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1698271

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to improve crime reporting in relation to national heritage, including through the development of a heritage crime marker to highlight protected sites and other cultural property in police call handling.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
	uin	HL3575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2024 answer text <p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales shows neighbourhood crime is down 48% compared to findings from the year ending March 2010; however, this Government recognises the significant impact crimes affecting heritage sites can have.</p><p>The Home Office is working closely with Historic England to prevent and tackle theft from historic buildings, monuments and sites, and through the established, expert Stolen Goods Working Group, is collaborating with policing and other partners, to deliver a programme of work that will make it harder for criminals to profit financially from acquisitive crime, including heritage crime.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has encouraged the police, as part of their neighbourhood policing commitment, to work with communities to develop an understanding of the scale and extent of these crimes, whilst welcoming their commitment made last year to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry so more perpetrators can be bought to justice.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, crime prevention advice is published by Secured By Design, the police security initiative, including advice on how to improve the security of buildings and their surroundings, here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.securedbydesign.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cafe660417d7e49f90d6e08dbeff1f043%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638367594608060003%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=SCoVxRj8NCU7GMwQbc5IYvsNrDV%2BbA9K3PCjFPZ6yxE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Secured by Design - Secured by Design</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL3574 question first answered 10/04/2024 15:38:25 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

1698273

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force: Complaints
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many complaints to Border Force are not answered within the service standard of 20 days.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL3577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2024 answer text <p>The latest transparency data showing performance against service standards in relation to replies to customer complaints for UKVI, Immigration Enforcement and Border Force is available at the following: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q3-2023" target="_blank">Customer service operations data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 10/04/2024 15:37:30 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom attachment 1 file name PQ Customer Service Standards attachment HL3577 (2).xlsx title Customer service operations data: Q3 2023
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

1698274

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why no reason is given to inward travellers for being held for 6 hours; why they are offered no food or drink during such detention; and why no apology is offered when nothing untoward has been found in their travel to the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL3578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2024 answer text <p>A passenger remains liable to examination on arrival in the United Kingdom until all necessary enquiries have been concluded and a decision is made on their application for permission to enter or admission.</p><p>Anyone detained beyond two hours is detained in compliance with the relevant guidance and legislation (notably The Short Term Holding Facility Rules 2018). The detained person is informed of their bail rights and reasons for their detention, and this is explained in a language that they understand.</p><p>Temperature controlled food was temporarily withdrawn from BF managed facilities during 2023 whilst we implemented a new training and governance procedure to ensure we were complaint with current food standards. Throughout this period, we followed Government guidance, continuing to serve water, hot drinks and snacks.</p><p>We always look to minimise detention as far as possible; however, the power to detain must be retained in the interests of maintaining effective immigration control.</p><p>It would not be appropriate for Border Force to apologise for conducting legitimate border security checks.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 10/04/2024 15:38:37 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

1698275

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force: Complaints
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what procedures Border Force has in place to learn lessons from incidents of unnecessary detention or of the loss of paper-work such that a complaint takes 11 months to process.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL3579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2024 answer text <p>A Transformation Programme of work is currently underway to reduce the time taken to process incoming complaints within service level agreement. Part of the programme includes identifying and sharing lessons learned to improve the overall service at the border and monitor detention related complaints.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 10/04/2024 15:38:32 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

1698290

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Tunisia
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, have they made of the number of illegal migrants who have reached the UK from or via Tunisia in each of the last 3 years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL3594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK statistics’ release published on gov.uk. Data on detected irregular arrivals by nationality is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65d63f15188d77001603886b/irregular-migration-to-the-UK-detailed-dataset-year-ending-dec-2023.xlsx" target="_blank">Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets</a>’ with the latest data up to the end of December 2023.</p><p>Please note these statistics do not include details of countries of transit, and nationality may differ from country of origin.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 10/04/2024 15:38:12 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom attachment 1 file name irregular-migration-to-the-UK-detailed-dataset-year-ending-dec-2023 (5).xlsx title Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1698220

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of the National Audit Office’s report Investigation into asylum accommodation, published on 20 March, which found that (1) using large sites to accommodate asylum seekers could cost £46 million more than using hotels, and (2) the Home Office rated their own plans as “high risk or undeliverable”, why the large sites accommodation programme will be continued.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Leicester
	uin	HL3561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government has always been clear that the use of asylum hotels is unacceptable, and that’s why we acted swiftly to reduce the impact on local communities by moving asylum seekers on to barges and former military sites.</p><p>Thanks to the actions the Government has taken to maximise the use of existing space and our work to cut small boat crossings by a third last year, the cost of hotels will fall, and we are now closing dozens of asylum hotels every month to return them to communities.</p><p>Large sites provide adequate and functional accommodation for asylum seekers and are designed to be as self-sufficient as possible, helping to minimise the impact on local communities and services. They reduce demand on an already pressured private rental market and their larger capacity allows the Home Office to be agile in responding to fluctuations in demand.</p><p>It is better value for money for the taxpayer to continue with these sites than to continue using hotels. The latest assessment of value for money, which excludes committed or spent costs in line with the Green Book methodology, shows that large sites would be £153 million cheaper than hotels.</p><p>Despite the need to stand up large sites at speed, controls were in place to assure value for money for the taxpayer. Operational challenges at the sites have changed our costs since original estimates. We continue to keep costs under review while developing ways to reduce it.</p><p>The latest Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) review has upgraded the rating of the programme, meaning that the successful delivery of time, quality and cost is feasible.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 10/04/2024 11:06:52 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4947 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Leicester

1698021

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what evidence they have for describing socialism and communism as "united by a set of grievance narratives" in the latest version of the Home Office online Prevent duty training modules amended in July 2023.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL3515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2024 answer text <p>Prevent plays a vital role in tackling radicalisation, seeking to intervene early where somebody is at risk of becoming a terrorist or supporting terrorism.</p><p>The Prevent duty training service is continually reviewed to align with the recommendations made in the Independent Review of Prevent, new Prevent Duty Guidance and CONTEST 2023. The latest update includes removal of the reference describing socialism and communism as &quot;united by a set of grievance narratives&quot; from the training module.</p><p>We will continue to improve and update the training modules to ensure that we can keep the public safe.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 08/04/2024 14:13:31 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1698039

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Rural Areas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the National Rural Crime Network’s call for the Home Office to undertake a comprehensive economic impact assessment of rural crime in its report Rural Crime: Serious, Organised and International, published on 10 March.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL3533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2024 answer text <p>We welcome the National Rural Crime Network’s report and will consider its recommendations.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling the threat from Serious and Organised Crime (SOC). In December 2023, we published the 2023 Serious and Organised Crime Strategy that commits to reducing SOC in the UK by disrupting and dismantling organised crime groups and networks operating in and against the UK.</p><p>Serious and organised crime is a major threat to the national security and prosperity of the UK. It costs lives, blights communities, hampers economic growth, and corrodes the global reputation of the UK and its institutions.</p><p>The Government welcomed the rural and wildlife crime strategy published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in September 2022, this provides a comprehensive framework through which policing, and partner agencies can work together to tackle rural and wildlife crime, including where it is linked to other forms of serious and organised crime such as the drugs trade.</p><p>The National Rural Crime Unit works closely with Interpol to share information about stolen agricultural and construction machinery. As a result of the partnership it has established with INTERPOL, equipment has been recovered from criminal gangs across Europe.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL3534 HL3535 HL3537 question first answered 08/04/2024 14:12:09 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1698040

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Rural Areas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to producing a rural crime strategy which would be fully integrated into the overall Government Crime Strategy, as called for in the National Rural Crime Network’s recent report, Rural Crime: Serious, Organised and International, published on 10 March.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL3534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2024 answer text <p>We welcome the National Rural Crime Network’s report and will consider its recommendations.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling the threat from Serious and Organised Crime (SOC). In December 2023, we published the 2023 Serious and Organised Crime Strategy that commits to reducing SOC in the UK by disrupting and dismantling organised crime groups and networks operating in and against the UK.</p><p>Serious and organised crime is a major threat to the national security and prosperity of the UK. It costs lives, blights communities, hampers economic growth, and corrodes the global reputation of the UK and its institutions.</p><p>The Government welcomed the rural and wildlife crime strategy published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in September 2022, this provides a comprehensive framework through which policing, and partner agencies can work together to tackle rural and wildlife crime, including where it is linked to other forms of serious and organised crime such as the drugs trade.</p><p>The National Rural Crime Unit works closely with Interpol to share information about stolen agricultural and construction machinery. As a result of the partnership it has established with INTERPOL, equipment has been recovered from criminal gangs across Europe.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL3533 HL3535 HL3537 question first answered 08/04/2024 14:12:09 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1698041

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Rural Areas
	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 links between wildlife offences and the drugs trade, as highlighted in the report Rural Crime: Serious, Organised and International published by the National Rural Crime Network, published on 10 March.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL3535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2024 answer text <p>We welcome the National Rural Crime Network’s report and will consider its recommendations.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling the threat from Serious and Organised Crime (SOC). In December 2023, we published the 2023 Serious and Organised Crime Strategy that commits to reducing SOC in the UK by disrupting and dismantling organised crime groups and networks operating in and against the UK.</p><p>Serious and organised crime is a major threat to the national security and prosperity of the UK. It costs lives, blights communities, hampers economic growth, and corrodes the global reputation of the UK and its institutions.</p><p>The Government welcomed the rural and wildlife crime strategy published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in September 2022, this provides a comprehensive framework through which policing, and partner agencies can work together to tackle rural and wildlife crime, including where it is linked to other forms of serious and organised crime such as the drugs trade.</p><p>The National Rural Crime Unit works closely with Interpol to share information about stolen agricultural and construction machinery. As a result of the partnership it has established with INTERPOL, equipment has been recovered from criminal gangs across Europe.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL3533 HL3534 HL3537 question first answered 08/04/2024 14:12:09 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans