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1715159

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had recent discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on tackling underage drinking in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	24466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Crime and policing in Northern Ireland are devolved matters and fall within the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Executive.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/05/2024 16:52:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715167

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: France
	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 UK-France Joint Leader's Declaration, published by the Prime Minister's Office on 10 March 2023, from which budget the UK's contribution to the joint funding arrangement for the operational plan on illegal migration will come; and whether details of those payments are published regularly in transparency data.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	24423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The funding to deliver the UK-France Joint Leader's Declaration is sourced from a combination of baseline Home Office allocations; and part of the additional funding the Home Office receives in relation to the 10 Point Plan on Illegal Migration.</p><p>Details of this funding are not published as part of the department’s Migration Transparency Data.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 07/05/2024 14:52:41 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1715169

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 26 April 2024 to Question 23168 on Asylum: Rwanda, how many immigration removal centres make up the detention capacity of around 2200 people; and if he will list those centres.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	24418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office currently operates seven immigration removal centres (IRCs) throughout the UK (six in England and one in Scotland); Harmondsworth and Colnbrook IRCs at Heathrow; Brook House and Tinsley House IRCs at Gatwick; Derwentside IRC in County Durham; Yarl’s Wood IRC in Bedfordshire and Dungavel House IRC in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.</p><p>As of 24 April, the Home Office has the capacity to detain around 2,200 people in IRCs, including those liable for removal to Rwanda.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24420 question first answered 07/05/2024 14:06:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1715221

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Shoplifting and Theft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of scrapping the £200 summary offence rule for shoplifting and theft.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	24524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Since 2010 our communities are safer, with neighbourhood crimes including burglary, robbery and theft from the person down 48% and overall violent crime down 44%, and with more police officers on the streets than in 2010.</p><p>However, there has been a worrying rise in shoplifting and violence towards retail workers, which we need to address.</p><p>Police Recorded Crime figures show shoplifting offences increased by 37% in the 12 months to December 2023. Although, the number of people charged with shoplifting offences in the same period rose by 46%, showing the police are heeding the message and taking action.</p><p>The Government has taken a number of recent significant steps to reduce and prevent retail crime. Our plan – &quot;Fighting retail crime: more action&quot; was launched on 10 April, which highlights five areas of work this Government will drive forward to tackle retail crime. This will include us introducing a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. We will develop a retail theft electronic monitoring (EM) ‘package’, to offer sentencers starting in a pilot area, a clear community sentence pathway for repeat retail theft offenders.</p><p>This builds on the police-led Retail Crime Action Plan, which includes a commitment to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Figures published by the NPCC show early signs of progress.</p><p>Furthermore, we will bring forward legislative changes to introduce a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. This legislative change will provide that on the third sentencing occasion, an offender would be electronically monitored as part of any community sentence or post-release for the duration of any licence period.</p><p>Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, low-value shoplifting (value of £200 or less) is a summary offence, unless an adult elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution.</p><p>Police-led prosecutions were introduced to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system by allowing for a simpler, more proportionate police-led process in high-volume, low-level, uncontested cases. This route enables cases to be handled more speedily, rather than cases having to go to the CPS and through the Crown Court.</p><p>Repealing this would mean victims of shoplifting have to wait longer for cases to come to court.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 24525 question first answered 13/05/2024 16:54:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1715223

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Shoplifting: Portsmouth
	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 reduce rates of shoplifting in Portsmouth.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	24525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Since 2010 our communities are safer, with neighbourhood crimes including burglary, robbery and theft from the person down 48% and overall violent crime down 44%, and with more police officers on the streets than in 2010.</p><p>However, there has been a worrying rise in shoplifting and violence towards retail workers, which we need to address.</p><p>Police Recorded Crime figures show shoplifting offences increased by 37% in the 12 months to December 2023. Although, the number of people charged with shoplifting offences in the same period rose by 46%, showing the police are heeding the message and taking action.</p><p>The Government has taken a number of recent significant steps to reduce and prevent retail crime. Our plan – &quot;Fighting retail crime: more action&quot; was launched on 10 April, which highlights five areas of work this Government will drive forward to tackle retail crime. This will include us introducing a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. We will develop a retail theft electronic monitoring (EM) ‘package’, to offer sentencers starting in a pilot area, a clear community sentence pathway for repeat retail theft offenders.</p><p>This builds on the police-led Retail Crime Action Plan, which includes a commitment to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Figures published by the NPCC show early signs of progress.</p><p>Furthermore, we will bring forward legislative changes to introduce a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. This legislative change will provide that on the third sentencing occasion, an offender would be electronically monitored as part of any community sentence or post-release for the duration of any licence period.</p><p>Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, low-value shoplifting (value of £200 or less) is a summary offence, unless an adult elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution.</p><p>Police-led prosecutions were introduced to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system by allowing for a simpler, more proportionate police-led process in high-volume, low-level, uncontested cases. This route enables cases to be handled more speedily, rather than cases having to go to the CPS and through the Crown Court.</p><p>Repealing this would mean victims of shoplifting have to wait longer for cases to come to court.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 24524 question first answered 13/05/2024 16:54:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1715229

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to announce whether he plans to extend the seasonal agricultural workers scheme beyond December 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	24490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government keeps the Seasonal Worker route under close review, and we will say more in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/05/2024 14:27:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1715233

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Republic of Ireland
	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 operational agreement with the Irish government on the return of asylum seekers.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	24419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>In 2020, we agreed operational arrangements which allow for the return and readmission of asylum seekers where this is agreed by both participants. This is a non-legally binding arrangement relating to operational procedures, which we do not routinely publish.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/05/2024 16:13:01 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1715245

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have died while attempting to cross the English Channel to the UK illegally in each year since 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Bill Wiggin
	uin	24405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office is aware of a total of 69 persons known to have died while attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats since 2020:</p><p>2020: 6 deaths reported</p><p>2021: 34 deaths reported</p><p>2022: 4 deaths reported</p><p>2023: 12 deaths reported</p><p>2024: 13 deaths reported (as at 30 April 2024)</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 13/05/2024 15:47:50 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1715247

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	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 a breakdown of how the £171,000 per person deported to Rwanda agreed in the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership will be spent.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
	uin	24412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The most recently published information, which includes a breakdown of the per person costs, is the National Audit Office Report which can be found here: <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/investigation-into-the-costs-of-the-uk-rwanda-partnership/#downloads" target="_blank">UK-Rwanda Partnership - NAO report</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The per person costs are to provide a 5-year integration package. This includes accommodation, essential items such as food, medical services, education, language training and professional development. Rwanda will also support individuals with work opportunities and access to integration programmes.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 13/05/2024 15:46:38 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1715250

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	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, how many detention spaces are reserved for individuals seeking asylum who are designated for deportation to Rwanda.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	24420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office currently operates seven immigration removal centres (IRCs) throughout the UK (six in England and one in Scotland); Harmondsworth and Colnbrook IRCs at Heathrow; Brook House and Tinsley House IRCs at Gatwick; Derwentside IRC in County Durham; Yarl’s Wood IRC in Bedfordshire and Dungavel House IRC in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.</p><p>As of 24 April, the Home Office has the capacity to detain around 2,200 people in IRCs, including those liable for removal to Rwanda.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24418 question first answered 07/05/2024 14:06:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson