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1244831

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to address trafficking gangs in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling modern slavery, and drug and firearms trafficking.</p><p>Our response to these threats is set out in:</p><ul><li>Serious and Organised Crime Strategy: (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/698009/serious-violence-strategy.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/698009/serious-violence-strategy.pdf</a>)</li><li>2019/20 Modern Slavery Annual Report: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2020-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2020-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery</a></li></ul><p>This year, the Home Office is providing £2 million funding to continue to support the police under the new Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Programme (MSOIC). This funding will enable us to support the police to drive forward work to increase modern slavery prosecutions and build capability to respond to organised immigration crime.</p><p>We are also investing £25m over two years (2019/20 to 2020/21) to boost law enforcement efforts to tackle the county lines model of drugs distribution, including through expanding the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre (NCLCC), boosting operational activity in the three major exporting force areas (the Metropolitan Police, Merseyside, West Midlands), and increasing support for victims.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/11/2020 12:51:55 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1244847

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to support the mentoring of new officers by experienced officers in the police force.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	106458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>Training and development for new officers, including mentoring programmes, are carried out in forces in line with national standards set by the College of Policing. We are making £700m additional funding available for PCCs in 2020-21, with a further £50m to be spent on national programmes supporting Police Uplift Programme. This includes the cost of training and induction for new officers to ensure they receive the right level of support on joining</p><p>We welcome the work being done by the College of Policing to strengthen leadership and supervision standards at all levels, particularly in support of officers on the frontline – this includes mentoring programmes and a tutor constable programme to ensure new officers receive the support they need.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/10/2020 17:35:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

1244848

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Assaults On Police: Reviews
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will conduct a review into the reasons for the increased number of assaults on police officers.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	106459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>Any assault on a police officer is completely unacceptable. In order to improve the accuracy of data on assaults on police officers, from 2017, police forces have included the number of assaults with injury on a police officer as part of their recorded crime data. This has been an important step towards obtaining a much better picture of the total number of assaults on police officers. We also welcome the recent publication of the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Officer and Staff Safety Review and will continue to work closely with policing partners to consider the recommendations in the report.</p><p>Assaults specifically against emergency workers, including police officers, are punishable by up to 12 months in prison and could be charged as common assault. This Government recently announced our intention to double the maximum sentence for assaults on emergency workers, showing our commitment to ensuring these attacks are not tolerated.</p><p>We have also accelerated our work to introduce a Police Covenant, recognising the service and sacrifice of those who work, or have worked, in policing and to deliver the practical support they need. The key areas of focus will be physical protection, health and wellbeing and support for families.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/10/2020 13:19:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

1244850

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: South Northamptonshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals rights exhausted asylum seekers are being housed in South Northamptonshire; and at what cost to the taxpayer.
tabling member constituency	South Northamptonshire
tabling member printed	Andrea Leadsom
uin	106332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority can be found at <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets%23asylum-support&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C59aaf422e5514cc57ab908d80ee3338c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637275716261597833&amp;sdata=6LwYz97z54ErYCJEkz%2FEUt7eu4MaMdlnEDmyvSsu3I0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support</a></p><p>Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential so we do not provide this information, however, total asylum spends are published as part of transparency data <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/11/2020 15:43:06 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom

1244859

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent from the public purse on encouraging under-represented groups to join the police through media outlets that serve BAME communities in the last 10 months.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	106461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>Attracting a broad range of talent, cultures and backgrounds to a career in policing is a core ambition in our drive to recruit 20,000 extra police officers, therefore reaching under-represented audiences is a key element of the Police Recruitment campaign strategy.</p><p>The national advertising campaign is planned and bought to reach a wide range of people from all backgrounds. Evaluation of campaign activity in May and June 2020 suggests that campaign messages reached almost 94% of 18-54 year olds from ethnic minority communities.</p><p>Campaign activity includes TV and radio advertising on channels which serve minority ethnic communities, such as BET, Brit Asia TV and Colourful Radio. To date, over £38k has been invested in these channels. In addition, £74K has been set aside to date for reaching under-represented groups through partnerships with media outlets which specifically serve minority ethnic communities.</p><p>We also continue to work with Police Associations to encourage under-represented audiences from their communities to consider a career in policing. This is includes working with them to develop new communications content for them to use on their no-cost channels which will also be used to support new individual tailored web pages for each Police Association on the www.joiningthepolice.co.uk campaign website.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/11/2020 16:36:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

1244931

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 19 October (HL Deb, cols 1272–5), in how many instances citizenship fees were waived during the last twelve months for which figures are available; how many of those waivers involved children; and what plans they have to undertake a children’s best interest assessment of their policy on citizenship fees.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL9346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>There are no general waivers that apply to citizenship applications. There is however, a specific waiver which allows for a child who would have become a British citizen but for the fact that the mother was married to someone other than the child’s biological father at the time of the birth, to apply to register as a British citizen without needing to pay a fee.</p><p>There are a number of exceptions to application fees for leave to remain in the United Kingdom which protect the most vulnerable, such as for young people who are in the care of a local authority.</p><p>Citizenship registration fees are the subject of current litigation. While the court case is ongoing it would not be appropriate to comment on next steps.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 03/11/2020 15:46:13 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1244949

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 29 September (HL8116), what plans they have to publish the terms of reference for the Home Office review into the right to work of asylum seekers.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
uin	HL9359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>Asylum seeker right to work is a complex issue. A review of the policy is ongoing, and we are considering the evidence put forward on the issue. The findings of the review will be announced once the work has been completed.</p><p>Officials have been in contact as necessary with Asylum Matters and Refugee Action in respect of asylum seeker right to work policy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL9360 HL9361 question first answered 03/11/2020 15:43:19 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1244951

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 29 September (HL8116), what external organisations have been (1) formally, and (2) informally, consulted as part of the Home Office review into the right to work of asylum seekers.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
uin	HL9360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>Asylum seeker right to work is a complex issue. A review of the policy is ongoing, and we are considering the evidence put forward on the issue. The findings of the review will be announced once the work has been completed.</p><p>Officials have been in contact as necessary with Asylum Matters and Refugee Action in respect of asylum seeker right to work policy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL9359 HL9361 question first answered 03/11/2020 15:43:19 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1244952

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the response by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 9 September (HL Deb, col 820), when the review into the right to work of asylum seekers will be laid before the House.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
uin	HL9361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>Asylum seeker right to work is a complex issue. A review of the policy is ongoing, and we are considering the evidence put forward on the issue. The findings of the review will be announced once the work has been completed.</p><p>Officials have been in contact as necessary with Asylum Matters and Refugee Action in respect of asylum seeker right to work policy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL9359 HL9360 question first answered 03/11/2020 15:43:19 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1244967

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Osime Brown
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the petition to stop the deportation of Osime Brown  receiving over 250,000 signatures, what plans they have (1) to assess the compassionate factors relating to his case, and (2) to review his deportation.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL9371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>We only ever return those who we and, where applicable, the courts are satisfied do not need our protection and have no legal basis to remain in the UK. No action would be taken to deport an individual while there are outstanding legal barriers that would prevent their removal from the UK and until all outstanding representations have been considered.</p><p>It would be inappropriate to comment further while legal proceedings are ongoing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 03/11/2020 15:43:47 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton