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1624188

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	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 the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 143 of that report.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.</p><p>The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.</p><p>As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 182927 182929 182930 182931 182932 question first answered 03/05/2023 14:39:45 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1624187

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	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 the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 142 of that report.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.</p><p>The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.</p><p>As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 182927 182929 182930 182931 182933 question first answered 03/05/2023 14:39:45 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1624186

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	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 the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 141 of that report.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.</p><p>The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.</p><p>As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 182927 182929 182930 182932 182933 question first answered 03/05/2023 14:39:45 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1624184

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	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 the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 139 of that report.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182929
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.</p><p>The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.</p><p>As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 182927 182930 182931 182932 182933 question first answered 03/05/2023 14:39:45 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1624182

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Government has made on its response to the Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.</p><p>The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.</p><p>As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 182929 182930 182931 182932 182933 question first answered 03/05/2023 14:39:45 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1610092

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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 information her Department holds on the ethnic characteristics of offenders of group based child sexual exploitation.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Our understanding of the child sexual abuse threat is based on police data, including recorded crime data, and is informed by independent reviews into offending in local areas and wider research. In 2020 the Government published a paper on the characteristics of group-based child exploitation offenders setting out the best evidence on how they operate, ethnicity, age, offender networks, the context in which these crimes are committed and implications for national and local policy.</p><p>We understand that it is essential for police and local authorities to have a good understanding of offender characteristics and the drivers of child sexual exploitation in their areas, so that they can uncover and tackle offending effectively. We are working closely with the police to drive up data quality and develop a better understanding of perpetrators, including through collecting higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, including their ethnicity.</p><p>Home Office funding provides a dedicated analyst, working on child sexual abuse and exploitation, in each of the ten policing Regional Organised Crime Units based in England and Wales, and through the new Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce, a Complex and Organised Child Abuse Database is being developed. This will strengthen what we know about the scale, risk and prevalence of child sexual exploitation. It will improve the collection of demographic data including ethnicity, age and relationships. Local forces will be able to draw on this information to assess the risk in their areas, and thereby better identify and disrupt grooming gangs.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 24/04/2023 16:21:49 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1582802

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department has made available to prevent abuse of older people in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	137989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>Tackling abuse is a key Government priority. There is ongoing work across government to tackle abuse of older people, including by the Department of Health and Social Care. The Home Office oversees specifically policy related to domestic abuse.</p><p> </p><p>Domestic abuse is deeply harmful, not only because of the profound effect it can have on victims, survivors and their loved ones, but also because of the harm it inflicts on wider society. This Government recognises that, although anyone can suffer from domestic abuse, for older victims, abuse may be more hidden and disguised or compounded by other age-related factors such as ill health.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has funded Hourglass, a specialist elder abuse charity, for a number of years to enhance their helpline, provide casework support, and train specialist Independent Domestic Violence Advisers. For financial years 2018/19 through to 2020/21 we provided Hourglass £50,000 per annum. An additional £106,000 was provided to further bolster their services as part of the response to the Covid-19 crisis, to ensure victims could continue to access support. In 2021-22, the Home Office provided Hourglass over £200,000 to support their work in enhancing their helpline, providing casework support, and training specialist IDVAs, with over 3000 victims being supported in 2021-22 alone. Again in 2022/23 we provided Hourglass £50,000.</p><p>In 2021/22, Hourglass supported over 3,000 cases.</p><p>In relation to future funding, the Domestic Abuse Plan commits to over £140 million for supporting victims of which £47 million will be ringfenced for community-based services to support victims and survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence, including, but not limited to, older victims.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 09/02/2023 11:41:35 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1582804

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the proportion of (a) victims and (b) perpetrators of domestic abuse of people over the age of 65 by police authority.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	137990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office holds information on the number of domestic abuse-related offences by age of victim recorded by 26 police forces in England and Wales. Data on the proportion of these offences that involved a victim aged 65 or over for the financial year 2021/22 for these forces are given in the table.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold routinely collect data on the age of the perpetrator for these offences.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/02/2023 12:27:10 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines attachment 1 file name Table Dodds PQ137990.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1624181

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	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 assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s totality report into Child Sexual Abuse; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>The National Police Chiefs’ Council’s totality report into Child Sexual Abuse is a vital tool for government and police policy makers in understanding the scale and nature of the child sexual abuse threat. It is important that policies to tackle child sexual abuse, in every part of Government and across all agencies - education, health, social care, law enforcement, industry and civil society, are grounded in evidence so that they are effective in tackling this crime and safeguarding children.</p><p> </p><p>To further build our understanding of the threat, Home Office funding provides a dedicated analyst, working on child sexual abuse and exploitation, in each of the ten policing Regional Organised Crime Units based in England and Wales. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary recently announced a new Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce, which will develop a Complex and Organised Child Abuse Database to strengthen what we know about the scale, risk and prevalence of child sexual abuse and exploitation, as well as rolling out the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme to give a clearer picture of organised exploitation. They will work collectively to enable us to build on the totality report analysis and improve local forces’ understanding of risk in their areas, and thereby better identify and disrupt offending and safeguard children.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 03/05/2023 14:41:49 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1610091

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Body Searches: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consequences for her policies of the report Strip search of children in England and Wales – analysis by the Children’s Commissioner for England, published in March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Children’s Commissioners report raises several concerns which the Home Office is taking seriously. We are considering all recommendations made for the Home Office, including amendments to the PACE Codes of Practice.</p><p> </p><p>The IOPC are actively investigating several instances of children being strip-searched. Whilst we await their findings and recommendations, we are reviewing whether existing legislation, guidance, data collection and policies remain appropriate and will set out our plans in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is taking steps to increase the transparency surrounding the use of strip search. This year, we have made the data collection mandatory for all forces, with increased data collection on strip search under stop and search powers, including the age and ethnicity of those searched.</p><p> </p><p>Detailed Police Custody data was published for the first time on 17 November 2022, including figures on the use of strip search in custody, covering age, gender and ethnicity of the person searched, the number of children detained overnight, and the number supported by an Appropriate Adult. We are working with forces and the NPCC to improve data collection in future years.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 180223 question first answered 24/04/2023 16:19:09 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds