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1728701

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Accreditation UK scheme for institutions providing courses to students on a Sponsored Study visa.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Tom Hayes
	uin	5243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>International students using the student and child student routes must be sponsored by an education provider that holds a Student sponsor licence.</p><p>Education providers wishing to sponsor international students must obtain and maintain a Home Office Sponsor licence to do so and must be assessed for educational quality by an Educational Oversight body. We keep our immigration policies and Student sponsorship system under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 18/09/2024 15:52:43 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
	tabling member	5210

1728438

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was to the public purse of (a) legal fees and (b) related costs incurred for the rejection of freedom of information requests between 30 March 2020 and 9 September 2024 seeking the publication of the report entitled, The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	4962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>We do not know the total legal fees incurred as we have not yet been billed for the complete period between 30 March 2020 to 9 September 2024, but we expect the final cost to be in the region of £20,000-£22,500. There was no awarding of costs in the First Tier Tribunal judgment that the Department must disclose the Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal report. The only other costs incurred were Home Office officials’ time.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 18/09/2024 15:50:03 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1728436

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	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 former asylum applicants who have withdrawn their applications (a) have left the country and (b) her Department knew the location of in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	5105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely publish the information you have requested, we are unable to provide this information, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 18/09/2024 15:10:09 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1727477

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2024
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which 10 local authorities in the UK had the most asylum seekers supported by the Home Office by proportion of population in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
	uin	HL754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly.  This includes our accommodation sites, as the Home Office continues to identify a range of options to minimise the use of expensive hotels and ensure better use of public money, whilst maintaining sufficient accommodation to meet demand.</p><p>The most recent data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, including hotels, at: Asy_D11 Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>The Home Office has had various grants through which we provide funds to support local authorities housing asylum seekers.</p><ul><li><strong>Grant 7</strong> was launched in April 2024 to facilitate local authority support of increased dispersal accommodation (DA) accommodation.  The £3500 payment will be made for the net growth of occupancy in each quarter for Home Office Supported Asylum Seeker accommodation within the geographical bounds of the local authority under the following categories; DA, overflow dispersal accommodation (ODA) and initial accommodation (IA).</li><li><strong>Grant 6</strong> was launched in April 2024 to acknowledge the contribution of Local Authorities to supporting asylum seekers.  A payment of £750 was made for each occupied bedspaces as of 01 April 2024 and a subsequent payment will be made for the net growth of occupancy in each quarter for Home Office Supported Asylum Seeker accommodation within the geographical bounds of the local authority under the following categories; DA, ODA and IA and contingency accommodation (CA).</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint grouped question UIN HL755 question first answered 18/09/2024 14:16:22 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint attachment 1 file name support-local-authority-datasets-jun-24 - Copy.xlsx title Asy_D11 Immigration system statistics data tables
	tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1727478

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2024
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which 10 local authorities in the UK had the most asylum seekers in the most recent year for which figures are available, and how much funding each of those 10 local authorities received to support asylum seekers.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
	uin	HL755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly.  This includes our accommodation sites, as the Home Office continues to identify a range of options to minimise the use of expensive hotels and ensure better use of public money, whilst maintaining sufficient accommodation to meet demand.</p><p>The most recent data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, including hotels, at: Asy_D11 Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>The Home Office has had various grants through which we provide funds to support local authorities housing asylum seekers.</p><ul><li><strong>Grant 7</strong> was launched in April 2024 to facilitate local authority support of increased dispersal accommodation (DA) accommodation.  The £3500 payment will be made for the net growth of occupancy in each quarter for Home Office Supported Asylum Seeker accommodation within the geographical bounds of the local authority under the following categories; DA, overflow dispersal accommodation (ODA) and initial accommodation (IA).</li><li><strong>Grant 6</strong> was launched in April 2024 to acknowledge the contribution of Local Authorities to supporting asylum seekers.  A payment of £750 was made for each occupied bedspaces as of 01 April 2024 and a subsequent payment will be made for the net growth of occupancy in each quarter for Home Office Supported Asylum Seeker accommodation within the geographical bounds of the local authority under the following categories; DA, ODA and IA and contingency accommodation (CA).</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint grouped question UIN HL754 question first answered 18/09/2024 14:16:22 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint attachment 1 file name support-local-authority-datasets-jun-24 - Copy.xlsx title Asy_D11 Immigration system statistics data tables
	tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1728651

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Equality
	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 in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	5193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Home Office does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Information on spending and staffing can be found in the Department's annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 18/09/2024 10:56:12 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
	tabling member	5158

1727495

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2024
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the increasing number of migrant deaths when attempting to cross the English Channel.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Channel crossing attempts by migrants in small boats have always been lethally dangerous, with the Channel being a very busy shipping lane. The first recorded fatalities occurred in August 2019. Since the start of 2024, there have been 12 fatal incidents involving the deaths of 37 people. Crossings are getting more and more dangerous as time goes on, with the danger and the risk rising as quality of boats deteriorates and more people are crammed on board.</p><p>The ‘vessels’ used to make these crossings are not of commercial manufacture. They are poorly constructed, from cheap and flimsy materials, are unseaworthy, underpowered, and lack safety equipment. They founder frequently, and for each fatal incident there are plenty of other near misses where boats have begun to deflate and people have gone in the water.</p><p>The criminal gangs who facilitate these crossings have no interest in the welfare of their clients, only in the pursuit of profit. It is for this reason that boats are increasingly seen to be overcrowded, with the most vulnerable packed into the middle of the boat where crushing and other injuries, such as fuel burns, become more likely.</p><p>We are working closely with the French to reduce the risk to life from these crossings and with partners across Europe to bring the evil people smuggling gangs to justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint question first answered 18/09/2024 10:26:51 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1728431

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	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 absconded from immigration detention in each year since 2004.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	5104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on escapes from immigration detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on escapes from detention centres and absconds from escort is published by year in table Det_05a of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">Detention summary tables</a>’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The published data covers the period from 2017 to 2023. Data prior to 2017 is not published. Data for the year 2024 is due to be published in the August 2025 edition of the publication.</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 18/09/2024 09:09:00 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1728386

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Crime Prevention
	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 is taking to support primary prevention regarding violence against women and girls.
	tabling member constituency	Nuneaton
	tabling member printed	Jodie Gosling
	uin	4954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>This Government will treat tackling violence against women and girls as a national emergency and prevention will be a key element of our approach.</p><p>With a mission to halve violence against women and girls within a decade.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Birmingham Yardley answering member printed Jess Phillips question first answered 17/09/2024 16:48:10 answering member 4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips
	tabling member	5036

1728248

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees
	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 take steps to extend the move-on period for newly-recognised refugees to a minimum of 56 days.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Tom Hayes
	uin	4816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The government is aware of the need for a smooth transition out of asylum accommodation for recognised refugees. The Home Office works closely with MHCLG on ensuring move-on works effectively, so that those granted refugee status can integrate into society and work.</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 17/09/2024 16:40:00 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	5210