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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

1674482

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Extradition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign criminals have been extradited to the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office deals with extradition requests to and from territories outside of the European Union. The National Crime Agency holds the data in relation to requests between the UK and EU countries.</p><p>In respect of extraditions dealt with by the Home Office, the following table provides the information sought:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023 (to date)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No. of foreign nationals</strong></p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Home Office processes requests for extradition for individuals who have either been convicted or who are accused of a crime but have yet to proceed through a criminal trial.</p><p>All Home Office figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such, they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 12/12/2023 17:08:20 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1649310

registered interest
date	30/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: River Tees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy to site an accommodation barge on the River Tees to accommodate asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	191916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.</p><p>We do not publicly comment on individual sites which may or may not be utilised. When a site becomes available and meets the requirements of our accommodation contract, we will follow our engagement process and notify local authority officials and other stakeholders in advance of using the location.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 191917 191918 question first answered 05/07/2023 12:03:40 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1649311

registered interest
date	30/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: River Tees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether exiting statutory powers are in place to direct the Tees Port Authority to site an accommodation barge on the River Tees.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	191917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.</p><p>We do not publicly comment on individual sites which may or may not be utilised. When a site becomes available and meets the requirements of our accommodation contract, we will follow our engagement process and notify local authority officials and other stakeholders in advance of using the location.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 191916 191918 question first answered 05/07/2023 12:03:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1649312

registered interest
date	30/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: River Tees
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 has made assessment of the potential impact of accommodating additional asylum seekers on an accommodation barge in Teesside on (a) hospitals, (b) GPs, (c) dentists and (d) other local services.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	191918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.</p><p>We do not publicly comment on individual sites which may or may not be utilised. When a site becomes available and meets the requirements of our accommodation contract, we will follow our engagement process and notify local authority officials and other stakeholders in advance of using the location.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 191916 191917 question first answered 05/07/2023 12:03:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1627599

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Transphobia
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 tackle transphobic hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	184963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government takes all forms of hate crime seriously. We expect the police to investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.</p><p> </p><p>We also welcome the apparent greater willingness to report hate crimes to the police and that the police are better at identifying them. That helps to explain the increase seen in hate crime.</p><p> </p><p>Our absolute priority is to get more police into our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting police by providing them with the resources they need. This has included the recruitment of 20,000 extra police officers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also worked with the police to fund True Vision, an online hate crime reporting portal, designed so that victims of hate crime do not have to visit a police station to report. The Government also funds the National Online Hate Crime Hub, a central capability designed to support individual local police forces in dealing with online hate crime. The Hub provides expert advice to police forces to support them in investigating these offences.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 22/05/2023 10:59:16 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1625172

registered interest
date	02/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022: Impact Assessments
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 23 September 2022 to Question 51651 on Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022: Impact Assessments, when she plans to publish an economic impact assessment of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	183406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>The matter of when the Government publishes the economic impact assessment of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Art 2022 is currently under consideration.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 09/05/2023 16:46:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1607727

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Legal Aid Scheme and Legal Opinion
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 ensure that people entering the UK by irregular means in the future will be able to access both legal advice and legal aid in a timely manner before they are removed.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	174287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>People subject to the duty to remove under the Illegal Migration Bill will have access to means and merits-free legal advice before they are removed from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 31/03/2023 12:45:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1607728

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Illegal Migration Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish an impact statement on the Illegal Migration Bill.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	174288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>We will publish an equality impact assessment and economic impact assessment in respect of the Illegal Migration Bill in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/03/2023 15:47:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham