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1697469

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 4 December 2023 from the Rt hon. Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland relating to a constituent, reference SC3361 and SC6612.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Sir Simon Clarke
uin	19697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>DSIT attaches great importance to providing timely responses to Members’ correspondence so we apologise for the delay in these cases. We replied to case reference SC3361 on 27 March and will ensure a response is issued to SC6612 as a matter of urgency.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 28/03/2024 16:17:30 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1685825

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Teesworks Joint Venture Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the total cost was of the Independent inquiry into Teesworks.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Sir Simon Clarke
uin	12065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>Given the seriousness of allegations made in this House, it was only right that we answered the Mayor's calls to establish a review. This was a thorough review undertaken by qualified individuals, which does result in costs to the taxpayer. When this is finalised we will make it publicly available.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 05/02/2024 16:46:14 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1599470

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour: Cleveland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there were for antisocial behaviour in Cleveland in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	154007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s commitment to tackling and preventing anti-social behaviour (ASB), the Government provided the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of flexible tools and powers that they can use to respond quickly and effectively to ASB through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for various criminal offences in the following data tool: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1126556/outcomes-by-offence-june-2022-revised.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence data tool: June 2022</a> (July 2017 to June 2022).</p><p>ASB can encompass a wide variety of behaviour and is not a specific criminal offence but can be prosecuted under a range of different offences.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/03/2023 17:50:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1580163

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Russia: Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ involvement in the (a) production and (b) provision of armed drones used by Russia in Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	131276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>Iran is now one of Russia's top military backers. The Iranian regime has sent hundreds of drones to Moscow, in violation of UNSCR 2231, which have been used to attack Ukraine's critical infrastructure and kill civilians. The UK has raised this issue alongside partners at the UN Security Council on 19 October and 19 December 2022. The UK adopted new sanctions against Iranian individuals and entities involved in these transfers in October and December. The FCDO will continue to work with partners to hold Iran to account for all of its malign activity.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 30/01/2023 17:24:25 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1544966

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Security: Iran
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for national security of reports Iran has attempted to kill or kidnap British nationals in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	94847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on operational or intelligence matters, however the UK will always stand up to threats from foreign nations.</p><p>Any threat made by a foreign state against individuals in the UK will not be tolerated and will be thoroughly investigated. On 16<sup>th</sup> November, Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5, explained in his annual threat address that since January, there have been at least ten threats to kidnap or even kill UK-based individuals. Iran has established a pattern of this type of behaviour which is totally unacceptable, yet sadly typical of the regime and its lack of respect for basic rights.</p><p>Working with a range of partners, the UK government will continue to use all tools at its disposal to protect individuals in the UK against any threats from the Iranian state.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 01/12/2022 17:10:10 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1300512

registered interest
date	09/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Regional Planning and Development: Tees Valley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of his Department's progress in levelling up the economy of the Tees Valley.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	913177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to levelling up opportunity across the UK, including in the Tees Valley.</p><p> </p><p>At the Budget I confirmed a series of measures to level up Tees Valley’s economy:</p><ul><li>New investment in offshore wind ports infrastructure;</li><li>the Teesside Freeport, which I visited with the Prime Minster on Thursday;</li><li>and the new Treasury economic campus in Darlington.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Tees Valley will also benefit from two new Towns Fund Deals, in Middlesbrough and Thornaby.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 09/03/2021 14:11:50 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1285326

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with regard to the Answer of 9 February to Question 149327, why the information requested is only be available at disproportionate cost when it has previously been supplied for the period up to March 2019 in response to Freedom of Information request reference 54393 dated 29 July 2019.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	151832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not available from published statistics.</p><p>I note the Honourable Member references previous questions, but they are not identical. As such the information requested is not available in a reportable format and would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>Section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 provides a statutory duty to deport a foreign national if they have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months. This is subject to several exceptions, including where to do so would be a breach of a person’s ECHR rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.</p><p>Where a decision is made to deport, and representations are raised against that decision, an FNO is likely to be granted a right of appeal. This may be exercised in or out of country depending on the circumstances of the case.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on Returns in the ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=DdtqP5NSLwnQpJcFA5Ds4LYqf2GWnkJNmZInwUTbKuE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release(opens in a new tab)</a>’. Data on the number of Returns from the UK by return type (including enforced returns) are published in table Ret_01 of the Returns ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2020%23returns&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=p8hdvUF2Hv7M6atU%2BqK4YTia%2Br9Dhr%2FQ4JIPmQntRzc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">summary tables(opens in a new tab)</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ publishes data on Appeals in the following statistical quarterly release, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This Government’s priority is keeping the people of this country safe and we are clear that foreign criminals should be deported from the UK wherever it is legal and practical to do so.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/02/2021 17:33:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1284101

registered interest
date	04/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sentencing: Foreign Nationals
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 national offenders received a prison sentence of 12 months or more in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	149323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested above is not available in a reportable format and would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>Section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 provides a statutory duty to deport a foreign national if they have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months. This is subject to several exceptions, including where to do so would be a breach of a person’s ECHR rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.</p><p> </p><p>Where a decision is made to deport, and representations are raised against that decision, an FNO is likely to be granted a right of appeal. This may be exercised in or out of country depending on the circumstances of the case.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on Returns in the ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=DdtqP5NSLwnQpJcFA5Ds4LYqf2GWnkJNmZInwUTbKuE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of Returns from the UK by return type (including enforced returns) are published in table Ret_01 of the Returns ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2020%23returns&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=p8hdvUF2Hv7M6atU%2BqK4YTia%2Br9Dhr%2FQ4JIPmQntRzc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">summary tables</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ publishes data on Appeals in the following statistical quarterly release, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 149324 149325 149326 149327 question first answered 09/02/2021 15:27:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1284102

registered interest
date	04/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
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 national offenders were served with a Deportation Order in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	149324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested above is not available in a reportable format and would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>Section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 provides a statutory duty to deport a foreign national if they have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months. This is subject to several exceptions, including where to do so would be a breach of a person’s ECHR rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.</p><p> </p><p>Where a decision is made to deport, and representations are raised against that decision, an FNO is likely to be granted a right of appeal. This may be exercised in or out of country depending on the circumstances of the case.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on Returns in the ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=DdtqP5NSLwnQpJcFA5Ds4LYqf2GWnkJNmZInwUTbKuE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of Returns from the UK by return type (including enforced returns) are published in table Ret_01 of the Returns ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2020%23returns&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=p8hdvUF2Hv7M6atU%2BqK4YTia%2Br9Dhr%2FQ4JIPmQntRzc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">summary tables</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ publishes data on Appeals in the following statistical quarterly release, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 149323 149325 149326 149327 question first answered 09/02/2021 15:27:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1284103

registered interest
date	04/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
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 national offenders lodged an appeal against a Deportation Order in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	149325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested above is not available in a reportable format and would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>Section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 provides a statutory duty to deport a foreign national if they have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months. This is subject to several exceptions, including where to do so would be a breach of a person’s ECHR rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.</p><p> </p><p>Where a decision is made to deport, and representations are raised against that decision, an FNO is likely to be granted a right of appeal. This may be exercised in or out of country depending on the circumstances of the case.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on Returns in the ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=DdtqP5NSLwnQpJcFA5Ds4LYqf2GWnkJNmZInwUTbKuE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of Returns from the UK by return type (including enforced returns) are published in table Ret_01 of the Returns ‘<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2020%23returns&amp;data=04%7C01%7CEliot.Beevor%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc847d57640b54007b60308d8b7b7dffa%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637461347643397962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=p8hdvUF2Hv7M6atU%2BqK4YTia%2Br9Dhr%2FQ4JIPmQntRzc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">summary tables</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ publishes data on Appeals in the following statistical quarterly release, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 149323 149324 149326 149327 question first answered 09/02/2021 15:27:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke