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1491773

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 19 July (HL1503), what assessment they have made of their commitments to (1) "be a EU leader in integration and mitigation initiatives" when support from the EU's Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund ends, and (2) "proactively support national and international initiatives for joint co-operation between EU Member States", as set out in their guidance published on 8 February.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL2041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/08/2022 answer text <p>To date AMIF has funded 46 external Integration projects to a value of £71m.</p><p>The Integration percentage of the total UK’s allocation is 26%.</p><p>All external projects are entirely independent from the Home Office and the AMIF UK Responsible Authority.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2040 question first answered 31/08/2022 16:03:09 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1491772

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 19 July (HL1503), when support for organisations through the EU's Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund is expected to end.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL2040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/08/2022 answer text <p>To date AMIF has funded 46 external Integration projects to a value of £71m.</p><p>The Integration percentage of the total UK’s allocation is 26%.</p><p>All external projects are entirely independent from the Home Office and the AMIF UK Responsible Authority.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2041 question first answered 31/08/2022 16:03:09 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1487507

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Public Expenditure
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total budget for the Home Office for each year since 2009.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Mobarik
	uin	HL1571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/08/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office reports budgetary information in the Annual Report and Accounts by financial year (April to March).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£000s</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>18,681,143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>17,974,929</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>14,892,011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>15,694,071</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>14,154,085</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>13,530,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>12,615,214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>13,644,128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>12,461,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>10,492,524</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>10,641,338</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>10,854,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>10,991,194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>10,627,462</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 31/08/2022 15:51:41 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4335 label Biography information for Baroness Mobarik

1487797

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybersecurity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to stop cyber criminals.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL1654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/08/2022 answer text <p>Tackling cyber crime is at the heart of the Government’s new National Cyber Strategy which is supported by £2.6bn of new investment over the three year Spending Review period. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-strategy-2022" target="_blank">National Cyber Strategy</a> (2022-2025) has set the direction and ambition for investment and efforts in UK Cyber. Delivery of the Strategy is being supported by the National Cyber Fund. This programme has allocated investment to lead government departments to support delivery of the objectives set out in the strategy.</p><p>We are continuing to invest in law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional and local levels to ensure they have the capacity to deal with the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber crime, which includes ensuring officers are being trained and upskilled.</p><p>The Cyber Aware campaign is a major national advertising campaign that aims to help businesses (as well as individuals) to protect themselves online. The campaign empowers and enables the public and micro businesses to understand the best ways to stay secure online and take the necessary protective actions; and supports wider efforts to combat the threat at source via the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERs), and through partnership interventions. This year’s campaign was launched on 18 March and is focusing on empowering citizens, microbusinesses and sole traders to keep their email accounts secure. <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberaware/home" target="_blank">Cyber Aware - NCSC.GOV.UK</a></p><p> </p><p>The Governments’ Cyber Essentials Scheme provides the basic controls all businesses should implement to protect themselves. <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview" target="_blank">About Cyber Essentials - NCSC.GOV.UK</a></p><p>Cyber Prevent is an important part of our response to tackling cyber crime. This is an early intervention programme aimed at deterring individuals from getting involved in cyber crime in the first place, moving deeper into cyber crime or reoffending and diverting them towards positive directions. Since 2019, all local forces now have a Cyber Prevent capability.</p><p>Further good advice and helpful products from Government include the 10 Steps to Cyber Security and the Cyber Information Sharing Partnership (CISP). <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/10-steps" target="_blank">10 Steps to Cyber Security - NCSC.GOV.UK</a></p><p>We have also rolled out Regional Cyber Resilience Centres in each of the nine policing regions, and London.  These are a collaboration between police, public, private sector and academic partners to provide subsidised or free products and cyber security consultancy services to help Small and Medium Sized Enterprise and micro businesses protect themselves better in a digital age.</p><p>We have developed and we continue to innovate on a series of Active Cyber Defence measures. Active Cyber Defence is the principle of implementing security measures to strengthen the security of a network or system to make it more robust against attack. The National Cyber Security Centre’s Active Cyber Defence programme provides tools that are free at the point of use which help organisations to tackle, in a relatively automated way, a significant proportion of the cyber attacks that hit the UK.</p><p> </p><p>There were 28,886 computer misuse offences referred to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) by Action Fraud in the year ending March 2022, an overall decrease of 5% from the year ending March 2021 (30,467). All computer misuse offence types saw a decrease, apart from ‘Hacking – social media and email’ which increased by 6% (from 13,576 to 14,357)</p><p> </p><p>The number of computer misuse offences disseminated to forces rose by 9%, from 3,991 in the year ending March 2021 to 4,335 in the year ending March 2022.The total number of computer misuse offences assigned an outcome decreased by 5% from 7,900 in the year ending March 2021 to 7,556 in the year ending March 2022. Of those outcomes, the number resulting in a ‘Charged/Summonsed’ outcome increased from 74 to 97.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 08/08/2022 09:30:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1491770

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much has been paid out in refund requests after people submitted a 'Life in the UK' test (1) refund request, or (2) complaint form, since March 2014.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL2038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not available in a reportable format and is locally held management information which has not been quality assured. Obtaining it would require a manual trawl which would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2039 question first answered 04/08/2022 15:07:14 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1491771

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many 'Life in the UK' test (1) refund, and (2) complaint, forms have been received; and how many refund requests have been (a) received, and (b) paid out, in each month since March 2014.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL2039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not available in a reportable format and is locally held management information which has not been quality assured. Obtaining it would require a manual trawl which would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2038 question first answered 04/08/2022 15:07:14 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1491774

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 19 July (HL1506), whether the 'Life in the UK' test includes any questions about out-of-date information included in the current 'Life in the UK' test handbook.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL2042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2022 answer text <p>The Life in the UK (LitUK) test and supporting handbook are updated annually. Where an event means some test content is incorrect, related questions will not be asked and the content will be updated accordingly as per the scheduled updates.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/08/2022 15:07:00 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1490879

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 11 July (HL1285), what assessment they have made of (1) the number of asylum seekers attracted to the UK because of the asylum system in place prior to the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, and (2) the number of asylum seekers expected to be attracted to the UK because of the asylum system in place after the Act has been enacted.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL1925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2022 answer text <p>Through our New Plan for Immigration, we are fixing the broken asylum system to make it firm and fair, ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, whilst seeking to stop abuse of the system</p><p>The number of asylum seekers who claimed asylum prior to the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 being enacted stood at 55,146 for the year ending March 2022 for main applicants only.</p><p>The Home Office are not able to provide the numbers expected to be lodged with the UK asylum system now the Act has been enacted. All asylum claims lodged in the UK are carefully considered on their individual merits against a background of relevant case law and up to date country information.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/08/2022 15:06:39 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1490878

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 11 July (HL1285), whether they consider as a matter of policy that all asylum seekers travelling to the UK from France have done so unlawfully and are therefore unable to claim asylum; if so, on what grounds; and how many individuals seeking asylum after crossing the English Channel in small boats have been granted asylum in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL1924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who travel to the UK from France either commit a criminal offence of entering the UK without leave under section 24(B1) of the Immigration Act 1971, or of arriving in the UK without an entry clearance under section 24 (D1), depending on their method of entry or arrival. In line with the Kakaei and Bani judgments, those who are rescued and brought ashore (the majority of those crossing the channel in small boats) are deemed to have arrived without permission</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office are able to provide the total number of individuals seeking asylum after crossing the English Channel in small boats who have been granted asylum in each of the last four years, from 2018-2021. However are not able to provide information prior to this date as there were no small boat crossing attempts.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year of Arrival</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Granted Asylum</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>727</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>1548</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2479</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/08/2022 15:03:26 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1491793

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Dependants and Married People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the current waiting times for (1) spousal, and (2) dependant, visa applications.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL2053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Staff from other government departments, including DWP and HMRC, have been surged into the department to help with Ukraine work and enable normal visa routes to return to normal service levels in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/08/2022 14:57:45 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley