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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

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

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

1697478

	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: Conditions of Employment
	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 been asked to accept new terms and conditions as part of the Heathrow Change Programme; and how many such staff are (a) women and (b) disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	19702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>No members of staff have been asked to accept new terms and conditions. All staff were given a range of options on which they could make the decision which best suited them.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/03/2024 15:22:30 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

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

1697402

	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	Asylum: Rwanda
	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 publish details on the (a) level of financial and (b) other incentives his Department plans to offer to asylum seekers to encourage them to voluntarily relocate to Rwanda.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	19626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>Voluntary relocation to Rwanda builds on our already widely used voluntary returns scheme – details of this can be found at the following link:- <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F65f864aece4c150011a15081%2Fvoluntary%2Band%2Bassisted%2Bdepartures.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CRena.Cole%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cb70298bf49c34830f2d408dc499b2f04%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638466178045298722%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=6FJ7HxojdiXhMsUjW7HA1BocGyqG9dFONoyPsD%2B25Yc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Voluntary and assisted departures.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 28/03/2024 15:17:17 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

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

1697090

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Domestic Service
	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 the Independent Review the Overseas Domestic Workers Visa by James Ewins, published on 16 December 2015, what the Government's policy is on the implementation of proposed changes in that review to the overseas domestic worker visa rules that have not yet been implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	19378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office keeps immigration route policy under review, including that for the Overseas Domestic Worker route. We have introduced a number of reforms to the route for overseas domestic workers since 2015; designed to build on existing safeguards and in line with the broader immigration system. Employers of overseas domestic workers must act in accordance with UK employment law, and workers who find themselves a victim of modern slavery are protected by the National Referral Mechanism and may be eligible to apply for permission to stay as a domestic worker who is a victim of modern slavery.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 19376 19377 question first answered 27/03/2024 17:48:43 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock