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1718548

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to assess the potential (a) social and (b) economic impact of possible policy changes to the graduate route visa for international students; and whether his Department assesses the potential impact of such proposals at the constituency level.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	26578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to attracting the best and brightest to study at our world-class universities, whilst maintaining the integrity of our immigration system, which is why the Home Secretary commissioned an independent review of the Graduate Route.</p><p>The MAC reported back on 14 May and the review’s findings are currently being considered very closely.</p><p>The Home Office produces impact assessments as a matter of course when policy proposals are developed.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 23/05/2024 16:37:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1699139

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to respond to the letter of 21 February 2024 from the Hon. Member for Hull West and Hessle on behalf of a constituent regarding protocol for notifiable associations.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	20754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire responded on 16 April 2024.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/04/2024 10:56:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1687426

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to help reduce (a) advance fee fraud and (b) other consumer retail scams.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	13052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>As part of implementation of the Government’s Fraud Strategy ‘Advance fee fraud’ has decreased by 33% since the year ending September 2022 from 546,000 to 367,000 offences (CSEW data). We have introduced a series of sector charters with industry to agree voluntary actions to protect consumers. Last year, the Government published the Online Fraud Charter which seeks to block fraud at source, making reporting fraud easier for users and decreasing the time it takes to remove content and advertisements found to be fraudulent.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 13/02/2024 14:51:37 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1682477

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle hate crime against LGBT+ people (a) nationally and (b) in Hull West and Hessle.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	9918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>There has been an overall reduction in police-recorded hate crime in the year ending March 2023, including a 6% reduction in sexual orientation hate crimes. Whilst an 11% increase in transgender hate crime was seen, and this may partly be due to a genuine rise, the biggest driver is likely to be general improvements in police recording along with increased victim willingness to come forward.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need. </em>Part of this necessitates police recruitment and training – that is why we have the highest number of police officers on record in England and Wales. Humberside now has 2,294 officers (headcount as at 31 March 2023), the highest number ever. Funding for Humberside will be £252.6 million in 2024/25, an increase of up to £15.5 million when compared to 2023/24.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>The Home Office continues to fund True Vision, an online hate crime reporting portal, designed so that victims of all forms of hate crime do not have to visit a police station to report. We also fund the National Online Hate Crime Hub, a central capability designed to provide expert advice to support individual local police forces in dealing with online hate crime. </em></p><p>The Government is providing over £3m of funding, between 10 August 2021 and 31 March 2024, to five anti-bullying organisations to support schools to tackle bullying. This includes projects targeting hate-related bullying and homophobic, biphobic and transphobic based bullying.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 24/01/2024 15:31:59 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1674154

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Age Assurance and Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of asylum seeker (a)age verification and (b) identity checks.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	4511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>Where an individual claims to be a child without any documentary evidence, and where there is reason to doubt their claimed age, there is a need to assess their age. Determining the age of a young person is an inherently difficult task. Recent legislative reforms aim to make assessments more consistent and robust from the outset, with any disputed decisions resolved quickly and conclusively.</p><p>This includes establishing a decision-making function within the Home Office, called the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB). The NAAB consists of expert social workers whose task is to conduct Merton compliant age assessments, increasing capacity and expertise in the system. The NAAB is in the process of recruiting and training suitably experienced social workers who can carry out age assessments on behalf of the Home Office and will expand into wider regions as social worker capacity builds up. We will continue to review and monitor the impact of this board.</p><p>In addition, regulations laid by the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice were approved by Parliament in November 2023, which will authorise the use of X-rays in scientific age assessments, paving the way for the Home Office to improve their ability to effectively determine the age of illegal entrants making disputed claims to be children.</p><p>As part of an asylum seeker’s identity checks we capture their biometric and biographical information and check them against a range of domestic and international law enforcement databases. We enrol the fingerprints of all asylum seekers aged five years or older and who are physically capable. This helps us to establish whether we have encountered them previously and helps to ensure they do not make multiple applications using multiple identities, and to identify those who pose a threat to public safety, our national security, or are likely to breach our laws. We can also check any documentary evidence they may have and authenticate them against document image archives and whether they have been reported lost or stolen.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/12/2023 12:55:03 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1674155

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seeker children have been (a) wrongly assessed to be above eighteen and (b) housed in accommodation with adults in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	4512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/12/2023 12:58:10 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1626730

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cosmetics: Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many licenses for animal testing of cosmetic ingredients have been issued since 2019 as a result of the European Chemicals Agency ruling; and to whom those licenses were issued.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	184476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Animal testing of cosmetics for consumer safety has been banned in the UK since 1998 and this remains in force.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">On 17 May 2023 the Government announced it is going further by banning, with immediate effect, licences to test ingredients exclusively used in the production of cosmetics for the purposes of worker safety.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Secretary has issued a Written Ministerial Statement, which can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-statements%2Fdetail%2F2023-05-17%2Fhcws779&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBernadette.Godson%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce4c16b1bccc04faa68d108db56e8044f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638199326714611732%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Rj2%2BGQUTpHRZjJGJjQ48JogLP12Kyc2Sxlbito7MjQI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2023-05-17/hcws779</a>.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Since 2019, the Animals in Science Regulation Unit has granted ten project licences, or amendments to licences, that specifically authorise the testing on animals of chemicals for use as ingredients in cosmetics under the REACH regulations.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office does not publish details of licensed establishments.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Animal testing of cosmetics for consumer safety has been banned in the UK since 1998 and this remains in force.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> On 17 May 2023 the Government announced it is going further by banning, with immediate effect, licences to test ingredients exclusively used in the production of cosmetics for the purposes of worker safety.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Secretary has issued a Written Ministerial Statement, which can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-statements%2Fdetail%2F2023-05-17%2Fhcws779&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBernadette.Godson%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce4c16b1bccc04faa68d108db56e8044f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638199326714611732%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Rj2%2BGQUTpHRZjJGJjQ48JogLP12Kyc2Sxlbito7MjQI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2023-05-17/hcws779</a>.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Since 2019, the Animals in Science Regulation Unit has granted seven project licences, or amendments to licences, that specifically authorise the testing on animals of chemicals for use as ingredients in cosmetics under the REACH regulations.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office does not publish details of licensed establishments.</ins></p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 18/05/2023 13:51:41 question first ministerially corrected 11/07/2023 10:26:52 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat previous answer version 74653 answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1601995

registered interest
date	07/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dublin Regulations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2022 to Question 47636 on Dublin Regulations, how many and what proportion of asylum claims have (a) been declared inadmissible and (b) resulted in the return of the applicant on the ground of inadmissibility in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	160371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on cases considered under inadmissibility rules can be found in table Asy_09a of the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1137644/asylum-summary-dec-2022-tables.ods" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>’. The latest data covers 1 January 2021 to 30 September 2022.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/03/2023 11:19:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1543242

registered interest
date	17/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 16 November to Question 83744, and of 31 October to Question 72434, on Migrants: Employment, if she will make available the data she has on the record of the Employer Checking Service in meeting the response times set out in its Service Level Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	89896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>A reliable calculation of response times would require a case by case review, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/11/2022 12:46:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1541204

registered interest
date	09/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which quarters has the Employer Checking Service response times failed to meet its Service Level Agreements since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	83744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/11/2022 17:46:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy