Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of receipts recovered from Glencore Energy UK Ltd through the asset recovery incentivisation scheme following its conviction for bribery in November 2022 accrued to his Department.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
Glencore Energy UK Ltd were ordered to pay £280,965,092.95. This included a confiscation order of £93,479,338.95, fines totalling £182,935,392, and payment of the SFO’s prosecution costs of £4,550,362.
We cannot comment further on individual cases.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish a response to the consultation entitled Abortion clinic safe access zones: non-statutory guidance, published on 11 December 2023.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
We anticipate commencing Section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023 shortly.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual cap on his Department's receipts from the asset recovery incentivisation scheme has been in each financial year from 2017-18 to 2022-23.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
The Home Office annual cap for the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme is set by HM Treasury. This is reviewed at the time of the Spending Review
Table 1 provides the agreed annual cap for each financial year from 2017/18 to 2022/23
Table 1: Home Office ARIS annual cap set by HM Treasury, financial years 2017/18 to 2022/23
Financial Year | Value of receipts that are above the ARIS cap |
2017/18 | £184m |
2018/19 | £184m |
2019/20 | £184m |
2020/21 | £184m |
2021/22 | £184m |
2022/23 | £184m |
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has accrued to the Exchequer from money recovered by public bodies using powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 through (a) unspent asset recovery incentivisation scheme receipts and (b) receipts above the annual cap on Home Office receipts through the asset recovery incentivisation scheme in each financial year from 2017-18 to 2022-23.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
(A) It is the responsibility of individual agencies participating in the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme to send any unspent funds back to HMT directly, who hold this information.
(B) Table 1 provides the amount of receipts above the ARIS cap for each financial year from 2017/18 to 2022/23. Receipts that surpass the cap are sent from the Home Office to HM Treasury and go into the Consolidated Fund.
Table 1: Receipts above the ARIS cap, financial years 2017/18 to 2022/23
Financial Year | Value of receipts that are above the ARIS cap (1,2) |
2017/18 | £0 |
2018/19 | £0 |
2019/20 | £0 |
2020/21 | £0 |
2021/22 | £62m |
2022/23 | £30m |
Notes
Figures are based on funds remitted to HM Treasury.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the terms of reference for the Defending Democracy Taskforce, how many times the Minister for Security has met the engagement forum for elected representatives.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
There is no single engagement forum for the Defending Democracy Taskforce, which uses a number of channels for engaging elected representatives. As Taskforce Chair I jointly ran, with the Speakers of both Houses, roundtable events for representatives of the main parties in Summer 2023. Follow up roundtables are currently being planned, these take place alongside direct engagement with individual Parliamentarians on specific issues and engagement with local and devolved governments officials.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with which civil society organisations the Defending Democracy Taskforce has held recent discussions.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
The Defending Democracy Taskforce is an enduring government function which seeks to protect the democratic integrity of the UK by reducing the threat of foreign interference.
Meetings of the Taskforce are complemented by private engagement with partners outside central government and Parliament, including civil society, on subjects relevant to the work of the Taskforce. There are no current plans to publish information relating to the stakeholder engagement conducted by the Taskforce.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many LGBT young people aged 16-25 have been victims of a hate crime in the last 12 months.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
The Home Office publishes information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police on an annual basis. This provides information on hate crimes, including sexual orientation and transgender identity hate crimes, but does not include the age of the victim for these strands. Information for 2021/22 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to meet Tony Cox, a constituent of the hon. Member for Exeter.
Answered by Suella Braverman
I have written to Mr Cox providing an update on the response to concerns raised by him and the Hon. Member following the tragic death of his daughter Lorraine. I express my sympathies with Mr Cox, however, it would be inappropriate to meet him until after the conclusion of ongoing matters concerning Devon & Cornwall Police.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from Mr Cox, a constituent of the hon. Member for Exeter, on his request for two meetings.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office responded on 19 December regarding setting up a meeting.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 2 December 2022 from the hon. Member for Exeter that enclosed a personal letter from his constituent Tony Cox.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office responded on 19 December regarding setting up a meeting.