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1539026

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Age
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) ethical and (b) scientific considerations of the use of x-rays of verify the age of child refugees.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	78804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>In December 2021, the Home Office set up an independent Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee to provide the Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser with independent advice – including scientific and associated ethical advice and guidance on existing and emerging scientific approaches that could be utilised for the purpose of age assessment. We are considering advice from this Committee and other sources. No official decisions have been made about if and how to implement scientific methods.</p><p>The use of X-rays specifically is regulated by the Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004, which requires that any practices involving the use of ionising radiation be justified on the basis that the individual or societal benefit of that practice outweighs the health detriment it may cause. Any use of X-rays for age assessment purposes will therefore be contingent on the appropriate approvals being met under these regulations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/11/2022 11:38:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 32584 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

1539102

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of (a) sexual assault and (b) rape have been made by asylum seekers accommodated in hotels in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	78720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>There are vigorous processes in place to record, manage and monitor any high profile/critical incidents that involve asylum support service users, asylum support accommodation premises or asylum support service providers. This is primarily through the High Profile Notification (HPN) system once an issue is identified by a first responder, which triggers involvement from the relevant emergency services, Asylum Accommodation &amp; Support Contracts (AASC) and provider staff as well as intervention from the departments Safeguarding Hub.</p><p>Due to the categorisations currently used, the Home Office does not record this information in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost. We would have to manually investigate various data sources and even then, the figures would be incomplete as individuals are under no obligation to report sexual assault to the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 78721 78723 question first answered 08/11/2022 14:04:34 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1539104

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Sexual Offences
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 individuals accused of (a) sexual assault and (b) rape against asylum seekers were subsequently removed from those hotels in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	78721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>There are vigorous processes in place to record, manage and monitor any high profile/critical incidents that involve asylum support service users, asylum support accommodation premises or asylum support service providers. This is primarily through the High Profile Notification (HPN) system once an issue is identified by a first responder, which triggers involvement from the relevant emergency services, Asylum Accommodation &amp; Support Contracts (AASC) and provider staff as well as intervention from the departments Safeguarding Hub.</p><p>Due to the categorisations currently used, the Home Office does not record this information in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost. We would have to manually investigate various data sources and even then, the figures would be incomplete as individuals are under no obligation to report sexual assault to the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 78720 78723 question first answered 08/11/2022 14:04:34 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1539106

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
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, by what process serious criminal allegations made by asylum seekers accommodated in hotels are reported to her Department.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	78723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>There are vigorous processes in place to record, manage and monitor any high profile/critical incidents that involve asylum support service users, asylum support accommodation premises or asylum support service providers. This is primarily through the High Profile Notification (HPN) system once an issue is identified by a first responder, which triggers involvement from the relevant emergency services, Asylum Accommodation &amp; Support Contracts (AASC) and provider staff as well as intervention from the departments Safeguarding Hub.</p><p>Due to the categorisations currently used, the Home Office does not record this information in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost. We would have to manually investigate various data sources and even then, the figures would be incomplete as individuals are under no obligation to report sexual assault to the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 78720 78721 question first answered 08/11/2022 14:04:34 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1539110

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Vivastreet
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 1 November to Question 72950 on Home Office: Vivastreet, whether her Department has made any payments to Vivastreet since 2017.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	78654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office has not made any payments to the company Vivastreet since 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 08/11/2022 14:37:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1539133

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to implement the Law Commission recommendation on establishing equal protections for people who are assaulted due to their disability as exist for people assaulted due to their race in their report entitled Hate crime laws: Final report, published on 7 December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	78638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government is considering the Law Commission’s proposals carefully and will respond to the recommendations shortly.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/11/2022 13:55:43 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1539135

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Spiking
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 Second Special Report of Session 2022–23 of the Home Affairs Select Committee entitled Spiking: Government Response to the Committee’s Ninth Report, HC508, when she plans to update Parliament on whether the Government intends to introduce a specific criminal offence for spiking; and for what reason her Department did not update Parliament on that matter before 26 October 2022 as set out in that Government response.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	78691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The government is absolutely committed to updating Parliament on the need for a specific criminal offence for spiking.</p><p>The Home Office informed the Home Affairs Select Committee on 11 October that the update, while forthcoming, is to be delayed. This is due to recent changes in government and the death of Her Late Majesty.</p><p>We are aiming to provide this update before the Christmas Recess.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/11/2022 13:49:40 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1539139

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are in (a) initial and (b) temporary hotel accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	78643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>The number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority, although not broken down into hotels or other accommodation, can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p>The latest publication (March 2022) can be found here Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), under the document Asylum seekers in receipt of support (second edition).</p><p>The data published at the end of June have been recently removed and are being investigated. An update will be provided in the next Immigration Statistics release.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/11/2022 11:32:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1539178

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average daily cost was for the provision of housing for people awaiting the processing of their asylum application in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
uin	78810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts (opens in a new tab).</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/11/2022 11:27:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

1539243

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Pupils
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 the Secretary of State for Education, to help place refugee children in local schools.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	78786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>Children of compulsory school age must receive full-time education. Parents have a statutory duty to see that their children receive a full-time education and local authorities are under a duty to provide suitable school places.</p><p>The Government provides funding to enable local authorities, schools and health partners to provide vulnerable refugees with a safe environment and the chance to rebuild their lives.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/11/2022 11:29:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell