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1347468

registered interest
date	15/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants
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 publish an update on her Department's review into data-sharing practices between the police and immigration enforcement and measures to establish a firewall.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	33949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office are currently undertaking a review into data sharing arrangements concerning migrant victims and witnesses of crime with insecure immigration status, acting upon the recommendation within HMICFRS’s super-complaint report ‘Safe to Share?’. The review will consider initiatives that seek to encourage the reporting of crime by migrant victims and witnesses with insecure immigration status, including the further consideration of a mechanism for establishing a firewall between police and immigration enforcement services. The outcome of the review is to establish safe reporting mechanisms for victims and witnesses of crime. The review is being developed in close consultation with migrant victims representative organisations to inform and shape review conclusions. As set out in <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fid%2Fuksi%2F2021%2F736&amp;data=04%7C01%7CICENMWSWDirectorsOffice%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C4cf893e8b90f45c8f9d908d94837085f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637620223455470989%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=mPZCJnj3EDqT5t9yurBrBrImErUjdhGHOMXn8xFIynE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">legislation</a>, the review will be published by no later than 29 December 2021.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 33950 question first answered 23/07/2021 13:03:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1347469

registered interest
date	15/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle the fear of reporting to the police faced by victims of domestic abuse with insecure immigration status, including through the establishment of a firewall.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	33950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office are currently undertaking a review into data sharing arrangements concerning migrant victims and witnesses of crime with insecure immigration status, acting upon the recommendation within HMICFRS’s super-complaint report ‘Safe to Share?’. The review will consider initiatives that seek to encourage the reporting of crime by migrant victims and witnesses with insecure immigration status, including the further consideration of a mechanism for establishing a firewall between police and immigration enforcement services. The outcome of the review is to establish safe reporting mechanisms for victims and witnesses of crime. The review is being developed in close consultation with migrant victims representative organisations to inform and shape review conclusions. As set out in <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fid%2Fuksi%2F2021%2F736&amp;data=04%7C01%7CICENMWSWDirectorsOffice%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C4cf893e8b90f45c8f9d908d94837085f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637620223455470989%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=mPZCJnj3EDqT5t9yurBrBrImErUjdhGHOMXn8xFIynE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">legislation</a>, the review will be published by no later than 29 December 2021.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 33949 question first answered 23/07/2021 13:03:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1278031

registered interest
date	19/01/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that people who have been refused asylum will not become homeless 21 days after receiving their cessation letter.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	140128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office took the decision to pause cessations of asylum support on 27 March 2020, so that asylum seekers whose cases were resolved and who would no longer normally be eligible for asylum support would be able to remain in their accommodation and follow the public health guidance in place at that time.</p><p>Some “negative cessations” (where the person has been refused asylum and exhausted their appeal rights) resumed from September but were paused again in November following the imposition of stronger lockdown measures. These decisions currently remain paused pending consideration of the impact of the current coronavirus restrictions.</p><p>Failed asylum seekers have no basis of stay in the UK and are encouraged and supported to return to their countries of origin where appropriate. The Home Office will pay for the cost of their return home and provides generous reintegration assistance. Where there is a legitimate reason why a person who has been refused asylum cannot return to their country of origin, they can apply for further support from the Home Office under Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.</p><p>Before taking any decision to resume negative cessations we will continue to work with and share our approach with Public Health authorities and will work within public health guidelines and legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/01/2021 14:13:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1278032

registered interest
date	19/01/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Assisted Voluntary Return Schemes
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 used the Assisted Voluntary Return service since it re-opened in July 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	140129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’.</p><p>Data on the number of ‘Voluntary returns’ including ‘Assisted returns’ from the UK are published in Table Ret_01 of the <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2020%23returns&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=p8hdvUF2Hv7M6atU%2BqK4YTia%2Br9Dhr%2FQ4JIPmQntRzc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Returns summary tables</a>. More detailed breakdowns of the data are available in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets#returns" target="_blank">Returns detailed datasets</a>.</p><p>'Assisted returns' relate to those where people liable to removal from the UK, who wish to leave voluntarily, make an application to the Assisted Voluntary Returns Service.</p><p>The published statistics relate to the number of returns from the UK, and may not include all those who have used the voluntary return service (such as those who are awaiting a return, or who did not qualify for the service).</p><p>The latest data on returns relates to the year ending June 2020. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns.</p><p>Figures on the number of people returned in the year ending September 2020 will be published on 25 February 2021.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/01/2021 14:42:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1238768

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	Human Trafficking: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government is planning to expand Independent Child Trafficking Guardians to the local authorities that currently have none.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	96914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2020 answer text <p>Following previous questions and the commitment given to UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Change of Conditions information is now part of the transparency data which can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fimmigration-protection-data-august-2020&amp;data=02%7C01%7CClaire.MacCormac1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C79efffd19db94705397d08d858b7b79a%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637356893362295720&amp;sdata=vemJAzel3ZzElus8LjU0kVbDHyTagYP1noWNdKQm30I%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-protection-data-august-2020</a>. The relevant data is in tab CoC_01.</p><p>Currently we cannot provide the data that you have requested because this information is not readily available and would require a more detailed examination of all Change of Conditions cases to establish whether the data requested is held and would meet the quality requirements for release.</p><p>As part of the regular publication of this data the Home Office will review whether the data can be meaningfully broken down any further. The next update of this data is due to be published in November 2020.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/10/2020 17:18:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1197493

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood 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, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2020 to question 34992, on Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Coronavirus, how many new detainees that centre has accepted since the start of covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	49711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The safety and health of people in the detention estate are of the utmost importance. We are following all Public Health England guidance and have robust contingency plans in place.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on people in immigration detention in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of entries into immigration detention by place of initial detention are published in table DET_D01 of the immigration detention detailed datasets. Figures covering the first quarter of 2020 were released on 21st May 2020. In this dataset, figures for Yarl’s Wood include the individuals entering the Yarls Wood immigration removal centre, and clandestine arrivals entering the adjacent Midlands Intake Unit (a short-term holding facility) who are processed before being dispersed through appropriate routes. Those being held for processing spend very short periods of time at the Yarl’s Wood short-term holding facility and may only be held for a maximum of seven days.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.</p><p>There are currently no cases of COVID-19 in IRCs</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/06/2020 10:15:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1188186

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres: Coronavirus
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 (a) prevent cross-infection and (b) tackle transmission of covid-19 in (i) Yarl's Wood and (ii) other immigration removal centres.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	37707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2020 answer text <p>We take the welfare of the detainees in our care very seriously. In line with Public Health England guidance, measures such as protective isolation are considered on a case by case basis to minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading to vulnerable groups in the immigration detention estate. Further measures including shielding, single occupancy rooms and the cessation of social visits have been introduced in line with the Government direction on social distancing. In light of this, detainees have been provided with additional mobile phone credit to ensure they are able to contact friends and families while social visits have been stopped.</p><p>Detainees arriving at an Immigration Removal Centre are medically assessed by a nurse within two hours of their arrival and are offered an appointment with a doctor within 24 hours. Detainees also have access to medical assistance whilst they are in an IRC.</p><p>There are currently no cases of Covid-19 in IRCs. On 26 March, the High Court ruled that our approach to detention and Coronavirus was sensible, with the appropriate precautionary measures in place.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 01/06/2020 11:34:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1187736

registered interest
date	25/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre has accepted new detainees since the start of the covid-19 outbreak; and what steps that centre is taking to ensure that new detainees are not exposed to that disease.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	34992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to removing those who violate our immigration rules and foreign national offenders. Detention plays a key role in securing our borders and maintaining effective immigration control. On that basis, Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre will continue to accept new detainees.</p><p>All detainees received into Yarl’s Wood receive a nurse triage within two hours and are offered a doctor’s appointment within 24 hours.</p><p>In line with Public Health England guidance, measures such as protective isolation are considered on a case by case basis to minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading to vulnerable groups in the immigration detention estate. Further measures including single occupancy rooms and cessation of social visits have been introduced in line with the Government direction on social distancing.</p><p>There are currently no cases of COVID-19 in immigration removal centres.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/05/2020 08:08:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1187500

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
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, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policy on immigration detention of the 17 March 2020 report by Professor Richard Coker on the risk of infection from covid-19 to (a) vulnerable women asylum seekers and (b) other detainees.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	34361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>There are currently no cases of COVID-19 in immigration removal centres.</p><p> </p><p>The safety and health of people in the detention and asylum estates is of the utmost importance. The Home Office has robust contingency plans in place and continues to follow national guidance issued by Public Health England (PHE), Health Protection Scotland and the National Health Service, including the interim advice on preventing and controlling outbreaks of Covid-19 in prisons and other prescribed places of detention, which was first published on 16 March.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all immigration removal centres have communicable disease contingency plans, based on PHE advice, and dedicated health facilities run by doctors and nurses which are managed by the NHS or appropriate providers. All receptions into detention receive an assessment within two hours by a nurse and can see a doctor within 24 hours.</p><p> </p><p>Anybody who is destitute and has an outstanding asylum claim or appeal against a refusal to grant asylum can apply for support and accommodation, including those who are being released from detention. The Home Office is working closely with colleagues in Public Health England as well as with accommodation providers to ensure we have appropriate arrangements in place for anybody leaving detention who is receiving asylum support and/or living in asylum accommodation and who is required to self-isolate and providing them with advice and guidance via our AIRE Provider, Migrant Help.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally the Secretary of State may provide accommodation and support for a foreign national offender who is subject to a residency condition and are either considered to pose a high risk or harm to the public or be suffering from a serious physical or mental health problem.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 34364 question first answered 21/04/2020 14:56:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1187580

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to provide people being released from (a) Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre and (b) other immigration removal centres with (i) accommodation and (ii) support so that they can self-isolate; and what steps she is taking to ensure that access to accommodation is not a barrier to their release.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	34364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>There are currently no cases of COVID-19 in immigration removal centres.</p><p> </p><p>The safety and health of people in the detention and asylum estates is of the utmost importance. The Home Office has robust contingency plans in place and continues to follow national guidance issued by Public Health England (PHE), Health Protection Scotland and the National Health Service, including the interim advice on preventing and controlling outbreaks of Covid-19 in prisons and other prescribed places of detention, which was first published on 16 March.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all immigration removal centres have communicable disease contingency plans, based on PHE advice, and dedicated health facilities run by doctors and nurses which are managed by the NHS or appropriate providers. All receptions into detention receive an assessment within two hours by a nurse and can see a doctor within 24 hours.</p><p> </p><p>Anybody who is destitute and has an outstanding asylum claim or appeal against a refusal to grant asylum can apply for support and accommodation, including those who are being released from detention. The Home Office is working closely with colleagues in Public Health England as well as with accommodation providers to ensure we have appropriate arrangements in place for anybody leaving detention who is receiving asylum support and/or living in asylum accommodation and who is required to self-isolate and providing them with advice and guidance via our AIRE Provider, Migrant Help.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally the Secretary of State may provide accommodation and support for a foreign national offender who is subject to a residency condition and are either considered to pose a high risk or harm to the public or be suffering from a serious physical or mental health problem.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 34361 question first answered 21/04/2020 14:56:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips