Tag: Helen Goodman

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list all meetings Dmitry Firtash has had at his Department since May 2010.

Mr David Lidington

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials met Dmitry Firtash on 24 February to discuss developments in Ukraine and support for Ukraine from the international community. They did not discuss matters of national security. The meeting was part of a wider approach by the FCO to understand better the situation in Ukraine, by seeking information and views from a wide range of contacts, including senior business figures. The Government does not have plans to publish a note of the meeting at this time. According to our records, Dmitry Firtash has not attended any other meetings with the FCO in London.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many heritage sites English Heritage has declined to take control of as custodian of last resort in the last 30 years; and what the reasons were for declining in each such case.

Mr Edward Vaizey

To the knowledge of its current management team, English Heritage has not declined to take control of any heritage sites as custodian of last resort in the last 30 years. English Heritage has occasionally been offered properties that it has declined on the basis that there were other more suitable solutions available.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the communiqué of the internet safety summit at Downing Street, published on 18 November 2013, what progress has been made by internet companies on ensuring that child abuse images are not returned following search engine requests.

Karen Bradley

Child abuse is a horrific crime and the Government is determined to tackle
it. We have made real progress through our work with the internet industry.
Following this work, internet search engines have made changes to
their search mechanisms, and these new measures have been effective in making
it harder to access child abuse images. For example, Google has implemented
changes that prevent child abuse results against 100,000 unique searches
worldwide. National Crime Agency testing of these new measures shows that they
have been effective in making it harder to access child abuse images, videos or
pathways. This is now a constantly evolving approach that tracks the latest
terms being used by paedophiles and cuts off access to child abuse material.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-03-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that children and adoptive parents receive support beyond the initial stages of the adoption process.

Edward Timpson

People who adopt are making a life changing decision, both for themselves and the children they adopt.

Research indicates a high level of need among adoptive families for therapeutic services often many years after the adoption process has ended.

It is for this reason that we have committed £19.3 million into an Adoption Support Fund to make therapeutic support much more widely accessible, timely and of high quality for adoptive families.