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1718806

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation: Rwanda
	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 people who have been served with notices of intent for removal to Rwanda are (a) women and (b) unaccompanied children.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	26697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the gender or age of those issued with a notice of intent.</p><p>The UK-Rwanda Treaty makes clear at Article 3 that the agreement reached between the governments of Rwanda and the UK does not cover unaccompanied children and that the UK Government shall not seek to relocate unaccompanied children under the age of 18.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 21/05/2024 15:34:42 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1718807

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children are recorded as missing from asylum hotels as of 16 May 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	26698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>There are no unaccompanied asylum-seeking children housed in hotels.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 21/05/2024 15:31:51 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1718889

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Palestinians
	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 implement a visa scheme to enable Palestinian children to receive critical medical treatment in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	uin	26792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK is exploring how best to support the medical needs of those in Gaza, including what options can be provided in the region.</p><p>It is ultimately at the discretion of the Israeli and Egyptian authorities who can cross the border.</p><p>The Home Office is not currently considering establishing a bespoke visa scheme for Palestinian children to receive critical medical treatment in the UK. There are provisions that allow a person to come to the UK for private medical treatment under Appendix V of the Immigration Rules. If the rules are not met, careful consideration will be given on whether a grant of leave outside of the rules would be appropriate.</p><p>Should applications be submitted from Palestinian children, who have secured permission from the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to exit Gaza, requiring specialist medical treatment they will be treated with the utmost seriousness. If that leads to the identification of specific cases in which a person would be better off making the long journey to the UK to undertake treatment, we will not rule out bringing them to British hospitals, as we have done in the past.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 21/05/2024 15:04:35 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1718915

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	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 the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Migration Advisory Committee entitled Rapid review of the graduate route, published in May 2024; and whether he plans to implement each of the recommendations in full.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	26638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26639 question first answered 21/05/2024 13:39:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1718918

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	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 it his policy to maintain routes to enable international students to (a) study and (b) make an economic contribution to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	26639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26638 question first answered 21/05/2024 13:39:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1718934

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	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 page 64 of the Migration Advisory Committee's report entitled, Rapid Review of the Graduate Route, published on 14 May 2024, if she will take steps to implement the recommendation on establishing a mandatory registration system for international recruitment agents and subagents.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	26711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26712 question first answered 21/05/2024 14:34:40 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1718935

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	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 page 64 of the Migration Advisory Committee's report entitled, Rapid Review of the Graduate Route, published on 14 May 2024, if she will take steps to implement the recommendation on requiring universities to publish data on (a) their spend on recruitment agents and (b) the number of international students recruited through such agents.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	26712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26711 question first answered 21/05/2024 14:34:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1718296

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps their Department is taking to support the Disability Confident scheme; how many officials in their Department work directly on supporting that scheme; what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of that work in supporting the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of disabled people in their Department; and what further steps they are taking to support their Department’s recruitment and retention of disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	26427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has supported the Disability Confident Scheme since August 2016, as a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader. The Home Office attained subsequent re-accreditation, at Level 3, in March 2021, and, again in March 2024.</p><p>The Home Office remains committed to being a Disability Confident Leader and seeks to break down the barriers to career progression, to maximise the talent disabled people bring to the workplace.</p><p>The Department takes an evidence-led approach, to closely monitor disability representation, at all points of the employee life cycle.</p><p>The Home Office:</p><ul><li>has a dedicated workplace adjustments team, to support colleagues and line managers, alongside a dedicated team to support those that use assisted technology in the workplace. To supplement this, the Home Office has a workplace adjustment guidance, and line managers are invited to attend awareness session to increase line management capability.</li><li>have dedicated guidance on reasonable adjustments in recruitment for vacancy holders to work with. This is designed to ensure that disabled applicants experience a level playing field in the recruitment process.</li><li>regularly evaluates the effectiveness of Disability related policies and practices, alongside wider inclusion interventions.</li><li>work closely with our accessibility team to ensure our website is compliant with Public Sector Body Accessibility Regulations. For example, all our videos have closed captions, audio description versions and are accompanied by transcripts.</li><li>website also includes information on how to request reasonable adjustments when applying.</li><li>has a dedicated Disability champion at Director General level, who reports directly to the Permanent Secretary. The Home Office Disability champion chairs a Disability champion board every six weeks, which is attended by directorate level champions and the chair of the Home Disability staff network, where they monitor progress against the internal Home Office Disability action plan.</li><li>evaluates disability representation at all grades within the Department and have met or exceeded our internal target of 12%</li><li>has also enhanced its British Sign Language provision for D/deaf colleagues.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Department encourages disabled staff to participate in all Home Office led talent programmes, in line with their chosen career progression. The tables below show the Disability representation as of March 2024.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Delegate Grades</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Group</p></td><td><p>Target</p></td><td><p>AA</p></td><td><p>AO</p></td><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>Grade 7</p></td><td><p>Grade 6</p></td><td><p>SCS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability</p></td><td><p>12%*</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*The Home Office Disability target reflects the economically active population, or the existing Home Office representation, whichever is higher.</p><p>Home Office Disability recruitment data shows a year-on-year increase in the percentage representation of candidates with disabilities at each stage of the recruitment process, which can be seen in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>% of disabled candidates</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Application stage</p></td><td><p>8.5%</p></td><td><p>9.1%</p></td><td><p>9.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Successful Sift</p></td><td><p>9.6%</p></td><td><p>10.1%</p></td><td><p>10.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Successful Interview</p></td><td><p>8.8%</p></td><td><p>9.3%</p></td><td><p>9.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ready to Hire</p></td><td><p>8.8%</p></td><td><p>9.1%</p></td><td><p>9.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/05/2024 17:14:32 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1718352

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Police Chiefs' Council
	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 9 May 2024 to Question 24750 on National Police Chiefs' Council, on what dates the five meetings between Ministers and the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for sex work took place.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	26386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The acts of buying and selling sex are not in themselves illegal in England and Wales. Research the Home Office commissioned in 2019 on the nature of sex work and prostitution in England and Wales found that some sex workers use technology to manage their safety, and so criminalising the enablement of prostitution online could put these individuals at greater risk of harm.</p><p> </p><p>However, we recognise that advertising of sexual services has increasingly moved online, and that adult service websites can be used enable sexual exploitation. That is why the Online Safety Act 2023 ensures online platforms are responsible and accountable for content on their sites and take proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. The Act will make the UK the safest place to be online and will require online platforms to proactively identify and remove content linked to priority offences, including controlling and inciting prostitution for gain.</p><p> </p><p>Safeguarding Ministers met the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead for sex work on 31 January 2023, 24 May 2022, 6 February 2019, 19 April 2018 and 27 Nov 2017.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 26387 question first answered 20/05/2024 16:54:52 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1718353

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Exploitation
	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 9 May 2024 to Question 24749 on Prostitution: Internet, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of criminalising the (a) enablement of and (b) profiting from prostitution of others.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	26387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The acts of buying and selling sex are not in themselves illegal in England and Wales. Research the Home Office commissioned in 2019 on the nature of sex work and prostitution in England and Wales found that some sex workers use technology to manage their safety, and so criminalising the enablement of prostitution online could put these individuals at greater risk of harm.</p><p> </p><p>However, we recognise that advertising of sexual services has increasingly moved online, and that adult service websites can be used enable sexual exploitation. That is why the Online Safety Act 2023 ensures online platforms are responsible and accountable for content on their sites and take proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. The Act will make the UK the safest place to be online and will require online platforms to proactively identify and remove content linked to priority offences, including controlling and inciting prostitution for gain.</p><p> </p><p>Safeguarding Ministers met the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead for sex work on 31 January 2023, 24 May 2022, 6 February 2019, 19 April 2018 and 27 Nov 2017.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 26386 question first answered 20/05/2024 16:54:52 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson