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1666624

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places of worship of religion have applied for funding through the Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	203940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme provides physical protective security measures, such as CCTV, intruder alarms and secure perimeter fencing to places of worship and associated faith community centres that are particularly vulnerable to religiously or racially motivated hate crime in England and Wales.</p><p>In the first seven years of the scheme between 2016 and 2022, the Home Office approved protective security measures at 523 places of worship across England and Wales: 225 mosques, 201 churches, 47 gurdwaras, 38 Hindu temples, and 12 places of worship of other faiths.</p><p>The Home Office is currently processing applications for this year’s scheme with a view to informing applicants of the outcome in the near future.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 203941 question first answered 25/10/2023 15:47:22 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1666625

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Protective Security for Mosques Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications have been received for the Protective Security for Mosques Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	203941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme provides physical protective security measures, such as CCTV, intruder alarms and secure perimeter fencing to places of worship and associated faith community centres that are particularly vulnerable to religiously or racially motivated hate crime in England and Wales.</p><p>In the first seven years of the scheme between 2016 and 2022, the Home Office approved protective security measures at 523 places of worship across England and Wales: 225 mosques, 201 churches, 47 gurdwaras, 38 Hindu temples, and 12 places of worship of other faiths.</p><p>The Home Office is currently processing applications for this year’s scheme with a view to informing applicants of the outcome in the near future.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 203940 question first answered 25/10/2023 15:47:22 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1666320

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Security: EU Countries
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 she made of the effectiveness of the arrangements to perform real-time security checks with EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	203686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement provides a comprehensive package of capabilities that ensures we can work with counterparts across Europe to tackle crime and terrorism, protecting the public and bringing criminals to justice.</p><p>The UK and EU Member States routinely exchange information on persons of interest, including missing and wanted individuals, and on lost and stolen documents using the INTERPOL system. There is an automated upload of incoming INTERPOL circulations to UK domestic systems. Information is available via policing systems within minutes of receipt and is available at the border within 24 hours. If the National Crime Agency is notified a case is urgent, then specific alerts can be uploaded to domestic systems more rapidly.</p><p>Delivery of technical capabilities through the International Law Enforcement Alerts Platform (I-LEAP) is further enhancing the UK’s connectivity to INTERPOL by providing UK law enforcement with real-time access to INTERPOL nominal data (people) and objects of interest (stolen motor vehicles; stolen, lost and fraudulent travel documents).</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 25/10/2023 11:10:54 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1666321

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
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 18 October 2023 to Question 202546 on Asylum: Hotels, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using hotels below three star grade as a short term option for asylum seekers, where those hotels have been deemed to meet health and safety requirements.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	203653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that destitute asylum seekers are housed in safe, habitable and fit for purpose accommodation, and that they are treated with dignity while their asylum claim is considered.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has always been clear that use of hotels as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers was a short-term measure to ensure that we met our statutory obligation. As a result of the range of measures we have implemented to stop the boats, reform the management of asylum accommodation estate and the delivery of alternative forms of accommodation sites, we are now able to stop the procurement of new asylum hotels and begin the first phase of hotel exits.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 25/10/2023 12:37:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1666370

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Driving: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of assaults recorded by motorists against protestors undertaking non-violent direct action involving the obstruction of public highways since February 2022.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	203706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It is regrettable that frustrated members of the public have been seen physically confronting protesters. While the government understands the frustration caused by protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to stop hard-working people going about their lives, there is no justification for acts of violence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The police have comprehensive powers to deal with any individual who exhibits violent or threatening behaviour. The College of Policing is the organisation which sets standards and publishes police guidance and is operationally independent. The College has recently worked with the National Police Chiefs' Council to publish National Protest Operational Advice (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>), which provides operational guidance on dealing with protests, including ensuring the safety of all those present.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In addition, the College of Policing’s Authorised Professional Practice on Public Order Public Safety (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>) was updated on 8 June 2023 and provides guidance on the policing of major events. The document signposts to the National Protest Operational Advice document.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has recently introduced new legislation in the form of the Public Order Act 2023 and amended existing provisions in the Public Order Act 1986 to ensure that the police have the powers they need to deal with highly disruptive protests. By giving the police these new powers, we will reduce the likelihood of frustrated members of the public engaging in violent or threatening behaviour in response to disruptive protests. In some cases, the use of these new powers has enabled police to clear the streets of protesters in as little as three minutes.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of assaults recorded by motorists against protesters. A review into the recording of NCHI, reporting to the Policing Minister, is underway.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">It is regrettable that frustrated members of the public have been seen physically confronting protesters. While the government understands the frustration caused by protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to stop hard-working people going about their lives, there is no justification for acts of violence.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The police have comprehensive powers to deal with any individual who exhibits violent or threatening behaviour. The College of Policing is the organisation which sets standards and publishes police guidance and is operationally independent. The College has recently worked with the National Police Chiefs' Council to publish National Protest Operational Advice (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>), which provides operational guidance on dealing with protests, including ensuring the safety of all those present.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In addition, the College of Policing’s Authorised Professional Practice on Public Order Public Safety (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>) was updated on 8 June 2023 and provides guidance on the policing of major events. The document signposts to the National Protest Operational Advice document.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has recently introduced new legislation in the form of the Public Order Act 2023 and amended existing provisions in the Public Order Act 1986 to ensure that the police have the powers they need to deal with highly disruptive protests. By giving the police these new powers, we will reduce the likelihood of frustrated members of the public engaging in violent or threatening behaviour in response to disruptive protests. In some cases, the use of these new powers has enabled police to clear the streets of protesters in as little as three minutes.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of assaults recorded by motorists against protesters.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2023 11:33:20 question first ministerially corrected 26/10/2023 08:30:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp previous answer version 103356 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1666371

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Demonstrations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made any specialist training available to police forces on (a) defusing tensions between motorists and protestors undertaking non-violent direct action involving the obstruction of public highways and (b) preventing the use of vehicles as weapons against such protestors.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	203707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>It is regrettable that frustrated members of the public have been seen physically confronting protesters. While the government understands the frustration caused by protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to stop hard-working people going about their lives, there is no justification for acts of violence.</p><p>The police have comprehensive powers to deal with any individual who exhibits violent or threatening behaviour. The College of Policing is the organisation which sets standards and publishes police guidance and is operationally independent. The College has recently worked with the National Police Chiefs' Council to publish National Protest Operational Advice (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>), which provides operational guidance on dealing with protests, including ensuring the safety of all those present.</p><p>In addition, the College of Policing’s Authorised Professional Practice on Public Order Public Safety (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>) was updated on 8 June 2023 and provides guidance on the policing of major events. The document signposts to the National Protest Operational Advice document.</p><p>The Government has recently introduced new legislation in the form of the Public Order Act 2023 and amended existing provisions in the Public Order Act 1986 to ensure that the police have the powers they need to deal with highly disruptive protests. By giving the police these new powers, we will reduce the likelihood of frustrated members of the public engaging in violent or threatening behaviour in response to disruptive protests. In some cases, the use of these new powers has enabled police to clear the streets of protesters in as little as three minutes.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of assaults recorded by motorists against protesters. A review into the recording of NCHI, reporting to the Policing Minister, is underway.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 203706 question first answered 25/10/2023 11:33:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1666381

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hamas: Arrests
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 been arrested for publicly endorsing Hamas since the attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	203670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>As of 1200hrs Monday 23<sup>rd</sup> October, as a result of Counter Terrorism Policing led investigations, there have been 6 arrests of individuals for publicly supporting Hamas.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 25/10/2023 12:20:40 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1666063

registered interest
date	19/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Wholesale Trade: Theft
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 she has made of trends in the level of thefts of (a) tobacco and alcohol and (b) other stock within the wholesale sector; and if she will meet with the Federation of Wholesale Distributors to discuss steps to reduce these levels.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the most commonly stolen items in theft incidents for all sectors, combined, as part of the Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS). The data was most recently published in May 2023 and is available at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fcrime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2022-commercial-victimisation-survey&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc480badf403a41e2a9e408dbd15de7a6%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638333973466370302%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=THL%2FoyAfuHnEt2aaHtFEwq%2BDmB9NXgROfoRTGBY2zRg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Crime against businesses: findings from the 2022 Commercial Victimisation Survey - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The sample size of the CVS is not large enough to yield reliable estimates and to assess trends in specific items that are stolen of the Wholesale sector specifically.</p><p>The Home Office works closely with retailers and trade organisations, and police partners via the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to ensure that the response to crimes affecting the retail sector is as robust as it can be. The Federation of Wholesale Distributors is represented on the NRCSG.</p><p>On a national level, the Home Office works closely with the police-led National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) to understand the crimes affecting businesses and help ensure businesses and police are working effectively together. The NBCC has published guidance on how to prevent wholesale and warehouse thefts on its website: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnbcc.police.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2b4a1044bd504c3183c708dbd15774a2%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638333945759937587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aSk5W%2FaAneCWSprHCzQk7%2BGHwu96%2FEw7RmKIMF0pdI8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">NBCC National Business Crime Centre</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2023 11:19:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666243

registered interest
date	19/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
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 been relocated to the UK under Pathway (a) 2 and (b) 3 of the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme as of 19 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	203597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The UK has made one of the largest commitments of any country to support those impacted by events in Afghanistan.</p><p>The latest published Operational data fact sheet on Afghan resettlement schemes shows the following by ACRS pathway, we have now resettled: 9,676 individuals under ACRS Pathway 1, 66 individuals under ACRS Pathway 2 and 41 individuals under ACRS Pathway 3.</p><p>Operational data is viewable at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Afghan operational data is released quarterly with the next publication due around the 23<sup>rd</sup> November 2023.</p><p>The data requested on arrival dates of pathway 2 and pathway 3 is not anticipated to be publicly released in future iterations of the quarterly Immigration system statistics. It is collected for internal and operational use only. However, arrivals by quarter can be found within the immigration statistics. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 203598 question first answered 25/10/2023 08:38:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1666244

registered interest
date	19/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the first Afghans arrived in the UK under pathway (a) two and (b) three of the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	203598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The UK has made one of the largest commitments of any country to support those impacted by events in Afghanistan.</p><p>The latest published Operational data fact sheet on Afghan resettlement schemes shows the following by ACRS pathway, we have now resettled: 9,676 individuals under ACRS Pathway 1, 66 individuals under ACRS Pathway 2 and 41 individuals under ACRS Pathway 3.</p><p>Operational data is viewable at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Afghan operational data is released quarterly with the next publication due around the 23<sup>rd</sup> November 2023.</p><p>The data requested on arrival dates of pathway 2 and pathway 3 is not anticipated to be publicly released in future iterations of the quarterly Immigration system statistics. It is collected for internal and operational use only. However, arrivals by quarter can be found within the immigration statistics. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 203597 question first answered 25/10/2023 08:38:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard