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1608251

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
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 statement by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs to the House on 28 March on Afghan Resettlement Update, what data her Department holds on the accommodation of those Afghan nationals who are part of the 24,500 who have relocated in the UK but who are not part of the around (a) 8,000 in bridging hotels and (b) 9,000 in settled homes.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	175470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Bridging accommodation is available to those who need it. A number of people have not needed to use it for a variety of reasons. For example, they may be the immediate family of a British national who owns a property in the UK, they have been able to stay with other family or friends or they have taken steps to secure their own private rented accommodation.</p><p>The published operational data on Afghanistan including information on temporary accommodation and settled accommodation is viewable at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Further data on accommodation may be included in future operational data releases. The next of which is on the 25 May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/04/2023 09:19:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1608297

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Passports
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 make it her policy to broaden eligibility of ePassport gates to include (a) children aged 10 and 11, (b) travellers with Electronic Travel Authorisation and (c) visa holders.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	175609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>The government has set out its ambitious vision for the future border, in which the majority of passengers will experience an e-gate style arrival. <br></p><p>We are encouraged by the success of the recent trial involving 10- and 11-year-old children at three major airports and will shortly make a decision on whether to adopt the younger age limit more widely.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/04/2023 09:06:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1607767

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to make the police more efficient and better resourced.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	174335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>In recent years, this Government has committed substantial funding to invest in policing and reduce crime. We are on track to recruit 20,000 additional officers by the end of this month, taking us for the first time to over 148,400 officers across England and Wales. This will be the highest number of officers in post on record.</p><p> </p><p>Police, like all public services, should ensure they make the best use of public money:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The Government has confirmed a total police funding settlement of up to £17.2 billion in 2023/24, an increase of up to £313.8 million when compared to 2022/23.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>This settlement is on the basis that the policing sector delivers efficiency savings from force budgets by 2024/25. These will be delivered through improvements in areas including commercial and procurement practices, as well as corporate functions.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>This includes the role of BlueLight Commercial - a sector-owned company - set up to provide commercial expertise and assistance to policing and assist forces in identifying and making efficiency savings. In 2021/22 the company assisted policing in make efficiency savings of almost £40 million (including cashable savings of £24.8 million and non-cashable savings of £14.8 million).</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Home Secretary has asked the NPCC to undertake a Review into the Operational Productivity of Policing to improve understanding of effectiveness, identifying the barriers to productivity, and the most efficient operating models. This includes simplifying the Home Office Counting Rules to free up police time, which could be spent more effectively on preventing and investigating crime and supporting victims.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Home Office is also working closely with the police and health sectors, including DHSC, to help reduce pressures on the police caused by mental health incidents, which are taking officer time away from fighting crime.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Home Office will continue to strive for improvements in police efficiency and work closely with sector representatives to ensure that the police have the resources they need.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/04/2023 09:21:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1607768

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Crime Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on reducing serious violent crime.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	174336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Tackling serious violent crime is a key priority for this government and we are working tirelessly to keep young people, families, and communities safe.</p><p>By combining tough enforcement to get dangerous weapons off the streets with programmes that divert young people away from crime we are making significant progress in addressing the drivers of serious violent crime.</p><p>This financial year (22/23) we have invested £64m into Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) to deliver early intervention and prevention programmes to divert people away from a life of crime. VRUs bring together local partners to tackle the drivers of violence in their area. They have reached over 215,000 vulnerable people in their third year of funding alone.</p><p>Our £30m ‘Grip’ hotspot policing programme operates in the same 20 areas as VRUs and is helping to drive down serious violence by using data processes to identify the top serious violence hotspots – often to individual street level – and target operational activity in those areas.</p><p>The combination of these two programmes have prevented an estimated 136,000 violent offences in their first three years of operation. Relative to the amount of serious violence funding over the same period, this represents an estimated return of £4.10 in social benefit for every £1 invested in these programmes.</p><p>To understand how to better prevent violence, the Home Office has also invested £200m over ten years in the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF). This provides funding for over 230 organisations, which have reached over 117,000 young people since YEF was set up in 2019.</p><p>In addition, we are fully committed to providing police forces with all the resources they need to tackle serious violent crime. The Home Office has invested significantly in boosting police numbers through the Police Uplift Programme, aiming to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers by March 2023. As of 31 December 2022, 16,753 additional uplift officers have been recruited in England and Wales through the Police Uplift Programme. By the end of March 2023, we will have the highest number of police officers on record with over 148,000 officers in post, surpassing the previous peak of 146,030 officers in post in March 2010.</p><p>To help police forces tackle knife carrying, we have introduced Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs). SVROs will be piloted in four police force areas, including the West Midlands, and will allow the police to stop and search adults convicted of a knife or offensive weapon offence. The new orders will help deter continued carrying of weapons, protect offenders from being drawn into further exploitation, and send a clear signal that carrying knives is unacceptable.</p><p>Estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) showed that violent incidents have fallen by 38% compared with the year ending March 2010.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/04/2023 09:19:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1607769

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the backlog of correspondence from hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	174337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has recently completed a correspondence recovery programme which saw it return to its 20-day service standard for new correspondence in mid-January, and has seen a reduction in overdue cases from 30,500 to 350.</p><p>The Home Office has embedded new processes to increase resilience in the event of future unexpected spikes in correspondence, is planning a series of events with Members to share information about potential issues, and now has in place a team of Ministerial correspondence managers to ensure deadlines are met.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/04/2023 09:08:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1607770

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the efficiency of the passport renewal process.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	174338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Passport Office remains fully resourced following its significant increase of over 1200 staff between April 2021 and last summer. With the continued introduction of process improvements, HM Passport Office has processed over 2.3 million applications up to the week ending 19<sup>th</sup> March, with over 99.5% of standard UK applications being processed within ten weeks and over 94% being processed within three weeks.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/04/2023 15:05:40 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1607778

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migration and Undocumented Migrants: Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa
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 commission research on the impact of (a) conflict, (b) economic exclusion, (c) religious and ethnic persecution, (d) famine and (e) terrorism on migration from the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa and illegal migration into the UK.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	174255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Migration is a permanent feature of the global economy. It is estimated that there are 281 million international migrants globally, accounting for about 3.6% of the global population. Work remains the major reason people migrate internationally, but UNHCR estimate that 100 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced from their homes. In Sub-Saharan Africa including the Sahel, millions of people have been displaced from their homes due to conflict, human rights violations, violence and natural disasters, exacerbated by climate change; the vast majority remain in or near their country of origin. His Majesty’s Government takes a “whole of route” approach to addressing the challenges of illegal migration, recognising that people’s motivations to move can be complex and inter-related. There are a number of drivers for migration and some of those include illegal migration to the UK or other European countries. While the Home Office does monitor trends, there is no plan to commission any new research at this time.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/04/2023 15:31:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1607826

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2023 to Question 165397 on Asylum: Housing, what the cost to the public purse of the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service was in the last year; and what assessment she has made of the AIRE service's performance against its objectives.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	174386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential. Therefore, the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. If any issues are identified providers are required to take immediate action to address and recover accordingly.</p><p>The Home Office has published Key Performance Indicator statistics covering the contractual obligations accommodation providers and others working in the asylum sector are required to deliver. This has been done since April 2020. This data is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-performance-indicators-kpis-for-governments-most-important-contracts#full-publication-update-history" target="_blank">Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for government’s most important contracts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>All asylum seekers have access to a 24/7 Advice, Issues Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service provided for the Home Office by Migrant Help where they can raise any concerns regarding accommodation or support services, and they can get information about how to obtain further support. As the data controller the Home Office are best placed to provide comprehensive responses to the requests of MPs. Should an MP approach Migrant Help directly, rather than the MPs correspondence team. Migrant help will refer these requests to the appropriate MPs team to investigate and respond.</p><p>It would be inappropriate to comment on commercial arrangements with suppliers. All Home Office commercial contracts are designed to ensure the best value for taxpayers and the Home Office closely monitors its contractor’s performance, including financial results. Any profits above the agreed contractual margins comes back to the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 174387 174388 question first answered 04/04/2023 09:12:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1607827

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2023 to Question 165397 on Asylum: Housing, how many concerns have been raised through the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility service in each month since it was set up; and how much compensation has been paid to her Department for failures in service performance in each of those months.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	174387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential. Therefore, the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. If any issues are identified providers are required to take immediate action to address and recover accordingly.</p><p>The Home Office has published Key Performance Indicator statistics covering the contractual obligations accommodation providers and others working in the asylum sector are required to deliver. This has been done since April 2020. This data is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-performance-indicators-kpis-for-governments-most-important-contracts#full-publication-update-history" target="_blank">Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for government’s most important contracts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>All asylum seekers have access to a 24/7 Advice, Issues Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service provided for the Home Office by Migrant Help where they can raise any concerns regarding accommodation or support services, and they can get information about how to obtain further support. As the data controller the Home Office are best placed to provide comprehensive responses to the requests of MPs. Should an MP approach Migrant Help directly, rather than the MPs correspondence team. Migrant help will refer these requests to the appropriate MPs team to investigate and respond.</p><p>It would be inappropriate to comment on commercial arrangements with suppliers. All Home Office commercial contracts are designed to ensure the best value for taxpayers and the Home Office closely monitors its contractor’s performance, including financial results. Any profits above the agreed contractual margins comes back to the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 174386 174388 question first answered 04/04/2023 09:12:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1607831

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2023 to Question 165397 on Asylum: Housing, how much the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility service costs; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of its delivery.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	174388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential. Therefore, the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. If any issues are identified providers are required to take immediate action to address and recover accordingly.</p><p>The Home Office has published Key Performance Indicator statistics covering the contractual obligations accommodation providers and others working in the asylum sector are required to deliver. This has been done since April 2020. This data is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-performance-indicators-kpis-for-governments-most-important-contracts#full-publication-update-history" target="_blank">Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for government’s most important contracts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>All asylum seekers have access to a 24/7 Advice, Issues Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service provided for the Home Office by Migrant Help where they can raise any concerns regarding accommodation or support services, and they can get information about how to obtain further support. As the data controller the Home Office are best placed to provide comprehensive responses to the requests of MPs. Should an MP approach Migrant Help directly, rather than the MPs correspondence team. Migrant help will refer these requests to the appropriate MPs team to investigate and respond.</p><p>It would be inappropriate to comment on commercial arrangements with suppliers. All Home Office commercial contracts are designed to ensure the best value for taxpayers and the Home Office closely monitors its contractor’s performance, including financial results. Any profits above the agreed contractual margins comes back to the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 174386 174387 question first answered 04/04/2023 09:12:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor