Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are living in forced marriages in the UK.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The UK is a world-leader in the fight to stamp out forced marriage, with our dedicated Forced Marriage Unit leading efforts to combat it both at home and abroad
The Government has significantly strengthened the law on forced marriage. We have introduced a new forced marriage offence, criminalised the breach of Forced Marriage Protection Orders and introduced anonymity for victims
In November 2018, the Home Secretary launched the Forced Marriage Awareness Campaign, which highlights that forced marriage is a crime and directs victims and concerned parties to contact the Forced Marriage Helpline for support.
The joint Home Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) provides support and advice for victims, those at risk, and professionals, through its public helpline. In 2018, the FMU gave advice or support related to a possible forced marriage in 1,764 cases. Since 2012, the FMU has provided support to between approximately 1,200 and 1,400 cases per year. The Home Office does not hold data on the number of people currently living in forced marriages in the UK. Further information on the FMU’s 2018 statistics can be found at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804044/Forced_Marriage_Unit_Statistics_2018_FINAL.pdf
We recognise that forced marriage can constitute modern slavery, as we examined in the Home Office Typology report, but not in all cases, so we must assess each on a case by case basis. Potential victims can be deceived about the nature of their relationship with the trafficker, not understanding that they would be exploited in the marriage. The exploitation can take place through domestic servitude which occurs alongside domestic abuse and sexual exploitation.
The Home Office Typology Report can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652652/typology-modern-slavery-offences-horr93.pdf
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of recognising forced marriage as a form of modern day slavery.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The UK is a world-leader in the fight to stamp out forced marriage, with our dedicated Forced Marriage Unit leading efforts to combat it both at home and abroad
The Government has significantly strengthened the law on forced marriage. We have introduced a new forced marriage offence, criminalised the breach of Forced Marriage Protection Orders and introduced anonymity for victims
In November 2018, the Home Secretary launched the Forced Marriage Awareness Campaign, which highlights that forced marriage is a crime and directs victims and concerned parties to contact the Forced Marriage Helpline for support.
The joint Home Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) provides support and advice for victims, those at risk, and professionals, through its public helpline. In 2018, the FMU gave advice or support related to a possible forced marriage in 1,764 cases. Since 2012, the FMU has provided support to between approximately 1,200 and 1,400 cases per year. The Home Office does not hold data on the number of people currently living in forced marriages in the UK. Further information on the FMU’s 2018 statistics can be found at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804044/Forced_Marriage_Unit_Statistics_2018_FINAL.pdf
We recognise that forced marriage can constitute modern slavery, as we examined in the Home Office Typology report, but not in all cases, so we must assess each on a case by case basis. Potential victims can be deceived about the nature of their relationship with the trafficker, not understanding that they would be exploited in the marriage. The exploitation can take place through domestic servitude which occurs alongside domestic abuse and sexual exploitation.
The Home Office Typology Report can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652652/typology-modern-slavery-offences-horr93.pdf
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of time dispersal orders used by the police to clear homeless camps in the last year.
Answered by Nick Hurd
We introduced the dispersal power through the Anti-social, Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to enable the police to disperse anti-social individuals for up to 48 hours. The legislation requires the officer authorising use of the power to be satisfied on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to remove or reduce the likelihood of people being harassed, alarmed or distressed or the occurrence of crime or disorder.
Data on how many times the dispersal power has been used is not collated centrally.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2019 to Question 261104 on Extradition: USA, how many UK citizens that have been arrested following extradition requests from the US were extradited to that country in each year since 2014.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The following table provides the information requested:
Year | Arrests | Offences for which those arrests took place | Extraditions to the US (please note these may relate to arrests that took place in a different year) |
2014 | - | - | - |
2015 | 2 | Distribution of child pornography Large-scale financial fraud | - |
2016 | 4 | Parental child abduction 14 counts of grand larceny (property theft) and conspiracy to defraud Causing death by dangerous driving Fraud | 4 |
2017 | 2 | Murder Fraud | 2 |
2018 | 1 | Conspiracy to participate in an organised crime group | 2 |
2019 | - | - | 1 |
All figures are from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2019 to Question 261104 on Extradition: USA, if he will publish the year in which those UK citizens were arrested in connection with a US arrest warrant in each year since 2014.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The following table provides the information requested:
Year | Arrests | Offences for which those arrests took place | Extraditions to the US (please note these may relate to arrests that took place in a different year) |
2014 | - | - | - |
2015 | 2 | Distribution of child pornography Large-scale financial fraud | - |
2016 | 4 | Parental child abduction 14 counts of grand larceny (property theft) and conspiracy to defraud Causing death by dangerous driving Fraud | 4 |
2017 | 2 | Murder Fraud | 2 |
2018 | 1 | Conspiracy to participate in an organised crime group | 2 |
2019 | - | - | 1 |
All figures are from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 11 June 2019 to Question 261104 on Extradition: USA, if he will publish the offence for which those people were arrested following an extradition from the US.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The following table provides the information requested:
Year | Arrests | Offences for which those arrests took place | Extraditions to the US (please note these may relate to arrests that took place in a different year) |
2014 | - | - | - |
2015 | 2 | Distribution of child pornography Large-scale financial fraud | - |
2016 | 4 | Parental child abduction 14 counts of grand larceny (property theft) and conspiracy to defraud Causing death by dangerous driving Fraud | 4 |
2017 | 2 | Murder Fraud | 2 |
2018 | 1 | Conspiracy to participate in an organised crime group | 2 |
2019 | - | - | 1 |
All figures are from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.