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1700042

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Preston
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to tackle violence and sexual offences in Preston.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	20892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>As part of steps taken through our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, we are tackling perpetrators and supporting victims.</p><p>We have provided funding to the Lancashire PCC to roll out the Drive Project, which focuses on the most serious domestic abuse offenders to prevent them from abusing again, and funded Preston based Saraha to provide bilingual, comprehensive, face-to-face support service for women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds who are victims of domestic abuse.</p><p>Nationally, we have invested £9.4 million to develop a New Operation Model for the investigation of rape through Operation Soteria. This ensures investigations are suspect based. All police forces in England and Wales are now implementing this new approach to rape investigations and we have provided £8.5m in 2023/24 to continue to support policing to improve their response to rape.</p><p>Through the Safer Streets and Safety of Women at Night Funds, we have invested over £150 million to deliver interventions to tackle violence against women, anti-social behaviour and neighbourhood crime.</p><p>This includes just over £3.4m for Lancashire, of which £146,568 has been awarded to Preston City Council to fund interventions such as the installation of CCTV, the deployment of taxi stewards and night-time economy sector training, along with improvements to accommodation for services assisting women at risk and recovery services for victims of sexual violence.</p><p>Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £8m for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in Lancashire. VRUs bring together local partners to understand and tackle the drivers of serious violence in their area, including sexual abuse and domestic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 22/04/2024 16:52:52 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700043

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will (a) make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of crime levels in (i) Preston and (ii) Lancashire and (b) take steps to develop a plan to reduce bicycle theft in those areas.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	20893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>This Government recognises the impact acquisitive crime can have on individuals and communities. The 2021 Beating Crime Plan, sets out the Government’s strategy for cutting crime, protecting the law-abiding majority and making neighbourhoods safe. The plan can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1015382/Crime-plan-v10.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1015382/Crime-plan-v10.pdf</a>.</p><p>Since 2010, overall crime excluding fraud and computer misuse is down by 55%, and we welcome the latest Crime Survey for England and Wales data, which shows that bicycle theft is also down 55% when comparing findings from the year ending September 2023 with the year ending March 2010.</p><p>A key part of making acquisitive crime less attractive to criminals is making stolen goods harder to sell on. That is why we are working closely with policing and academic leads to examine what more can be done to tackle the disposal markets for stolen goods and reduce the profit from acquisitive crime.</p><p>This Government also established the Safer Streets Fund. Since its inception in 2020, we have invested over £150 million to deliver interventions across England and Wales helping to tackle and prevent violence against women and girls, anti-social behaviour and neighbourhood crime. This includes investing just over £3.4 million in Lancashire, funding a range of initiatives such as CCTV and street lighting, improvements to home security measures and youth engagement and educational programmes.</p><p>The Home Office is working closely with the British Transport Police (BTP), the national lead for cycle theft, to tackle the theft of bicycles. The BTP has launched the ‘double lock it’ campaign with police forces and organisations, providing advice to owners on how to protect their bicycles: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.btp.police.uk%2Fpolice-forces%2Fbritish-transport-police%2Fareas%2Fcampaigns%2Fdouble-lock-it%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1ccecdb003ac4b99f13408da6a427512%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637939130897619209%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=AJnmVh0mAoSustcSga%2Fo4B42WRZDoPpL%2B5gyHecq5fA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/double-lock-it/</a>.</p><p>The Department for Transport’s (DfT) Cycling and Walking Plan for England, also sets out initiatives to combat cycle theft, including encouraging retailers to number the bicycles they sell and offer customers the opportunity to register their bicycle on a database at the point of sale. The Plan is available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcycling-and-walking-plan-for-england&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1ccecdb003ac4b99f13408da6a427512%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637939130897619209%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=gfeelBYDwqb9gRWXC3kYh%2Fdle%2BGk48CB5C3gqfvqR2o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycling-and-walking-plan-for-england</a>.</p><p>The BTP-led National Cycle Crime Group, working with DfT, have set up Cycle Crime Reduction Partnerships across the country to coordinate regional enforcement activity to disrupt organised cycle theft.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/04/2024 14:41:04 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700044

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour: Lancashire
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 ensure that anti-social behaviour is investigated in (a) Preston and (b) Lancashire.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	20894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The investigation of anti-social behaviour in Lancashire is a matter for the Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire.</p><p>Last year the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan</a>) ensuring the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p>The Plan is backed by £160m of funding. This includes funding an increased police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots. Initially we worked with 10 police force areas, including Lancashire Constabulary which received £1,050,000. From April this has been extended to every police force in England and Wales and Lancashire will receive £ 1,713,512 for the hotspot programme tackling areas of high incidents of both ASB and serious violence.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/04/2024 14:31:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700058

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Wildlife: Crime
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 plans to incorporate wildlife crime into the Policing Education Qualification Framework.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	20922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>This Government recognises the importance of tackling wildlife crime, which is why, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office directly funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) to help tackle these crimes.</p><p>The NWCU provides intelligence, analysis and investigative assistance to the police and other law enforcement agencies across the UK to support them in investigating wildlife crime. This includes supporting cases referred by Border Force to the National Crime Agency or to individual forces. The NWCU is also the UK policing focal point for EUROPOL and INTERPOL wildlife crime activity.</p><p>In addition, the National Police Chiefs’ Council Wildlife and Rural Crime Strategy 2022-2025 provides a framework through which policing, and its partners, can work together to tackle the most prevalent threats and emerging issues which predominantly affect rural communities.</p><p>Training standards and the national policing curriculum (covering initial training for all officers) are set by the College of Policing to ensure all officers benefit from the same high standard of initial training, regardless of which force they join. Officers undertake further training and development in the course of their career, which may be tailored to their specific role.</p><p>We do not currently have plans to incorporate wildlife crime into the Policing Education Qualification Framework.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/04/2024 14:35:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1700066

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Belgium and France
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 his (a) French and (b) Belgian counterparts on the use of European Union passport e-gates by British nationals in (i) the European Union and (ii) Gare du Nord station.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	20926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office continue to engage with European counterparts on expanding access to e-Gates for British nationals travelling to the EU.</p><p>The use of e-Gates for third country nationals is decided by EU Member States on a country-by-country basis. British nationals are already able to use e-Gates at Gare du Nord station.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 11:50:50 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1700084

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
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 impact of the (a) removal of the ability of students on taught masters courses to bring dependants and (b) increase in (i) visa and (ii) Immigration Health Surcharge fees on levels of demand for the Graduate visa.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	20961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment has been prepared to accompany the dependant changes to the Student route, announced in May 2023, which came into force in January 2024. The Impact Assessment will be published in due course.</p><p>Impact assessments estimating the impacts of increasing visa fees and the Immigration Health Surcharge were published alongside the explanatory material for the changes. These can be found at <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1004/impacts" target="_blank">The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 - Impact Assessment (legislation.gov.uk)</a> and <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348252637/impacts" target="_blank">The Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2023 - Impact Assessment (legislation.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 13:01:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1700152

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Spiking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is taking steps to ensure that people who are arrested are tested to see if their drink has been spiked.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	21133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has no plans to implement mandatory spiking testing for arrestees.</p><p>We urge anyone who believes they or someone around them has been spiked to contact the police as soon as possible to report the incident and submit a urine sample for testing through the approved lab-based process. Incidents can also be reported online - including anonymously.</p><p>Individuals who have been arrested by the police but believe they have been spiked can raise this with them and submit a sample for testing.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 22/04/2024 16:53:07 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1700162

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to engage with the (a) Jewish, (b) Muslim, (c) Sikh and (d) other religious communities on their treatment by border officials.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	21209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office seeks to engage and consult with all communities and members of the public in developing our policies and services for the public. This includes people from different religious communities. We also ensure that there are equality impact assessments carried out when developing new policies and making important decisions which impact the public in line with our statutory duties under the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 12:58:51 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1700204

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing irregular migrants to make applications for asylum whilst still residing in (a) France and (b) Belgium.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	21119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK has a proud record of providing protection for those who need it. However, there is no provision within our Immigration Rules for someone to be allowed to travel to the UK to seek asylum or temporary refuge. Whilst we sympathise with people in many difficult situations around the world, the capacity of the UK is not unlimited, and we could not possibly consider protection claims from the very large numbers of people overseas who might like to come here. Those in need of immediate protection should take the fastest route to safety and claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.</p><p> </p><p>There are several powerful reasons why allowing migrants to make applications for asylum from France and Belgium is not a viable option and could actually lead to adverse consequences.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility for asylum seekers and refugees lies with the authorities of the country in which they are present in accordance with their international obligations – in this case France and Belgium. EU countries operate the Common European Asylum System; a framework of rules and procedures based on the full and inclusive application of the Refugee Convention. The aim of this system is not just to ensure fair and humane treatment of applicants for international protection, but also to discourage secondary movements of people once they have reached safety, acknowledging the many problems that such movements create. There is therefore no reason why an individual who is residing in France or Belgium and who needs protection should not make their claim in France or Belgium and certainly no reasons why they should make the perilous onward journey to the UK. France and Belgium are both safe countries, so the protection they seek is already available to them.</p><p> </p><p>The UK processing asylum claims in France and Belgium would also have the potential to create more harm, and actually support the smugglers. Dangerous journeys and the work of the despicable smugglers are not just confined to routes across the Channel. Vulnerable people, if they have an incentive to aim for France or Belgium as a means of entering the UK, would be encouraged to make dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean and over land to France and Belgium. It would create a new pull factor, motivating people to again entrust themselves to smugglers. Even where they may avoid the danger of a small boat, we know from heart breaking experience that journeys over land, for example in the back of lorries, can be equally as perilous. We cannot, and must not, do anything which supports the smugglers’ business model.</p><p> </p><p>Our focus is on helping people directly from regions of conflict and instability, and we believe that our resettlement programmes are the best way to provide much needed support. Between 2015 and September 2023, over half a million people were offered safe and legal routes into the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 12:00:52 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1700258

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023
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 impact of the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 on (a) manufacturers, (b) consumers and (c) retailers.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	21059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government supported the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023, which received Royal Assent on 20 July 2023. The Act will require immobilisers and forensic marking to be fitted as standard to specified new agricultural equipment such as All-Terrain Vehicles and quad bikes.</p><p>We published a Call for Evidence last summer, seeking views on the details needed for the secondary legislation, targeted at those who may be affected by proposals, including the agricultural and construction sectors, manufacturers, dealers, retailers, tradespeople and law enforcement.</p><p>Over 200 responses were received, and we have further engaged with manufacturers and retailers on the detail. I am carefully considering responses before publishing the Government response.</p><p>Work has begun on the necessary secondary legislation regulations.</p><p>The Act will help prevent equipment from being stolen in the first place, and will have a deterrent effect by making it harder for criminals to sell on stolen machinery. The Act will also assist the police with identifying the owners of stolen equipment when it is recovered, and provide additional lines of enquiry.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 21060 21061 question first answered 22/04/2024 14:34:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner