Asked by: Neil Carmichael (Conservative - Stroud)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals to the National Referral Mechanism under the claim of adult-sexual exploitation resulted in positive conclusive decisions in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The numbers of positive conclusive decisions made through the National Referral Mechanism for claims of adult-sexual exploitation are*:
Year | Positive conclusive decisions* |
2013 | 261 |
2014 | 211 |
2015 | 216 |
*The data is based on management information provided by the National Crime Agency. The veracity of this information has not been verified by the Home Office
Asked by: Neil Carmichael (Conservative - Stroud)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children with refugee status in the UK have been granted permission to sponsor family members to join them under the refugee family reunion rules in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Under the Family Reunion Rules, children cannot sponsor family members. Any grant of leave in such cases would be on an exceptional basis outside the Immigration Rules. To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Neil Carmichael (Conservative - Stroud)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the progress of police inquiries into historic child abuse cases.
Answered by Theresa May
The day-to-day investigation into cases of child sexual abuse, including abuse that has taken place in the past, is an operational matter for the police. The Home Office has funded Operation Hydrant, which is the national policing response to the oversight and co-ordination of all child abuse investigations concerning persons of public prominence or those offences which have taken place in institutional settings