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1697480

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Heathrow Border Force staff have gone down a pay grade as part of the Heathrow Change Programme; and what proportion of such staff are (a) women and (b) disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	19704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>No members of staff have gone down a pay grade as part of the Heathrow Change Programme.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/03/2024 15:25:27 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1697481

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grievances have been raised by Heathrow Border Force staff in response to the Heathrow Change Programme; how many of these have been rejected; and what proportion of grievances were raised by (a) women and (b) disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	19705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office would not disclose information which is considered likely to cause prejudice to the effectiveness of public affairs.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/03/2024 15:26:18 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1697482

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people worked for Heathrow Border Force before the Heathrow Change Programme; and what proportion of these were (a) men and (b) women.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	19706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office would not disclose information which is considered likely to cause prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs.</p><p>Border Force staffing numbers can be obtained from the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023 (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/03/2024 15:26:52 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1697483

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disabled people worked for Heathrow Border Force before the Heathrow Change Programme.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	19707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office do not hold the requested information on how many people working for Border Force Heathrow prior to the Change Programme had declared a disability, in an easily accessible format.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/03/2024 15:24:12 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1697484

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Reasonable Adjustments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Heathrow Border Force staff had reasonable adjustments before the Heathrow Change Programme; and what proportion of such staff were (a) women and (b) disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	19708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office do not hold the requested information on how many people working for Border Force at Heathrow prior to the Change Programme had reasonable adjustments, in an accessible format.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/03/2024 15:23:23 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1697501

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department is taking steps to reduce the number of vulnerable women held in immigration detention.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	19666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office are committed to ensuring the proper protection and treatment of women, including vulnerable women, in detention and will seek to facilitate voluntary return as an alternative to detention and enforced removal. Further information can be found in published operational guidance <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7f59cced915d74e6229ee2/DSO_06-2016_women_in_the_detention_estate.pdf" target="_blank">DSO 06/2016 Women in the Detention Estate</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We fully accept that some groups of individuals can be at particular risk of harm in immigration detention. This is the basis of the adults at risk in immigration detention policy <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6396f390d3bf7f3f8106c3fe/DSO_08_2016_AAR.pdf" target="_blank">DSO 08/2016 Management of adults at risk in immigration detention</a>, which strengthens the presumption against detention for vulnerable individuals.</p><p> </p><p>Women who are victims of torture, trafficking or sexual violence are all covered by the adults at risk in immigration detention policy. Anyone who falls within the scope of the policy is regarded as unsuitable for detention unless the specific immigration circumstances in their case are considered to outweigh the vulnerability issues.</p><p> </p><p>Plans are in place to convert Derwentside immigration removal centre (IRC) from a female only centre, into a detained facility for men, reducing female capacity across the existing estate.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 28/03/2024 15:20:26 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1697502

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Tackling violence against women and girls strategy, published on 21 July 2021, what progress his Department has made on ensuring support is provided to survivors of gender-based violence.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	19667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>We have completed or closed over half of all cross-government commitments in the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy (2021) and Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan (2022).</p><p> </p><p>This includes:</p><ul><li>Allocating £6.6 million to deliver interventions that improve our understanding of ‘what works’ to prevent violence against women and girls.</li><li>Ensuring consistency in support services through introducing national commissioning standards through the Victims Funding Strategy.</li><li>Launching the VAWG Support and Specialist Services Fund with £8.3m of funding support victims facing the greatest barriers.</li><li>Supporting the passage of the Worker Protection (Amendment of the Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 which places a new duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of employees.</li><li>Invested over £150m of funding through Safer Streets and Safety of Women at Night fund on a range of projects focused on improving public safety, including for women and girls.</li><li>Doubled funding for the National Domestic Abuse helpline and other helplines such as the Revenge Porn Helpline and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s National stalking helpline.</li><li>Relaunched the Flexible Fund in January 2024 with a further £2m investment to help remove barriers to domestic abuse victims leaving their abusers, after its successful £300,000 pilot in 2023.</li></ul> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 28/03/2024 15:15:48 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1697602

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Delivery Services: Undocumented Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department holds information on illegal working via the use of rented profiles on food delivery apps.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	19758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The HO holds some information in relation to individuals who rent profiles on food delivery apps. However, we do not routinely publish the information you have requested and we are unable to provide this information, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 28/03/2024 15:18:54 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1697608

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the immigration health surcharge for people who already (a) work and (b) pay taxes in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	19735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to remove the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) for temporary migrants who work and pay taxes in the UK.</p><p>It is right those granted temporary immigration permission for more than six months should contribute to the sustainability of our NHS. Having paid the IHS, temporary migrants can access the NHS as soon as they arrive in the UK and will only be charged for services that a permanent resident would also pay for, such as prescription charges in England.</p><p>Although some temporary migrants will pay tax and National Insurance contributions after they start work in the UK, they will not on average have made the same financial contribution to the NHS which most UK nationals and permanent residents have made, or will make, over the course of their working lives. It is an individual’s immigration status, not their tax and National Insurance contributions, which governs their access to the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/03/2024 15:29:05 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1697641

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Delivery Services: Undocumented Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is taking steps to regulate the use of rented profiles on food delivery apps.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	19761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government is engaging constructively with food delivery platforms, calling on them to end the use of unverified substitution. Unchecked account sharing places the public at risk, enables – and therefore encourages – illegal migration and leads to the exploitation of workers.</p><p> </p><p>In November 2023, the Home Office secured agreement from the firms to strengthen their recruitment and on-boarding processes, in order to prevent unchecked sharing of accounts.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/food-delivery-companies-urged-to-end-unchecked-account-sharing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/food-delivery-companies-urged-to-end-unchecked-account-sharing</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 19762 question first answered 27/03/2024 16:00:17 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock