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1675433

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
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 flights his Department (a) has chartered and (b) plans to charter to transport Afghan refugees from Pakistan since October for (i) each month in 2023 and (ii) the first three months of 2024; what estimate he has made of the total number of flights that will be chartered in total; and whether the total number of flights will be calculated on the number of Afghan refugees currently receiving UK Government support in Pakistan.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	5231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>Resettlement of eligible Afghans remains a top priority for this Government.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-september-2023" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> show that at the end of September 2023, around 24,600 vulnerable people affected by the events in Afghanistan have been brought to safety so far.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government and our partners will arrange and fund travel for those accepted under our Afghan schemes as part of the resettlement and relocation process. Depending on the individual circumstances, this may be via charter or commercial flights.</p><p> </p><p>Flights for those being resettled under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) are organised by the International Organisation for Migration, in line with requests from the Home Office. As flights are operational you will appreciate that we cannot go into more detail about them.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to honour our commitment to bring eligible Afghans to the UK, with new arrivals going directly into settled accommodation where possible.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/12/2023 14:40:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1675482

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Research
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 December 2023 to Question 3174 on Hate crime: research, what the cost was of the external research commissioned from (a) IPSOS UK and (b) RAND Europe.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	5245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>We keep our approach to hate crime under review and commission external research when necessary to supplement internal research and the international evidence base. The total cost of the different research projects commissioned from IPSOS UK and RAND Europe in relation to the relevant PQ across a number of contracts was £566,060.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 19/12/2023 10:03:42 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1675161

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will respond to the concerns raised by the Local Government Association in its press release entitled Thousands of refugees could be on the streets for Christmas without urgent government action, published on 28 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	4990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>We are ensuring our cross government partners, such as the (DWP) and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) are sighted on data to enable them to consider the impacts of increased decision making and effectively plan.  We are also working with DLUHC to ensure the right asylum decision data is being shared with local authorities to enable effective planning and to lessen the impact on existing homelessness and rough sleeping pressures. Our accommodation providers are directly working with local authorities to notify them when an individual is due to have their asylum support ended.</p><p>The communications will be sent out shortly to all local authorities. The Home Office have decided that the last date for evictions this year will be 22<em> </em>December. The Home Office will still be processing discontinuations throughout, but anything that falls on the 23<em> </em>December through to and including 02 January 2024 will have their end of grace period moved to 03 January 2024 when evictions will recommence. This covers the whole festive period and the additional bank holiday in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/12/2023 12:30:50 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1674018

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Postal Services
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 Answer of 15 September 2023 to Question 198404 on Passports: Postal Services and to the press release entitled Royal Mail wins HM Passport Office contract published by Royal Mail press on 17 July 2023, what account his decision to award that contract with HM Passport Office and other government offices took of the Ofcom investigation started on 15 May 2023 into Royal Mail’s compliance with its quality-of-service performance targets in 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	4383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>The contract was awarded to Royal Mail on 22 October 2022, prior to the opening of the Ofcom investigation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/12/2023 12:46:33 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1674111

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
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, with reference to the Children’s Commissioner's report entitled Unaccompanied children in need of care published November 2023, for what reasons his Department did not return the information requested by the Commissioner on whether (a) safeguarding referrals were made and (b) healthcare support was received; and if he will provide this information for the 5,298 children housed in hotels between July 2021 and May 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	4384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>For those young people determined to be under 18 who have entered the UK without a parent or guardian, we will endeavour to place them with a local authority as soon as possible after their entry into the country. For young people placed in emergency interim hotels, safeguarding procedures are in place to ensure they are safe and supported whilst we seek urgent placements with a local authority. Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office have confirmed the completion of the required Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Children’s Commissioner’s report. However there has been some delay in agreeing the final version. Further more, there are elements of the data which have been requested that are not in electronically retrievable form. The Home Office will not be able to provide the data as it would require a high level of manual resource to obtain.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/12/2023 12:49:49 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1674112

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
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, if he will take legislative steps to remove the power for his Department to accommodate children in the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	4385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>The Illegal Migration Act received Royal Assent on 20 July 2023. The Act seeks to ensure the only way to come to the UK for protection will be through safe and legal routes and will take power out of the hands of the criminal gangs and protect vulnerable people, including children.</p><p> </p><p>Following the High Court ECPAT judgment and Supreme Court judgment on Rwanda, the Government is carefully reflecting on commencement of the powers in the Act, including those relating to the accommodation and transfer of unaccompanied children.</p><p> </p><p>These powers have not yet been commenced and a decision will be made in due course. The Act does not change a local authority’s statutory obligations to children from the date of arrival and that the best place for an unaccompanied child is in the care of a local authority. This is something the Government was consistently clear about during the Illegal Migration Act’s passage through Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/12/2023 12:51:03 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1672160

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department has commissioned on the (a) impact on communities and (b) economic cost of hate crime in the past three years.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	3174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p>We keep our approach to tackling hate crime under review, taking into account the international evidence base and our internal research. Over the last three years we have undertaken internal research and commissioned external research from IPSOS UK and RAND Europe where necessary.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 01/12/2023 13:55:53 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1671941

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with refence to the Answer of 21 June 2023 to Question 189060 on Hate Crime: LGBT+ People, when he plans to publish the Government’s response the Law Commission's report entitled Hate crime laws: Final report, published on 7 December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>We are grateful for the detailed consideration the Law Commission has given to its review of hate crime laws. In April this year, the Government published a response to Recommendation 8 on misogyny as a hate crime and we will respond to the remaining recommendations shortly.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 29/11/2023 18:07:01 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1670618

registered interest
date	16/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Rwanda
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 Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 36865 on Refugees: Rwanda, how many refugees from Rwanda have been resettled in the UK under the Migration and Economic Development Partnership; and if he will take steps to publish this data each month.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2023 answer text <p>The Migration and Economic Development Partnership has not yet been operationalised.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/11/2023 12:04:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1668840

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
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, with reference to the Westminster Hall debate on Safe Asylum Routes: Afghan Refugees on 17 October 2023, whether unaccompanied children who came to the UK through the Afghan Citizen's Resettlement Scheme 1 will be able to sponsor family members who are still in (a) Afghanistan and (b) a third country, to resettle in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>The government remains committed to providing protection for vulnerable and at-risk people fleeing Afghanistan. However, the situation is complex and presents significant challenges, including how those who are eligible for resettlement in the UK can leave the country. This includes eligible immediate family members of those being resettled under the ACRS.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/11/2023 14:51:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas