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1715574

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of (a) women and (b) men who have arrived in the UK by small boat in 2024 are receiving accommodation support.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	24625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C313b13c71f7f483755b908dc6b5c351e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638503290962287066%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=UQ8Br%2B8YcwTIKjrL7xpqpm3w1ch6HYe2tvQGV3mOiPM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates by method of arrival.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 08/05/2024 15:22:31 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1715577

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women have been detained pending deportation to Rwanda.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	24626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Individuals who were previously present in a safe third country and entered the UK by a dangerous and unnecessary method are liable to be relocated to Rwanda. As this is an ongoing operational matter it would be inappropriate to provide a running commentary on individual cases or numbers.</p><p>The Home Office publishes statistics on people in immigration detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. The number of people in detention at the end of each quarter are in table Det_D02 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">‘Detention detailed datasets</a>’, where the data can be broken down to identify the number of women. The latest data relate to as at the end of December 2023. Data as at the end of March 2024 will be published on 23 May 2024.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24627 question first answered 08/05/2024 15:21:08 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1715578

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the people identified by his Department as eligible for deportation to Rwanda are women.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	24627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Individuals who were previously present in a safe third country and entered the UK by a dangerous and unnecessary method are liable to be relocated to Rwanda. As this is an ongoing operational matter it would be inappropriate to provide a running commentary on individual cases or numbers.</p><p>The Home Office publishes statistics on people in immigration detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. The number of people in detention at the end of each quarter are in table Det_D02 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">‘Detention detailed datasets</a>’, where the data can be broken down to identify the number of women. The latest data relate to as at the end of December 2023. Data as at the end of March 2024 will be published on 23 May 2024.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24626 question first answered 08/05/2024 15:21:08 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1715159

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had recent discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on tackling underage drinking in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Crime and policing in Northern Ireland are devolved matters and fall within the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Executive.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/05/2024 16:52:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715167

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: France
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 the UK-France Joint Leader's Declaration, published by the Prime Minister's Office on 10 March 2023, from which budget the UK's contribution to the joint funding arrangement for the operational plan on illegal migration will come; and whether details of those payments are published regularly in transparency data.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	24423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The funding to deliver the UK-France Joint Leader's Declaration is sourced from a combination of baseline Home Office allocations; and part of the additional funding the Home Office receives in relation to the 10 Point Plan on Illegal Migration.</p><p>Details of this funding are not published as part of the department’s Migration Transparency Data.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 07/05/2024 14:52:41 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1715169

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
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 26 April 2024 to Question 23168 on Asylum: Rwanda, how many immigration removal centres make up the detention capacity of around 2200 people; and if he will list those centres.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	24418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office currently operates seven immigration removal centres (IRCs) throughout the UK (six in England and one in Scotland); Harmondsworth and Colnbrook IRCs at Heathrow; Brook House and Tinsley House IRCs at Gatwick; Derwentside IRC in County Durham; Yarl’s Wood IRC in Bedfordshire and Dungavel House IRC in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.</p><p>As of 24 April, the Home Office has the capacity to detain around 2,200 people in IRCs, including those liable for removal to Rwanda.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24420 question first answered 07/05/2024 14:06:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1715221

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting and Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of scrapping the £200 summary offence rule for shoplifting and theft.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	24524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Since 2010 our communities are safer, with neighbourhood crimes including burglary, robbery and theft from the person down 48% and overall violent crime down 44%, and with more police officers on the streets than in 2010.</p><p>However, there has been a worrying rise in shoplifting and violence towards retail workers, which we need to address.</p><p>Police Recorded Crime figures show shoplifting offences increased by 37% in the 12 months to December 2023. Although, the number of people charged with shoplifting offences in the same period rose by 46%, showing the police are heeding the message and taking action.</p><p>The Government has taken a number of recent significant steps to reduce and prevent retail crime. Our plan – &quot;Fighting retail crime: more action&quot; was launched on 10 April, which highlights five areas of work this Government will drive forward to tackle retail crime. This will include us introducing a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. We will develop a retail theft electronic monitoring (EM) ‘package’, to offer sentencers starting in a pilot area, a clear community sentence pathway for repeat retail theft offenders.</p><p>This builds on the police-led Retail Crime Action Plan, which includes a commitment to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Figures published by the NPCC show early signs of progress.</p><p>Furthermore, we will bring forward legislative changes to introduce a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. This legislative change will provide that on the third sentencing occasion, an offender would be electronically monitored as part of any community sentence or post-release for the duration of any licence period.</p><p>Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, low-value shoplifting (value of £200 or less) is a summary offence, unless an adult elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution.</p><p>Police-led prosecutions were introduced to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system by allowing for a simpler, more proportionate police-led process in high-volume, low-level, uncontested cases. This route enables cases to be handled more speedily, rather than cases having to go to the CPS and through the Crown Court.</p><p>Repealing this would mean victims of shoplifting have to wait longer for cases to come to court.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 24525 question first answered 13/05/2024 16:54:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1715223

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce rates of shoplifting in Portsmouth.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	24525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Since 2010 our communities are safer, with neighbourhood crimes including burglary, robbery and theft from the person down 48% and overall violent crime down 44%, and with more police officers on the streets than in 2010.</p><p>However, there has been a worrying rise in shoplifting and violence towards retail workers, which we need to address.</p><p>Police Recorded Crime figures show shoplifting offences increased by 37% in the 12 months to December 2023. Although, the number of people charged with shoplifting offences in the same period rose by 46%, showing the police are heeding the message and taking action.</p><p>The Government has taken a number of recent significant steps to reduce and prevent retail crime. Our plan – &quot;Fighting retail crime: more action&quot; was launched on 10 April, which highlights five areas of work this Government will drive forward to tackle retail crime. This will include us introducing a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. We will develop a retail theft electronic monitoring (EM) ‘package’, to offer sentencers starting in a pilot area, a clear community sentence pathway for repeat retail theft offenders.</p><p>This builds on the police-led Retail Crime Action Plan, which includes a commitment to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Figures published by the NPCC show early signs of progress.</p><p>Furthermore, we will bring forward legislative changes to introduce a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops. This legislative change will provide that on the third sentencing occasion, an offender would be electronically monitored as part of any community sentence or post-release for the duration of any licence period.</p><p>Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, low-value shoplifting (value of £200 or less) is a summary offence, unless an adult elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution.</p><p>Police-led prosecutions were introduced to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system by allowing for a simpler, more proportionate police-led process in high-volume, low-level, uncontested cases. This route enables cases to be handled more speedily, rather than cases having to go to the CPS and through the Crown Court.</p><p>Repealing this would mean victims of shoplifting have to wait longer for cases to come to court.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 24524 question first answered 13/05/2024 16:54:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1715229

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to announce whether he plans to extend the seasonal agricultural workers scheme beyond December 2024.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	24490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government keeps the Seasonal Worker route under close review, and we will say more in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/05/2024 14:27:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1715233

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Republic of Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the operational agreement with the Irish government on the return of asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	24419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>In 2020, we agreed operational arrangements which allow for the return and readmission of asylum seekers where this is agreed by both participants. This is a non-legally binding arrangement relating to operational procedures, which we do not routinely publish.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/05/2024 16:13:01 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson