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1713942

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of synthetic drugs in circulation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	23765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>Tackling Class A drugs, including synthetic opioids, is a priority for the Government and through our 10 year drugs strategy ‘From Harm to Hope’ we are taking action to tackle drugs supply and reduce demand.</p><p>UK agencies are highly alert to the threat from synthetic drugs, including synthetic opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes, as well as synthetic cannabinoids and benzodiazepines. We assess that the scale of trafficking of synthetic opioids into the UK remains low. However, nitazenes, a type of synthetic opioid, have sadly been linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK during the last year, and we are taking action.</p><p>The cross-Government Synthetic Opioids Taskforce is working with partners, such as the NCA, the Department for Health and Social Care and the National Police Chiefs Council to deliver an evidence-based response to the risk posed by synthetic opioids, and to implement effective action to stem the demand and supply of these dangerous substances.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/05/2024 15:55:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1714704

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help prevent the Irish government from returning illegal migrants across the border to Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	24010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>We have no legal obligation to accept the return of asylum seekers from Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/05/2024 13:57:37 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1714505

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has held recent discussions with the European Commission on the implications for the timing of the EU Entry/Exit System on delays at (a) UK and (b) EU (i) ports, (ii) railway stations and (iii) airports.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	24008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government continues to engage regularly at ministerial and official levels with the European Commission and the French government on EES implementation.</p><p>The Government also continues to work with port owners and operators, including the Port of Dover, Eurotunnel and Eurostar / HighSpeed1 (St Pancras) to understand the impact of EES and support their plans to mitigate these. However, it is ultimately for EU Member States to implement EES.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/05/2024 13:29:32 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

1713478

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fires: Surrey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on potential insurance claims and damages as a result of wildfires in Surrey.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	23452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office are the lead Government Department for Wildfire Response and own the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) wildfire risk. Government departments including Home Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities and key stakeholders work closely to mitigate the risk of wildfire.</p><p>The published Wildfire Framework outlines the work being undertaken to improve the UK’s preparedness for wildfires in England. The Home Office maintains regular engagement with National Bodies including the National Fire Chiefs Council and England and Wales Wildfire Forum to monitor and review sector led improvements to wildfire response and mitigation.</p><p>The Home Office have committed to scoping a wildfire strategy and action plan by mid-2024, with support from Defra and its agencies. This commitment is outlined in the third National Adaptation Plan and includes considering prevention, response and recovery actions.</p><p>In 24/25, the Home Office is funding a new National Resilience Wildfire Advisor who will assess what additional wildfire national capabilities might be needed to increase resilience to the wildfire risk and to ensure coordination of approaches across the sector.</p><p>Surrey County Council has overall responsibility for fire and rescue services in Surrey. The county council will receive an un-ringfenced grant for all of their services including fire, through the Local Government Finance Settlement and they will allocate funding according to their priorities.</p><p>All Fire and Rescue Authority’s including Surrey, are required to plan for the foreseeable risks in their area (including wildfires) through their Integrated Risk Management Plan. This will include plans to prevent and respond to incidents.</p><p>Individuals should contact their own insurance providers with regard to any potential claims for damage as a result of wildfire.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 23450 23451 question first answered 01/05/2024 14:15:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1713477

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fires: Surrey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the risk of potential wildfires in Surrey.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	23451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office are the lead Government Department for Wildfire Response and own the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) wildfire risk. Government departments including Home Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities and key stakeholders work closely to mitigate the risk of wildfire.</p><p>The published Wildfire Framework outlines the work being undertaken to improve the UK’s preparedness for wildfires in England. The Home Office maintains regular engagement with National Bodies including the National Fire Chiefs Council and England and Wales Wildfire Forum to monitor and review sector led improvements to wildfire response and mitigation.</p><p>The Home Office have committed to scoping a wildfire strategy and action plan by mid-2024, with support from Defra and its agencies. This commitment is outlined in the third National Adaptation Plan and includes considering prevention, response and recovery actions.</p><p>In 24/25, the Home Office is funding a new National Resilience Wildfire Advisor who will assess what additional wildfire national capabilities might be needed to increase resilience to the wildfire risk and to ensure coordination of approaches across the sector.</p><p>Surrey County Council has overall responsibility for fire and rescue services in Surrey. The county council will receive an un-ringfenced grant for all of their services including fire, through the Local Government Finance Settlement and they will allocate funding according to their priorities.</p><p>All Fire and Rescue Authority’s including Surrey, are required to plan for the foreseeable risks in their area (including wildfires) through their Integrated Risk Management Plan. This will include plans to prevent and respond to incidents.</p><p>Individuals should contact their own insurance providers with regard to any potential claims for damage as a result of wildfire.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 23450 23452 question first answered 01/05/2024 14:15:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1713476

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire Prevention: Surrey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to mitigate potential wildfires in Surrey.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	23450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office are the lead Government Department for Wildfire Response and own the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) wildfire risk. Government departments including Home Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities and key stakeholders work closely to mitigate the risk of wildfire.</p><p>The published Wildfire Framework outlines the work being undertaken to improve the UK’s preparedness for wildfires in England. The Home Office maintains regular engagement with National Bodies including the National Fire Chiefs Council and England and Wales Wildfire Forum to monitor and review sector led improvements to wildfire response and mitigation.</p><p>The Home Office have committed to scoping a wildfire strategy and action plan by mid-2024, with support from Defra and its agencies. This commitment is outlined in the third National Adaptation Plan and includes considering prevention, response and recovery actions.</p><p>In 24/25, the Home Office is funding a new National Resilience Wildfire Advisor who will assess what additional wildfire national capabilities might be needed to increase resilience to the wildfire risk and to ensure coordination of approaches across the sector.</p><p>Surrey County Council has overall responsibility for fire and rescue services in Surrey. The county council will receive an un-ringfenced grant for all of their services including fire, through the Local Government Finance Settlement and they will allocate funding according to their priorities.</p><p>All Fire and Rescue Authority’s including Surrey, are required to plan for the foreseeable risks in their area (including wildfires) through their Integrated Risk Management Plan. This will include plans to prevent and respond to incidents.</p><p>Individuals should contact their own insurance providers with regard to any potential claims for damage as a result of wildfire.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 23451 23452 question first answered 01/05/2024 14:15:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1701996

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Orphans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Orpheopolis system of French orphanages for the orphaned children of police officers; and what assessment they have made of the benefits of introducing such a facility in England and Wales.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Southwark
uin	HL3911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government has no plans to introduce a facility specifically for orphaned children of police officers.</p><p>The death of an officer is devastating for all in policing, but most deeply felt by their loved ones and children. It is important that bereaved families have access to the appropriate support, primarily from the police force. Depending on the particular circumstances, there is a range of benefits payable to children on the death of an officer under both the occupational pension and injury benefit schemes. There are also a number of police charities providing support for bereaved families and children, which provide access to counselling and peer support.</p><p>This Government also introduced the Police Covenant, to support the police workforce and their families, recognising the risks and demands that can be involved. We have funded the National Police Wellbeing Service to develop and launch the first national family support package, providing advice for the families of officers on mental health and fatigue, as well as practical resources for those with young children to help them understand the role of policing.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 01/05/2024 11:11:05 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4345 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Southwark

1714145

registered interest
date	26/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are in use as temporary accommodation for people seeking asylum in Northern Ireland; and what recent estimate he has made of the number that will be required by the end of 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	23835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has been clear that the use of hotels is a temporary and short-term measure to ensure we meet our statutory obligation to accommodate destitute asylum seekers. We have already made significant progress by ending the use of 100 hotels across the UK by 31 March 2024, including 6 in Northern Ireland. A total of 150 hotels will no longer be used for accommodating asylum seekers by the beginning of May, reducing the strain on local communities.</p><p>Our statutory accommodation needs are kept under continuous review, and we will write to MPs and local authorities as further decisions on hotels are made.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets%23local-authority-data&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C9238020b908648344e1008dc683ce7f5%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638499858008593161%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=moPnDjsvL8GE4hpjIXlvO1KgRXtK%2B0f50x8B2DP%2Fcx0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis. The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of hotels used to house asylum seekers by region.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 01/05/2024 09:57:53 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1713207

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Antisocial Behaviour: Cars
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department is taking steps to support Birmingham City Council’s efforts to tackle street cruising.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Tahir Ali
uin	23304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The exercise of powers under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 by local authorities is a local matter.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/04/2024 16:16:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4747 label Biography information for Tahir Ali

1713960

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	WEDINOS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of (a) expansion and (b) potential roll-out across the UK of the WEDINOS laboratory drug-testing service.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	23722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government has not made a formal assessment of the benefits of drug testing services but it recognises the potential harm reduction benefits of them. The Government facilitates drug testing services provided that the possession and supply of controlled drugs are licensed by the Home Office Drugs and Firearms Licensing Unit or, exceptionally, relevant exemptions under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 may apply.</p><p>Ministers are clear that drug testing services must not condone drug use and should only be delivered where licensed and operated responsibly, in line with Government policy to ensure that they discourage drug use and signpost potential users to treatment and support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/04/2024 16:11:18 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris