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1260349

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing regulation of the registration of small vessels to help counter illegal Channel crossings.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	128120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>Small boats used by migrants to cross the Channel are varied in type, origin and seaworthiness. While there is attraction in any enterprise which offers to reduce the supply of craft for these dangerous, illegally-facilitated and unnecessary crossings, we are not of the view that these proposals would materially affect the threat. This is because many of these vessels are insubstantial; a good number are stolen or otherwise misappropriated from legitimate owners; and the origin of these vessels is not confined to France. Therefore, any adoption of such an increased regulatory posture is viewed as a disproportionate and less effective approach to reducing supply of boats and opportunity for crossings.</p><p>We are engaged with the French in minimising supply - and are seeing results, with crossings per calm weather day down by 60% since September 2020, thanks to law enforcement work on both sides of the Channel. We have not discussed the proposal with the French and have no plans to do so at this time but will keep it under review.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/12/2020 14:51:31 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1260351

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
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 discussions she has had with her French counterpart on the regulatory framework on the registration of small vessels and the enforcement of those regulations in the context of preventing small vessels being used in illegal Channel crossings.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	128121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2020 answer text <p>Small boats used by migrants to cross the Channel are varied in type, origin and seaworthiness. While there is attraction in any enterprise which offers to reduce the supply of craft for these dangerous, illegally-facilitated and unnecessary crossings, we are not of the view that these proposals would materially affect the threat. This is because many of these vessels are insubstantial; a good number are stolen or otherwise misappropriated from legitimate owners; and the origin of these vessels is not confined to France. Therefore, any adoption of such an increased regulatory posture is viewed as a disproportionate and less effective approach to reducing supply of boats and opportunity for crossings.</p><p>We are engaged with the French in minimising supply - and are seeing results, with crossings per calm weather day down by 60% since September 2020, thanks to law enforcement work on both sides of the Channel. We have not discussed the proposal with the French and have no plans to do so at this time but will keep it under review.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/12/2020 12:12:35 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1241355

registered interest
date	07/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Missing Persons
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 the Government’s progress on meeting the objectives of the Missing Children and Adults Strategy 2011.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	100357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>People who go missing include some of the most vulnerable people in our society and the Government will do all it can to ensure those people are protected from harm.</p><p>The 2011 Missing Children and Adults Strategy provided a framework for local and national action to protect children and vulnerable adults who go missing. The Government has made significant progress in meeting the objectives of the strategy including by issuing new statutory guidance on missing children, placing new requirements on local authorities on the reporting of missing incidents, working with the College of Policing to develop new risk-based professional practice for police, and funding support for missing people and their families through charities like Missing People.</p><p>While plans to update the 2011 strategy are under consideration, we can and will go further to protect and support people who go missing. The Department for Education is working with the police, local authorities and the voluntary sector to consider how its statutory guidance is supporting local authorities and their partners to prevent children from going missing from home or care, and the Home Office is working with the national policing lead for Missing Persons and the NCA’s UK Missing Persons Unit to deliver a National Register for Missing Persons (NRMP) which will provide new functionality around the reporting of missing and associated found incidents across police force boundaries.</p><p>Protecting and supporting vulnerable missing people is also a key element of our action to tackle exploitation and abuse, including sexual abuse and county lines exploitation, given the clear links between people who go missing and these broader harms. This includes funding Missing People’s SafeCall service, a specialist 24/7 helpline which provides advice and support to children, young people and parents/carers concerned about county lines exploitation.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 100358 question first answered 14/10/2020 16:06:53 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1241356

registered interest
date	07/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Missing Persons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to update the Missing Children and Adults Strategy 2011.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	100358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>People who go missing include some of the most vulnerable people in our society and the Government will do all it can to ensure those people are protected from harm.</p><p>The 2011 Missing Children and Adults Strategy provided a framework for local and national action to protect children and vulnerable adults who go missing. The Government has made significant progress in meeting the objectives of the strategy including by issuing new statutory guidance on missing children, placing new requirements on local authorities on the reporting of missing incidents, working with the College of Policing to develop new risk-based professional practice for police, and funding support for missing people and their families through charities like Missing People.</p><p>While plans to update the 2011 strategy are under consideration, we can and will go further to protect and support people who go missing. The Department for Education is working with the police, local authorities and the voluntary sector to consider how its statutory guidance is supporting local authorities and their partners to prevent children from going missing from home or care, and the Home Office is working with the national policing lead for Missing Persons and the NCA’s UK Missing Persons Unit to deliver a National Register for Missing Persons (NRMP) which will provide new functionality around the reporting of missing and associated found incidents across police force boundaries.</p><p>Protecting and supporting vulnerable missing people is also a key element of our action to tackle exploitation and abuse, including sexual abuse and county lines exploitation, given the clear links between people who go missing and these broader harms. This includes funding Missing People’s SafeCall service, a specialist 24/7 helpline which provides advice and support to children, young people and parents/carers concerned about county lines exploitation.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 100357 question first answered 14/10/2020 16:06:53 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1241357

registered interest
date	07/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Missing Persons
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 missing (a) adults and (b) children, were recorded as high risk in each month from 1 April 2020 to 1 September 2020.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	100359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office does not hold data on missing person incidents. Annual missing persons statistics, including analysis of age and risk category, are published by the National Crime Agency’s Missing Person’s Unit. The latest report is for 2018-19 and is available at <a href="https://www.missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/resources/downloads/missing-persons-statistical-bulletins" target="_blank">https://www.missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/resources/downloads/missing-persons-statistical-bulletins</a>.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government recognises the importance of accurate and timely data on both current and historic missing incidents. We are working with the national policing lead for Missing Persons and the NCA’s UK Missing Persons Unit through the Home Office National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP) to deliver a National Register for Missing Persons (NRMP). The NRMP will provide a snapshot of live missing incidents across police forces in England and Wales.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Annual missing persons statistics, including analysis of age and risk category, are published by the National Crime Agency’s Missing Person’s Unit. The latest report is for 2018-19 and is available at <a href="https://www.missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/resources/downloads/missing-persons-statistical-bulletins" target="_blank">https://www.missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/resources/downloads/missing-persons-statistical-bulletins</a>.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> The Government recognises the importance of accurate and timely data on both current and historic missing incidents. We are working with the national policing lead for Missing Persons and the NCA’s UK Missing Persons Unit through the Home Office National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP) to deliver a National Register for Missing Persons (NRMP). The NRMP will provide a snapshot of live missing incidents across police forces in England and Wales.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 14/10/2020 16:03:27 question first ministerially corrected 16/10/2020 13:09:26 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 54324 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti