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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1689937/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement quarterly in the <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)<\/a>. Data on cases considered under inadmissibility rules can be found in table Asy_09a of the <a href=\"https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/655b38a5046ed400148b9ba1/asylum-summary-sep-2023-tables.ods\" target=\"_blank\">asylum and resettlement summary tables<\/a>.<\/p><p>A breakdown of proposed removal destinations provided to those receiving a Notice of Intent is not currently available.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Consideration of inadmissibility claims under the Migration and Economic Development Partnership, published on 14 February 2024, how many and what proportion of individuals who arrived in the UK on or after 1 January 2022 that received a notice of intent prior to 29 June 2023 remain in scope for removal to Rwanda as of 19 February 2024; and what the cost to the public purse has been of providing asylum accommodations to those individuals in that period.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4088", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stella Creasy"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1689982", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1689982/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>We do not routinely publish the information you have requested, we are unable to provide this information, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2024-02-19", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 193 of his Department\u2019s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, published on 11 September 2023, how many scheduled flights intended to return those who no longer have the right to remain in the United Kingdom were cancelled; and for what reason each one was cancelled.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1521", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690008", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690008/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>A full Regulatory Impact Assessment on these changes will be developed and the Government will publish an Equality Impact Assessment on this change, both in due course.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to publish an equality impact assessment on the changes to visa salary thresholds announced in December 2023.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4430", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Alison Thewliss"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Alison Thewliss"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690014", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690014/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £5 million of funding for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in South Wales (known as the Wales Violence Prevention Unit) (including c£1m in 2023/24) which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime in South Wales. In addition, we have invested c.£3.5m (including c.£535k in 2023/24) in \u2018hotspot policing\u2019 to boost the policing response to serious violence in South Wales and provide high-visibility police patrols and problem-solving tactics in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.<\/p><p>The VPU is tasked with investing in evidence-based approaches designed to steer vulnerable young people away from involvement in violence. As part of this approach, the VPU is funding local interventions in Cardiff including A&amp;E Navigators, delivering advice, support and guidance to patients of any age who have experienced violence with injury, with the aim of engaging with those injured whilst they are in hospital to help break the cycle of violence at the point of crisis. Alongside this, the policing hot spot response programme is targeting key locations in Cardiff and Swansea with a dedicated proactive team conducting additional visible patrols and undertaking activity to target individuals within hotspots as well as providing additional support to teams working to police the night-time economy.<\/p><p>Additionally, just under £1m has been awarded in 2023/24 to support delivery of the Serious Violence Duty across Wales.<\/p><p>The government is also taking forward a programme to strengthen the controls and legislation on knives. A Statutory Instrument was laid in Parliament on 25 January 2024 to ban zombie style knives and machetes. Subject to the relevant legislation being approved by Parliament, a surrender and compensation scheme will be launched in August to remove zombie style knives and machetes from circulation and ownership, and once the scheme ends on 23 September, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes will be outlawed from 24 September 2024.<\/p><p>Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill , which is currently progressing through Parliament, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s, and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4503", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Philp"}
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      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Knives: Wales"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle knife crime in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4425", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Stevens"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jo Stevens"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690020", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690020/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales data shows a 56% fall in domestic burglaries when comparing the year ending September 2023 with year ending March 2010. This is clearly good news; however, we recognise the impact domestic burglary can have on individuals and communities and we are committed to tackling and preventing this crime.<\/p><p>The public rightly expects that the police will visit them when a home burglary has been committed, which is why we welcome the announcement made by the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council (NPCC) on 8 June that all 43 police forces in England and Wales have been implementing this attendance policy since March 2023. We are working with police leaders to ensure forces are making their attendance data available to the public. <a href=\"https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/police-now-attending-scene-of-every-home-burglary\" target=\"_blank\">https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/police-now-attending-scene-of-every-home-burglary<\/a>.<\/p><p>The police commitment to attend home burglaries is supported by specific College of Policing good practice guidance on conducting residential burglary investigations: <a href=\"https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/residential-burglary\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/residential-burglary<\/a>.<\/p><p>Police forces across England and Wales have also committed to pursue all lines of enquiry where there is a reasonable chance it could lead to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime. <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders<\/a><\/p><p>To help ensure the police have the resources they need to fight crime and tackle anti-social behaviour, we have delivered on our commitment to recruit 20,000 additional police officers by the end of March 2023. There are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, higher than the previous peak in March 2010, and as of 30 September, South Wales had 3,535 police officers, a total growth of 540 additional officers since the start of the Police Uplift Programme.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle burglaries in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690021/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £5 million of funding for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in South Wales (known as the Wales Violence Prevention Unit) (including c£1m in 2023/24) which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime in South Wales. In addition, we have invested c.£3.5m (including c.£535k in 2023/24) in \u2018hotspot policing\u2019 to boost the policing response to serious violence in South Wales and provide high-visibility police patrols and problem-solving tactics in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.<\/p><p>The VPU is tasked with investing in evidence-based approaches designed to steer vulnerable young people away from involvement in violence. As part of this approach, the VPU is funding local interventions in Cardiff including A&amp;E Navigators, delivering advice, support and guidance to patients of any age who have experienced violence with injury, with the aim of engaging with those injured whilst they are in hospital to help break the cycle of violence at the point of crisis. Alongside this, the policing hot spot response programme is targeting key locations in Cardiff and Swansea with a dedicated proactive team conducting additional visible patrols and undertaking activity to target individuals within hotspots as well as providing additional support to teams working to police the night-time economy.<\/p><p>Additionally, just under £1m has been awarded in 2023/24 to support delivery of the Serious Violence Duty across Wales.<\/p><p>The government is also taking forward a programme to strengthen the controls and legislation on knives. A Statutory Instrument was laid in Parliament on 25 January 2024 to ban zombie style knives and machetes. Subject to the relevant legislation being approved by Parliament, a surrender and compensation scheme will be launched in August to remove zombie style knives and machetes from circulation and ownership, and once the scheme ends on 23 September, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes will be outlawed from 24 September 2024.<\/p><p>Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill , which is currently progressing through Parliament, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s, and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4503", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Philp"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help reduce violent assaults in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4425", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Stevens"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jo Stevens"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1688961/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the number of applications that are excused from the biometric enrolment process and those that are pre-determined due to applicants undertaking unsafe journeys.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Biometrics, in the form of fingerprints and facial images, underpin the current UK immigration system to support identity assurance and suitability checks on foreign nationals who are subject to immigration control. They enable comprehensive checks to be made against immigration and criminality records to identify those who pose a threat to our national security, public safety, immigration controls, or are likely to breach our laws if they are allowed to come to the UK.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The threshold in the unsafe journeys guidance for excusing the requirement to attend a visa application centre is deliberately set at a high-level because of the need to protect the integrity of the UK border. If we do not know about a person's identity we are less able to assess the risks they may pose to the public. This is why we would only excuse applicants from being required to attend a visa application centre to enrol their biometrics in circumstances that are so compelling as to be exceptional.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people from Sudan applying for entry clearance to the UK have requested that (a) the biometric enrolment process be excused and (b) the application be predetermined since April 2023.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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