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date	16/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many offenders were transferred from prisons in (1) England, and (2) Wales, to prisons in Northern Ireland in (a) 2021, and (b) 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>There were no transfers from prisons in England or Wales to Northern Ireland in 2021. In 2022, three prisoners were transferred from prisons in England and four from prisons in Wales.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 29/01/2024 18:01:23 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682668

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date	16/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enhance UK border security and immigration enforcement.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office’s priority is to deliver a safe and secure border and we will never compromise on this. Border Force maintain 100% checks for all scheduled arriving passengers into the UK and this will be continued during any period.</p><p>Border Force deploys to risk using tested, but continually assessed, intelligence and targeting techniques. Border Force does not publish information on operational activities. Doing so would publicise operational practices which would be used to assist in the evasion of customs controls and compromise border security.</p><p>Immigration Enforcement is taking robust action to tackle illegal migration through:</p><ul><li>returning more than 24,000 people in 2023 who have no right to be in the UK, including more than 5,500 Albanians;</li><li>increasing enforcement visits, with 10,509 in the first 9 months of 2023 compared to 6,865 in the same period in 2022 and 5,576 people arrested linked to these compared to 2,175 in the previous year; and</li><li>disrupting organised crime groups, resulting in 246 arrests of people smugglers in 2023.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 30/01/2024 17:09:05 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682669

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Torture
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers who have claimed to be victims of torture have been detained at immigration centres.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the information requested, as it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 30/01/2024 17:02:25 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore