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1728436

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of former asylum applicants who have withdrawn their applications (a) have left the country and (b) her Department knew the location of in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	5105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely publish the information you have requested, we are unable to provide this information, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 18/09/2024 15:10:09 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1728431

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have absconded from immigration detention in each year since 2004.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	5104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on escapes from immigration detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on escapes from detention centres and absconds from escort is published by year in table Det_05a of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">Detention summary tables</a>’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The published data covers the period from 2017 to 2023. Data prior to 2017 is not published. Data for the year 2024 is due to be published in the August 2025 edition of the publication.</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 18/09/2024 09:09:00 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1728651

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	5193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Home Office does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Information on spending and staffing can be found in the Department's annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 18/09/2024 10:56:12 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
	tabling member	5158

1728438

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was to the public purse of (a) legal fees and (b) related costs incurred for the rejection of freedom of information requests between 30 March 2020 and 9 September 2024 seeking the publication of the report entitled, The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	4962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>We do not know the total legal fees incurred as we have not yet been billed for the complete period between 30 March 2020 to 9 September 2024, but we expect the final cost to be in the region of £20,000-£22,500. There was no awarding of costs in the First Tier Tribunal judgment that the Department must disclose the Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal report. The only other costs incurred were Home Office officials’ time.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 18/09/2024 15:50:03 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1728701

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Accreditation UK scheme for institutions providing courses to students on a Sponsored Study visa.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Tom Hayes
	uin	5243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>International students using the student and child student routes must be sponsored by an education provider that holds a Student sponsor licence.</p><p>Education providers wishing to sponsor international students must obtain and maintain a Home Office Sponsor licence to do so and must be assessed for educational quality by an Educational Oversight body. We keep our immigration policies and Student sponsorship system under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 18/09/2024 15:52:43 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
	tabling member	5210

1728360

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Shoplifting: Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports of, (b) charges for and (c) convictions for shoplifting there were in (i) Aldershot constituency and (ii) Hampshire in each of the last three years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Aldershot
	tabling member printed	Alex Baker
	uin	4928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of shoplifting offences, and their investigative outcomes, recorded by the police in England and Wales. This information is published at the Police Force Area level including Hampshire.</p><p>The latest information, for the year ending March 2024, is available 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>Statistics on convictions at court are published by the MoJ and can be accessed via their outcomes by offence data tool, available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2023</a></p><p>Data are not available at the Parliamentary Constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 17/09/2024 10:52:06 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
	tabling member	5173

1728658

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign nationals who receive a custodial prison sentence are deported on completion of their sentence.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	Jo White
	uin	5200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office regularly publishes statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders by nationality and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>The published statistics refer to enforced returns which include deportations, as well as cases where a person has breached UK immigration laws, and those removed under other administrative and illegal entry powers that have declined to leave voluntarily.</p><p>Figures on deportations, which are a subset of enforced returns, are not separately available.</p><p>We are committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will pursue their deportation and they will be swiftly removed from the country.</p><p>In order to reduce the FNO prison population and support the MoJ in alleviating current prison capacity issues, we are focussing resources on those cases currently serving custodial sentences and maximising returns directly from prison.</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 17/09/2024 09:31:08 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	5105

1728266

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many beds are reserved to house irregular migrants; and what the cost is of those beds.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	4834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not reserve beds for irregular migrants. In accordance with the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, the Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and subsistence support whilst their application for asylum is being considered. The Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly. This includes identifying a range of options to reduce the use of hotels over time and ensuring efficiency and value for money across all accommodation arrangements.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, including hotels, can be found within the Asy_D11 tab for our most recent stats release: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>)</p><p>As was the case under the previous government, the Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates asylum accommodation costs by type. The total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc0b1f42fdf2b424464e708dcd17271af%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638615536661933685%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VLHF3QsEXd%2BctW%2B71XIQ25QtJLoQSki8%2BmYztPN%2BdCw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 17/09/2024 16:37:09 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	5158

1728304

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employees of (a) Immigration Enforcement, (b) UK Visas and Immigration, (c) Border Force and (d) HM Passport Office have been found guilty of (i) corruption and (ii) immigration offences in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
	tabling member printed	Nick Timothy
	uin	4872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>Note that we do not distinguish between immigration, crime and corruption stated in the request. We categorise all immigration crime as corruption and therefore provided a total figure.</p><p>A breakdown for each year is provided below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of convictions</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>UKVI - 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>IE – 3 UKVI – 1 BF - 2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>UKVI - 1 HMPO - 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>IE – 1 BF - 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>UKVI - 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>IE- 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>UKVI - 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>UKVI – 4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>UKVI - 1</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 17/09/2024 09:49:22 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
	tabling member	5062

1728303

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employees of (a) Immigration Enforcement, (b) UK Visas and Immigration, (c) Border Force and (d) HM Passport Office were (i) suspended and (ii) dismissed for gross misconduct in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
	tabling member printed	Nick Timothy
	uin	4871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>(i) Employees Suspended in each of the last 10 years</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Business Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023-24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Border Force</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration Enforcement</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Borders and Enforcement</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Passport Office</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Visas &amp; Immigration</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>VIP except IHS and ISC</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Suspension information is held centrally form April 2020 onwards, to retrieve this information before that time would be require disproportionate effort. The information in the table above is for all suspension regardless of the reason.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>(ii) Employees dismissed for gross misconduct in each of the last 10 years</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Business Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023-24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Border Force</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration Enforcement</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Borders and Enforcement</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Passport Office</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Visas &amp; Immigration</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>VIP except IHS and ISC</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>NA</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The departmental data from 2021 onwards could not be structured as stipulated in the question, this is due to internal reorganisation within the Home Office - the timeseries provided represents figures as the organisation was structured as at 31<sup>st</sup> March each year.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 17/09/2024 16:32:00 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
	tabling member	5062