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1702091

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
	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 his Department's press release entitled 100th asylum hotel set to close next week, published on 20 March 2024, how many of the 100 hotels closed by the end of March 2024 were used to accommodate personnel relocating through the (a) Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and their families.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	22455
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>None of the 100 hotels were used to accommodate people relocating through the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy or the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis. The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of hotels used to house asylum seekers by region or constituency.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 22456 question first answered 23/04/2024 13:57:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1702092

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
	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 his Department's press release entitled 100th asylum hotel set to close next week, published on 20 March 2024, how many of the 100 hotels closed by the end of March 2024 were located in each (a) region and (b) constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	22456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>None of the 100 hotels were used to accommodate people relocating through the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy or the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis. The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of hotels used to house asylum seekers by region or constituency.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 22455 question first answered 23/04/2024 13:57:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1702182

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force: Dogs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2023 to Question 2884 on UK Border Force: Dogs and with reference to the Answer of 31 July 2017 to Question 5188 on UK Border Force: Dogs, for what reason his Department was able to provide that information to Question 5188.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	22533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Home Office concerns about the operations of Border Force lead to the information being deemed sensitive and not for public release; I refer the Rt Hon Member to the previous answer expressing concerns about the impact on the security of our borders.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 23/04/2024 13:43:13 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1702206

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Airports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with similar names to people on watchlists are not harassed during border checks at airports.
	tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
	tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
	uin	22520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Our priority is to maintain a secure border. We will not compromise on this. Border Force performs checks on all passengers arriving at the UK border on scheduled services to identify individuals who pose, or are suspected to pose, a risk to the national interest.</p><p>Identities, and combinations of names and dates of birth, are not necessarily unique. Individuals who share names with persons of interest may experience closer examination than would otherwise be the case.</p><p>The Home Office is making significant investment to improve the underlying technical infrastructure which performs border checks to identify individuals more precisely. This will reduce the number of individuals incorrectly matched to persons of interest and enable Border Force to identify more quickly individuals who are not to be confused with persons of interest. We expect these improvements to start having effect over the summer.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 22521 question first answered 23/04/2024 13:52:37 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1702207

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Airports
	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 adequacy of the treatment that people with similar names to people on watchlists receive during border checks at airports.
	tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
	tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
	uin	22521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Our priority is to maintain a secure border. We will not compromise on this. Border Force performs checks on all passengers arriving at the UK border on scheduled services to identify individuals who pose, or are suspected to pose, a risk to the national interest.</p><p>Identities, and combinations of names and dates of birth, are not necessarily unique. Individuals who share names with persons of interest may experience closer examination than would otherwise be the case.</p><p>The Home Office is making significant investment to improve the underlying technical infrastructure which performs border checks to identify individuals more precisely. This will reduce the number of individuals incorrectly matched to persons of interest and enable Border Force to identify more quickly individuals who are not to be confused with persons of interest. We expect these improvements to start having effect over the summer.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 22520 question first answered 23/04/2024 13:52:37 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1702214

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels were used to temporarily accommodate asylum seekers on 31 December (a) 2023 and (b) expected to be used by 2024.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	22518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has been clear that the use of hotels is a temporary and necessary measure to ensure we meet our statutory obligation to accommodate destitute asylum seekers.</p><p>We have made rapid progress since autumn 2023, having handed back over 100 hotels to their local communities. Over 20,000 fewer asylum seekers are accommodated in hotels now than in September 2023. In total, we will have closed 150 hotels by the beginning of May 2024.</p><p>Our statutory accommodation needs are kept under continuous review, and we will write to MPs and local authorities as further decisions on hotels are made.</p><p>For the safety and security of individual premises, the Home Office does not publish statistics showing the number or location of hotels used to house asylum seekers. However, provisional internal management information indicates a total of 342 hotels were accommodating asylum seekers as of 31 December 2023.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 23/04/2024 13:45:48 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1701721

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2024 to Question 14458 on Asylum: hotels, how many asylum seekers are being housed in UK hotel accommodation by his Department as of 17 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	22222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has been clear that the use of hotels is a temporary and necessary measure to ensure we meet our statutory obligation to accommodate destitute asylum seekers. We have already made significant progress by no longer using 100 hotels for asylum seekers on 31 March 2024. A total of 150 hotels will no longer be used for accommodating asylum seekers by the beginning of May, reducing the strain on local communities.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 11:41:12 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1701761

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many major cyber crime incidents have been reported since the National Cyber Strategy was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	22259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Since the announcement of the National Cyber Strategy on 15 December 2021, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has received 71 reports associated with cyber crime activity, considered to be significant.</p><p>The NCSC categorise incidents based on numerous contemporaneous factors, including but not limited to, the technical impact of the incident, the nature of the affected organisation, and contextual considerations at the time of the incident report being received.</p><p>NCSC and law enforcement take action against cyber criminals by taking down their malicious URLs used to defraud people.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 22/04/2024 14:45:47 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1701876

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Online Capability Centre
	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 his Department’s press release entitled New tech partnership to stop the boats, published on 6 August 2023, when the Online Capability Centre became operational.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	22276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the new tech partnership to stop the boats on 6 August 2023, the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) have strengthened the voluntary partnership with social media companies, Meta, YouTube, X/Twitter, to accelerate action to tackle people smuggling content online. We continue to explore further options, such as a ‘hackathon’ model to develop our innovative approach to break the business model of people smugglers advertising their services online.</p><p>To date we have successfully removed 98% of content flagged to social media companies, with over 9000 posts, pages and accounts removed since November 2021.</p><p>The Online Communications Centre (previously known as the Online Capability Centre) has been operational since October 2023 and with expertise in policy, investigations and intelligence and with access to a range of niche capabilities in tackling the online threat. We cannot comment on individual numbers of officers in classified roles.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 22277 22278 22279 22280 question first answered 22/04/2024 11:29:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1701878

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Online Capability Centre: 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 staff are currently employed at the Online Capability Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	22277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the new tech partnership to stop the boats on 6 August 2023, the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) have strengthened the voluntary partnership with social media companies, Meta, YouTube, X/Twitter, to accelerate action to tackle people smuggling content online. We continue to explore further options, such as a ‘hackathon’ model to develop our innovative approach to break the business model of people smugglers advertising their services online.</p><p>To date we have successfully removed 98% of content flagged to social media companies, with over 9000 posts, pages and accounts removed since November 2021.</p><p>The Online Communications Centre (previously known as the Online Capability Centre) has been operational since October 2023 and with expertise in policy, investigations and intelligence and with access to a range of niche capabilities in tackling the online threat. We cannot comment on individual numbers of officers in classified roles.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 22276 22278 22279 22280 question first answered 22/04/2024 11:29:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne