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1715950

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Misconduct
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce a policy that, where police officers have been dismissed for gross misconduct, consideration will be given as to whether their police pension should be forfeited.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL4400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>A police officer’s pension can only be forfeited by a local policing body in certain circumstances, where they have been convicted of a criminal offence committed in connection with their service. This is not unique to policing and exists in other public sector pension schemes.</p><p><br> The Government has no plans to amend this policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 21/05/2024 16:52:16 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1715959

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers with children have been made homeless on achieving refugee status in the past 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered. Following the service of an asylum decision, an individual continues to be an asylum seeker for the purpose of asylum support until the end of the relevant prescribed period set out in legislation. This period is 28 calendar days from when an individual is notified of a decision to accept their asylum claim and grant them leave and we have no plans to extend this period. Whilst our legislative power is clear, we do in practice already extend support beyond this. Our current process means that individuals can remain on asylum support for at least 28 days after they have been issued a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP), which means that individuals have longer than 28 days to make arrangements to move on before their asylum support ends. It is important that individuals initiate plans to move on from asylum support as soon as they are served their asylum decision in order to maximise the time they have to make move on arrangements.</p><p>We offer move on support to all individuals through Migrant Help or their partner organisation.  This includes providing advice on accessing the labour market, on applying for Universal Credit and signposting to local authorities for assistance with housing.  Individuals do not need to wait for their BRP to make a claim for benefits and are encouraged to do so as early as possible if they require them. Individuals can contact Migrant Help in three ways:</p><ul><li>The freephone line 0808 8010 503. This is available 24/7/365</li><li>Webchat through the website at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.migranthelpuk.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMichael.Drake2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C804acf5932c34f18ba4a08dc73fd9e05%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638512780313290297%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=0%2BGCv7ZAj6bN7fGpMMtQuYiaCoIpWvRGnwYqIBUwm24%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.migranthelpuk.org</a>.</li><li>Raise an Issue via an online enquiry form, again at <a href="https://www.migranthelpuk.org" target="_blank">https://www.migranthelpuk.org</a>.</li></ul><p>We continue to identify and make efficiencies in supporting newly recognised refugees during the move on period and to mitigate the risk of homelessness. We are fully committed to working with partners in doing this. We have already worked closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) to ensure the right asylum decision data is being shared with local authorities to enable effective planning and to lessen the impact on existing homelessness and rough sleeping pressures.  We are also utilising Home Office Liaison Officers to replicate part of the Afghan resettlement move on process. We have been working in three local authority areas since December 2023; Glasgow, Brent and Hillingdon. This has now been expanded to Manchester and Liverpool.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL4413 question first answered 21/05/2024 14:55:13 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1715960

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers with at least one disabled child who have achieved refugee status have been made homeless on achieving that status in the past 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered. Following the service of an asylum decision, an individual continues to be an asylum seeker for the purpose of asylum support until the end of the relevant prescribed period set out in legislation. This period is 28 calendar days from when an individual is notified of a decision to accept their asylum claim and grant them leave and we have no plans to extend this period. Whilst our legislative power is clear, we do in practice already extend support beyond this. Our current process means that individuals can remain on asylum support for at least 28 days after they have been issued a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP), which means that individuals have longer than 28 days to make arrangements to move on before their asylum support ends. It is important that individuals initiate plans to move on from asylum support as soon as they are served their asylum decision in order to maximise the time they have to make move on arrangements.</p><p>We offer move on support to all individuals through Migrant Help or their partner organisation.  This includes providing advice on accessing the labour market, on applying for Universal Credit and signposting to local authorities for assistance with housing.  Individuals do not need to wait for their BRP to make a claim for benefits and are encouraged to do so as early as possible if they require them. Individuals can contact Migrant Help in three ways:</p><ul><li>The freephone line 0808 8010 503. This is available 24/7/365</li><li>Webchat through the website at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.migranthelpuk.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMichael.Drake2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C804acf5932c34f18ba4a08dc73fd9e05%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638512780313290297%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=0%2BGCv7ZAj6bN7fGpMMtQuYiaCoIpWvRGnwYqIBUwm24%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.migranthelpuk.org</a>.</li><li>Raise an Issue via an online enquiry form, again at <a href="https://www.migranthelpuk.org" target="_blank">https://www.migranthelpuk.org</a>.</li></ul><p>We continue to identify and make efficiencies in supporting newly recognised refugees during the move on period and to mitigate the risk of homelessness. We are fully committed to working with partners in doing this. We have already worked closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) to ensure the right asylum decision data is being shared with local authorities to enable effective planning and to lessen the impact on existing homelessness and rough sleeping pressures.  We are also utilising Home Office Liaison Officers to replicate part of the Afghan resettlement move on process. We have been working in three local authority areas since December 2023; Glasgow, Brent and Hillingdon. This has now been expanded to Manchester and Liverpool.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL4412 question first answered 21/05/2024 14:55:13 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1715961

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Hotels
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many refugee families which include teenage children of both sexes being forced to share a single hotel room.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data relating to numbers of teenage children of both sexes and room-sharing; families generally manage their own sleeping arrangements, post-allocation of beds and rooms.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL4415 question first answered 21/05/2024 13:45:53 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1715962

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Hotels
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the psychological impact on refugee families of (1) overcrowding, and (2) the placement of teenage children of both sexes in a single hotel room.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data relating to numbers of teenage children of both sexes and room-sharing; families generally manage their own sleeping arrangements, post-allocation of beds and rooms.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL4414 question first answered 21/05/2024 13:45:53 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1715972

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Sponsorship
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the care system, care employers, and immigrant care workers of the loss of employers’ visa sponsorship licences; and what advice they give to care workers whose employers have lost their visa sponsorship licence and cannot, therefore, sponsor the renewal of their visa.
tabling member printed	Lord Sahota
uin	HL4426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Any decision to revoke a sponsor’s licence will only be done in circumstances where a sponsor has failed to meet the obligations and duties of being a sponsor such as ensuring workers are being paid the correct salary and given guaranteed work. Even then, this will only be where other action, such as an action plan to improve processes and compliance, would not be appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Displaced migrant workers are able to seek alternative employment providing they have a job offer from a Home Office approved sponsor and make a new application.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 21/05/2024 13:45:39 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4963 label Biography information for Lord Sahota

1715980

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports and Visas: Germany and Italy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will consider adopting a similar approach to visa and passport arrangements with Italy and Germany as they have with France.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL4405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>At the Leaders’ Summit in Paris on 10 March 2023, as part of an overall agreement on migration reached with France, the UK committed to ease the travel of school groups to the UK by making changes to documentary requirements for schoolchildren on organised trips from France. This agreement is specific to France.</p><p>We would consider negotiating similar arrangements with other countries if they approached us in the same context.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 21/05/2024 13:42:57 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

1715993

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
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 protect retailers from shoplifting.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 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 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 are taking action to address. The Government’s plan – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fighting-retail-crime-more-action" target="_blank">&quot;Fighting Retail Crime: more action&quot;</a> was launched on 10 April. It includes a new standalone offence for assaults on retail workers, which will be introduced via the Criminal Justice Bill, currently before Parliament.. We are working with police and businesses to roll out the latest facial recognition to catch these perpetrators; championing good practice to design out crime; and making it easier for retailers to report crime.</p><p>We will also legislate through the Criminal Justice Bill, to introduce a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops.</p><p>The Government’s action plan builds on the police-led <a href="https://news.npcc.police.uk/resources/e6e5n-gfsgg-qru39-qjnkc-dbait" target="_blank">Retail Crime Action Plan</a>, launched in October 2023, 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. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. Early indications suggest that there has been improved police attendance at the retail crime incidents prioritised. This has been echoed by major retailers.</p><p>Police forces across England and Wales have also committed to pursuing any available evidence where there is a reasonable chance it could lead them to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime and this includes shoplifting. These are substantial operational policing commitments, which I am overseeing delivery of through the National Retail Crime Steering Group.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/05/2024 15:11:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1716019

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers awaiting decisions has his Department been unable to locate or contact since January 2022.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	24851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>This information is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/05/2024 15:12:31 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1716025

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
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 recommendation 90(c) of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Report on follow-up to the inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, advance unedited version published on 22 March 2024, if he will take steps to ensure that protections for disabled people under hate crime laws are nationally consistent.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	25032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Hate crime is a devolved matter in Scotland and Northern Ireland and falls within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Executive respectively.</p><p>In England and Wales, we have a robust legislative framework to respond to all forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime. Whilst the police are operationally independent and work in line with the College of Policing’s operational guidance to respond to hate crime, we expect the police to fully investigate these abhorrent offences and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 14/05/2024 14:36:36 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova