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1247126

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detection Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of unsolved crime in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	109396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the investigative outcomes of crimes, including those that are still under investigation, on a quarterly basis. The data is available for England and for Police Force Area level and the most recently published data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>The Home Office does not collect outcome data at lower levels of geography, such as local authority.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/11/2020 17:21:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1247130

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
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 total number of alcohol-related crimes committed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	109400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>Information on the total number of alcohol-related crimes is not available. However, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) routinely publish estimates on the number of violent offences where the offender was under the influence of alcohol, as part of their annual ‘Nature of violent Crime’ statistics. This includes data for the past 5 years and the latest data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/natureofcrimetablesviolence" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/natureofcrimetablesviolence</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/11/2020 10:36:12 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1247232

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	English Language: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of adding the details of which English language testing centres are operational to her Department's webpage entitled UK Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for UK visa applicants and temporary UK residents.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	109478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office will update the published list of approved English Language test centres (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prove-your-english-language-abilities-with-a-secure-english-language-test-selt" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prove-your-english-language-abilities-with-a-secure-english-language-test-selt</a>) to include reference to which centres are currently operational and which are temporarily closed due to Covid-19 related issues.</p><p>It will also update the webpage giving advice for UK visa applicants and temporary UK residents (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents</a>) to include a link to the update list of test centres.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/11/2020 17:20:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1247322

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Social Distancing
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 increase support available to the police for tackling non-covid-secure protests, illegal gatherings, and other similar breaches of social distancing rules.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Holly Mumby-Croft
uin	109765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that it will provide police forces with the support they need to continue protecting the public and keeping communities safe through the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>The government continues to work closely with policing partners on the approach to managing the pandemic and on 8 October the Government announced an additional £30m for police forces in England and Wales to step up their enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions through the autumn and winter months. This includes enforcing against unlicensed music events, unlawful gatherings and protests that do not comply with Covid regulations.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/11/2020 10:44:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4867 label Biography information for Holly Mumby-Croft

1247340

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Children: Coronavirus
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 27 October 2020 to Question 105467, how many times the COVID-19 Vulnerable Children's Hub has met since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	109508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>Supporting vulnerable children and young people, in light of COVID-19, continues to be a cross-government priority. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Home Office’s Vulnerable Children Hub was quickly created at the end of March. The Hub provided a forum for cross Home Office policy making across multiple risk areas and provided a wider, cross government forum for engagement in which we developed and implemented cross cutting social policy at pace. From the period of March to early July the Hub met on a weekly or fortnightly basis during which time its work supplemented Cabinet Office led work to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing bilateral engagements between senior officials and Ministers.</p><p>The Hub also supplemented the wider Department for Education led Government response to COVID-19 for vulnerable children and has now been formally succeeded by DfE led governance structures. As part of this governance, policy officials from across government meet fortnightly to discuss key operational issues and risks in relation to vulnerable children and young people including school attendance and attainment, safeguarding and wellbeing. A Vulnerable Children and Young People Programme Board continues to meet monthly, with senior officials across several government departments in attendance to plan, track, review and challenge activity to support children and young people in response to COVID-189. A National Board also meets regularly which brings together education and care system leaders to support the development of a consistent, cross-system approach, and to better understand challenges facing children. Children’s charity CEOs are also regularly consulted by this Board.</p><p>Throughout the response to COVID-19 we undertook and continue to undertake numerous bilateral discussions with OGDs to discuss relevant policy areas to ensure we maintain collaboration and drive forward action to safeguard vulnerable children.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/11/2020 16:13:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1247400

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
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 tackle county lines drug trafficking in Sussex.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffith
uin	109777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>This Government is determined to crack down on the county lines gangs who are exploiting our children and have a devastating impact on our communities.</p><p>That is why we are delivering a £25m programme of investment to help put a stop to these ruthless gangs. Our overall package launched in October last year and includes: expanding the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre; increased disruption on the rail networks by the British Transport Police County Lines Taskforce; operational activity against high harm lines in the three major exporting force areas (the Metropolitan Police, Merseyside, West Midlands); investment in new technology; and increased support for victims. Our funding has supported joint operations across England and Wales, including with Sussex Police.</p><p>Our investment is already delivering results. Following the £5m we invested in 2019-2020, pilot police forces and British Transport Police have closed nearly 140 deal lines, seized cash and drugs with a total value of over £3 million, and made over 100 weapons seizures between November 2019 and March 2020.</p><p>In addition, between 2019 and 2021 we are investing £1.76m for the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner to develop a multi-agency Violence Reduction Unit which brings together police, local government, health and education professionals, community leaders and others to identify the drivers of serious violence, including county lines, and put in place a multi-agency response.</p><p>We have also invested £2.2million over 2019 and 2021 to ‘surge’ the operational police response to serious violence in Sussex - this has included collaborative work between Sussex Police and British Transport Police to target county lines activity on the rail network, leading to weapons seizures and arrests of key offenders.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/11/2020 10:40:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith

1247565

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
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 her Department has made of the potential merits of further (a) visa extensions and (b) reduced visa costs for NHS workers during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	109482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital contribution which overseas NHS, health and social care workers have made and continue to make in fighting the pandemic. That is why we automatically extended the visas of thousands of health professionals who had visas expiring between 31 March and 1 October, free of any charges.</p><p>On 4 August, the Government also introduced the Health and Care visa. Those who are eligible can expect a decision within three weeks of enrolling their biometrics. They, and their dependants, also pay significantly reduced visa fees and are exempt from having to pay the Immigration Health Charge.</p><p>Those who are not eligible for the Health and Care Visa may still benefit from the Department for Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) reimbursement scheme which was launched on 1 October.</p><p>We are keeping all measures under review and continuing to work closely with the DHSC to ensure individuals working in the health and care sector are supported fully.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 04/11/2020 16:14:46 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1247589

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Artificial Intelligence
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 19 October 2020 to Question 102174, what decision-making algorithms her Department uses in applications for processing indefinite leave to remain applications.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	109678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>There are no decision-making algorithms used in the processing of Indefinite Leave to Remain, EU Settled Status and Tier 2 visa applications. Every application is assessed by a decision-maker against the Immigration Rules, on its individual merits and taking into consideration the evidence provided by the applicant and any other relevant factors at the date of the decision</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 109679 109680 question first answered 04/11/2020 16:13:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1247590

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant of the Answer of 19 October 2020 to Question 102174, what decision-making algorithms her Department uses in applications for processing EU settled status applications.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	109679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>There are no decision-making algorithms used in the processing of Indefinite Leave to Remain, EU Settled Status and Tier 2 visa applications. Every application is assessed by a decision-maker against the Immigration Rules, on its individual merits and taking into consideration the evidence provided by the applicant and any other relevant factors at the date of the decision</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 109678 109680 question first answered 04/11/2020 16:13:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1247591

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Artificial Intelligence
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 19 October 2020 to Question 102174, what decision-making algorithms her Department uses in applications for processing Tier 2 visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	109680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>There are no decision-making algorithms used in the processing of Indefinite Leave to Remain, EU Settled Status and Tier 2 visa applications. Every application is assessed by a decision-maker against the Immigration Rules, on its individual merits and taking into consideration the evidence provided by the applicant and any other relevant factors at the date of the decision</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 109678 109679 question first answered 04/11/2020 16:13:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy