Asked by: Jason McCartney (Conservative - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on reducing levels of burglary and robbery.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This Government recognises the devastating impact crimes such as burglary and robbery have on our communities and businesses.
We are recruiting 20,000 police officers and continuing to invest in the Safer Streets Fund to prevent these crimes from happening, supporting deployment of evidence-based solutions such as home security and increased street lighting in high crime areas.
Asked by: Jason McCartney (Conservative - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (a) applied for and (b) were refused entry clearance to the UK in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The most recent figures available from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 show A) the number of Entry Clearance applications made via the Visa Application Centre in Erbil, Iraq to be 2,895 and B) the number of refusals 1,600.
Asked by: Jason McCartney (Conservative - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what process she plans that businesses will report exploitation in their supply chains as a result of the Modern Slavery Bill.
Answered by Karen Bradley
Businesses required to comply with the transparency in supply chains provision, now included in the Modern Slavery Bill, will be required to publish their annual slavery and trafficking statement on their website. They must also include a link to the slavery and human trafficking statement in a prominent place on their website’s homepage.
Where a business uncovers slavery or trafficking in their supply chains they will be encouraged to report their concerns or findings to the relevant authorities in that jurisdiction. The statutory guidance to support businesses
in understanding what kinds of information they may wish to include in any slavery and trafficking statement may include guidance on reporting concerns.