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984408

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Lost Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were lost by his Department's Immigration Section in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	177178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>Data on lost passports in the last 12 months is not captured and consolidated across the Border, Immigration and Citizenship System. To find this information would require interrogation of individual case records and therefore could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>From November 2018, the majority of immigration applicants who apply to confirm or extend their stay in the UK, or apply for citizenship, will be managed by the Home Office’s new commercial partner Sopra Steria on behalf of UK Visas and Immigration. As part of this new service, for the first time, applicants will be able to retain their passport and supporting evidence as part of the application process</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/02/2019 18:28:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for Lord Spellar

997412

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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 recent progress he has made on the implementation of the Drug Strategy, published in July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	185075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>Nationally, the Government is already delivering a range of actions through the 2017 Drug Strategy to prevent drug misuse in our communities, support people to recover from dependence on drugs, and support enforcement partners to tackle the illicit drug trade. We have established a Home Secretary-chaired Board which includes representation from Government departments and wider partners that are critical to drive implementation of the commitments in the 2017 Drug Strategy.</p><p>However, we recognise there is still further to go to tackle the problems caused by drugs.,That is why, on 8 February, the Home Secretary appointed Professor Dame Carol Black to lead a major review that will look into the ways in which drugs are fuelling serious violence.</p><p>First announced in the Home Secretary’s conference speech in October, the initial stage of the wide-ranging review will look at who drug users are, what they are taking, and how often in order to build the most in-depth and comprehensive picture of this issue to date. <br> <br>The review, which will build on existing Government strategies to combat drugs, serious violence and serious and organised crime, will examine the harms that drugs cause and the best ways to prevent drug-taking.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/02/2019 18:26:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

990337

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Security and Economic Crime, of 11 October 2018, Official report, column 292 on foreign fighters and the death penalty, in which parliamentary term the second case took place.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	181236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>I can confirm that the second case took place post 2010. Decisions to accede to Mutual Legal Assistance requests are taken on a case by case basis. Due to the potential to harm on-going criminal investigations or future prosecutions, and the confidentiality attached to mutual legal assistance, it would not be appropriate to share further information.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 14/02/2019 16:57:22 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

997631

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the increase in the operational budget for counter-terror policing for 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	185650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £160m funding for counter-terrorism policing in 2019-20 in the Budget statement on 29<sup>th</sup> October 2018 (Hansard Vol. 648, Column 657). This takes counter-terrorism police funding for next year to over £800m. The entirety of this £160m additional funding is new money not previously announced or agreed.</p><p>The effect of this additional investment will be that counter-terrorism police budgets increase by £59m, from £757m in 2018-19 to £816m in 2019-20.</p><p>CT police funding since 2015-16 is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Baseline budget (as SR 2015)</p></td><td><p>564</p></td><td><p>708</p></td><td><p>707</p></td><td><p>686</p></td><td><p>656</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Additional investment (since SR)</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total funding</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>564</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 708 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 735</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 757 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 816 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/02/2019 16:56:48 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1000306

registered interest
date	02/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drug Seizures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the volume was of seizures at points of entry of illegal drugs destined for the UK, in each of the last ten years, and what estimate he has made of those seizures as a proportion of the total amount of illegal drugs consumed in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	187389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>Data is publicly available on the volume of drug seizures by the Border Force in the publication <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-2017</a> - see Summary Table 2 of the data tables provided. The latest statistics for 2017/18 were published on 8th November 2018. This publication captures seizures made in England and Wales only. Consolidated data for the UK is not available for the last ten years, but is available from 2011/12 onwards in the publications.<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-august-2018" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-august-2018</a></p><p>Information on the total amount of illegal drugs consumed in the UK in each of the last five years is not held by the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/02/2019 15:54:27 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

909105

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
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 carried out any equality impact assessments prior to setting his Department's targets for the removal of illegal immigrants; and if he will publish any such assessments.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	146067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold any Equality Impact Assessments related to the setting of targets for removals of illegal migrants. This is because the Equalities Act 2010 does not require public authorities to carry out such assessments. <a href="http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06591/SN06591.pdf." target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06591/SN06591.pdf.</a></p><p>Ministers have not set specific targets for the enforced removal of illegal immigrants in 2018 – 19.</p><p>The Department has published information on the performance management regime for enforced removals. This is set out is set out in Sir Philip Rutnam’s letters of 14 May and 25 June 2018 to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Chair, Home Affairs Select Committee:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180514-Home-Office-Permanent-Secretary-Immigration-Enforcement.pdf%20" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180514-Home-Office-Permanent-Secretary-Immigration-Enforcement.pdf </a>(14 May)</p><p>and</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180625_Permanent_Secretary_Immigration%20Enforcement.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180625_Permanent_Secretary_Immigration%20Enforcement.pdf</a> (25 June)</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/02/2019 15:46:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

999314

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	186209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office did not have an allocation for expenditure relating to the UK leaving the EU for the 2016/17 financial year.</p><p>For the 2017/18 financial year no expenditure on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU was recorded.</p><p>Figures for 2018/19 will be available once the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts are audited by the National Audit Office and laid before Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 15:17:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1000294

registered interest
date	02/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Migrant Workers
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 ensure access by non-UK non-seasonal workers to the agri-food sector after UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	187312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the response that I gave to a question from the Honourable Member for Darlington on 22 October (180695).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 15:16:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

999615

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of staff hours it will take to process applications for settled status by non-UK EU citizens living in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	187057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The EU Settlement Scheme will make it easy for EU citizens to get the status they need. They will only need to complete three key steps - prove their identity, show that that they live in the UK, and declare any criminal convictions. We will have circa 1,500 UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) European Casework staff in post before the end of the year to process applications.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 15:14:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

982597

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to the letter of 22 August 2018 from the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central on the closure of the Stoke-on-Trent immigration reporting centre.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	176519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>I apologise for the delay in responding to your letter of 22 August 2018. The Home Office is required to respond to such correspondence within 20 working days, and I am sorry that it has not been possible to provide a full reply within that timeframe. The response was issued on the 9th October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 15:12:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell