Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2014 to Question 215112, on which page of the NCA's Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2013 the information requested in the original Question relating to Politically Exposed Persons is given.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table on Page 6 of the report shows the overall figures for SARs and consent SARs, which include those made relating to PEPs.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2014 to Question 215108, on which page of the NCA's Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2013 the information requested in the original Question relating to consent is given.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table on Page 6 of the report shows the overall figures for SARs and consent SARs.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals on the UK sanctions list are not on the UK travel ban list.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It is long-standing policy not to discuss specific information held on UN or EU Travel Ban Lists implemented by the UK that is not in the public domain as to do so would not be in the interests of border and national security.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any person on the UK sanctions list has travelled to the UK in the last 12 months.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It is long-standing policy not to discuss specific information held on UN or EU Travel Ban Lists implemented by the UK that is not in the public domain as to do so would not be in the interests of border and national security.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) total expenditure and (b) expenditure on operations by Border Force in 2014-15, including any allocation for the e-Borders arbitration costs.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The most recent estimate of the (a) total expenditure and (b) expenditure on operations by Border Force in 2014-15, including any allocation for the e-Borders arbitration costs is:
(a) Total Expenditure £459 million
(b) Operational Expenditure £399 million
The Border Force operational costs do not include an allocation of e-Borders arbitration costs.Please note these figures are part of the current year’s expenditure and so will be subject to audit .
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Kuwaiti defence companies in each of the last four years.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:
Information for April – June 2014 is due to be published soon.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Qatari defence companies in each of the last four years.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:
Information for April – June 2014 is due to be published soon.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Kuwaiti defence companies in each of the last four years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Details of Ministerial Meetings with External Organisations are routinely published as part of our Quarterly Transparency Return and can be obtained via our official report:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministers-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings
The data from May 2010 to 31 March 2014 is published there. That from 1 April 2014 will be published in due course.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspicious activity reports received in the year ending September 2013 were filed by (a) solicitors, (b) accountants, (c) banks and (d) each other category of profession for which records are kept.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The National Crime Agency’s Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual Report 2013 contains, on page 8, a breakdown of reports made by sector. The report is available on the NCA website.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspicious activity reports received in the year ending September 2013 that related to Politically Exposed Persons and required consent were filed by (a) solicitors, (b) accountants, (c) banks and (d) each other category of profession for which records are kept.
Answered by Karen Bradley
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), including those requiring consent, relating to Politically Exposed Persons are included in the overall figures for SARs and consent SARs published in the NCA’s Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual
Report 2013.