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1716637

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Confiscation Orders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following reports that the City of London Police have seized 140 illegal e-bikes and e-scooters, whether they plan to direct or encourage all police forces to confiscate e-bikes which have been configured to exceed the 15.5 miles per hour limit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	uin	HL4442
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>Decisions on e-bike seizure is an operational matter for Chief Officers who will decide how to deploy available resources, taking into account any specific local problems and demands.</p><p>The Government will continue to support the police to ensure they have the tools needed to enforce road traffic legislation, including those relating to offences involving e-scooters.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 22/05/2024 16:27:46 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1718041

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Small Businesses
	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 through the criminal justice system to support small businesses affected by criminal damage.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	26251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales estimates 623k criminal damage offences in the year ending December 2023, which is a decrease of -73.9% since year ending March 2010.</p><p>The Government is working to reduce crime against businesses. Police forces across England and Wales made a significant commitment to follow up on any available evidence where there is a reasonable chance it could lead them to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime. This is a substantial and meaningful commitment that we believe will help drive down crime, improve investigations and improve the criminal justice system outcomes to support all victims.</p><p>We are taking action to support the retail sector, including small, independent retailers. The Government’s plan – &quot;Fighting retail crime: more action&quot; was launched on 10 April and includes commitments to make it easier for small independent businesses to report crime to the police.</p><p>In 2021-22, the Home Office provided £75,000 to the National Business Crime Centre to support the creation of a retail crime hub on their website and to establish it as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for business crime. The crime hub hosts a range of information and crime prevention guidance for businesses, including specific resources for preventing shop theft and prolific offending: Business Support (nbcc.police.uk). The Home Office will be providing further funding to the NBCC to carry out commitments in the Government’s retail crime plan.</p><p>We know anti-social behaviour blights neighbourhoods, makes people’s lives a misery and stops businesses and individuals from flourishing. That is why last year the Government launched the Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan to crack down on anti-social behaviour and restore public confidence that these crimes will be quickly and visibly punished.  Under the Plan, which is backed by £160m of funding, we are supporting increased patrols in anti-social behaviour hotspot areas, and making sure offenders are made to repair the damage they cause, in some cases within as little as 48 hours.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/05/2024 14:13:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1718877

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Organised Crime
	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 plans to update the definition of serious and organised crime.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	26679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>We recently published a definition of serious and organised crime as part of the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy, published in December 2023.</p><p>We have no current plans to publish an updated definition.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/05/2024 13:54:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719099

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
	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 make an estimate of the number of hotels that will be used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	26853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to accommodate asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute and accommodation needs are kept under continuous review. <br> <br> Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1cc37f785bab48f2546508dc74015bb5%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638512796375539500%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=BRL1JNTCvPITTASe4y0YqWmSsjrcleaY5pPVuLO8w%2BQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)(opens in a new tab)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/05/2024 13:25:39 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1719096

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department issues to asylum seekers on (a) housing, (b) work rights and (c) recourse to public funds once they have been granted leave to remain.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	26868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>Individuals granted asylum have access to the labour market and to mainstream services that support their integration, including benefits and healthcare. We are working across Government to ensure these services meet the needs of all newly granted refugees.</p><p>Support is offered from Migrant Help or their partner organisation to all individuals when they receive a decision on their asylum claim. This support includes providing advice on accessing the labour market, on applying for Universal Credit and signposting to local authorities for assistance with housing.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/05/2024 13:24:33 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1717941

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals were arrested in connection with suspected (a) live streamed online child sexual abuse and (b) exploitative behaviour in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2022 and (iv) 2023; and if he will list the nationalities of suspected overseas victims.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	26169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on arrests as part of the annual ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical bulletin. The most recent data up to the year ending March 2023 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales" target="_blank">is available on gov.uk</a>. There is no specific offence of livestreamed child sexual abuse or exploitative behaviour. Arrest data is collected by broader offence group e.g. “sexual offences”.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold information relating to the nationality of victims of crime.</p><p>However, the Government provides dedicated funding to the National Crime Agency and a network of Undercover Online Officers in Regional Organised Crime Units to tackle the highest harm child sexual abuse offenders, including those engaged in the livestreaming of child sexual abuse. Our understanding of the nature and scale of livestreamed child sexual abuse is informed by threat assessments produced by the National Assessment Centre and other organisations.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 22/05/2024 13:22:30 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1718070

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) work and (b) family visas were issued to people aged (i) between (A) 18 and 24, (B) 25 and 34, (C) 35 and 44, (D) 45 and 54 and (E) 55 and 64 and (ii) 65 and over in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	26253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of work or family applications for entry clearance to the UK that are broken down by age group does not form part of any current transparency data or migration statistics and is not published.</p><p>The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/05/2024 13:20:27 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1718422

	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	Illegal Migration Operations Command: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many positions within his Department's Illegal Migration Operations Command were vacant on 1 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	26472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>For security reasons, the Home Office does not provide data of staff working within the Illegal Migrations of Operation Command or on its resourcing plans.</p><p>The Home Office continues to ensure appropriate staffing levels are maintained. As with all government departments, we remain committed to accessing the best talent and skills into the Civil Service while adhering to headcount caps, maximising efficiency and delivering for the public whilst retaining maximum value for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 26470 26471 question first answered 22/05/2024 13:13:31 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1718421

	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	Illegal Migration Operations Command: 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 full-time equivalent members of staff were working in Illegal Migration Operations Command on 1 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	26471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>For security reasons, the Home Office does not provide data of staff working within the Illegal Migrations of Operation Command or on its resourcing plans.</p><p>The Home Office continues to ensure appropriate staffing levels are maintained. As with all government departments, we remain committed to accessing the best talent and skills into the Civil Service while adhering to headcount caps, maximising efficiency and delivering for the public whilst retaining maximum value for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 26470 26472 question first answered 22/05/2024 13:13:30 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1718420

	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	Illegal Migration Operations Command: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget allocated to his Department's Illegal Migration Operations Command was for financial year (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	26470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>For security reasons, the Home Office does not provide data of staff working within the Illegal Migrations of Operation Command or on its resourcing plans.</p><p>The Home Office continues to ensure appropriate staffing levels are maintained. As with all government departments, we remain committed to accessing the best talent and skills into the Civil Service while adhering to headcount caps, maximising efficiency and delivering for the public whilst retaining maximum value for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 26471 26472 question first answered 22/05/2024 13:13:30 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock