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1713849

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which homelessness stakeholders he has met since his appointment.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	23793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities lead on homelessness and rough sleeping and as such have regular meetings with stakeholders.</p><p>The Home Office has additionally engaged with police, local authorities, Police and Crime Commissioners and other organisations including the homelessness sector on this topic. This has highlighted that more direct tools were needed to respond to begging and rough sleeping where it causes nuisance to others.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 01/05/2024 16:11:54 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1696857

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Weaver Vale
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to end the use of hotels in Weaver Vale constituency for (a) adults and (b) children seeking asylum.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	19169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>By the end of this month, we will have successfully closed 100 hotels. We continue to work with accommodation providers on closing further hotels across the estate and will write to local authorities and MPs when a decision to close a site has been made.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/03/2024 12:04:26 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1696858

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing exit plans from hotel accommodation to give settled residents 56 days notice.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	19170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>Since September 2023, all individuals receive a minimum of 28 days’ support (including accommodation) after being issued with a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP). There are no current plans to extend the 28 days prescribed in legislation due to the huge pressures on the asylum system.</p><p>We offer move on support to all individuals through Migrant Help or their partner organisation. This includes providing advice on accessing the labour market, on applying for Universal Credit and signposting to local authorities for assistance with housing. Individuals do not need to wait for their BRP to make a claim for benefits and are encouraged to do so as early as possible if they require them.</p><p>We work closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) to ensure the right asylum decision data is being shared with local authorities to enable effective planning and to lessen the impact on existing homelessness and rough sleeping pressures. Our accommodation providers are directly working with local authorities to notify them when an individual is due to have their asylum support ended. We are working with our partners, including local authorities, to provide timely notification of key events that impact them. We are working with our Strategic Migration Partners (SMPs) to facilitate regional sessions with councils and to share data.</p><p>We are also utilising Home Office Liaison Officers (HOLOs) to replicate part of the Afghan resettlement move on process. We have been working in three local authority areas since December 2023; Glasgow, Brent and Hillingdon. This has now been expanded to Manchester and Liverpool.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/03/2024 12:01:45 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1685144

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Grenfell Tower Inquiry
	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 report entitled Progress against the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations, published on 29 June 2023, if he will publish an updated report.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	11535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes a detailed bi-annual progress tracker on implementation of the Phase 1 recommendations. The next iteration is due to be published shortly.</p><p>The tracker can be found on the gov.uk website under Grenfell Progress Tracker. The June 2023 tracker reported the following overall completion rates:</p><ul><li>31 of the 46 recommendations completed overall.</li><li>10 out of 15 recommendations for Government (more detail on the five outstanding recommendations, which relate to evacuation, is set out below).</li><li>13 out of the 14 for LFB only.</li><li>1 out of the 9 for all FRSs. FRSs have, however, reported to the NFCC completion of 91% of their actions on average, but national recommendations cannot be signed off as complete until all 44 services have completed all actions in full.</li></ul><p>7 out of 8 for other bodies including other emergency services.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/01/2024 15:21:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1681107

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans
	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 a recent assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that people who (a) live in high-rise buildings and (b) cannot self-evacuate have personal emergency evacuation plans.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	9058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>Government consulted on personal emergency evacuation plans, identifying concerns over their practicality, proportionality and safety.</p><p>A new package of measures to address these concerns was consulted on, and government is currently considering the responses and will publish a response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 17/01/2024 14:44:01 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1669725

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
	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 the recommendations from phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry have been implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	1702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government published the 6<sup>th</sup> bi-annual progress tracker on implementation of the Phase 1 recommendations on 29 June on gov.uk and Fire England.</p><p>This reported that 31 of the 46 recommendations have been completed overall. This includes the following completion rates:</p><p>· 10 out of 15 recommendations for Government.</p><p>· 13 out of the 14 for LFB only.</p><p>· 1 out of the 9 for all fire and rescue services (FRSs). FRSs have, however, reported completion rates of 91% of their actions on average, but national recommendations cannot be signed off as complete until all 44 services have completed all actions in full.</p><p>7 out of 8 for other bodies including other emergency services.</p><p>Government remains committed to overseeing the delivery of all of the Phase 1 recommendations. The 7<sup>th</sup> tracker is due to be published shortly and will report on the further progress made by FRSs and Government.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/11/2023 10:07:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1663669

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of people served with a seven-day notice to quit accommodation when section 95 support was ceased who were without alternative accommodation on leaving that accommodation in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	201523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/10/2023 09:47:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1656573

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Ibrahim Faraj
	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 25 July 2023 to Question 194471 on Court Orders: Children, if she will investigate the circumstances under which Ibrahim Faraj was taken out of the UK on 12 November 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	196384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>The UK’s Joint International Crime Centre based in the National Crime Agency are working with Cheshire police following the abduction of Ibrahim Faraj from the UK last year.</p><p>FCDO officials met with the family in July to discuss this case. It would be inappropriate for us to comment further. The FCDO provides consular assistance to British nationals overseas; they do not provide assistance to foreign nationals outside the UK even if they usually live in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 08/09/2023 07:43:03 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1654058

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Passenger Ships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public purse was of proposals to accommodate asylum seekers on cruise ships in (a) Liverpool and (b) Edinburgh.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	194887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>There is an urgent need to reduce reliance on hotels to accommodate asylum seekers, to reduce cost to taxpayer, to better manage community impacts and to better support asylum seekers. In exploring potential alternative large sites, we continue to consider all available options to source appropriate and cost-effective temporary accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We work closely with stakeholders, including local authorities and our contractors, to ensure that accommodation provided for those seeking asylum is suitable. As per standard practice, audited costs for large accommodation sites will be published through the Home Office annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 25/07/2023 14:36:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1653513

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Court Orders: Children
	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 adequacy of the systems used by the Border Force to prevent children subject to court orders from travelling abroad.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	194471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office receives information relating to people entering and leaving the UK from air, rail and maritime carriers. This information is shared with the Police.</p><p> </p><p>The systems used to prevent children subject to court orders from travelling overseas are operated by Counter Terrorist Police on behalf of territorial policing.</p><p>Port Alert Orders are signed and issued by a Judge at the Family Court; they are in response to an immediate threat that a child is at risk of being taken out of the UK. Due to the immediacy of the risk, the Judge will usually authorise the Order for a timebound period e.g. 28 days. Once signed, the Court, Solicitor or parent / guardian applicant sends a copy of the order to the police.</p><p> </p><p>If the child attempts to travel out of the UK (in a name / passport provided to the police), then an intervention will take place by uniform policing colleagues at the port the child is leaving from.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 25/07/2023 15:14:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury