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1716951

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date	09/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Patrol Craft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many maritime boarding actions Border Force performed on (a) recreational and (b) commercial vessels in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	25470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>Border Force does not hold the data requested in an easily accessible format.</p><p>Border Force enhance UK maritime border security through intelligence-led and proactive maritime operations to deliver the right law enforcement effect in the right place, at the right time. This is in order to:</p><ul><li>Detect and prevent the smuggling of people and prohibited and restricted goods into the UK.</li><li>Deter those who use commercial and general maritime to pose a threat to the UK.</li><li>Prevent and interdict in criminal activity and preserve and secure evidence to support prosecutions where appropriate.</li></ul><p>Reassure the public and wider maritime community whilst minimising interference into the lawful passage of people and goods within UK Territorial Waters.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 17/05/2024 09:50:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1716952

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of humanitarian aid supplied to Gaza in the last six months; and what information his Department holds on the countries of origin of that aid.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	25471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>We trebled our aid commitment in the last financial year and we are doing everything we can to get more aid in as quickly as possible by land, sea and air.</p><p>As of 9 May, the UK has participated in 12 airdrops into Gaza, and on 17 April we announced £3 million of additional funding for equipment to support UN and aid agencies to get more aid into Gaza, including trucks, forklifts, generators, fuel stores and lighting towers.</p><p>On 6 April, the UK announced a £9.7 million package of military and civilian support to set up a maritime aid corridor to Gaza, including the deployment of a Navy ship.</p><p>In addition, a field hospital, provided by UK Aid funding to UK-Med, is up and running in Gaza and has already treated thousands of patients, and we have funded more than 2,000 tonnes of food aid, which entered Gaza in March for distribution by the World Food Programme (WFP) on the ground.</p><p>Updates on the number of aid trucks and type of aid entering Gaza are published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) on their publicly available aid dashboard at gazadashboard.unrwa.org. Between 2 November and 2 May 24,390 trucks entered Gaza. It remains challenging to track deliveries by weight and origin.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 24/05/2024 08:03:16 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1716953

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Internet: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of prosecutions for illegal downloading in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	25472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of offenders found guilty of criminal offences in England and Wales, up to June 2023, available here: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2023" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2023</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on whether offenders were prosecuted for offences relating to illegal downloading is not held by the Ministry of Justice, as this information is not recorded centrally in the Court Proceedings Database.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Gareth Bacon question first answered 20/05/2024 08:43:10 answering member 4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1716955

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Airports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days e-gates were not in use in airports in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	25473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information in an accessible format.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/05/2024 14:51:19 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1699954

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	Electronic Travel Authorisations
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 publish a revised impact assessment for Electronic Travel Authorisation to include an assessment of the impact of that scheme on airside transit passengers.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	20984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Electronic Travel Authorisations deliver important security benefits. A blanket exemption to the ETA requirement for passengers transiting airside would fundamentally undermine the rationale of the scheme by creating a permission free route of travel into the UK which would be open to abuse.</p><p>We will keep our position under review to monitor the impact on transit as the scheme is rolled out.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 11:45:13 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1700073

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Renewable Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when her Department plans to publish the next National Renewable Energy Action Plan.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	20985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The National Renewable Energy Action Plan was a requirement under the Renewable Energy Directive which no longer applies to the UK. The Government publishes its proposals and policies to enable carbon budgets to be met, including the role of renewable energy in reducing emissions, in the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan. The last plan was published in March 2023. The next will be published as soon as reasonably practicable after setting the level of Carbon Budget 7. The statutory deadline for setting the level of Carbon Budget 7 is the end of June 2026.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/04/2024 14:10:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1700134

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights on the economy.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	20986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>The FCDO has not made an assessment of this nature.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 26/04/2024 13:22:23 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1700142

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) full time and (b) part time civil service personnel there were in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	20987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The number of civil servants working full time and part time in each year from 2019 to 2023 on the stated reference date were:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Reference date</p></td><td><p>Full-time</p></td><td><p>Part-time</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/03/31</p></td><td><p>344,050</p></td><td><p>102,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/03/31</p></td><td><p>350,790</p></td><td><p>104,850</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/03/31</p></td><td><p>392,140</p></td><td><p>112,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/03/31</p></td><td><p>409,040</p></td><td><p>102,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023/03/31</p></td><td><p>418,170</p></td><td><p>102,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Figures are from the ONS public sector employment statistics publications. The total may differ slightly from other published figures due to rounding.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 22/04/2024 16:27:44 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1698992

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Travel Authorisations
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 reconsider the requirement for airside transit passengers to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation to travel through UK airports.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	20602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>Electronic Travel Authorisations deliver important security benefits. A blanket exemption to the ETA requirement for passengers transiting airside would fundamentally undermine the rationale of the scheme by creating a permission free route of travel into the UK which would be open to abuse.</p><p>The process for obtaining an ETA is quick and light touch, and the cost (£10 per application) is minimal compared to the overall cost of international travel. An ETA will be valid for two years, or until the expiry of the passport used to apply, and can be used for multiple trips during this period.</p><p>We will keep our position under review to monitor the impact on transit as the scheme is rolled out.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 20601 question first answered 19/04/2024 09:24:25 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord