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registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Natural Gas: Cameroon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether provision was made in the July 2018 agreement on natural gas with the Cameroon Government for the allocation of revenues from that deal to improve the lives of Cameroon's poorest people.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	188041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The deal concluded in June 2018 is a commercial agreement between New Age and the Government of Cameroon to develop the Etinde offshore bloc along the Atlantic coast of Cameroon. The Department for International Trade is responsible for supporting British businesses around the world and promoting trade ties with country partners. New Age is one of the companies we support in Cameroon.</p><p>Although a commercial opportunity, development of Etinde has the potential to help the poorest in Cameroonian society; creating jobs, improving local skills, generating wealth and contributing towards community development.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 19/11/2018 14:42:25 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1001934

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government was informed about allegations of violations of electoral law against (a) Vote Leave and BeLeave and (b) Leave.EU by (i) the police and (ii) any other public service.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	187981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Any allegations of violations of electoral law are for the independent Electoral Commission to investigate. The Electoral Commission has published reports on its investigations into Vote Leave, BeLeave and Leave.EU, and transferred those cases to other organisations independent of government to investigate. As a matter of principle the Government does not comment on live law enforcement investigations.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 19/11/2018 14:31:40 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

999492

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the legal basis is under which local authorities may establish drug consumption rooms.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	187139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>There is no legal framework for the provision of drug consumption rooms in the UK and we have no plans to introduce them. For drug consumption rooms to operate it means allowing dealers to sell the most harmful drugs to users in our neighbourhoods. We are not prepared to sanction or condone activity that promotes the illcit drugs trade and the harms that illicit trade causes to individuals and communities.</p><p>A range of offences are likely to be committed in the operation of drug consumption rooms. It is for local police forces to enforce the law in such circumstances and, as with other offences of this type, we would expect them to do so</p><p>The UK's approach on drugs remains clear - we must prevent drug use in our communities and support people dependent on drugs through treatment and recovery.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/03/2019 18:22:17 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

999139

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers in (a) the Metropolitan Police and (b) other police forces are in teams working solely on preparing for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	186385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Decisions on the use and deployment of resources are independent matters for individual Chief Constables. The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/12/2018 16:39:14 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

999333

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fireworks: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals after the UK has left the EU on graphic warnings on firework packaging on the health dangers from the misuse of pyrotechnics.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	186165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government promotes the safe and responsible use of fireworks by consumers and there is strict legislation in place which regulates their supply and use. The Government is currently working with a range of stakeholders to raise consumer awareness on firework safety.</p><p> </p><p>Under current UK legislation, there are clear requirements on manufacturers to categorise and label fireworks according to their explosive content, safety distances, noise level, or similar. The label must include instructions on safety distances and means of ignition and safety messages.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/11/2018 15:38:21 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

997857

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support his Department provides to children below the minimum age of criminal responsibility who (a) are or (b) have been involved in county lines activity.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	185474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>We do not provide specific support services to children under 10 involved in county lines activity. However the Government provides a range of support for county lines victims including: funding Young People’s Advocates in Birmingham, Manchester and London; funding through the Trusted Relationships fund of £13 million over two years to help foster relationships between frontline professionals and young people at risk of exploitation including county lines; publication of guidance for frontline professionals on how to identify potential victims of county lines and the appropriate referral routes; £17.7 million over two years through the Early Intervention Youth Fund to help deliver services to support and prevent young people from getting involved in crime, including county lines. The funds are not restricted by the age of criminal responsibility.</p><p>Criminally exploited children who have also been trafficked are identified and supported through the National Referral Mechanism, which can include support from Independent Child Trafficking Advocates which we have committed to rolling out nationally.</p><p>The Department for Education has also just announced £2 million for a new national response unit that will be established to help local authorities support vulnerable children at risk of exploitation.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/03/2019 16:35:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

997369

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, whether he has made an assessment of (a) the ability of victims of human trafficking to pay the fee required under the private beta testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme and (b) the potential merits of waiving the fee for those people.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	185058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The EU Settlement Scheme provides a streamlined, user-friendly, digital application system, with multiple service options to meet the needs of a varied customer base, including additional support for the vulnerable.</p><p>As outlined in the Immigration Rules for the next private beta testing phase, a child being looked after (within the meaning of section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) by, or a person who was such a child and is eligible for support or assistance under the Children Act 1989 (or under regulations made under that Act) from one of the named local authorities can apply. Additionally, a vulnerable person receiving support from one of the named civil society organisations will be eligible to make an application. These include more than one organisation which works with victims of trafficking.</p><p>I am content that our approach to fees is reasonable, proportionate and fair to all EU citizens. However, I will keep the approach on fees under review. More broadly, we are also considering how the EU Settlement Scheme can take into account the specific circumstances of victims of modern slavery and how to support the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) service providers to link victims up with the Scheme while they are in NRM support.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 185056 185057 question first answered 20/11/2018 13:12:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

991256

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
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 cost of cybercrime to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	181654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Although estimates of the cost of cyber crime vary considerably, there are millions of individual victims, many thousands of corporate victims and correspondingly substantial losses. Therefore, whilst there is no robust estimate of the total cost of cyber crime to the UK economy it is likely to be billions.</p><p>The Economic and Social Costs of Crime report (Home Office, 2018) estimated a cost of £1.1bn from computer misuse incidents against individuals in the financial year 2015/16. However, it should be noted that this estimate is based upon experimental statistics and should be considered as a partial estimate as it excludes some key costs, such as the costs to businesses.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/11/2018 17:21:58 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

994650

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Convictions: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders convicted in Wales had (a) zero, (b) one to six, (c) seven to 14 and (d) 15 or more previous criminal convictions or cautions in each year from 2013 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	183984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the tables below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Table 1: Number of offenders convicted of an indictable offence<sup>1</sup> who had a previous conviction or caution<sup>2,3</sup>, 2013 to 2017, Wales<sup>4</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Offenders</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>17,267</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>16,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>15,863</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>13,780</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>12,476</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Source:</strong> Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer (PNC)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes</strong>:</p><p>1) Indictable offences include triable either way offences</p><p>2) Number of offenders who, at the time of their conviction, had been cautioned or convicted of any offence on a previous occasion</p><p>3) Figures may exclude those who have a previous criminal history other than convictions or cautions recorded on the PNC (e.g. penalty notices for disorder, non-recordable offences not on the PNC)</p><p>4) Cases prosecuted by a police force in the Wales region (Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales, South Wales)</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table 2: Number of offenders convicted by number of previous convictions or cautions<sup>1,2</sup>, 2013 to 2017, Wales<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Number of previous convictions or cautions</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3,634</p></td><td><p>3,644</p></td><td><p>4,026</p></td><td><p>3,883</p></td><td><p>3,873</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 to 6</p></td><td><p>11,839</p></td><td><p>11,247</p></td><td><p>11,288</p></td><td><p>10,149</p></td><td><p>9,015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7 to 14</p></td><td><p>6,826</p></td><td><p>6,248</p></td><td><p>6,259</p></td><td><p>5,794</p></td><td><p>5,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 or more</p></td><td><p>10,037</p></td><td><p>9,837</p></td><td><p>9,533</p></td><td><p>8,792</p></td><td><p>8,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>32,336</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30,976</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31,106</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>28,618</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>26,304</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Source:</strong> Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer (PNC)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes: </strong></p><p>1) The number of previous occasions on which the offender has been cautioned or convicted, at the time of the current conviction.</p><p>2) Figures exclude convictions or cautions not on the PNC (e.g. for non-recordable offences)</p><p>3) Cases prosecuted by a police force in the Wales region (Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales, South Wales)</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 183983 question first answered 19/11/2018 18:38:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 82800 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

994000

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding each police authority in England received (a) in (i) revenue support grant and (ii) redistributed business rates and (b) through the council tax policing precept in 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	183350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Information on revenue grant support, redistributed business rates and council tax policing precept for 2009-10 was published by the Department for Communities and Local Government (now Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) and is available at the link below.</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120919221338/http:/www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/counciltax200910" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120919221338/http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/counciltax200910</a></p><p>Table 6 breaks down council tax precept income for English police forces.</p><p>Table 8 includes a breakdown of revenue grant support and redistributed business rates by force area.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 20/11/2018 17:37:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell