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1687458

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Research
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 19 December 2023 to Question 5245 on Hate crime: research, if he will publish the final reports of the research projects commissioned from (a) IPSOS UK and (b) RAND Europe.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	12970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>We are considering options to publish the final reports of the commissioned research projects in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 13/02/2024 14:46:50 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1685428

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which policies under each arms length body reporting to their Department fall within the scope of the Environmental principles policy statement, published on 31 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The duty does not require us to maintain a comprehensive list of policies within scope of the duty.</p><p>The duty applies to all policies made from 1 November 2023, whether developed by a central department or an arm’s length body, which are:</p><ul><li>made by Ministers of the Crown; and</li><li>not covered by the exemptions for the armed forces, defence or national security, taxation, spending or the allocation of resources within government.</li></ul><p>The environmental principles policy statement provides further information on what is considered policy in scope of the duty. Examples include strategies and frameworks.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/02/2024 17:54:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1684383

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
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 contribution by the Minister for Immigration to the debate on Safe Asylum Routes: Afghan Refugees of 17 October 2023, official report, column 54WH, what progress he has made with Cabinet colleagues on reuniting Afghans evacuated under Operation Pitting in August 2021 with family members.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The government remains committed to providing protection for vulnerable and at-risk people fleeing Afghanistan. The situation is complex and presents significant challenges, including how those who are eligible for resettlement in the UK can leave the country. This includes eligible immediate family members of those being resettled under the ACRS.</p><p>For those evacuated from Afghanistan under ACRS P1 without their immediate family members, the Home Secretary has committed to establishing a route for separated families to be reunited. We expect to receive referrals in the first half of 2024.</p><p>Individuals remaining in Afghanistan or elsewhere are not obliged to wait for the pathway for eligible family members of ACRS P1 to open. Appendix FM, for example, provides a route for those seeking to enter the UK on the basis of their family life.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 31/01/2024 14:15:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1684401

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
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 Crime, Policing and Fire during the Seventh sitting of the Public Bill Committee on the Criminal Justice Bill on Tuesday 16 January 2024, Official Report, column 214, which facial recognition database he would expect the police to use when checking a photograph of somebody committing a crime; and which databases the police have access to for facial recognition checks.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>Facial recognition is a valuable tool that helps police forces identify murderers, rapists and other suspects quickly and accurately and keep the public safe.</p><p>Forces use the facial recognition facility on the Police National Database (PND) to search against images of previously arrested individuals. Further information is available at the following link: <a href="https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2023/10/29/police-use-of-facial-recognition-factsheet/" target="_blank">Police use of Facial Recognition Factsheet</a></p><p>Where it has not been possible to identify a suspect on PND, forces can submit requests to the Home Office for checks against the passport and immigration databases. The Home Office runs low-volume facial recognition searches against these databases, and the requests mostly relate to serious and national security cases.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 31/01/2024 16:46:58 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1684484

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugee children were wrongly assessed to be adults by the Home Office between January 2022 and June 2023; and if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the report by the Refugee Council together with Helen Bamber Foundation and Humans for Rights Network entitled Forced Adulthood, published on 23 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the data requested, as this cannot currently be collected via national reporting systems. Our published data on age assessment can be accessed <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">here</a> which includes the number of age disputes raised and resolved. and whether the decision found the individual to be under or over 18.</p><p>Our age assessment policies for immigration purposes seek to protect genuine minors and identify those who are adults. Determining the age of a young person is an inherently difficult task and therefore, the age assessment process for immigration purposes contains a number of safeguards.</p><p>Where a new arrival does not have genuine documentary evidence of their age and their claimed age is doubted, an initial age decision is conducted as a first step to prevent individuals who are clearly an adult or child from being subjected unnecessarily to a more substantive age assessment and ensure that new arrivals are routed into the correct accommodation and processes for assessing their asylum or immigration claim.</p><p>The Home Office will only treat an individual claiming to be a child as an adult, without conducting further enquiries, if two Home Office members of staff independently determine that the individual's physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggests they are significantly over 18 years of age. The lawfulness of this process was endorsed by the Supreme Court in the case of R (on the application of BF (Eritrea)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 38.</p><p>Where doubt remains and an individual cannot be assessed to be significantly over 18, they will be treated as a child for immigration purposes until further assessment of their age by a local authority.</p><p>The Home Office is currently considering the contents and recommendations of the report by the Refugee Council together with Helen Bamber Foundation and Humans for Rights Network entitled Forced Adulthood, published on 23 January 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 31/01/2024 12:45:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1675433

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights his Department (a) has chartered and (b) plans to charter to transport Afghan refugees from Pakistan since October for (i) each month in 2023 and (ii) the first three months of 2024; what estimate he has made of the total number of flights that will be chartered in total; and whether the total number of flights will be calculated on the number of Afghan refugees currently receiving UK Government support in Pakistan.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	5231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>Resettlement of eligible Afghans remains a top priority for this Government.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-september-2023" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> show that at the end of September 2023, around 24,600 vulnerable people affected by the events in Afghanistan have been brought to safety so far.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government and our partners will arrange and fund travel for those accepted under our Afghan schemes as part of the resettlement and relocation process. Depending on the individual circumstances, this may be via charter or commercial flights.</p><p> </p><p>Flights for those being resettled under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) are organised by the International Organisation for Migration, in line with requests from the Home Office. As flights are operational you will appreciate that we cannot go into more detail about them.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to honour our commitment to bring eligible Afghans to the UK, with new arrivals going directly into settled accommodation where possible.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/12/2023 14:40:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1675482

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Research
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 1 December 2023 to Question 3174 on Hate crime: research, what the cost was of the external research commissioned from (a) IPSOS UK and (b) RAND Europe.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	5245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>We keep our approach to hate crime under review and commission external research when necessary to supplement internal research and the international evidence base. The total cost of the different research projects commissioned from IPSOS UK and RAND Europe in relation to the relevant PQ across a number of contracts was £566,060.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 19/12/2023 10:03:42 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1675161

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Homelessness
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 respond to the concerns raised by the Local Government Association in its press release entitled Thousands of refugees could be on the streets for Christmas without urgent government action, published on 28 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	4990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>We are ensuring our cross government partners, such as the (DWP) and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) are sighted on data to enable them to consider the impacts of increased decision making and effectively plan.  We are also working with DLUHC to ensure the right asylum decision data is being shared with local authorities to enable effective planning and to lessen the impact on existing homelessness and rough sleeping pressures. Our accommodation providers are directly working with local authorities to notify them when an individual is due to have their asylum support ended.</p><p>The communications will be sent out shortly to all local authorities. The Home Office have decided that the last date for evictions this year will be 22<em> </em>December. The Home Office will still be processing discontinuations throughout, but anything that falls on the 23<em> </em>December through to and including 02 January 2024 will have their end of grace period moved to 03 January 2024 when evictions will recommence. This covers the whole festive period and the additional bank holiday in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/12/2023 12:30:50 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1674018

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Postal Services
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 Answer of 15 September 2023 to Question 198404 on Passports: Postal Services and to the press release entitled Royal Mail wins HM Passport Office contract published by Royal Mail press on 17 July 2023, what account his decision to award that contract with HM Passport Office and other government offices took of the Ofcom investigation started on 15 May 2023 into Royal Mail’s compliance with its quality-of-service performance targets in 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	4383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>The contract was awarded to Royal Mail on 22 October 2022, prior to the opening of the Ofcom investigation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/12/2023 12:46:33 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1674111

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
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 Children’s Commissioner's report entitled Unaccompanied children in need of care published November 2023, for what reasons his Department did not return the information requested by the Commissioner on whether (a) safeguarding referrals were made and (b) healthcare support was received; and if he will provide this information for the 5,298 children housed in hotels between July 2021 and May 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	4384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>For those young people determined to be under 18 who have entered the UK without a parent or guardian, we will endeavour to place them with a local authority as soon as possible after their entry into the country. For young people placed in emergency interim hotels, safeguarding procedures are in place to ensure they are safe and supported whilst we seek urgent placements with a local authority. Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office have confirmed the completion of the required Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Children’s Commissioner’s report. However there has been some delay in agreeing the final version. Further more, there are elements of the data which have been requested that are not in electronically retrievable form. The Home Office will not be able to provide the data as it would require a high level of manual resource to obtain.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/12/2023 12:49:49 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas