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1658562

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to take steps to prevent the appearance of pop-up knife advertisements on social media.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	198110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Under measures in the Knives Act 1997 it is an offence to market a knife in a way which indicates, or suggests, that it is suitable for combat, or is otherwise likely to encourage violent behaviour involving the use of the knife as a weapon. A person found guilty of this offence on indictment can face up to 2 years imprisonment or a fine or both.</p><p>We are also introducing the Online Safety Bill which is currently in its final stages in Parliament. The legislation will achieve Royal Assent this Autumn and Ofcom’s powers will commence shortly after.</p><p>For the first time in the UK, tech companies are going to be accountable to an independent regulator to keep their users, particularly children, safe. They will need to remove and limit the spread of illegal content. This means less illegal content online and when it does appear it will be removed quicker.</p><p>Schedule 7 of the Bill sets out a series of priority offences which includes the sale of weapons online, including sales from online marketplaces. Companies will need to take particularly robust action to prevent the proliferation of this content online and ensure that their services are not used for offending. This means companies will need to proactively mitigate the risk that their services are used for illegal activity including removing any content that does appear as soon as they are made aware of it.</p><p>In addition, as part of DCMS' Online Advertising Programme, the government will introduce a new and targeted regulatory framework for paid-for online advertising, which will focus on tackling illegal advertising and increasing the protection of children and young people from adverts for products and services that are illegal to sell.</p><p>DCMS will be issuing a consultation on the details of the proposed regulation in due course and have convened a ministerially-led industry taskforce to drive forward non-legislative action meanwhile.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/09/2023 16:05:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1658611

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ukrainian refugees are awaiting biometric residence permits; for what reasons there have been delays in processing those permits; and what the average wait time was to receiving a permit in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	198050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The information is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 14:24:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1658692

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Havering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on accommodation for asylum seekers within the London Borough of Havering in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	198062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information.</p><p>Total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fho-annual-reports-and-accounts&amp;data=05%7C01%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C702565595a4b478feda208dbafa79eb4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638296906670212989%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=C5z2Tq4z9%2FmWdF2h2B7nAmAUXlVzU%2FvTc4UwAr6MHGM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts(opens in a new tab)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 198063 question first answered 11/09/2023 09:40:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1658693

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Havering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on private security firms for asylum seeker accommodation within the London Borough of Havering in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	198063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information.</p><p>Total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fho-annual-reports-and-accounts&amp;data=05%7C01%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C702565595a4b478feda208dbafa79eb4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638296906670212989%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=C5z2Tq4z9%2FmWdF2h2B7nAmAUXlVzU%2FvTc4UwAr6MHGM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts(opens in a new tab)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 198062 question first answered 11/09/2023 09:40:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1658796

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
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	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 reduce (a) hare coursing, (b) theft and damage to farm equipment and (c) other rural crime; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	198036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to driving down rural crime, which is why we are providing funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit and the National Rural Crime Unit (NRCU).</p><p>The Home Office committed to provide one-off funding of £200,000 to the NRCU this year to assist with set up costs of the new unit. The NRCU will provide support to forces nationally in their responses to rural crime, such as the theft of farming or construction machinery, livestock theft, rural fly tipping, rural fuel theft and equine crime.</p><p>Police Uplift Programme (PUP) funding has been used to tackle rural crime by forces and led to the formation of new teams and to bolster capabilities.</p><p>New measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act came into force on 1st August 2022, which empower and equip the police and courts with the powers they need to combat hare coursing. These powers included creating two new criminal offences; trespass with the intention of using a dog to search for or pursue a hare; and being equipped to trespass with the intention of using a dog to search for or pursue a hare.</p><p>The Government supported the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023, which will help to prevent the theft of agricultural equipment such as quad bikes by requiring immobilisers and forensic markings to be fitted before new equipment is sold to customers, and equipment to be registered on a database. The Act gained Royal Assent on 20 July.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/09/2023 11:23:32 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1658811

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Spiking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish her Department's statutory report on spiking.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	198094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p><strong><em> </em></strong>The Government is committed to producing and publishing a report on the prevalence and nature of spiking and the action that we are and will take to tackle it.</p><p>The report is yet to be laid before Parliament, but we aim to do so as soon as practical, later this Autumn.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 11/09/2023 16:23:41 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1658114

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proscribed Organisations: Prosecutions
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 charged with membership of a proscribed organisation in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	197784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Investigations into the activities of proscribed organisations or individuals who may be members of proscribed organisations are an operational matter for the police and intelligence agencies.</p><p>The Government publishes quarterly national statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent relevant legislation in Great Britain. This includes information on arrests, charges and convictions for proscription offences. The most recent publication up to year ending March 2023, was published on 08 June on GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-quarterly-update-to-march-2023/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-and-subsequent-legislation-arrests-outcomes-and-stop-and-search-great-britain-quarterly-u#arrests-outcomes" target="_blank">Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes, and stop and search, Great Britain, quarterly update to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 11/09/2023 15:10:38 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1658129

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Bail: Electronic Tagging
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 were electronically tagged as a condition of immigration bail as of 1 September 2023; and what was the cost to the public purse of electronic tagging in immigration cases in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	197721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Foreign nationals who commit crimes here in the UK will face the full force of the law, including deportation at the earliest opportunity for those eligible.</p><p> </p><p>In some cases, where deportation is delayed, individuals may be released on electronic monitoring as a condition of immigration bail, pending deportation.</p><p> </p><p>Since 14 June 2022, we have been piloting the use of EM with a small cohort of individuals who have arrived in the UK through illegal and dangerous routes.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 16:48:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1658130

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits
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 of biometric residence permits that have been issued with incorrect information in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	197722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The information is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 09:27:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1658251

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Visits: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on removing barriers to (a) school and (b) other group travel between the UK and France.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	197839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>All visitors to the United Kingdom are expected to hold a valid passport and visa where necessary. France has its own rules on entry requirements.</p><p>As part of an overall agreement on migration reached with France during the March Leaders’ Summit between the Prime Minister and the French President, we committed to easing travel between our two countries for school children on organised trips. Work is now under way to operationalise these arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 13:41:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith