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1473060

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many ECAA applicants awaiting a decision have been waiting for longer than the standard service provision as of 23 June 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Darren Jones
	uin	24648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>This information requested is routinely published as part of UKVI Transparency data.</p><p>The most recent published data for outstanding ECCA applications can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q1-2022" target="_blank">Visas and Citizenship data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Under Visas and Citizenship Data, Tab VC_02 includes the number of straightforward applications and non-straightforward applications which remained outstanding at the end of the last reported period.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 01/07/2022 09:58:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 9885 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1627854

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role she plans that voluntary bodies and charities will play in regard to the migrant barge in Portland Port; and what funding she plans to provide to those bodies and charities.
	tabling member constituency	South Dorset
	tabling member printed	Richard Drax
	uin	184983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>We are working with local authorities and the voluntary sector in regular Multi Agency Forum (MAF) meetings to identify potential opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/05/2023 12:26:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4132 label Biography information for Richard Drax

1484191

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to ensure all enquiries to UK Visa and Immigration are actioned and dealt with in a timely manner.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	uin	26845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>For all visa application queries the public should call the Home Office customer helpline. The Home Office service standard is to answer 80% of calls within 30seconds.</p><p>Last week we answered 77% within 30 seconds with an average wait time of 1 minutes 9 seconds.</p><p>We continue to work with our service provider to regularly review their performance to ensure service standards are maintained. We are working with our service provider to increase the number of staff operating the customer helpline. It is envisaged this will enable the service standard to be met in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/07/2022 13:40:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1473061

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to reduce waiting times on the 101 non-emergency line.
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	uin	24577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>Police forces are operationally independent and the handling of 101 calls is a matter for them. It is for Chief Constables and elected Police and Crime Commissioners or Mayors to decide how to handle communications with the public, based on their experience and knowledge of the communities they serve.</p><p>However, the Home Office is clear that any call to the 101 number should be answered in a timely manner, and after providing details of the incident the caller should be given a crime reference number to track progress or request an update from the police on the case. In its Beating Crime Plan the Government committed to improving the responsiveness of local police to 101 and 999 calls by developing league tables for call answering times and ensuring that the public know how responsive their local force is when they call them for help.</p><p>On 31 May we published national data on answering times to 999 calls and later this year we are planning to publish performance data for all forces showing responsiveness to 101 calls.</p><p>The Home Office is making sure that the police have the resources they need to beat crime, which remains one of the Government’s top priorities.</p><p>This includes £14m in funding to the NPCC’s Digital Public Contact Programme to support delivery of the Single Online Home national policing digital platform. This provides a digital 101 service, an online facility to make it easier for victims of ASB to report incidents.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 24578 question first answered 29/06/2022 16:38:03 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1582373

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	2,4-dinitrophenol
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any legitimate uses of 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) were identified during her Department's consultation on adding DNP to the poisons list.
	tabling member constituency	Worcester
	tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
	uin	136690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>Between December 2021 – March 2022, the Home Office ran a public consultation on potential amendments to the Poisons Act 1972. The consultation proposed a number of measures, including a proposal to add 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) and its derivatives including sodium dinitrophenolate as a regulated poison under the Act. Responses were submitted through an online survey on gov.uk, by email and by post.</p><p>In total 128 responses were collected in the consultation. Of these responses, zero responses were received indicating the use of 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) or derivatives including sodium dinitrophenolate. As no responses were received indicating members of the public were using DNP for legitimate purposes, it was considered proportionate to proceed with regulating DNP as a poison under the Poisons Act.</p><p>The Government response to the public consultation can be found at Annex A of the Impact Assessment for the Control of Explosives Precursors and Poisons Regulations 2023, available online here: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2023/9/pdfs/ukia_20230009_en.pdf" target="_blank">The Control of Explosives Precursors and Poisons Regulations 2023 (legislation.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 06/02/2023 16:24:08 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

1585918

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	2,4-dinitrophenol
	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 6 February 2023 to Question 136690 on Dinitrophenol, what information her Department holds on any previous legal uses of 2,4-dinitrophenol, including when they ceased.
	tabling member constituency	Worcester
	tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
	uin	143734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>No specific research has been commissioned by the Home Office to investigate ways in which 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) has been used legitimately in Great Britain in the past.</p><p>From discussions with stakeholders and from open-source research on DNP, the Home Office is aware that DNP had historically been legally used as a treatment for weight-loss before being declared unfit for human consumption in 19381. Information available online also suggests that DNP has had industrial uses as a fertiliser before the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 1952 was introduced to regulate its use2. Media reporting on DNP has also listed previous industrial uses in pesticides and industrial dyes, though the Home Office has no further information on the use of DNP for these purposes.</p><p>In 2022, responses to the public consultation on amendments to the Poisons Act did not indicate that any members of the public who responded to the consultation used DNP for any legitimate purposes.</p><p>1Public Health England, 2013 - PHE supports FSA warnings over deadly weight loss supplement - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>2Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 2952 - Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 1952 (legislation.gov.uk)</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 20/02/2023 16:41:02 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

1690545

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	A20: Road Traffic Offences
	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 have discussions with the Metropolitan Police on publishing data on the number of (a) speeding fines and (b) notices of intended prosecution for speeding since 1 December 2023 in the section of the A20 eastbound near Sidcup with a temporary speed limit.
	tabling member constituency	Old Bexley and Sidcup
	tabling member printed	Mr Louie French
	uin	14990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2024 answer text <p>No discussions are currently planned between the Home Secretary and the Metropolitan Police on this matter.</p><p>Enforcement of speed limits is an operational matter for local Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, taking into account the specific local problems and demands with which they are faced.</p><p>If there are problems with the issue of speeding tickets then the matter can initially be raised with the Metropolitan Police, MOPAC and TfL as the authority responsible for the road in question.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 28/02/2024 17:23:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4932 label Biography information for Mr Louie French

1626289

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	ACRO Criminal Records Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) ensuring ACRO's service resources are allocated based on demand and (b) shifting those resources from paid to free services.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	184048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>It remains the case at this time that ACRO has no conclusive evidence that any personal data has been affected by the cyber security incident and there does not appear to be any potential risk to customers’ payment information or to the information / certificates that ACRO sent to individuals following their applications. Detailed investigations are continuing but it is not possible to provide a definitive timescale for their conclusion.</p><p>ACRO’s service resources are demand led and its human and other resources are dynamically allocated according to need. ACRO aims to provide the best service to all its customers, whether members of the public or other organisations, irrespective of if they are receiving a paid or a free service, and in doing so to meet all its service requirements.</p><p>The statutory response for a Subject Access Request must be made within one month of receiving the request. Subject Access for the Police National Computer remains a priority within ACRO and responses are within the time limits.</p><p>ACRO is working with its partners to ensure that its website is as secure as possible before it is brought back online.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 184046 184047 184049 question first answered 15/05/2023 12:02:52 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1648827

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	ACRO Criminal Records Office: Correspondence and Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish a (a) telephone number and (b) correspondence address for the ACRO service for people do not have computer facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	191774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>On 21 March ACRO were notified that their external website had been subject to a malware attack and that their website should be taken down for security purposes. Security investigations are ongoing. In the meantime, applications for a) police certificates, (b) international child protection certificates, and (c) subject access requests are being processed manually. Applications for record deletion are not made using the ACRO website portal.</p><p>The average processing times since the cyber incident are as follows:</p><p>a) Police certificates: 12.23 working days to complete;</p><p>b) International Child Protection Certificates: 14.37 working days to complete;</p><p>c) Subject Access Requests: 16.94 working days to complete;</p><p>The standard turnaround for these services would usually be 10 days or one month in the case of subject access requests. These times do not include applications that came to ACRO in the wrong format or without the required supporting documentation or payment.</p><p>ACRO can be contacted on 023 8047 9920 or by post at: ACRO, PO Box 481, Fareham PO14 9FS.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 191773 question first answered 04/07/2023 16:32:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1648825

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	ACRO Criminal Records Office: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the ACRO Criminal Records Office website is not yet fully operational.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	191772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>On 21 March ACRO were notified that their external website had been subject to a malware attack and that their website should be taken down for security purposes. Security investigations are ongoing. In the meantime, applications for a) police certificates, (b) international child protection certificates, and (c) subject access requests are being processed manually. Applications for record deletion are not made using the ACRO website portal.</p><p>The average processing times since the cyber incident are as follows:</p><p>a) Police certificates: 12.23 working days to complete;</p><p>b) International Child Protection Certificates: 14.37 working days to complete;</p><p>c) Subject Access Requests: 16.94 working days to complete;</p><p>The standard turnaround for these services would usually be 10 days or one month in the case of subject access requests. These times do not include applications that came to ACRO in the wrong format or without the required supporting documentation or payment.</p><p>ACRO can be contacted on 023 8047 9920 or by post at: ACRO, PO Box 481, Fareham PO14 9FS.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 05/07/2023 09:48:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris