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1713652

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Devon
	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 the help reduce the number of drug offences in (a) East Devon constituency and (b) Devon.
	tabling member constituency	East Devon
	tabling member printed	Simon Jupp
	uin	23623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>Reducing drug-related crime is a key priority of the Government’s 10-year Drugs Strategy. We are making good progress. Since April 2022, we have closed over 2,500 county lines nationally.</p><p>Through the County Lines Programme, our exporter force taskforces (Metropolitain Police Service, Merseyside, West Midlands and Greater Manchester Police) work in collaboration with importer forces, including Devon &amp; Cornwall Police, to tackle the drug supply and exploitation associated with County Lines.</p><p>Through our County Lines Programme, we also fund the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre (NCLCC), to monitor the intelligence picture and co-ordinate the national law enforcement response. We have also established a dedicated Surge Fund to help forces tackle county lines, from which Devon and Cornwall Police have received investment.</p><p>Through the Drugs Strategy, we are also investing £532m into high quality drug treatment which reduces crime and reoffending. There are now 24,500 more people in treatment across England, including Devon.</p><p>The Government has asked every area in England to form a Combating Drugs Partnership (CDP) to work together to reduce drug-related harm and crime. East Devon is covered by the Devon CDP. The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Devon and Cornwall has established a Strategic Peninsular Drugs &amp; Alcohol Partnership which meets 4 times a year and serves as a forum for the 4 CDPs (including Devon CDP) to come together at a Police Force Area level.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/05/2024 15:50:41 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4862 label Biography information for Simon Jupp

1713653

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Devon
	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 help tackle violence against women and girls in East Devon constituency.
	tabling member constituency	East Devon
	tabling member printed	Simon Jupp
	uin	23624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>It is difficult to determine the specific activity to tackle violence against women in the East Devon constituency as services are mostly commissioned at a national level, and not monitored by the Home Office by constituency.</p><p>To help support local service commissioners, we published a revised National Statement of Expectations in March 2022, which sets out how local areas should commission effective services. It also aims to increase understanding of the need for specialist services and the value of those designed and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve.</p><p>As part of the effort to tackle these crimes across England and Wales, in 2021 we published our cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online, at work and in public. This was followed by a complementary cross-Government Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan in 2022.</p><p>These documents aim to transform the whole of society’s response to these crimes with actions to prevent abuse, support victims and pursue perpetrators, as well as to strengthen the systems that underpin the response. The actions set out in both strategy documents benefit all regions across England and Wales, including East Devon.</p><p>The Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan committed to over £230 million from 2022-2025. As part of this commitment, the joint Home Office-Ministry of Justice VAWG Support and Specialist Service Fund will provide up to £8.3 million (in total) from 2023-2025 for specialist organisations to support victims often facing the greatest barriers to getting the help they need.</p><p>The Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan funding also includes the Children Affected by Domestic Abuse (CADA) Fund, which allocated £10.3 million over three years (2022-2025) to eight organisations across England and Wales to provide specialist support within the community to children who have been impacted by domestic abuse. Part of this includes c.£1.25m for the Children’s Society to provide direct support for children and young people and families, including those from rural and hard to reach communities, covering Devon, Shropshire, Rochdale and Merseyside.</p><p>In May 2023, the Home Office also launched a £300,000 ‘flexible fund’ trial in partnership with Women’s Aid Federation for England to make direct cash payments of £250 to victims and survivors of domestic abuse (£500 to those with children and those who are pregnant) to help remove barriers to leaving an abusive relationship. In November 2023, the Government commitment to support victims was renewed with a further £2m investment into the Flexible Fund until March 2025.</p><p>Through the current Round Five of the Safer Streets Fund, the Home Office has directly awarded £34 million to Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales to deliver interventions to tackle neighbourhood crime, anti-social behaviour and VAWG. Devon and Cornwall received £819,998.64 (2024-2025) to support projects covering Paignton, Camborne and Redruth and are delivering educational training packages such as bystander training to help address behaviour and attitudes on VAWG and using night-time economy marshalls for patrols in the town centres.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 02/05/2024 11:52:46 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4862 label Biography information for Simon Jupp

1713654

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour: Devon
	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 help tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) East Devon constituency and (b) Devon.
	tabling member constituency	East Devon
	tabling member printed	Simon Jupp
	uin	23625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>Last year the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan</a>), backed by £160m in new funding to ensure the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p>This includes funding an increased police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots. Initially we worked with 10 police force areas and following its success in 2024 we are supporting a hotspot approach across every police force area in England and Wales. Devon and Cornwall PCC has been awarded £1m in funding to carry out the Hotspot Response approach, tackling areas of high incidents of both ASB and serious violence.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/05/2024 15:52:33 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4862 label Biography information for Simon Jupp

1713655

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Devon
	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 make an assessment of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of crime in (a) East Devon constituency and (b) Devon.
	tabling member constituency	East Devon
	tabling member printed	Simon Jupp
	uin	23626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>Across the country, communities are safer and the Government’s plan to cut crime and protect the public is working. Compared with 2010, people are now 60% less likely to have their home burgled and around 40% less likely to be victims of violent crime.</p><p>We are supporting Devon and Cornwall to reduce crime:</p><ul><li>During the Police Uplift Programme, Devon and Cornwall Police recruited 600 additional uplift officers against a total three-year allocation of 469 officers. As at 30 September 2023, there were 3,716 police officers in Devon and Cornwall, representing the highest number ever when compared to their pre-Police Uplift peak of 3,632 officers as at March 2010.</li><li>Devon and Cornwall’s police funding settlement will be up to £429.4m in 2024/25, an increase of up to £29.1m when compared to 2023/24.</li><li>Devon and Cornwall have been allocated £657,000 in FY 24/25 to deliver the Serious Violence Duty. The Serious Violence Duty requires a range of specified authorities to work collaboratively and put in place plans to prevent and reduce serious violence within their local communities.</li><li>Devon and Cornwall have received £1m for Hotspot Response in FY 24/25 to tackle areas with high incidents of both anti-social behaviour and serious violence.</li></ul><p>We continue to monitor all these measures to ensure they are having the impact on crime we all want to see.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/05/2024 15:54:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4862 label Biography information for Simon Jupp

1713942

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of synthetic drugs in circulation.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	23765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>Tackling Class A drugs, including synthetic opioids, is a priority for the Government and through our 10 year drugs strategy ‘From Harm to Hope’ we are taking action to tackle drugs supply and reduce demand.</p><p>UK agencies are highly alert to the threat from synthetic drugs, including synthetic opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes, as well as synthetic cannabinoids and benzodiazepines. We assess that the scale of trafficking of synthetic opioids into the UK remains low. However, nitazenes, a type of synthetic opioid, have sadly been linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK during the last year, and we are taking action.</p><p>The cross-Government Synthetic Opioids Taskforce is working with partners, such as the NCA, the Department for Health and Social Care and the National Police Chiefs Council to deliver an evidence-based response to the risk posed by synthetic opioids, and to implement effective action to stem the demand and supply of these dangerous substances.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/05/2024 15:55:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1713630

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Biometrics
	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 been (a) arrested, (b) prosecuted and (c) convicted using facial recognition software.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
	uin	23609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>Facial recognition is used by police as an identification tool to search an image of an unknown suspect against the images of people taken on arrest (‘custody images’), or to locate people in an intelligence-led way, by scanning live crowds and comparing them with the images of wanted people on a specific watchlist instantaneously, with very high levels of accuracy.</p><p>An arrest may result from a match made by facial recognition software, but not without the match being carefully reviewed by a trained officer and consideration being made of the wider context and other available information. Investigating officers will consider all of the evidence available and follow up all reasonable enquiries as in any normal investigation. Moreover, a prosecution and/or conviction would never be based solely on a match made by facial recognition software.</p><p>There are no centrally held figures on the number of arrests that result from police forces using facial recognition technology. South Wales Police and the Metropolitan Police Service publish information on their use of facial recognition, including arrests figures and other positive outcomes from deploying live facial recognition. These can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/fr/facial-recognition-technology/" target="_blank">https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/fr/facial-recognition-technology/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.south-wales.police.uk/police-forces/south-wales-police/areas/about-us/about-us/facial-recognition-technology/" target="_blank">https://www.south-wales.police.uk/police-forces/south-wales-police/areas/about-us/about-us/facial-recognition-technology/</a></p><p>Given that a facial match using facial recognition software would be one of many factors under consideration in reaching the decision to prosecute and/or resulting in a person being convicted of an offence it is not possible to attribute exact numbers of prosecutions and convictions. However, we are undertaking evaluation work to enhance our understanding of the impact of facial recognition in this regard.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/05/2024 16:01:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1714505

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: EU Countries
	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 held recent discussions with the European Commission on the implications for the timing of the EU Entry/Exit System on delays at (a) UK and (b) EU (i) ports, (ii) railway stations and (iii) airports.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
	tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
	uin	24008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government continues to engage regularly at ministerial and official levels with the European Commission and the French government on EES implementation.</p><p>The Government also continues to work with port owners and operators, including the Port of Dover, Eurotunnel and Eurostar / HighSpeed1 (St Pancras) to understand the impact of EES and support their plans to mitigate these. However, it is ultimately for EU Member States to implement EES.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/05/2024 13:29:32 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

1713594

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	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, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the aid budget of preparations to transport migrants to Rwanda including costs (a) paid to the Rwandan Government, (b) defending legal challenges (c) passing the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill and (d) for flights and accommodation in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	23362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>The funding for the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is separate from, and additional to, the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.</p><p>The most recently published information, which includes costs paid to the Rwandan government and legal fees, is the National Audit Office Report which can be found here: <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/investigation-into-the-costs-of-the-uk-rwanda-partnership/#downloads" target="_blank">UK-Rwanda Partnership - NAO report</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 23363 question first answered 02/05/2024 09:42:13 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1713595

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	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, if he will make an estimate of potential future costs to the aid budget of plans to transport migrants to Rwanda including costs (a) paid to the Rwandan Government, (b) defending legal challenges and (c) flights and accommodation for the next 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	23363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>The funding for the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is separate from, and additional to, the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.</p><p>The most recently published information, which includes costs paid to the Rwandan government and legal fees, is the National Audit Office Report which can be found here: <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/investigation-into-the-costs-of-the-uk-rwanda-partnership/#downloads" target="_blank">UK-Rwanda Partnership - NAO report</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 23362 question first answered 02/05/2024 09:42:13 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1714028

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
	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 Knowledge of English Language requirement for citizenship, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the validity of that certification to three years.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
	uin	23959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>With reference to the Knowledge of English Language requirement for citizenship, there are currently no plans to change the validity period of a Secure English Language Test certification to three years. A person who successfully made an indefinite leave to remain application on the basis of a B1 level qualification can meet the English language requirement for naturalisation without needing to pass another test.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/05/2024 16:18:29 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker