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registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: 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 refugees were housed in interim hotel accommodation as of (a) 5 December 2023, (b) 12 December 2023, (c) 19 December 2023, (d) 26 December 2023 and (e) 31 December 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	8448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK made an ambitious and generous commitment to help resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served in the UK. Since June 2021, we have brought 24,500 people to safety to the UK.</p><p>1,674 people, around half of whom are children, were living in interim accommodation (i.e., hotels/serviced accommodation) at the end of September 2023.</p><p>For information on individuals within interim accommodation, including nationality, age, and sex breakdowns, see table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p>For data on those in accommodation by location, see the regional and local authority immigration groups data tables.</p><p>We are unable to provide a running commentary on interim accommodation and settled accommodation occupation. The next release of Afghan Operational Data is due for release around 22 February 2024.</p><p>Local authorities receive integration tariff funding of £20,520 per person, over three years, for each Afghan family they resettle and provide full integration support for this duration.  They have the flexibility to use this funding to contribute towards renting accommodation, including deposit, letting fees and necessary furnishings.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 8449 8450 8451 question first answered 16/01/2024 13:54:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1680322

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: 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 refugees housed in interim hotel accommodation were aged (a) zero to three, (b) three to five, (c) five to ten, (d) 10 to 15 and (e) 15 to 18 years old as of 26 December 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	8449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK made an ambitious and generous commitment to help resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served in the UK. Since June 2021, we have brought 24,500 people to safety to the UK.</p><p>1,674 people, around half of whom are children, were living in interim accommodation (i.e., hotels/serviced accommodation) at the end of September 2023.</p><p>For information on individuals within interim accommodation, including nationality, age, and sex breakdowns, see table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p>For data on those in accommodation by location, see the regional and local authority immigration groups data tables.</p><p>We are unable to provide a running commentary on interim accommodation and settled accommodation occupation. The next release of Afghan Operational Data is due for release around 22 February 2024.</p><p>Local authorities receive integration tariff funding of £20,520 per person, over three years, for each Afghan family they resettle and provide full integration support for this duration.  They have the flexibility to use this funding to contribute towards renting accommodation, including deposit, letting fees and necessary furnishings.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 8448 8450 8451 question first answered 16/01/2024 13:54:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1680323

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: 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 refugees who left hotel accommodation between 1 and 31 December 2023 have found permanent accommodation in the same local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	8450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK made an ambitious and generous commitment to help resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served in the UK. Since June 2021, we have brought 24,500 people to safety to the UK.</p><p>1,674 people, around half of whom are children, were living in interim accommodation (i.e., hotels/serviced accommodation) at the end of September 2023.</p><p>For information on individuals within interim accommodation, including nationality, age, and sex breakdowns, see table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p>For data on those in accommodation by location, see the regional and local authority immigration groups data tables.</p><p>We are unable to provide a running commentary on interim accommodation and settled accommodation occupation. The next release of Afghan Operational Data is due for release around 22 February 2024.</p><p>Local authorities receive integration tariff funding of £20,520 per person, over three years, for each Afghan family they resettle and provide full integration support for this duration.  They have the flexibility to use this funding to contribute towards renting accommodation, including deposit, letting fees and necessary furnishings.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 8448 8449 8451 question first answered 16/01/2024 13:54:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1680324

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support has been provided to Bradford Council by his Department to support Afghan refugees leaving interim hotel accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	8451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK made an ambitious and generous commitment to help resettle Afghans fleeing persecution and those who served in the UK. Since June 2021, we have brought 24,500 people to safety to the UK.</p><p>1,674 people, around half of whom are children, were living in interim accommodation (i.e., hotels/serviced accommodation) at the end of September 2023.</p><p>For information on individuals within interim accommodation, including nationality, age, and sex breakdowns, see table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p>For data on those in accommodation by location, see the regional and local authority immigration groups data tables.</p><p>We are unable to provide a running commentary on interim accommodation and settled accommodation occupation. The next release of Afghan Operational Data is due for release around 22 February 2024.</p><p>Local authorities receive integration tariff funding of £20,520 per person, over three years, for each Afghan family they resettle and provide full integration support for this duration.  They have the flexibility to use this funding to contribute towards renting accommodation, including deposit, letting fees and necessary furnishings.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 8448 8449 8450 question first answered 16/01/2024 13:54:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1680350

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to lay regulations commencing sections (a) 1, (b) 2 and (c) 3 of the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	8419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Public sexual harassment is an appalling crime which the Government is committed to tackling. Women have the right to both be and feel safe on our streets.</p><p>The Government has already taken significant action to tackle it, including supporting the Protection from Sex-Based Harassment in Public Act 2023 (sponsored by Rt Hon. Greg Clark MP and Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC), which makes public sexual harassment a specific offence.</p><p>As with any new criminal justice legislation, an implementation period is necessary to ensure all processes, systems and guidance are updated – including drawing up the statutory guidance. We will ensure the legislation comes into force as quickly as reasonably possible.</p><p>We have ensured that new guidance was published for police and prosecutors on existing offences, have provided £160 million through five rounds of the Safer Streets and Safety of Women at Night Funds to make our streets safer, have created the new StreetSafe tool which allows people to pinpoint where they have felt unsafe and the police to take action, and have launched the ground-breaking ‘Enough’ communications campaign.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 8420 question first answered 15/01/2024 18:01:10 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1680351

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) guidance he has issued to police forces and (b) data his Department is collecting on the recording of data on harassment offences where sex or gender is a relevant factor.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	8420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Public sexual harassment is an appalling crime which the Government is committed to tackling. Women have the right to both be and feel safe on our streets.</p><p>The Government has already taken significant action to tackle it, including supporting the Protection from Sex-Based Harassment in Public Act 2023 (sponsored by Rt Hon. Greg Clark MP and Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC), which makes public sexual harassment a specific offence.</p><p>As with any new criminal justice legislation, an implementation period is necessary to ensure all processes, systems and guidance are updated – including drawing up the statutory guidance. We will ensure the legislation comes into force as quickly as reasonably possible.</p><p>We have ensured that new guidance was published for police and prosecutors on existing offences, have provided £160 million through five rounds of the Safer Streets and Safety of Women at Night Funds to make our streets safer, have created the new StreetSafe tool which allows people to pinpoint where they have felt unsafe and the police to take action, and have launched the ground-breaking ‘Enough’ communications campaign.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 8419 question first answered 15/01/2024 18:01:10 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1680352

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
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 seeking asylum have spent at least one night in hotel accommodation provided by the Home Office in the last 3 months.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	8423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The High Court has upheld that local authorities have a statutory duty to care for UASC. We have always maintained that the best place for unaccompanied children to be accommodated is within a local authority. The High Court recently noted that improvements, plus impressive collaboration between the Home Office and Kent County Council, has led to a significant fall in the number of lone children being accommodated in hotels.</p><p>Since 18 November 2023, the one remaining hotel in Kent has remained empty. Of the 7 hotels which were operational in 2022, 6 of those were closed permanently on 30 November 2023.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 8424 question first answered 11/01/2024 17:50:05 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1680353

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
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 seeking asylum were placed in hotel accommodation by the Home Office in the last three months, broken down by number of nights spent in that accomodation.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	8424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The High Court has upheld that local authorities have a statutory duty to care for UASC. We have always maintained that the best place for unaccompanied children to be accommodated is within a local authority. The High Court recently noted that improvements, plus impressive collaboration between the Home Office and Kent County Council, has led to a significant fall in the number of lone children being accommodated in hotels.</p><p>Since 18 November 2023, the one remaining hotel in Kent has remained empty. Of the 7 hotels which were operational in 2022, 6 of those were closed permanently on 30 November 2023.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 8423 question first answered 11/01/2024 17:50:05 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1679326

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	MOD Boscombe Down: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have visited Boscombe Down in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	7872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">There have been no visits to Boscombe Down in the last 12 months.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">There have been no ministerial visits to Boscombe Down in the last 12 months. Home Office officials have visited during this period.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/01/2024 15:40:14 question first ministerially corrected 29/01/2024 12:35:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp previous answer version 10967 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1679349

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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, whether he is taking steps to improve police training.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	7806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving standards in policing and ensuring that the police workforce remains fit for the future in serving our communities. The College of Policing is the professional body for policing in England and Wales and is an operationally independent arms-length body of the Home Office. It was established in 2012 to set and improve standards for excellence in policing, including recruitment, leadership, professional development and assessment.</p><p>Training standards and the national policing curriculum are set by the College of Policing. The College regularly reviews the policing curriculum, to ensure that it is fit for purpose.</p><p>Forces also provide local training and development at several different levels ranging from initial entry, leadership and ongoing development to reflect and reinforce organisational values. Decisions on how to use funding and resources for police training are an operational matter for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, who are best placed to make decisions based on their local knowledge and experience.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/01/2024 17:10:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell