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date	28/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was for (a) financial support and (b) accommodation for people (i) seeking asylum and (ii) arriving through other humanitarian routes in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	4251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 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. Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. The Home Office is currently spending around £8.3m per day on hotel accommodation. Total expenditure on asylum and humanitarian routes is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown which disaggregates the cost of financial support and accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees by local authority.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/12/2023 17:26:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1151878

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Smuggling: Bulgaria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether enhanced security checks are applied to vehicles entering the UK from Bulgaria for the detection of illegal immigrants and contraband.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	4251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Border Force search lorries, trailers and containers entering the UK on a targeted or intelligence-led basis. Border Force have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security, with all freight vehicles entering the UK screened using a range of techniques. These include the use of carbon dioxide detectors, motion sensors and sniffer dogs to detect clandestine on-board lorries.</p><p>Border Force work closely with the Road Hauliers Association to prevent opportunist attacks on individual lorries, which can be frustrated by operators taking relatively simple measures to secure their vehicles.</p><p>Hauliers travelling to the UK are expected to operate effective security measures to prevent illegal migrants entering their vehicles. Border Force fine drivers and operators who have failed to implement such measures and migrants have been discovered in their vehicles.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 28/10/2019 17:39:58 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

750829

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the change was in the proportion of homeless household (a) applications and (b) acceptances who were BAME over the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	4251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>DCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief. These are published at a local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p><p>DCLG records data on decisions taken by local authorities on homelessness applications. The statistics on homelessness decisions by the ethnicity of the main applicant for the last ten years can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#detailed-local-authority-level-responses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#detailed-local-authority-level-responses</a></p><p>A breakdown of homelessness acceptances by the ethnicity of the main applicant is shown in live table 771, published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 18/07/2017 16:24:34 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 5023 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

385850

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Out of Area Treatment: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients with a postal address in Wales have used hospital services in (a) Countess of Chester, (b) Arrowe Park, Wirral, (c) Clatterbridge, Wirral, (d) The Christie, Manchester, (e) Agnes Hunt, Gobowen and (f) Liverpool Children's Hospital in the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	4251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Counts of accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances<sup>1</sup>, admitted patient finished admission episodes<sup>2</sup> and outpatient attendances<sup>3</sup> for patients with an Area Team of residence<sup>4</sup> of Wales by the selected hospital providers<sup>5</sup>, 2013-14</p><p> </p><p>Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Hospital provider</p></td><td><p>A&amp;E attendances</p></td><td><p>Finished admission episodes</p></td><td><p>Outpatient attendances</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>2,942</p></td><td><p>6,703</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>14,404</p></td><td><p>14,185</p></td><td><p>66,514</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>The Christie NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>285</p></td><td><p>3,167</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4,520</p></td><td><p>40,577</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>383</p></td><td><p>1,282</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><sup>1</sup> Official Source of A&amp;E activity data</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>HES is not the official source of total A&amp;E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection - http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/</p><p>However, HES permits further analysis of A&amp;E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><sup>2</sup> Finished admission episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><sup>3</sup> Outpatient Attendances</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Attendances at outpatient clinics. Includes first and follow-up attendances and telephone consultations, excludes did not attends (DNAs) and cancellations.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><sup>4</sup> Area team of residence</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>The area team containing the patient’s normal home address. This does not necessarily reflect where the patient was treated as they may have travelled to another area for treatment.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><sup>5 </sup>Hospital Provider</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (eg NHS trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/07/2015 11:45:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson