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1724269

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
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 impact of the increase in the earnings threshold for overseas workers on the care sector.
tabling member constituency	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	2355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Gentlemen to the Home Secretary’s written ministerial statement on 30 July 2024.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra grouped question UIN 2356 2357 question first answered 02/09/2024 14:57:41 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

1724270

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
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 impact of the increase in the earnings threshold for overseas workers on the higher education sector.
tabling member constituency	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	2356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Gentlemen to the Home Secretary’s written ministerial statement on 30 July 2024.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra grouped question UIN 2355 2357 question first answered 02/09/2024 14:57:41 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

1724271

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
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 impact of the increase in the earnings threshold for overseas workers on the food and drink sector.
tabling member constituency	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	2357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Gentlemen to the Home Secretary’s written ministerial statement on 30 July 2024.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra grouped question UIN 2355 2356 question first answered 02/09/2024 14:57:41 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

1724398

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bottles: Plastics
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 the aim of the Bottle Stop campaign to ensure that all bottles in clubs and bars are plastic instead of glass.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Wyre
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	2361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>The Licensing Act 2003 regulates the sale and supply of alcohol in licensed premises across England and Wales and devolves decision-making to local licensing authorities.</p><p>The Government publishes guidance for licensing authorities to assist them in carrying out their functions under the Act in line with the four licensing objectives: the prevention of crime and disorder; the prevention of public nuisance, upholding public safety, and the protection of children from harm.</p><p>This guidance specifically states that a number of matters should be considered by a licensing authority in relation to public safety, which may include requiring, as part of a premises licence, the use of plastic containers and preventing customer access to glass bottles.</p><p>We keep under review licensing of alcohol premises.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 02/09/2024 09:37:08 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1724455

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Protest
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 review measures within the Public Order Act 2023 on restrictions to the right to protest.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr Simon Opher
uin	2565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>Post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 will be conducted two years after royal assent.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 02/09/2024 09:53:12 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	5030

1724456

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families and Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues on whether people living in the UK on a Graduate visa can start a Master’s degree while waiting for a decision in relation to their application for a Family visa.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sorcha Eastwood
uin	2612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>The UK government website has guidance on all our immigration rules and criteria, including the requirements of the Student route and the study conditions of the Graduate route: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration" target="_blank">Visas and immigration - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 02/09/2024 09:56:21 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	5125

1724457

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
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 (a) increase prosecution rates for perpetrators of rural crime and (b) protect victims of those crimes.
tabling member constituency	South Shropshire
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	2489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of tackling rural crime. We are committed to safeguarding rural communities, with tougher measures to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, strengthened neighbourhood policing, and stronger laws to prevent farm theft and fly-tippers.</p><p>We are also committed to implementing the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023, which aims to prevent the theft and re-sale of high-value equipment, particularly for use in rural settings.</p><p>The National Police Chiefs’ Council Wildlife and Rural Crime Strategy 2022-2025 provides a framework through which policing, and its partners, can work together to tackle the most prevalent threats and emerging issues which predominantly affect rural communities.</p><p>The Home Office funded the establishment of the National Rural Crime Unit. The unit takes the lead on improving co-ordination and partnership working between police forces and rural communities. This provides police forces with specialist operational support in their responses to rural crime, such as the theft of farming or construction machinery, livestock theft, fly tipping, fuel theft and equine crime. The unit also helps in sharing best practice and encouraging regional and national approaches.</p><p>The Home Office also directly funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit to provide intelligence, analysis and investigative assistance to forces and other law enforcement agencies across the UK to support them in investigating wildlife crime, which can affect rural areas.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 02/09/2024 09:11:00 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1724458

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was loaned through refugee integration loans in each year since the scheme was created.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	2470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>Refugee Integration Loans were introduced in 2007 following a public consultation and have operated over the last seventeen years to help recipients with the costs of integrating into UK society. They are funded by the Home Office, who make the initial decisions on applications. They are then administered and recouped by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Single applicants can borrow between £100 and £500 and if applying jointly the maximum amount increases to £780.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office work with DWP to administer the loans across different IT platforms. Consequently, data on the level of loans provided on an annual basis is not held in an easily reportable format and would require a manual search of records that could only be conducted at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra grouped question UIN 2471 question first answered 02/09/2024 09:41:09 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1724459

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much she expects will be loaned in refugee integration loans this year.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	2471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>Refugee Integration Loans were introduced in 2007 following a public consultation and have operated over the last seventeen years to help recipients with the costs of integrating into UK society. They are funded by the Home Office, who make the initial decisions on applications. They are then administered and recouped by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Single applicants can borrow between £100 and £500 and if applying jointly the maximum amount increases to £780.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office work with DWP to administer the loans across different IT platforms. Consequently, data on the level of loans provided on an annual basis is not held in an easily reportable format and would require a manual search of records that could only be conducted at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra grouped question UIN 2470 question first answered 02/09/2024 09:41:09 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1724465

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether additional funding will be provided to Police and Crime Commissioners (a) to deliver above-inflation pay rises and (b) long term.
tabling member constituency	South Shropshire
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	2490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>Police officer pay is determined by the Home Secretary, following advice from the independent Police Remuneration Review Body and Senior Salaries Review Body. On 29 July, the Government announced it had accepted the Review Bodies’ recommendations to award all ranks and pay points a consolidated increase of 4.75% with effect from 1 September 2024.</p><p>To support forces with the cost of the pay award, the Home Office is providing additional funding of £175m in 2024/25. Funding for 2025/26 will be announced in the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 02/09/2024 10:24:50 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson