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1579508

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the economy of fraud in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	129978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the devastating emotional and financial harms that victims of fraud can suffer. The 2020 ONS released the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/natureofcrimefraudandcomputermisuse" target="_blank">Nature of crime: fraud and computer misuse</a>, indicated that 20% of respondents felt loss of confidence or felt vulnerable.</p><p>Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector to better protect the public and businesses from fraud, reduce the impact of fraud on victims, and increase the disruption and prosecution of fraudsters and we will publish a fraud strategy in due course, setting out how we will do this.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 129977 129979 129980 question first answered 14/02/2023 11:14:56 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1579509

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to support the police to tackle fraud.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	129979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the devastating emotional and financial harms that victims of fraud can suffer. The 2020 ONS released the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/natureofcrimefraudandcomputermisuse" target="_blank">Nature of crime: fraud and computer misuse</a>, indicated that 20% of respondents felt loss of confidence or felt vulnerable.</p><p>Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector to better protect the public and businesses from fraud, reduce the impact of fraud on victims, and increase the disruption and prosecution of fraudsters and we will publish a fraud strategy in due course, setting out how we will do this.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 129977 129978 129980 question first answered 14/02/2023 11:14:56 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1579510

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud: Victims
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 on the impact of fraud on victims of this crime.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	129980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the devastating emotional and financial harms that victims of fraud can suffer. The 2020 ONS released the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/natureofcrimefraudandcomputermisuse" target="_blank">Nature of crime: fraud and computer misuse</a>, indicated that 20% of respondents felt loss of confidence or felt vulnerable.</p><p>Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector to better protect the public and businesses from fraud, reduce the impact of fraud on victims, and increase the disruption and prosecution of fraudsters and we will publish a fraud strategy in due course, setting out how we will do this.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 129977 129978 129979 question first answered 14/02/2023 11:14:56 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1579575

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Out-of-School Education: East Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with East Sussex County Council on the Hope Sussex Community Hub.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	129753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>It is an offence, under Section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008, for a person to conduct an independent school unless it is registered with the Department. Under Section 97 of the 2008 Act, Ofsted may inspect, without notice, any establishment suspected of operating as an unregistered independent school.<em> </em></p><p>Ofsted have made an attempt to inspect Hope Sussex Community Hub, based on a reasonable cause to believe that a suspected unregistered school was operating on the premises. Ofsted and the Department continue to monitor this case and will take further action as and when justified by available evidence. If evidence is found that shows an unregistered school is operating, the Department, Ofsted and the Crown Prosecution Service will consider whether prosecution is in the public interest.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, remains committed to legislate in order to strengthen Ofsted’s powers with regard to its investigation of unregistered independent schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 129756 question first answered 06/02/2023 14:19:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1579578

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Out-of-School Education: East Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for how long Ofsted has been investigating the Hope Sussex school.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	129756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>It is an offence, under Section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008, for a person to conduct an independent school unless it is registered with the Department. Under Section 97 of the 2008 Act, Ofsted may inspect, without notice, any establishment suspected of operating as an unregistered independent school.<em> </em></p><p>Ofsted have made an attempt to inspect Hope Sussex Community Hub, based on a reasonable cause to believe that a suspected unregistered school was operating on the premises. Ofsted and the Department continue to monitor this case and will take further action as and when justified by available evidence. If evidence is found that shows an unregistered school is operating, the Department, Ofsted and the Crown Prosecution Service will consider whether prosecution is in the public interest.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, remains committed to legislate in order to strengthen Ofsted’s powers with regard to its investigation of unregistered independent schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 129753 question first answered 06/02/2023 14:19:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1579647

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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, how many migrant children have been reported missing from Home Office hotels in each of the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	129761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has no power to hold under-18s in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day.</p><p>Records are kept and monitored of children leaving and returning to the hotel. Support workers will accompany children off site on activities and social excursions, or where specific vulnerabilities are identified. All sites have security staff to ensure the safety and welfare of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p>Since July 2021, when UASC were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 440 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). As of 26 January 2023, 199 remain missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 129762 129763 question first answered 08/02/2023 14:59:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1579648

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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, what is the age range of migrant children reported missing from Home Office hotels in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	129762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has no power to hold under-18s in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day.</p><p>Records are kept and monitored of children leaving and returning to the hotel. Support workers will accompany children off site on activities and social excursions, or where specific vulnerabilities are identified. All sites have security staff to ensure the safety and welfare of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p>Since July 2021, when UASC were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 440 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). As of 26 January 2023, 199 remain missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 129761 129763 question first answered 08/02/2023 14:59:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1579649

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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, whether the Government taking steps to ensure the safety of unaccompanied migrant children who go missing from Home Office hotels.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	129763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has no power to hold under-18s in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day.</p><p>Records are kept and monitored of children leaving and returning to the hotel. Support workers will accompany children off site on activities and social excursions, or where specific vulnerabilities are identified. All sites have security staff to ensure the safety and welfare of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p>Since July 2021, when UASC were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 440 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). As of 26 January 2023, 199 remain missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 129761 129762 question first answered 08/02/2023 14:59:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1579747

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Missing Persons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adult and (b) children asylum seekers that were accommodated via the Home Office are missing.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	130063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of asylum seekers in our care is of paramount importance to the Home Office. We expect high standards from all of our providers, and we have a robust governance framework in place to manage service delivery of the Asylum Accommodation Support Contracts (AASC). Details of the AASC can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2Fnew-asylum-accommodation-contracts-awarded&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJordan.Kelly27%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C935dbaf5b55f41dceb5608da22bd67c4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637860494119143762%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WluEj72k%2F6SzJiik%2BuvC3nZT6amXX7KspxfefWLcJpk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">New asylum accommodation contracts awarded - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. If any issues are identified providers are required to take immediate action to address and recover accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. 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>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p /><p>The Home Office does not hold data for the number of adult and children asylum seekers <strong>that were accommodated via the Home Office that are missing in a reportable format and it would require a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost. </strong>As of 26 January 2023, there are 199 young people missing from Home Office UASC hotels. Please be advised that some of these people are now over 18, but they are included in the figures as they were a child when they went missing. Of the 199 young people that are currently missing, 185 of them were 16 or older at the time they went missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 130064 question first answered 06/02/2023 16:30:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1579748

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
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 plans to take to improve safeguarding at Home Office-run accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	130064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of asylum seekers in our care is of paramount importance to the Home Office. We expect high standards from all of our providers, and we have a robust governance framework in place to manage service delivery of the Asylum Accommodation Support Contracts (AASC). Details of the AASC can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2Fnew-asylum-accommodation-contracts-awarded&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJordan.Kelly27%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C935dbaf5b55f41dceb5608da22bd67c4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637860494119143762%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WluEj72k%2F6SzJiik%2BuvC3nZT6amXX7KspxfefWLcJpk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">New asylum accommodation contracts awarded - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. If any issues are identified providers are required to take immediate action to address and recover accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. 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>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p /><p>The Home Office does not hold data for the number of adult and children asylum seekers <strong>that were accommodated via the Home Office that are missing in a reportable format and it would require a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost. </strong>As of 26 January 2023, there are 199 young people missing from Home Office UASC hotels. Please be advised that some of these people are now over 18, but they are included in the figures as they were a child when they went missing. Of the 199 young people that are currently missing, 185 of them were 16 or older at the time they went missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 130063 question first answered 06/02/2023 16:30:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden