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1715993

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
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 protect retailers from shoplifting.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Since 2010 our communities are safer, with neighbourhood crimes including burglary, robbery and theft from the person down 48% and overall violent crime down 44%, and more police officers on the streets than in 2010.</p><p>However, there has been a worrying rise in shoplifting and violence towards retail workers, which we are taking action to address. The Government’s plan – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fighting-retail-crime-more-action" target="_blank">&quot;Fighting Retail Crime: more action&quot;</a> was launched on 10 April. It includes a new standalone offence for assaults on retail workers, which will be introduced via the Criminal Justice Bill, currently before Parliament.. We are working with police and businesses to roll out the latest facial recognition to catch these perpetrators; championing good practice to design out crime; and making it easier for retailers to report crime.</p><p>We will also legislate through the Criminal Justice Bill, to introduce a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops.</p><p>The Government’s action plan builds on the police-led <a href="https://news.npcc.police.uk/resources/e6e5n-gfsgg-qru39-qjnkc-dbait" target="_blank">Retail Crime Action Plan</a>, launched in October 2023, which includes a commitment to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. Early indications suggest that there has been improved police attendance at the retail crime incidents prioritised. This has been echoed by major retailers.</p><p>Police forces across England and Wales have also committed to pursuing any available evidence where there is a reasonable chance it could lead them to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime and this includes shoplifting. These are substantial operational policing commitments, which I am overseeing delivery of through the National Retail Crime Steering Group.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/05/2024 15:11:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1716019

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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, how many asylum seekers awaiting decisions has his Department been unable to locate or contact since January 2022.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	24851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>This information is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/05/2024 15:12:31 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1716025

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
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 recommendation 90(c) of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Report on follow-up to the inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, advance unedited version published on 22 March 2024, if he will take steps to ensure that protections for disabled people under hate crime laws are nationally consistent.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	25032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Hate crime is a devolved matter in Scotland and Northern Ireland and falls within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Executive respectively.</p><p>In England and Wales, we have a robust legislative framework to respond to all forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime. Whilst the police are operationally independent and work in line with the College of Policing’s operational guidance to respond to hate crime, we expect the police to fully investigate these abhorrent offences and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 14/05/2024 14:36:36 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1716043

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) evaluate and (b) review the violence against women and girls strategy.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	25020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The ambitious cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy set out a series of measures to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online, at work and in public. This was followed by a complementary Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, published in March 2022. So far, we have completed 69% of the commitments across both strategy documents.</p><p>Delivery is overseen by a cross-Government VAWG Ministerial Steering Group (VAWG MSG). The last VAWG MSG took place on 1<sup>st</sup> May and was chaired by the Home Secretary. Part of the meeting focused on accelerating delivery of the remaining strategy commitments.</p><p>Many of our interventions are funded through grants awarded to third parties. These grants are actively monitored with recipients providing regular monitoring and end of financial year reports.</p><p>We are assessing the overall impact of measures set out in the strategies against the ambition to increase support to victims and survivors and bring more perpetrators to justice.</p><p>Our long-term ambition is to reduce the prevalence of violence against women. This is monitored via the published crime statistics, which include police recorded crime and Crime Survey for England and Wales data, as well as via other published criminal justice agency data. The latest data can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2023" target="_blank">Crime in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Estimates from the 2022/23 CSEW showed that 5.1% of adults aged 16 to 59 years experienced domestic abuse in the previous year (<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables" target="_blank">Domestic abuse prevalence and victim characteristics - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>). This was a statistically significant decrease compared with the year ending March 2020 (6.1%), a year largely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the same period, the prevalence of sexual assault and stalking has remained stable with no statistically significant changes.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 15/05/2024 15:07:51 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1716090

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Republic of 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 asylum seekers have been returned to the UK from Ireland since 2016.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	24920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Prior to leaving the EU, the UK participated in the Dublin Regulation which allowed us to return third country nationals to other Member States, using the first safe country principle. Our statistics on Dublin III transfers are published online and can be found here: (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-system-statistics-data-tables%23dublin-regulation&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAlice.HortonRojas%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cbda6a8bb0c9544baecd108dc6f59a0ca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638507677974411622%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XpTtKr1O3eSbRUUee0cIWUsd6LctEBavMbjfVksMM1E%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>).</p><p>Following our departure from the EU, we agreed to an operational arrangement with Ireland which allows for the return and readmission of asylum seekers. Ireland has not returned anyone to the UK under these arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/05/2024 15:04:11 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1716091

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Republic of 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 requests have been made by the Irish government for the UK to accept an asylum seeker since 2016.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	24921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Prior to leaving the EU, the UK participated in the Dublin Regulation which allowed us to return third country nationals to other Member States, using the first safe country principle. Our statistics on Dublin III returns requests are published online and can be found here: (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-system-statistics-data-tables%23dublin-regulation&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAlice.HortonRojas%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cbda6a8bb0c9544baecd108dc6f59a0ca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638507677974411622%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XpTtKr1O3eSbRUUee0cIWUsd6LctEBavMbjfVksMM1E%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>).</p><p>Following our departure from the EU, we agreed to an operational arrangement with Ireland which allows for the return and readmission of asylum seekers. We do not routinely publish any statistics regarding the returns requests made under our operational arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/05/2024 15:03:21 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1716097

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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 assessment he has made of the potential impact of Operation Centurion on anti-social behaviour in Lancashire.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	24893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Last year the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan) ensuring the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p>As part of the Plan, we funded 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. Data received from pilot forces showed from July 2023 to the end of January 2024 over 100,000 additional hours of anti-social behaviour-focused patrols were delivered across pilot areas in England and Wales. This led to an increase in enforcement activity which included almost 800 arrests, around 2,000 stop and searches and nearly 1.000 uses of anti-social behaviour tools and powers.</p><p>Following the success of the pilots, we have extended this approach to every police force in England and Wales from April. Lancashire will receive £1,713,512 for the hotspot programme tackling areas of high incidents of both anti-social behaviour and serious violence.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/05/2024 15:09:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1716106

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Oppression
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 with Cabinet colleagues to (a) assess instances of and (b) help tackle transnational repression.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	24982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK will not tolerate transnational repression and will stand up for the rights of all people to live here safely and freely. The National Security Act 2023 represents a step change in our ability to counter foreign interference, and provides the security services and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to deter, detect, and disrupt modern-day state threats.</p><p>We do everything we can to keep citizens safe and the country secure. This involves taking a proactive approach to countering the most acute forms of state-directed threats to individuals. Anyone who thinks they might be a victim should report incidents or suspicious activity to the Police.</p><p>The Defending Democracy Taskforce, working across Government, is reviewing the UK’s response to transnational repression to ensure we have a robust and joined up response across government and law enforcement.</p><p>I recently announced new training for frontline officers to increase their understanding of threats that foreign powers present, and enhance their ability to combat these.</p><p>We will also be reforming our systems and processes within government to more effectively deal with transnational repression.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 14/05/2024 16:52:51 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1716110

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Rwanda
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 video entitled The first individuals set to be removed to Rwanda, posted on X by his Department on 1 May 2024, who produced the video; and how much the video cost to produce.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	24948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Videos on government social media accounts should inform the public about government policy and delivery. This video showed Immigration Enforcement officers executing thier public duties as they do all the time. It was produced by civil servants as part of their routine duties and involved no additional costs. As with all videos featuring service users or sensitive content, every care was taken to protect subjects’ identities. The video went through normal approval processes for social media content.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24672 question first answered 13/05/2024 10:42:58 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1716157

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have worked under the poultry Seasonal Worker visa scheme in each year since 2021.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	24879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce5aa065d8a4744142de408dc6f613e21%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638507710635792451%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fT8cfqT0kdMkxV6ozQOhtwfIeFcSbfmkdCtybj6xEno%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of grants of Seasonal Worker visas is published in table Vis_D02 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-system-statistics-data-tables%23entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce5aa065d8a4744142de408dc6f613e21%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638507710635806020%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rg1%2Bu96fjm0HH0gMtYZyDTFgIXAYHqlyEvv%2FSWOZM1Q%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Entry clearance detailed dataset.</a> Data on visa grants by occupation can be found in table Occ_D02, of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-system-statistics-data-tables%23sponsored-work-visas-by-occupation-and-industry&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce5aa065d8a4744142de408dc6f613e21%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638507710635819033%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=JE6pJvn6kQwU9fFRZiLjXcdjDpzUqrzqj8%2BtrTyJWXA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Sponsored work visas by occupation and industry</a> dataset. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.</p><p> </p><p>The latest data relates up to the end of December 2023.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 24880 question first answered 15/05/2024 15:01:58 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron