Asked by: Amanda Solloway (Conservative - Derby North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to locate missing refugee children in the UK.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The government takes the issue of missing children extremely seriously and has published a cross government strategy on missing children and vulnerable adults.
Migrant children over the age of 5, including asylum seeking children have their biometrics captured by the Home Office. If a child goes missing, the local police and UK Missing Persons Bureau will be notified and the child’s details will be circulated on the Police National Computer.
Home Office guidance requires staff to maintain contact with the local authority and the police until the child is found.
Asked by: Amanda Solloway (Conservative - Derby North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will take steps to tackle the abuse of anabolic steroids for image and performance enhancing purposes; and if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make the recreational use of such drugs illegal.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Information and advice about anabolic steroids, including the health risks associated with using anabolic steroids, is provided by Talk to FRANK and NHS Choices.
In July 2015, Public Health England published advice for local authorities on commissioning services to prevent and treat harms caused by image and performance enhancing drugs (http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/providing-effective-services-for-people-who-use-image-and-performance-enhancing-drugs.pdf).
Specified anabolic steroids are controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as class C drugs. The Government has no current plans to review the legislative framework on anabolic steroids to include the possession offence. We are keeping the situation under review working closely with our independent experts, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.