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 Ethiopian nationals are on the UK travel exclusion list.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It is long-standing policy not to discuss information held on watch lists 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, how many Malawi nationals are on the UK travel exclusion list.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It is long-standing policy not to discuss information held on watch lists 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, how many of the suspicious activity reports received in the year ending September 2013 relating to Politically Exposed Persons required consent before being filed.
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.
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 related to Politically Exposed Persons.
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.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the written evidence from the Crown Prosecution Service, Home Office and National Crime Agency to the Committee of Public Accounts, published in its forty-ninth report of 2013-14, on Confiscation Orders, HC 942, ev24, how many of the suspicious activity reports received in the year ending September 2013 required consent to be filed.
Answered by Karen Bradley
14,103 consent Suspicious Activity Reports were received in the year ending September 2013. These figures are published in the National Crime Agency’s Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual Report 2013.
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 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.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the Metropolitan Police Service review on criminal finances that was produced in 2012.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Metropolitan Police Service conducted an internal review of the management and deployment of its financial investigators. Publication of the review is a matter for the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and the Metropolitan Police Service.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of how many lorries entering the UK were screened by (a) body-scanning machines and (b) dogs in the last 12 months.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Body detection freight scanners are one of a range of screening techniques used by Border Force. Border Force operates a multi-layered search regime, which includes detection dogs, carbon- dioxide monitors, heartbeat detectors and scanners.
Border Force estimates that approximately 1.2 million vehicles have been screened entering the UK through juxtaposed port, by Passive Millimetre Wave Imager (PMMWI) and 1.1 million vehicles by dogs in the last 12 months.