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1628579

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if their Department will publish an Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for financial year 2023-24 in line with the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance for employers published on 17 April 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	185685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is currently considering the best way to approach Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting along with the wider Civil Service. Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting is voluntary. We are working with Civil Service HR colleagues and other government departments to work through the details of the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance that was published on 17 April 2023.</p><p>In line with Gender Pay Gap Reporting, the Civil Service is looking to develop a consistent methodology to be used in departments to produce the data.The outcomes of this development work will inform whether we are able to publish a report for 2023/2024.</p><p>More generally the Department is undertaking extensive work that is aligned with central Cabinet Office led activity to promote diversity in all Civil Service workplaces, including ethnicity.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/05/2023 16:44:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010580

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers reside in (a) the UK and (b) the North East, Yorkshire and Humber region.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes quarterly figures on the number of asylum seekers housed in dispersed accommodation, including under Section 95, by local authority in the Immigration Statistics release, in table as_16q and 17q in volume 4 of the Asylum data tables. These are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p><p>This does not include those asylum seekers who are accommodated with friends and family, and who are not in receipt of support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:45:19 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010581

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many bids were received by the Home Office for the asylum accommodation and support contracts to begin in 2019 in (a) the original procurement exercise and (b) the second procurement exercise.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract(AASC) response to invitation to tender from the Home Office received a total of 19 bids across all seven regions, of which 5 were in relation to the second procurement exercise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:33:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010582

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Contracts
	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 adequacy of the nine-month timescale for the (a) mobilisation of and (b) transition to the new asylum accommodation and support contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has designed the project to replace the current asylum accommodation and support services so as to ensure a smooth transition of services from one Provider to another.</p><p>The timetable allows eight months for mobilisation and transition activities, which is similar to the time that such activity took when the current contracts came into operation. The Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract(AASC) mobilisation transition plans have also built on a number of other lessons, including the creation of a team with suitable experience, expertise and understanding of the new contracts and the early engagement with enabling functions from across the Home Office to plan out the demands that will be placed on them.</p><p>As we move to the mobilisation phase we will increase our engagement with Local Authorities, where my officials will be happy to discuss and address any concerns that Local Authorities have with the transition plans<sup>.</sup></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:37:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010583

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Contracts
	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 the information his Department has produced on why it was not possible to award the new asylum accommodation and support contracts under the original procurement exercise.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office published the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract (AASC) contract notice launched in December 2017 and following the launch of the AASC procurement, compliant bids that met the minimum requirements were not received for two regions; North East, Yorkshire and Humberside and Northern Ireland.</p><p>Details of non-compliant bids are not disclosable due to commercial sensitivities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:39:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010584

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: North of England
	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 seekers his Department plans to accommodate in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber region under the new asylum accommodation and support contracts in each year from the commencement of those contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>To continue to meet UKVI’s obligation to provide accommodation &amp; support to destitute asylum seekers, the Asylum Accommodation and Support Transformation (AAST) project has been established to design, develop and procure the future model for asylum accommodation and support, replacing the existing COMPASS arrangements when they expire in Sept 2019.</p><p>UKVI cannot predict the number of asylum seekers who will need accommodation as intake is volatile and subject to change. However dispersal across the UK is carefully managed by the Home Office to ensure the best outcomes for asylum seekers and their host communities. We will continue to work with stakeholders within the existing and new contracting arrangements to manage and refine our dispersal arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:42:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010585

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many properties are currently maintained as part of the existing asylum accommodation and support contracts in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber region.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes quarterly figures on the number of asylum seekers housed in dispersed accommodation, including under Section 95, by local authority in the Immigration Statistics release, in table as_16q and 17q in volume 4 of the Asylum data tables. These are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p><p>This does not include those asylum seekers who are accommodated with friends and family, and who are not in receipt of support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:44:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010586

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that asylum seekers are not made homeless if new asylum accommodation and support contracts are not in place before the expiry of the current contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The government will place the Entitlement to support under the forthcoming Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts(AASC) will be based on the same principles as COMPASS: this means that all ‘eligible Service Users’ in receipt of support at the point of transition will become the responsibility of the AASC Provider; including those who have received a positive or negative asylum decision and who have not yet reached the end of the 28 and 21 day notice period.</p><p>We are confident that there will be contracts in place, and we have a comprehensive transition plan. A contingency plan has also been designed, if needed, to ensure that service users will not be affected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:35:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1010587

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that asylum seekers accommodated as part of the asylum accommodation and support contracts are not placed in shared bedrooms with non-family members.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	193513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The forthcoming Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts will permit the use of room sharing for some service users, providing it complies with the strict criteria set out in the contracts Statement of Requirements. This includes compliance relevant national and local housing regulations including any advice from social services and primary and secondary care bodies on whether room sharing is inappropriate for individual cases.</p><p>In addition, Providers will be continue to be required to ensure that they take into account a service users individual characteristics and provide them with appropriate accommodation reflective of any changing needs, including adherence to religious practice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/11/2018 17:38:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1657736

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: West Yorkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers had a length of service that was (a) less than one year, (b) one year to less than two years, (c) two years to less than five years, (d) five years to less than 10 years and (e) more than 10 years in West Yorkshire as of 31 March in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	197398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes information on the length of service of police officers in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), annually in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulleting which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p>Information on the length of service of police officers employed by West Yorkshire Police can be found in table JL5 of the data tables accompanying each publication for the year ending 31 March 2016 onwards.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish information on the length of service of police officers that have left the police service. The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers leaving the police service in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin however this does not include information on their length of service.</p><p>Data on the number of police officers leaving West Yorkshire Police, in the years ending March 2007 to 2023, can be found in the ‘Leavers Open Data Table’ here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1172932/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-260723.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1172932/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-260723.ods</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 197476 question first answered 12/09/2023 15:40:36 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain