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1471502

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of small boat crossings in the English Channel.
tabling member constituency	North Warwickshire
tabling member printed	Craig Tracey
uin	900590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>Working with our French counterparts, our focus is on deterring and preventing people from entering the Channel, tackling the criminal gangs responsible and protecting lives.</p><p>The new Migration and Economic Partnership with Rwanda, together with the provisions of the Nationality and Borders Act also seek to create a deterrent effect.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/06/2022 15:22:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4509 label Biography information for Craig Tracey

1471503

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on delivering the Beating Crime Plan.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Dr James Davies
uin	900593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>We are making great strides in delivering our plan to drive down crime.</p><p>We have recruited over 13,500 additional police officers, expanded our network of violence reduction units and hotspot policing to target those areas worst-affected by serious violence, and continued our relentless effort to degrade and dismantle the county lines drug-dealing model.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/06/2022 15:24:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4476 label Biography information for Dr James Davies

1471504

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
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 reform and strengthen the fire and rescue service.
tabling member constituency	Blyth Valley
tabling member printed	Ian Levy
uin	900595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>The government’s priority is keeping the public safe. Our fire reform white paper was published last month and is open for consultation until the 26th of July.</p><p>The proposals set out will ensure that fire and rescue services are highly skilled, professionally led and governed, and able to fully support the communities they serve.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/06/2022 15:26:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4749 label Biography information for Ian Levy

1471655

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the UKVI MP Urgent Inquiries line closed at least 20 minutes early on 17 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	21114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>Due to an unexpected spike in calls a large queue of callers built. To ensure those in the queue were able to speak with an agent before 5pm the line closed to NEW callers at 3.15pm (45 minutes earlier than normal). Agents continued to assist queued callers up until 6pm. We continue to closely monitor and review call volumes to match staffing capacity to anticipated demand.</p><p>Analysis of the spike on 17<sup>th</sup> June is currently being undertaken to ensure a closure of this nature is not required in the future.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/06/2022 10:26:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1471740

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's response rate to enquiries from hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	21244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>Performance against target has been impacted by a significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, including the unprecedented amount of correspondence about the situation in Afghanistan and more recently in Ukraine.</p><p>The Department continues to prioritise enquiries related to Ukraine and recognises it has not been able to meet service standard in other cases. Actions are being taken to clear backlogs and drive-up performance. MPs can escalate urgent and compassionate cases via the team at Portcullis House.</p><p>The Department continues to recruit additional resources and has recently been loaned staff from non-operational areas to assist in clearing the backlogs.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/06/2022 10:30:11 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1471742

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 enquiries from hon. Members to her Department received a response within 20 working days since 1 January 2022; and how many and what proportion of enquiries awaiting a response were received more than (i) 20, (ii) 40, (iii) 60 and (iv) 80 working days ago as of 20 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	21245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>Performance against target has been impacted by a significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, including the unprecedented amount of correspondence about the situation in Afghanistan and more recently in Ukraine.</p><p>The Department continues to prioritise enquiries related to Ukraine and recognises it has not been able to meet service standard in other cases. Actions have been taken to clear backlogs and drive-up performance. MPs can escalate urgent and compassionate cases via the team at Portcullis House.</p><p>The Department continues to recruit additional resources and has recently been loaned staff from non-operational areas to assist in clearing the backlogs.</p><p>Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/06/2022 10:29:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1471758

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office and UK Visas and Immigration: Correspondence
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 UK Visas and Immigration and HM Passport Office's customer service operations data, published on 26 May 2022, what her timeframe is for reaching the performance target of 95 per cent in respect of responses to letters and emails from hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	21240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>Performance against target has been impacted by a significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, including the unprecedented amount of correspondence about the situation in Afghanistan and more recently in Ukraine.</p><p>The Department continues to prioritise enquiries related to Ukraine and recognises it has not been able to meet service standard in other cases. Actions are being taken to clear backlogs and drive-up performance. MPs can also escalate urgent and compassionate cases via the team at Portcullis House.</p><p>The Department continues to recruit additional resources and has recently been loaned staff from non-operational areas to assist in clearing the backlogs.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/06/2022 10:32:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1471822

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new enquiries her Department’s MP hotline teams have processed in each month of 2022 up to 20 June.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	21147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The volume of calls received, and enquiries handled in these calls on the MP Helpline in each month of 2022 is detailed below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td>Calls Answered</td><td>Total Enquiries handles through calls</td></tr><tr><td>Jan-22</td><td>1327</td><td>1650</td></tr><tr><td>Feb-22</td><td>1344</td><td>1659</td></tr><tr><td>Mar-22</td><td>1808</td><td>2383</td></tr><tr><td>Apr-22</td><td>1967</td><td>3632</td></tr><tr><td>May-22</td><td>3716</td><td>7118</td></tr><tr><td>Jun-22</td><td>2902</td><td>4884</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/06/2022 10:05:41 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1471383

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
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
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 with Cabinet colleagues to tackle violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	20233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a government priority. VAWG is an unacceptable, preventable issue which blights the lives of millions.</p><p>In July 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 and on the streets.</p><p>The Strategy commits to a number of actions and we are already making progress. This includes:</p><ul><li>supporting the introduction of a new full-time National Policing Lead for Violence Against Women and Girls – with DCC Maggie Blyth now in post;</li><li>a new national communications campaign, Enough, with a focus on targeting perpetrators and harmful misogynistic attitudes, educating young people about healthy relationships and ensuring victims can access support. This has been developed in close collaboration with the VAWG sector, academics and survivors, the campaign launched on 1 March 2022;</li><li>working to criminalise virginity testing through the Health and Social Care Act to send a clear message that this practice is wholly unacceptable in our society; and</li><li>appointing joint Transport Champions to help make public transport safer for women and girls.</li></ul><p>This was followed by a complementary cross-Government Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan which we published in March 2022.</p><p>The Plan invests over £230 million into tackling this heinous crime. This includes over £140 million for supporting victims and over £81 million for tackling perpetrators. £47 million of this will be ringfenced over three years for community-based services to support victims and survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence.</p><p>The successful implementation of these commitments will be overseen by the Violence Against Women and Girls Inter-Ministerial Group.</p><p>These measures will help further transform the response to these crimes, from prevention and raising awareness, improving support to victims and survivors, to ensuring perpetrators are brought to justice.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 21/06/2022 16:31:41 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1471413

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan nationals have been granted UK visas since 1 July 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	20256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance grants by nationality in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of visas granted to Afghan nationals is published in table Vis_D02 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/managed-migration-datasets#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk" target="_blank">entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed datasets</a>’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending March 2022. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076145/visas-summary-mar-2022-tables.ods" target="_blank">summary tables</a>’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on entry clearance visas.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/06/2022 09:51:48 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain