Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many successful prosecutions have been made for non-benefit-related fraud in each year since 2009; and how many such prosecutions were for offences against an individual victim.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain a separate record of the outcome of prosecution proceedings by specific offences, such as non-benefit frauds, or where the offences prosecuted concerned one victim. To obtain this information would involve undertaking a manual search of case records which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration his Department has given to introducing child protection checks for parents commissioning surrogacy from abroad before being permitted to do so.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department is aware that surrogacy is an evolving area in terms of court judgments, societal attitudes and demands and policy approach, and is giving consideration to a range of surrogacy-related issues. The feasibility of safeguarding checks is being considered as part of on-going discussions within a cross-Departmental working group on international surrogacy.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2014, to Question 212020, how many successful prosecutions were made for cybercrimes in each year since 2009.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
The Crown Prosecution Service does not centrally record the number of prosecutions initiated, or those which resulted in a successful outcome, relating to cyber or cyber-enabled crime. A number of offences may involve the use of a computer or a network in the commission of the offence. To obtain details of the number of cases where defendants were alleged to have been involved in cyber or cyber-enabled crimes would require a manual review of individual case files to be undertaken which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to promote the use of blood bikes for the transportation of blood to hospital trusts.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Whilst recognising the work of blood bikes, the Department is not actively promoting their use as it is a matter for individual trusts to decide whether they wish to use such services.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide figures showing how much money has been saved by the NHS by the use of blood bikes for the transportation of blood (a) nationally and (b) in the North West region in each of the last three years.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information requested is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the national fraud indicator statistics for 2013 will be published.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The last Annual Fraud Indicator was produced by the National Fraud Authority and was published on 6 June 2013. There are no plans to publish further fraud statistics in this way. When the closure of the National Fraud Authority was announced on 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 36WS, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Home Secretary made it clear that, "while the National Fraud Authority has been successful in raising awareness of fraud and improving co-ordination, the focus should now be on cutting economic crime". The National Crime Agency is now responsible for producing the single picture of all the threats from serious and organised crime, including economic crime and fraud.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of cybercrimes reported to Action Fraud have been referred to regional police forces for investigation in each year since 2009.
Answered by Karen Bradley
Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud, cyber-enabled financial crime and Computer Misuse Act (CMA) offences, and is operated by the City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud.Action Fraud only assumed full responsibility for recording fraud and offences under the CMA in 2013/14. The Home Office does not hold data for the breakdown of disseminations from the City of London Police to local police forces by the factors involved in the crime, such as whether it involved a cyber element. In 2013/14 City of London Police disseminated around 40,000 crimes to police forces for consideration for investigation.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful prosecutions were made for cybercrimes reported to Action Fraud in each year since 2009.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The data requested is not available. Information on prosecutions is held by the Crown Prosecution Service and is not relayed back to Action Fraud to correlate against reports.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many permanent members of staff were employed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau had an establishment of 84 permanent members of staff in 2012-13, and the same number of permanent staff in 2013-14.
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau is also complimented by officers and staff in other police forces and the National Crime Agency.
Asked by: Julie Hilling (Labour - Bolton West)
Question
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps the Government plans to take to get more young people registered to vote.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Government is committed to maximising electoral registration to help support the highest possible turnout in elections. This includes young people, who we know care deeply about many issues but don’t always express their views at the ballot box.
The introduction of online registration – which is now live in England, Wales and Scotland – brings voter registration into the 21st century and makes it easier, simpler and faster for people to register to vote.