Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen families.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Office has a comprehensive range of policies and measures to strengthen families. These include:Ability to marry and forced marriage prevention policies that directly support healthy couple formation, facilitating civil ceremonies beyond register offices, marriages in accordance with religious beliefs, same sex marriage, data sharing on marriage services, and protection against coercion.
Birth and marriage registration policies that directly support co-parenting, facilitating both parents being able to acknowledge parental responsibility in a range of scenarios, and which allow children to know both their parents.
Birth legislation and policy that supports the inclusion of fathers’ details in all birth registrations, as far as practicable. Immigration family policy that helps avoid family breakdown by allowing non-EEA partners, children, parents and adult dependents to join or remain in the UK with a British citizen or person settled in the UK.
Domestic abuse policy that indirectly helps reduce family breakdown, supporting victims and their families who have suffered abuse, and ensuring perpetrators are dealt with effectively. Until 2020, the Government is providing £100 million of dedicated funding for tackling violence against women and girls, and the number of domestic abuse victims across the country has been steadily falling.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which legislation her Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Office applies the Family Test, if sensible and proportionate, to new policies and legislation that might have an impact on the family, to ensure strong and stable family relationships are supported, not undermined. The Government's guidance on the family test is available on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the protection of the right of freedom of expression for people who are opposed to the practice of abortion.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Secretary announced on 26 November that she has ordered a review into harassment and intimidation near abortion clinics following concerns about the aggressive tactics of some campaigners.
The Review will gather evidence from police forces, healthcare providers, local authorities, from representative groups of the clients and also those engaging in protests and demonstrations.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) charged with, (b) prosecuted for and (c) convicted of attendance at a place for terrorist training under section 8 of the Terrorism Act 2006 in each year since 2006.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Home Office publishes data on the number of persons charged, prosecuted and convicted, following an arrest for a terrorism-related offence, in the quarterly ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation’ statistical release. Data, broken down by the legislation under which an individual is charged/prosecuted/convicted, are available from 11 September 2001, when the data collection began.
The data can be found alongside the release in the accompanying data tables, which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000
Data on charges of those arrested for terrorism-related offences can be found in table A.05a and data on convictions can be found in table A.08a; these data are supplied by the National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre.
Data on prosecutions of persons for terrorism-related offences can be found in table C.02, which contains data provided by the Crown Prosecutions Service Counter Terrorism Division (data available since July 2010).
The data are based on the principal offence rule, whereby when an individual is charged/convicted/prosecuted for more than one offence at a time, only the most serious offence is counted in the data.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) charged with, (b) prosecuted for and (c) convicted of preparing acts of terrorism under section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 in each year since 2006.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Home Office publishes data on the number of persons charged, prosecuted and convicted, following an arrest for a terrorism-related offence, in the quarterly ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation’ statistical release. Data, broken down by the legislation under which an individual is charged/prosecuted/convicted, are available from 11 September 2001, when the data collection began.
The data can be found alongside the release in the accompanying data tables, which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000
Data on charges of those arrested for terrorism-related offences can be found in table A.05a and data on convictions can be found in table A.08a; these data are supplied by the National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre.
Data on prosecutions of persons for terrorism-related offences can be found in table C.02, which contains data provided by the Crown Prosecutions Service Counter Terrorism Division (data available since July 2010).
The data are based on the principal offence rule, whereby when an individual is charged/convicted/prosecuted for more than one offence at a time, only the most serious offence is counted in the data.