Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the email correspondence of 13 September, 12 October and 14 November 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL13114.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
MPAM/0432042/22 – The Home Office responded to the hon. Member’s correspondence on 14 December 2022.
MPAM/0473111/22 – The Home Office responded to the hon. Member’s correspondence on 15 December 2022.
MPAM/0451942/22 – The Home Office will provide a response shortly.
MPAM/0450452/22 – The Home Office will provide a response shortly.
MPAM/0449501/22 – The Home Office responded to the hon. Member’s correspondence on 14 December 2022.
MPAM/0452824/22 – The Home Office responded to the hon. Member’s correspondence on 14 December 2022.
MPAM/0452561/22 – The Home Office responded to the hon. Member’s correspondence on 14 December 2022.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of trends in the level of violence against women and girls in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Violence Against Women and Girls crimes are often hidden and can go unreported to the police.
This means that police recorded crime data do not provide a reliable measure of trends in levels of Violence Against Women and Girls. Recently, levels of reporting have gone up. This may in part be due to improvements in police recording practices, but also simply because more victims and survivors are coming forward. We want to see these increase so that more victims and survivors can be supported, and so more perpetrators are brought to justice.
The Crime Survey for England and Wales provides a more reliable measure of prevalence and covers crimes that may not have been reported to the police. In the year to March 2022,
There were no significant change compared with the year ending March 2020, the last period for which data were published.
For domestic abuse, rape and stalking, longer-term trends have also remained relatively stable. Whereas, sexual offences have seen fluctuations with no clear trends.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government took to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls on 25 November.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a government priority. VAWG is unacceptable and preventable.
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Home Secretary visited Refuge – a charity providing specialist services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse. The Home Secretary saw, first-hand, the National Domestic Violence Helpline the Home Office funds, which offers support and advice to victims and survivors of domestic abuse.
I visited Project Foundation at the Hampshire Fire and Police Headquarters to learn more about the methods they are using to disrupt and address abusive behaviour, whilst also protecting victims and survivors from further harm.
In the week leading up to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we launched the VAWG Support and Specialist Services competition for ‘by and for’ services to ensure support is in place for victims and survivors which best serves their needs. This will award up to £8.4 million over two years.
The ‘Enough’ campaign is our national communications campaign to challenge the harmful behaviours that exist within wider society, educate young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensure victims can recognise abuse and receive support. To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, it collaborated with influencers and commercial partners to share pledges in support of the day via social media and public relations activity.
In relation to tackling violence against women and girls internationally, the Foreign Secretary hosted a conference on ‘sexual violence in conflict’. Over 1,000 delegates from over 57 countries came together to reaffirm their commitment to preventing sexual violence in conflict. At the conference, the UK launched a new three-year Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Strategy, announcing further funding of up to £12.5 million to deliver its objectives.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the correspondence sent of 21 September and 24 October 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11420.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 5 December 2022.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the research paper entitled Super- (and hyper-) posters on extremist forums, published in the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism on 30 July 2022, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of that paper's findings; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
The Government draws on a broad range of analysis and evidence to understand the scale and nature of the online terrorism threat and inform our approach to tackling terrorist and extremist exploitation of the internet.
The authors of the report have presented their research to Home Office officials. The findings will help us further increase our understanding of the role of extremist networks in creating permissive and radicalising online environments. Tackling terrorist ideologies and radicalising influences is a core component of HMG’s Prevent strategy.
We are committed to working with domestic and international partners, civil society organisations, tech companies, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and others to review the operation of algorithms and other online features that may drive users towards terrorist and violent extremist content.
We do not believe a Written Ministerial or Oral statement is necessary at this time.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will respond to the correspondence of 27 September, 31 October and 14 November from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11291.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office replied on 2 December 2022.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to correspondence sent by email on 28 September 2022 and again on 26 October 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL13063.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 24 November 2022.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to correspondence sent by email on 20 September 2022 and on 24 October 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, case reference DL13266.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office replied on 16 November 2022.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to correspondence sent by email on 7 September 2022 and on 13 October 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, case reference DL11445.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office replied on 16 November 2022.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the correspondence sent by email on 2 September 2022 and again by email on 4 October, from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, with reference DL13091.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office replied on 17 November 2022.