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1609713

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Death Certificates: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the recording of ethnicity on death certificates has not been made mandatory.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	179846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2023 answer text <p>Civil Registration is a devolved matter, and the General Register Office can only advise on death registration in England and Wales.</p><p>The information collected on a death registration is specified in law. As the death registration process itself is not the most effective method to establish ethnicity, there are no plans to change the law.</p><p>The Minister for Women and Equalities has stated that the government plans to include ethnicity information in the new electronic medical certificate of cause of death. The introduction of this new electronic certificate is being led by the Department of Health and Social Care.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/04/2023 17:22:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1458025

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average cost of processing an adult male asylum seeker in the UK under existing arrangements; and if she will publish a breakdown of that cost.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	153796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to provide the average cost of processing an adult male asylum seeker in the UK under existing arrangements as this information is not published or held in a reportable format.</p><p>The Home Office do publish as part of their published Transparency release the total asylum costs at Asy_04: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>These costs include the managing asylum operations claim including the costs associated with deciding a case (screening, interviews and issuing a decision), managing any related appeal, the cost of all asylum support (Section 4, Section 95 and Section 98), detention costs where detention has been used and enforcement costs (escorting and assisted voluntary returns). Also included are the costs of department staff and buildings and the proportionate costs of the Home Office building and managerial costs.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/04/2022 10:52:10 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 64210 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1458026

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of processing a male asylum seeker in Rwanda under her proposed arrangements; and if she will publish a breakdown of those costs.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	153797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>Any person who has arrived in the UK illegally, or by dangerous or unnecessary methods from safe countries since 1 January 2022, will be considered for relocation to Rwanda.</p><p>The UK is providing substantial investment to boost the development of Rwanda, including jobs, skills and opportunities to benefit both migrants and host communities. This includes an initial investment of £120m as part of a new Economic Transformation and Integration Fund.</p><p>The UK is also funding the processing costs for each person relocated, such as caseworkers, legal advice, translators, accommodation, food, healthcare, and for those granted protection, a comprehensive integration package to help them put down roots and start a new life.</p><p>Every person’s needs are different, but we anticipate the amount would be comparable to processing costs incurred in the UK. Funding is only provided while a person remains in Rwanda.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/04/2022 13:59:02 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1452759

registered interest
date	21/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women police constables have been employed by police forces in England & Wales in each of the last ten years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	143609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Information on the total number of police officers, by rank, and police community support officers as at the 31 March each year can be found in the workforce open data tables published at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005761/open-data-table-police-workforce-280721.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005761/open-data-table-police-workforce-280721.ods</a></p><p>Due to the implementation of the Police Workforce Data Standards, from 2021 the police workforce data collection was updated to collect information on both the sex and gender of the officer. Previously, data collected and presented in this table referred to the sex of the officer only, limited to male or female. For some forces, this change has led to a large proportion of officers with an “unknown” gender or “unknown” sex. While the expectation is that this will improve in future years, a hybrid approach was taken in 2021 to account for cases with an “unknown” gender recorded. Where gender data are not available, analysts have instead used sex data, and vice versa (see the user guide for more details).</p><p>While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme. This quarterly bulletin includes the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, broken down by both sex and gender. Data are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics" target="_blank">Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Table U5a of the accompanying data tables contains information on the number of officers broken down by sex, and Table U5b on the number of officers broken down by gender. We continue to work with NPCC and police forces to improve the recording of gender and sex data.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 143610 question first answered 24/03/2022 16:42:31 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1452760

registered interest
date	21/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police Community Support Officers: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women police community support officers were employed by police forces in England & Wales in each of the last ten years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	143610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Information on the total number of police officers, by rank, and police community support officers as at the 31 March each year can be found in the workforce open data tables published at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005761/open-data-table-police-workforce-280721.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005761/open-data-table-police-workforce-280721.ods</a></p><p>Due to the implementation of the Police Workforce Data Standards, from 2021 the police workforce data collection was updated to collect information on both the sex and gender of the officer. Previously, data collected and presented in this table referred to the sex of the officer only, limited to male or female. For some forces, this change has led to a large proportion of officers with an “unknown” gender or “unknown” sex. While the expectation is that this will improve in future years, a hybrid approach was taken in 2021 to account for cases with an “unknown” gender recorded. Where gender data are not available, analysts have instead used sex data, and vice versa (see the user guide for more details).</p><p>While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme. This quarterly bulletin includes the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, broken down by both sex and gender. Data are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics" target="_blank">Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Table U5a of the accompanying data tables contains information on the number of officers broken down by sex, and Table U5b on the number of officers broken down by gender. We continue to work with NPCC and police forces to improve the recording of gender and sex data.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 143609 question first answered 24/03/2022 16:42:31 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1452761

registered interest
date	21/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse Commissioner: Finance and Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the (a) budget of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner and (b) number of full-time equivalent staff working for the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for each year since the Designate Domestic Abuse Commissioner was appointed in September 2019.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	143611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>Nicole Jacobs was appointed as the Designate Domestic Abuse Commissioner in September 2019 and became the Commissioner when her powers were made statutory in November 2021.</p><p>The budget and FTE equivalent are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Budget for the Office of the Designate/ Domestic Abuse Commissioner</p></td><td><p>Number of full-time equivalent staff working in the Office of the Designate/ Domestic Abuse Commissioner</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£1m</p></td><td><p>0.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£1m</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£1m</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 24/03/2022 12:37:03 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1439252

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Army
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to reduce or remove the visa charge for foreign soldiers who have fought for the UK and wish to move to the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	137256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Secretary and Defence Secretary announced on 23 February that the Government has decided to waive settlement fees for non-UK personnel in our Armed Forces, who have six years or more reckonable service, or who are discharged due to an illness or injury attributable to their service regardless of the length of their service.</p><p> </p><p>These changes are being implemented via an update to the Immigration Fees and Regulations, with the changes coming into effect on 6 April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The Written Statement regarding this policy can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-02-23/hcws624" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-02-23/hcws624</a>.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/03/2022 15:23:30 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 57369 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1439256

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Application Registration Card
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) waiting times for an Application registration card (ARC) for unaccompanied minors to be issued and (b) average number of days taken to process ARC cards for unaccompanied minors in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	137259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>An Application Registration Card (ARC) is produced as a routine part of the registration process for asylum applicants, and is not an immigration product in its own right which people apply for.</p><p> </p><p>The system will produce and deliver an ARC within three days of the asylum screening taking place. ARC figures broken down as requested are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/03/2022 15:12:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 57371 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1344160

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the private sector companies which have delivered forensic science services to police forces in England and Wales since 1 April 2012.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	28120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information. Procurement of forensic science services is a matter for forces and PCCs.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/07/2021 15:33:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1344161

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of forensic science services for police forces have been carried out by private sector companies in England and Wales, in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	28121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information. Procurement of forensic science services is a matter for forces and PCCs.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/07/2021 15:13:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler