Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers are involved in the monitoring and investigation of child sex crimes online.
Answered by Mike Penning
Figures on the number of police officers involved in the monitoring and investigation of child sex crimes online are not centrally held by the Home Office.
However, the Home Office does collect statistics on the number of police officers employed within the Child/Sex/Domestic/Missing function. The table provided shows the number and proportion of full-time equivalent police
officers within the Child/Sex/Domestic/Missing function in England and Wales, as at 31 March 2010 to 31 March 2014.
The deployment of police resources is a matter for operational police leaders, working with Police and Crime Commissioners.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role her Department had in formulating the walking out policy covering Libyan recruits being trained at Bassingbourn barracks; and what role (a) her Department and (b) the police had in monitoring that policy.
Answered by James Brokenshire
As an incentive to promote good behaviour and thereby improve the effectiveness of the training programme the Army proposed to allow the trainees some very limited unsupervised access to the local amenities. These proposals were discussed across Government (including the Home Office) prior to implementation.
The Home Office requested that the Army liaise closely with Cambridgeshire Police on the monitoring of such visits.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to vet the Libyan personnel before their training at Bassingbourn Barracks; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Before the start of General Purpose Force training on 11 June 2014, the UK held extensive discussions with the Libyan government on the selection and vetting of Libyan trainees. The Libyan government provided trainee candidates who had
been through Libyan vetting and selection processes.
These candidates were subject to additional UK vetting in Libya to ensure thoseselected met Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence and Home Office requirements on security, immigration, medical, physical, literacy, and numeracy criteria as
well as representing a distribution of trainees that was geographically representativeof Libya.
Home Office visa processes included checks against UK criminal databases and a visa declaration by all trainees that confirmed they held no criminal convictionsor charges in the UK or elsewhere. We are not aware that any of those candidates
who passed UK screening had criminal convictions or faced charges at that time in theUK or elsewhere.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the (a) Ministry of Defence and (b) Foreign and Commonwealth Office on constraining and restricting the undisciplined behaviour of Libyan personnel on Bassingbourn base; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Prior to General Purpose Force training, the Home Office worked closely with the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office on planning for the vetting and selection of trainees and, along with the Libyan command and supervisory team, on contingency planning for indiscipline. We worked closely with the Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office, Libyan command and supervisory team, Police and the Defence Section of the Libyan embassy to address trainee behaviour concerns and take appropriate action, including withdrawing trainees who failed to meet the expected standard of behaviour and performance.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Defence and (b) Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on the return of the Libyan armed forces personnel; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
During the planning, implementation and conclusion of training, the Home Office worked closely with the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Libyan command and supervisory team, Defence Section of
the Libyan Embassy in London, Cambridgeshire Police and the Ministry of Defence Police.In particular, we worked closely with the MoD, Libyan Defence Section and Libyan command and supervisory team to return trainees who withdrew during the programme and once training had concluded.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for citizenship were made in each year since 2009 from males recruited into the armed forces from Belize; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Information on whether individuals from Belize have been recruited into the
armed forces and applied for British citizenship was not aggregated in national
reporting systems prior to November 2012. This information could only be
obtained by a disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to
collate the data.
There are no such applications recorded since November 2012.