br>666-667W. <br><br>The information requested is operational and cannot be released because of the <br>possibility that there are related investigations or judicial processes <br>ongoing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 30/06/2014 10:59:56 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

62335

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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 information her Department holds on how many UK-based registered users of the paedophile file sharing network website boylover.net have been identified by international authorities in (a) the US and (b) Holland; what proportion of those was passed to UK authorities for investigation; what steps her Department is taking to trace those registered users; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	201056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I refer the Hon. Member to the reply given on 19 June 2014, Official Report, columns 666-667W. <br>Following two linked international investigations into the boylover.net <br>website, information was provided to the Child Exploitation and Online <br>Protection Centre (CEOP) by US authorities and Europol that related to UK-based <br>registered users. CEOP was, at that time, an affiliate of the Serious Organised <br>Crime Agency. We do not maintain a record of the number of UK-registered users <br>of the website identified by United States or Dutch authorities, nor of what <br>proportion of those users were passed to CEOP. However, as a consequence of the <br>information provided and through CEOP's own investigations, 240 intelligence <br>packages were prepared and subsequently disseminated to police forces across <br>the UK. Further information regarding charges, convictions and open <br>investigations is handled at a local level by the relevant police force and <br>is not recorded nationally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 02/07/2014 10:56:03 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 4358 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

62085

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
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, how many arrests in the UK have resulted from Operation Rescue; how many charges were brought following those arrests; how many open investigations remain from those identified; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	200938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Operation Rescue was an investigation into a website that promoted the distribution of Indecent Images of Children. From 2007 to 2011, 240 intelligence packages were disseminated by the SOCA affiliated Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP) to Police Forces across the UK. <br><br>At the end of the intelligence dissemination phase of the operation in 2011 CEOP had been notified of 121 arrests; of these 33 individuals were convicted and 7 cautioned. <br><br>Further information regarding charges, convictions and open investigations is handled at a local level by the relevant police force and is not recorded centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 19/06/2014 15:24:41 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest