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1485996

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle domestic (a) abuse and (b) violence.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	29933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>Tackling all forms of domestic abuse, whether or not they involve physical violence, is a priority for this Government.</p><p>That is why we introduced our landmark Domestic Abuse Act in 2021. The Act strengthens our protection to victims and ensures perpetrators feel the full force of the law. It includes the first legal definition of domestic abuse, improved support for victims in the courts, a new offence of non-fatal strangulation and an extension of the controlling or coercive behaviour offence.</p><p>More recently, in March 2022, we went even further and published our Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan which seeks to transform the whole of society’s response in order to prevent offending, support victims and pursue perpetrators, as well as to strengthen the systems processes in place needed to deliver these goals.</p><p>This Plan, backed by over £230 million, commits to exploring options for a register to manage the most harmful domestic abusers, to providing support services with multi-year funding, with £47 million ringfenced for community-based support services, and funding for police training and development of a ground-breaking algorithm to help police better target the most harmful serial domestic abusers.</p><p>We are now in the process of delivering these commitments.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 12/07/2022 15:04:36 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1486068

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
	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 (a) provide support for groups for victims of domestic abuse and (b) increase the availability of those groups.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	30148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>Tackling domestic abuse and ensuring victims receive the support they need is a priority for this Government. Our landmark Domestic Abuse Act 2021 will strengthen our protection to victims and ensure perpetrators feel the full force of the law. It includes the first legal definition of domestic abuse, improved support for victims in the courts, new offences, including on non-fatal strangulation, and strengthened legislation around cruel acts of controlling or coercive behaviour.</p><p>The Act also places a duty on local authorities in England to provide support to victims of domestic abuse and their children in refuges and other safe accommodation, backed by £125 million of Government funding to ensure that these vital services are available to anyone who needs them, wherever they live. This will be supported by a new £6 million Domestic Abuse Capacity Building Fund to help Local Authorities prepare for the upcoming duty.</p><p>In March 2022, we published the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan which will seek to transform the whole of society’s response in order to prevent offending, support victims and pursue perpetrators, as well as to strengthen the systems processes in place needed to deliver these goals.</p><p>The Plan invests over £230 million into tackling domestic abuse. This includes over £140 million to support victims, much of which is multi-year funding, part over £47 million of which is ringfenced for community-based support services.</p><p>As committed to in the cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy published on 21 July last year, the Home Office has also provided an additional £1.5 million funding this year for ‘by and for’ service provision and to further increase funding for valuable specialist services for victims of violence against women and girls.</p><p>The Home Office is also planning to double funding for survivors of sexual violence and the National Domestic Abuse Helpline by 2024-25, and further increase funding for all the national helplines it supports.</p><p>The VAWG National Statement of Expectations, and Commissioning Toolkit, which we have published alongside the Plan, will also provide support to commissioners to help them increase provision of ‘by and for’ and specialist services.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 12/07/2022 15:10:41 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1485905

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Nationality and Borders Act 2022
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likelihood of an increase in the prison population as a result of the introduction of new offences and longer prison sentences under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office has worked with the Ministry of Justice in assessing the impact on the prison population as a result of the new and amended offences in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, with a likely increase in the mid hundreds. Prosecutions are just one of a range of measures seeking to reduce the number of migrants placing their lives into the hands of people smugglers and taking unnecessary risks to travel to the UK.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/07/2022 11:56:42 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1485911

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Genocide: Rwanda
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they are providing to the Metropolitan Police to assist with the investigation of any Rwandan nationals living in the UK who were allegedly involved in the 1994 genocide in that country.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1442
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is responsible for the investigations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and torture. It has the specialist skills to conduct an investigations or decide that a criminal investigation is not feasible.</p><p>The Home Office has a long-standing relationship with that unit and those individuals identified in the immigration system who are suspected of being involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity, are referred to the MPS, including those who may have been involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/07/2022 11:57:13 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1485921

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Nigeria
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to deport refugees who arrive in the UK to Nigeria.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2022 answer text <p>We recently signed a migration agreement with Nigeria which will see both countries work together to tackle shared migration issues, including doing more together to support legal migration, tackle illegal migration and speed up the deportation of foreign criminals.</p><p>This agreement is different from our Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda which allows for asylum seekers, not refugees, whose claims are inadmissible to be relocated to Rwanda.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 28/07/2022 07:51:23 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1485954

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	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, what the average waiting time is for asylum seekers to be invited to a substantive asylum interview after arrival in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Halifax
	tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	30072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>This information is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics: List of tables - GOV.UK (List of tables - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>)</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/07/2022 09:48:42 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1485968

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	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 Afghans who were not evacuated under Operation Pitting the UK has resettled under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme since that scheme opened and as of 4 July 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	30122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>Following the evacuation from Afghanistan and subsequent Afghan arrivals, work is underway to ensure accurate data recording for individuals relocated under the Afghan schemes.</p><p>On the conclusion of this, ACRS statistics will be included in future editions of the Immigration Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/07/2022 10:26:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 12304 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1486029

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Afghanistan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her advice is to people wishing to leave Afghanistan who are family members of British nationals and likely to qualify for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, but who cannot afford to obtain a visa for a neighbouring country or to travel there.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	29855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the situation in Afghanistan is complex and presents significant challenges, including securing safe passage to another country.</p><p>The government is committed to working in step with the international community and continuing to do what can be done to support those still in Afghanistan who are eligible for resettlement to the UK to depart the country safely if they wish to do so. This includes coordinating with the countries neighbouring Afghanistan.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 14/07/2022 10:27:38 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 11548 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1486078

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken is for her Department to respond following the submission by an asylum seeker of a request for permission to work.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	30083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>Casework systems do not allow us to report on the number of permission to work requests received or the number subsequently granted permission. Obtaining these figures would require manually searching through cases amounting to disproportionate time and cost.</p><p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL).</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/07/2022 08:48:27 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1486133

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Napier Barracks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the High Court’s ruling in June 2022 that the Special Development Order laid in August 2021 for the use of Napier Barracks for asylum accommodation for a further five years was unlawful.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	29990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>We will consider the judgment fully once the final order has been made.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/07/2022 09:43:59 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron