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1011646

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 175908, how many staff the Crown Prosecution Service employed (a) in each region and (b) at CPS Direct as at (i) 30 September 2018 and (ii) 30 September 2008.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	194049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>As of 30 September 2018, the CPS employed a total of 5,936 staff across its Area/Regional and HQ functions. A breakdown is provided in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS Headquarters</p></td><td><p>502</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Casework Divisions</p></td><td><p>706</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS Direct</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cymru Wales</p></td><td><p>275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>318</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London North</p></td><td><p>456</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London South</p></td><td><p>476</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mersey Cheshire</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>259</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>251</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames &amp; Chiltern</p></td><td><p>271</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wessex</p></td><td><p>217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humberside</p></td><td><p>426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5936</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>As of 30 September 2008, the CPS employed a total of 8,768 staff across its Area/Regional and HQ functions. A breakdown is provided in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS Headquarters</p></td><td><p>587</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Casework</p></td><td><p>233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS Direct</p></td><td><p>158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>596</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastern</p></td><td><p>432</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>498</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire &amp; Cumbria</p></td><td><p>331</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>1367</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside &amp; Cheshire</p></td><td><p>385</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North &amp; West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>462</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>444</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire &amp; Humberside</p></td><td><p>311</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames &amp; Chiltern</p></td><td><p>422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cymru Wales</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wessex</p></td><td><p>392</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,768</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(Data Source Trent HR Database as at 22/11/2018)</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 26/11/2018 11:39:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1011647

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 175908, during the same period what the change has been in the overall case load for the Crown Prosecution Service.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	194050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the volumes of completed prosecutions, or caseload, as a count of the number of defendants. The table below shows the number of prosecutions for both the 12 months ending September 2008 and September 2018 and the change in both volume and percent.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Year Ending September 2008 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Year Ending September 2018 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume Change </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Change % </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>CPS Prosecution Caseload </strong></p></td><td><p>1,051,047</p></td><td><p>511,090</p></td><td><p>-539,957</p></td><td><p>-51.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(Data Source: Case Management Information System)</p><p> </p><p>The types of cases prosecuted by the CPS have changed significantly in the period between 2008 and 2018. Prosecutions for more serious and complex cases have risen, including a 5% increase in homicide, a 17% increase in fraud and forgery and a 28% increase in sexual offences cases. During the same period, minor motoring cases have fallen by 74% as responsibility for prosecuting some of these cases has transferred to the police.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 26/11/2018 11:45:47 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1011648

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Bowel Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 October 2018 to Question 175904 on colorectal cancer, whether NHS England has a timeframe for lowering the screening age to 50.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	194051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is currently prioritising the introduction of the faecal immunochemical test at 120μg/g to the current eligible cohort, and plans for lowering the age eligibility will be confirmed as part of the National Health Service long term plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/11/2018 17:48:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1011649

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Telecommunications: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2018 to Question 178225 on Nuisance calls, what steps the Government is taking to reduce levels of vishing.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	194052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office holds responsibility for the Joint Fraud Taskforce, while DCMS is responsible for policy on tackling nuisance calls.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Joint Fraud Taskforce is working with industry to tackle Card Not Present Fraud, including fraudulent purchases made over the telephone. Since September 2016 the Government has been running the Take Five fraud awareness campaign designed to urge the public and businesses to take time to consider whether a situation they find themselves in is genuine. Specific advice on phone scams and vishing can be found at www.takefive-stopfraud.org.uk</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are existing measures that make it mandatory for all direct marketing firms to display their calling line identification - making it easier for people to identify direct marketing calls, and choose whether to accept them. In addition, Government has recently legislated in the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 to further restrict direct marketing by placing a ban on cold calls offering to settle personal injury or payment protection insurance claims if the claimant has not chosen to ‘opt-in’.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/11/2018 16:09:30 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1011650

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procedures were in place prior to the 2016 Fatal Accident Act coming into force to brief military personnel and their families on the lack of a mandatory requirement for a Fatal Accident Inquiry in Scotland for military deaths.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	194225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>It has not been possible to establish what, if anything, military personnel and their families may have been told regarding the differences between the English and Scottish legal systems in the event of a death prior to the introduction of the Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016. We can advise that such information is not included in briefing for military personnel and their families should they have been deployed to Scotland post 2016.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 28/11/2018 15:44:49 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1011651

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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: Social Media
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 effectiveness of social media platforms approaches to tackling grooming and online sexual abuse.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	194110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>In September, the Home Secretary made a speech setting out clear asks of industry, including stopping online child grooming and he made it clear that industry needed to do much more to respond to this evolving threat.</p><p>We are already working with social media companies so we can protect users and change user behaviour online. While several of the tech giants have taken important and positive steps to make their platforms safer, the performance of internet companies overall has been very mixed.</p><p>Earlier this month, the Home Secretary co-hosted the Microsoft led Hackathon in America, where he met with leading industry stakeholders to identify robust ways to tackle and prevent child sexual abuse on the internet. It was a well attended and positive event which saw all areas of the technological industries coming together in cooperation with Government in seeking to build and implement tools to take charge against this threat. A prototype tool was developed at the Hackathon that can be used to automatically flag potential conversations taking place between child groomers and children, which will be licensed free of charge to smaller and medium-sized technology companies worldwide.</p><p>We have already committed to legislate and will set out our plans in the forthcoming Online Harms White Paper. How far we legislate will be informed by the industry response.This winter we will publish a White Paper, setting out new laws to tackle the full range of online harms and set clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe. Until now, the Government has primarily encouraged internet companies to take action on a voluntary basis. There has been considerable progress through this approach, however, it has been slower in some areas than oth-ers and there is more to do. This is why we are now considering options around statutory intervention.</p><p>The Government has heard stakeholder calls for an Internet Regulator and we must carefully consider all the options to address existing and emerging issues relating to online safety, including what legislation will be necessary and whether a regulator is needed.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 194111 question first answered 29/11/2018 17:07:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

1011652

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of imposing a regulatory requirement on social media platforms to invest in preventative measures to identify online grooming on social networking sites.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	194111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>In September, the Home Secretary made a speech setting out clear asks of industry, including stopping online child grooming and he made it clear that industry needed to do much more to respond to this evolving threat.</p><p>We are already working with social media companies so we can protect users and change user behaviour online. While several of the tech giants have taken important and positive steps to make their platforms safer, the performance of internet companies overall has been very mixed.</p><p>Earlier this month, the Home Secretary co-hosted the Microsoft led Hackathon in America, where he met with leading industry stakeholders to identify robust ways to tackle and prevent child sexual abuse on the internet. It was a well attended and positive event which saw all areas of the technological industries coming together in cooperation with Government in seeking to build and implement tools to take charge against this threat. A prototype tool was developed at the Hackathon that can be used to automatically flag potential conversations taking place between child groomers and children, which will be licensed free of charge to smaller and medium-sized technology companies worldwide.</p><p>We have already committed to legislate and will set out our plans in the forthcoming Online Harms White Paper. How far we legislate will be informed by the industry response.This winter we will publish a White Paper, setting out new laws to tackle the full range of online harms and set clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe. Until now, the Government has primarily encouraged internet companies to take action on a voluntary basis. There has been considerable progress through this approach, however, it has been slower in some areas than oth-ers and there is more to do. This is why we are now considering options around statutory intervention.</p><p>The Government has heard stakeholder calls for an Internet Regulator and we must carefully consider all the options to address existing and emerging issues relating to online safety, including what legislation will be necessary and whether a regulator is needed.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 194110 question first answered 29/11/2018 17:07:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

1011653

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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 steps he is taking to ensure that children are safe from online grooming.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	194112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>We have prioritised child sexual abuse as a national threat and are helping the police to respond to the changing demand with a £460 million increase in overall funding in 2018/19. This will help transform the law enforcement response and empower police forces to apply their best skills and expertise to tackle the problem. In September, the Home Secretary announced an additional £21 million increase over the next 18 months for law enforcement and the intelligence agencies which includes further funding of the Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs) to target online grooming of children.</p><p>The Government has also significantly increased resources to the National Crime Agency (NCA) leading to a near doubling of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP)investigative capability, and the Joint Operations Team, a collaborative venture between the NCA and GCHQ launched in 2015, which is targeting the most sophisticated online offenders. <br> <br>The Home Secretary has made a call to industry to raise their response to the horrifying scale of online child sexual abuse; and made clear there would be no ‘no-go areas’ of inquiry into the offline grooming, abuse and exploitation of children.</p><p>In November, engineers from some of the world’s biggest tech firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Twitter, worked for 2 days at a Hackathon in the United States co-hosted by the Home Secretary and Microsoft, which tasked industry experts to come up with tools to identify online child grooming. A prototype tool has been developed that can be used to automatically flag potential conversations taking place between child groomers and children which will be licensed free of charge to smaller and medium-sized technology companies worldwide.</p><p>Collaborative working between Police forces and the NCA is resulting in around 400 arrests each month for online CSEA offences, and the safe-guarding of around 500 children each month.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/11/2018 16:53:24 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

1011654

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Maritime Patrol Aircraft: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft his Department plans to procure.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	194113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answers given on 4 September 2017 to Question 6994 to the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr David) and on 28 November 2017 to Question 116180 to the hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire (Mr Docherty-Hughes).</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew attachment 1 file name 20170907_6994_Maritime_Patrol_Aircraft.docx title 6994 - Maritime Patrol Aircraft 2 file name 20171205_116180_Maritime_Patrol_Aircraft.docx title 116180 - Maritime Patrol Aircraft question first answered 26/11/2018 16:18:54 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1011655

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Neurology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to whom the February 2018 Public Health England research and analysis on deaths associated with neurological conditions was circulated; how many NHS local commissioners have in response to the report stated that their area requires attention; and what steps he is taking to (a) support those who have responded and (b) encourage others to respond and tackle that issue.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	194114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England’s (PHE) Deaths Associated with Neurological Conditions report was targeted at those responsible for the provision of services for people with neurological conditions or end of life care. PHE disseminated the report to Directors of Public Health and Health and Wellbeing Boards, and promoted the report through the Department, NHS England, Neurological Alliance, Association of British Neurologists, Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Action (SUDEP) Action, and Epilepsy Action.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to report how many National Health Social commissioners have raised neurology mortality as an area requiring attention in response to this report; however there are mechanisms for local areas to identify neurology as a priority area for development. In the NHS RightCare improvement cycle 2016/17, 62 of 205 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) submitted neurology as a priority area for improvement. In 2018/19, 37 of 195 CCGs submitted delivery plans that include neurological problems as improvement projects. NHS England and PHE work with patient organisations such as the Neurological Alliance to raise awareness and support improvement in outcomes for people living with neurological conditions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 194115 question first answered 29/11/2018 16:24:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot