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1717970

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	Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it remains his Department's policy to end the criminalisation of rough sleeping.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	26216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>Nobody should be criminalised for simply having nowhere to live. That is why we are committed to bringing into force the repeal of the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824.</p><p>We have tabled amendments for Report stage of the Bill which will bring the Repeal of the Vagrancy Act into force three months after the Criminal Justice Bill receives Royal Assent.</p><p>At this same time, the provisions on nuisance begging and nuisance rough sleeping in the Criminal Justice Bill will also come into force.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/05/2024 13:56:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1717633

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vagrancy Act 1824
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 his Department's publication entitled Repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet, updated on 20 August 2022, whether he plans to repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 once the Criminal Justice Bill is passed.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	25920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>Nobody should be criminalised for simply being having nowhere to live. That is why we are committed to bringing into force the repeal of the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824.</p><p>We have tabled amendments for Report stage of the Bill which will bring the Repeal of the Vagrancy Act into force three months after the Criminal Justice Bill receives Royal Assent.</p><p>At this same time, the provisions on nuisance begging and nuisance rough sleeping in the Criminal Justice Bill will also come into force.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/05/2024 16:12:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1669661

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	Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the time taken to bring forward legislative proposals to replace the Vagrancy Act 1824 on the number of arrests of rough sleepers.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	1696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not collect figures on police usage of the Vagrancy Act where this does not result in prosecution.</p><p>As the Government made clear at the time, the repeal of the Vagrancy Act will be brought into force once suitable replacement legislation is in place to ensure local authorities and police have the powers, they need to support vulnerable individuals and keep communities safe.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/11/2023 15:21:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1541862

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Disclosure of Information
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) non-disclosure and (b) other confidentiality agreements relating to (i) employment, (ii) bullying, (iii) misconduct and (iii) harassment cases have been agreed by their Department in each year since 1 January 2010; and how much money from the public purse has been spent on (a) legal costs and (b) financial settlements for such agreements in each year since 1 January 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	86578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2022 answer text <p>Since the last Parliamentary Question on this issue (UIN 243415, tabled on 10 April 2019), from the records examined there have been no further non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements placed upon Home Office staff.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 17/11/2022 14:09:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1307940

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hassockfield Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's rationale is for building a new immigration detention centre on the site at Hassockfield Secure Training at Meadomsley, County Durham; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	179475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The immigration removal estate is kept under ongoing review to ensure that the Home Office has sufficient resilience, geographical footprint and capacity for the men and women it proves necessary to detain for the purposes of removal, while providing value for money.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has acquired the former Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in County Durham and will open it as an immigration removal centre for women by the autumn. The Hassockfield site is already a government asset. By utilising an existing secure site, the Home Office is delivering the most cost-effective option for maintaining immigration detention capacity, as part of its plans to manage the closure and return of the Morton Hall immigration removal centre to Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/04/2021 08:38:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1241155

registered interest
date	07/10/2020
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: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on what mail is opened by Border Force.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	100529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>Border Force routinely carries out risk based inspections of post and parcels imported into the UK. The purpose of this is to both deter and prevent the entry of goods that would harm the national interest and the safety of its citizens.</p><p>Section 159 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 as amended by regulation 7 of the Postal Packets (Revenue and Customs) Regulations 2011 provides the power for designated Customs officials to inspect, and open, any postal packet for the purpose of examining anything that designated Customs officials suspect it may contain, for example, goods which may not have duty paid or are prohibited or restricted. The interception of postal communications for investigatory purposes is not undertaken by Border Force, and can only be authorised for a competent authority by a warrant under Part 2 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/10/2020 09:28:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1238700

registered interest
date	29/09/2020
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: Postal Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of items of post entering the UK from (a) the Netherlands and (b) other EU member states opened by the Border Force (i) in the last five years and (ii) since 31 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	97012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2020 answer text <p>Border Force does not hold the data requested in an accessible format.</p><p>Border Force routinely carries out risk based inspections of post and parcels imported into the UK. The purpose of this is to both deter and prevent the entry of goods that would harm the national interest and the safety of its citizens.</p><p>Section 159 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 as amended by regulation 7 of the Postal Packets (Revenue and Customs) Regulations 2011 provides the power for designated Customs officials to inspect, and open, any postal packet for the purpose of examining anything that designated Customs officials suspect it may contain, for example, goods which may not have duty paid or are prohibited or restricted. A warrant is not obtained as it is not required for postal packet inspections.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/10/2020 15:55:31 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1183139

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	EU Nationals: Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-EU citizens with pre-settled status have been detained by border police and subsequently released.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	25729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>Border Force does not hold the data requested in an accessible format.</p><p>All arrivals at the UK Border are considered on their individual merits and on the basis of the evidence available, in line with the UK’s immigration rules.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/06/2020 13:08:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran