The Home Affairs Select Committee is holding a series of deliberative events with the public where people with different views will discuss how to balance the government’s goal of reducing net migration with the need for businesses and public services to have the workers they need. The Committee is working with Demos and King’s College London to deliver this work.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to clause 23(5) of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, whether her Department intends to carry out individual destitution tests on all refugees or whether a minimum income threshold will be set.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill introduces the principle that, where a person has received taxpayer-funded asylum support and later becomes financially able to contribute towards those costs, it is right and fair that they should do so.

The detailed design of the scheme, including repayment thresholds and rates, will be set out in secondary legislation.

The policy intent is that repayment will only begin once an individual reaches a defined threshold for repayment and that deductions will be set at a manageable rate so that recovery remains proportionate and does not cause hardship or destitution.

Any regulations will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny and there will be clear safeguards to ensure the scheme operates fairly.

Draft regulations will be shared during the passage of the Immigration and Asylum Bill through Parliament.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses AI to help verify the age of migrants that arrive in the UK.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office has recently announced that the procurement process for a Facial Age Estimation (FAE) algorithm has concluded, and a new contract has been awarded to Akhter Computers Ltd, with Cognitec as sub-contractor.  Our current intention is to begin using the technology, which harnesses the power of AI, during initial age decisions at the border, and to provide capabilities to the National Age Assessment Board and Local Authorities to access FAE results.

The Department is planning a series of trials and testing throughout 2026. Subject to the results of the testing, FAE is planned to be implemented from 2027.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 12 June 2026, to Question 6853, on Asylum: Hillingdon, for what reason her Department only publishes details of asylum grant per council in historic Cabinet Office grant data for previous years, and does not publish current year funding in the year of its allocation.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

Asylum grant funding information is published in line with the Cabinet Office's Government Grants Data and Statistics publication process. Funding data is published annually once the financial year has ended and having been validated, reconciled and quality-assured. This, rather than publishing live grant allocations, ensures accuracy and consistency.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Department's Accounting Officer has reviewed proposals for Site A at MoD Bicester against the principles of Managing Public Money.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

No decision has been made in respect of the use of MoD Bicester for asylum accommodation.  Due diligence and assurance work for all proposed large sites including Bicester is still ongoing.

This includes assessing accurate costings. Once complete, business cases and approvals will be sought and details published in the normal way for all Major Government Programmes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 6870 on Asylum: Housing, what is the timetable for publishing further public information on the local authority asylum accommodation model; and whether any pilots have taken place to date.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office is working across government to explore innovative models of asylum accommodation that achieve value for money and support asylum system reform and further detail will be provided in due course.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2026, to Question 7805, on Asylum: Housing, whether any local authorities are currently contracted with the Home Office to provide asylum accommodation services.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

No local authorities are currently contracted to provide asylum accommodation services. The Home Office holds eight contracts for the provision of these services and details of them are publicly available:

CRH - Wales

AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract Wales - Contracts Finder

CRH - South

AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract South - Contracts Finder

Serco - NW

AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract NW - Contracts Finder

Serco - MEE

AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract MEE - Contracts Finder

Mears - NEYH

AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract NEYH - Contracts Finder

Mears - Scotland

AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract Scotland - Contracts Finder

Mears - NI

AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract NI - Contracts Finder

CTM

Contract for the Provision of Asylum Accommodation and Travel Services - Contracts Finder

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 12 June 2026, to Question 6860, on Asylum: Hotels, if she will publish a precise figure for the number of asylum hotels in operation in each month since July 2024, and the number of asylum seekers housed in asylum hotels in each of those months.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

The number of hotels in use has reduced from over 400 asylum hotels in summer 2023, there are now fewer than 190 currently in use and we are on track to close all by the end of this Parliament.

The Home Office publishes statistics on a quarterly basis detailing the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated including numbers accommodated in hotels. These statistics can be found in at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support detailed datasets, year ending March 2026. These tables also have historical data on the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2027, to Question 7200, on Strategic Migration Partnerships: Finance, why the publication of the aggregate spending across all partnerships is deemed to be sensitive.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

Home Office funding is allocated individually to each Strategic Migration Partnership and varies according to local operational pressures, delivery requirements, and regional arrangements. As these agreements are bespoke and subject to individual arrangements between the Home Office and the recipient organisation, details of specific funding allocations are not routinely shared beyond the individual recipient organisations.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2026, to Question 7805, on Asylum: Housing, whether any local authorities have expressed an interest in the engagement notice.

Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)

The procurement for the provision of Asylum Support and Accommodation Services remains ongoing. Given the commercial sensitivities surrounding an ongoing procurement campaign, no further information can be released at this stage.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National partnership agreement on meeting the health and wellbeing needs for people seeking asylum in England 2025-2028, published on 30 July 2026, what is the projected cost of delivering the ten priorities outlined.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Asylum seekers have access to NHS healthcare from their point of arrival in the UK. They are entitled to the same level of treatment as UK nationals whilst their claim is being considered, and healthcare should always be prioritised by public health and clinical need only. This agreement does not expand healthcare provision. It sets out clear standards for joint working between the Home Office, the NHS and local partners, mirroring similar partnership agreements that exist across public services.

We do not hold a single, standalone cost for healthcare provision relating to the asylum seeking cohort. Healthcare is delivered across a range of settings and services within the NHS, and costs are not routinely separated from wider healthcare spending. Costs will therefore vary depending on the number of people in the asylum system and also depending on public health and clinical need.

The Home Secretary is restoring order and control to our asylum system by removing incentives drawing illegal migrants to the UK and ramping up removals of those with no right to be on British soil. We have removed or deported over 80,000 people who were here illegally and are going further to remove the incentives that draw illegal migrants to this country.

Question to the Home Office:

o ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the retention rate of researchers recruited through the Global Talent visa.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office monitors a range of information relating to the performance of the Global Talent route, including researchers, through administrative data, official statistics and route evaluations.

Information on Global Talent visa grants and extensions of Global Talent visas is published on the Immigration System Statistics website (located here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables).

The Global Talent visa evaluation: Wave 2 report (published here: Global Talent visa evaluation: Wave 2 report - GOV.UK) further provides an understanding of the activities and future intentions of Global Talent visa holders, including on professional contributions made in the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of international researchers recruited through the Global Talent visa on productivity.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office monitors a range of information relating to the performance of the Global Talent route, including researchers, through administrative data, official statistics and route evaluations.

Information on Global Talent visa grants and extensions of Global Talent visas is published on the Immigration System Statistics website (located here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables).

The Global Talent visa evaluation: Wave 2 report (published here: Global Talent visa evaluation: Wave 2 report - GOV.UK) further provides an understanding of the activities and future intentions of Global Talent visa holders, including on professional contributions made in the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are being housed in Bromsgrove constituency for which the latest data is available.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office publishes statistics on a quarterly basis detailing the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated in local authority areas. These statistics can be found in at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK. As at 31 March 2026, Bromsgrove supported 1 asylum seeker with subsistence only and 3 in dispersal accommodation.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the full scope of the Asylum Transformation Programme, following the increased programme scope for 2025/26.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Asylum Transformation Programme (ATP) is a Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) programme established to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the UK's asylum system. ATP is transforming the people, processes and technology that underpin asylum caseworking and asylum support and accommodation, with the aim of delivering a more efficient and sustainable end-to-end asylum system.

Following approval of the 2025/26 Programme Business Case, ATP's scope was expanded to encompass four operational pillars:

• Asylum Caseworking: focused on streamlining asylum caseworking processes;
• Asylum Support and Accommodation: focused on accommodation, support services, dispersal, property management and move-on activity;
• Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC): incorporating age assessment transformation projects transferred from the closed Sovereign Borders Programme; and
• Appeals: delivering improvements to appeals and litigation processes to support a more effective end-to-end system.

The expanded scope reflects the Government's objective to address challenges across the entire asylum journey, from intake and caseworking through to accommodation, age assessment, appeals and move-on activity. ATP is delivering a portfolio of projects across these four pillars, supported by wider cross-cutting digital, data, automation and process improvement initiatives.

This scope expansion was driven by the transfer of ongoing UASC age assessment projects and the introduction of appeals-focused transformation activity, ensuring ATP can support improvements across the full end-to-end asylum system.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Major Projects Annual Report 2025 to 2026, Tables, Asylum Support Accommodation Programme, by when will she have competed the re-planning and re-baselining across the programme.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Asylum Support Accommodation Programme received an improved Amber rating at the June NISTA assurance review, allowing the FACT Outline Business Case to proceed through internal HO and HMT assurance. Once assurance is fully complete the Programme will be formally re-baselined.

Work continues to refine requirements in line with HO Strategy, whilst this is underway the plan remains in live development.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact on Bedford Borough Council of requirements to provide accommodation and safeguarding support to individuals at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre who are not deemed “significantly over 18”.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Age assessment is a difficult area of work, with no single assessment technique, or combination of techniques, able to determine age with precision. Where an individual claims to be a child without any credible and clear documentary evidence of age, and where there is reason to doubt their claimed age, immigration officers are required to make an initial age decision to determine whether the individual should be treated as a child or an adult. This is an important first step to prevent individuals who are clearly an adult or child from being subjected unnecessarily to a more substantive age assessment and ensure individuals are routed to the correct adult or child process. Where age is in doubt, the Home Office works closely with local authorities and the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) to ensure individuals are treated in accordance with their assessed age, and that appropriate care and support arrangements are in place.

The Home Office is currently providing a range of support to affected local authorities. This includes regular bilateral engagement with the impacted authorities, and support from the NAAB. In Bedford's case specifically, the NAAB has prioritised support for conducting age assessments and bespoke training for local authority social workers to increase local assessment capability and capacity.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact on Bedford Borough Council of age assessments associated with the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Age assessment is a difficult area of work, with no single assessment technique, or combination of techniques, able to determine age with precision. Where an individual claims to be a child without any credible and clear documentary evidence of age, and where there is reason to doubt their claimed age, immigration officers are required to make an initial age decision to determine whether the individual should be treated as a child or an adult. This is an important first step to prevent individuals who are clearly an adult or child from being subjected unnecessarily to a more substantive age assessment and ensure individuals are routed to the correct adult or child process. Where age is in doubt, the Home Office works closely with local authorities and the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) to ensure individuals are treated in accordance with their assessed age, and that appropriate care and support arrangements are in place.

The Home Office is currently providing a range of support to affected local authorities. This includes regular bilateral engagement with the impacted authorities, and support from the NAAB. In Bedford's case specifically, the NAAB has prioritised support for conducting age assessments and bespoke training for local authority social workers to increase local assessment capability and capacity.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign criminals subject to deportation orders were released on bail into community accommodation in 2026; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of early release mechanisms in the Sentencing Act on foreign national offender management.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The information you have requested on the number of foreign national offenders (FNOs) living in the community subject to a deportation order and the timescales to remove them is not available from published information.

Latest published information shows that at the end of Q2 2026 there were 21,294 FNOs living in the community and subject to deportation. We will work tirelessly to clear legal barriers, secure documentation or overcome other impediments to a return. The latest published information can be found at: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK.

The increase in FNOs living in the community since last year mainly occurred after March 2026, coinciding with changes introduced through the Sentencing Act 2026. These changes have increased numbers by expanding the use of suspended sentences as an alternative to custody, and by broadening the duty to deport to include foreign national offenders given suspended sentences of 12 months or more.

In recognition of the impacts of the Sentencing Act, the Home Office is recruiting more staff to focus more intensively on community FNOs and continues to review what more can be done. Measures contained within the Immigration & Asylum Bill will reduce abuse and enable increased returns.

On 1 September 2026, further sentence exclusions were announced under the new Progression Model introduced by the Sentencing Act 2026, which will apply to all FNOs serving eligible custodial sentences. These exclusions will also apply to the expansion of the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) which will remove the requirement for eligible FNOs to serve any minimum custodial period before they can be deported. FNOs who are excluded from ERS0 may still be eligible for removal having served 30% of their custodial sentence.

Where deportation cannot take place before an FNO reaches their Progression Model release date, the Home Office will consider if it is appropriate to detain them under immigration powers or to release the individual subject to immigration bail and any HMPPS licence conditions.

In the time since this government came to power and 31 July 2026, 11,733 FNOs have been returned from the UK. In the two years since the election, there has been a 41% increase in FNO returns on the last two years of the previous government (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2026, when compared to the previous 2-year period), and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, whether the opportunity cost of increased demand on publicly funded education arising from asylum seekers was included in the calculations underpinning the impact assessment.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, whether the impact on the availability of hotel accommodation for other commercial purposes was factored into the calculations underpinning the impact assessment.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, whether the Department plans to publish an assessment of any opportunity costs identified during the preparation of the impact assessment.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, what opportunity costs were identified during the preparation of the impact assessment but not monetised.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the promotional material entitled Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: a guide for asylum seekers, of 19 August 2026, has been translated into foreign languages.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

No translated versions have been produced.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Major Projects Annual Report 2025 to 2026, Tables, Asylum Support Accommodation Programme, what the change in project definition was following the endorsement of the revised Business Transformation Delivery Model.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The updated Business Transformation Delivery Model proposed a change in the way contracts will work in the future, improving HO control and transparency and securing better value for money.

This model will require additional internal work to support improved contract and supplier management capabilities. As such the ASAP definition includes an expansion to the Change Management elements of the Programme.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, whether the Department modelled the impact of different household sizes when estimating the fiscal effects of Article 8 appeals; and if so, what assumptions were used.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

In the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, the costs and benefits associated with the Article 8 reforms have been quantified for the individuals directly impacted. Table 13 in Appendix A1 states that 81% of in-country family and private life visa grants were main applicants and 19% were dependants.

The Impact Assessment sets out a lifetime fiscal cost of -£141,000 per main applicant on the Family and Private Life route. In line with the Migration Advisory Committee’s methodology for estimating the lifetime fiscal impact of family partner visas, which did not account for the dependants of these main applicants, the equivalent lifetime fiscal cost of dependants has not been calculated, either for Article 8 or Asylum claimants.

The analysis produced by the Migration Advisory Committee can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2025/migration-advisory-committee-mac-annual-report-2025-accessible#chapter-1-fiscal-analysis-of-the-family-visa

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, what estimate has been made of the average number of dependants assumed for each successful Article 8 claimant in the fiscal modelling.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

In the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, the costs and benefits associated with the Article 8 reforms have been quantified for the individuals directly impacted. Table 13 in Appendix A1 states that 81% of in-country family and private life visa grants were main applicants and 19% were dependants.

The Impact Assessment sets out a lifetime fiscal cost of -£141,000 per main applicant on the Family and Private Life route. In line with the Migration Advisory Committee’s methodology for estimating the lifetime fiscal impact of family partner visas, which did not account for the dependants of these main applicants, the equivalent lifetime fiscal cost of dependants has not been calculated, either for Article 8 or Asylum claimants.

The analysis produced by the Migration Advisory Committee can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2025/migration-advisory-committee-mac-annual-report-2025-accessible#chapter-1-fiscal-analysis-of-the-family-visa

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, what estimate has been made of the average cost to the public purse of dependants remaining in the United Kingdom.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

In the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, the costs and benefits associated with the Article 8 reforms have been quantified for the individuals directly impacted. Table 13 in Appendix A1 states that 81% of in-country family and private life visa grants were main applicants and 19% were dependants.

The Impact Assessment sets out a lifetime fiscal cost of -£141,000 per main applicant on the Family and Private Life route. In line with the Migration Advisory Committee’s methodology for estimating the lifetime fiscal impact of family partner visas, which did not account for the dependants of these main applicants, the equivalent lifetime fiscal cost of dependants has not been calculated, either for Article 8 or Asylum claimants.

The analysis produced by the Migration Advisory Committee can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2025/migration-advisory-committee-mac-annual-report-2025-accessible#chapter-1-fiscal-analysis-of-the-family-visa

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the role of small engine supplies on the number of small boat crossings in the English Channel.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The creation of the Border Security Command (BSC) in 2024 brought together the UK's response to organised immigration crime, strengthening coordination across law enforcement, intelligence and international partners to tackle the criminal networks facilitating illegal migration.

Since 2024, the National Crime Agency working with international partners have disrupted the supply chains used by organised immigration crime groups. This includes action against suppliers, facilitators and money launderers, as well as the seizure of more than 1,100 boats and engines since the election, preventing equipment from being used in dangerous small boat crossings

We are confident this coordinated approach is delivering results. The lower number of small boat arrivals seen in 2026 reflects the sustained activity being undertaken across the border security system to secure the border and target the criminal gangs behind these crossings.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, whether the opportunity cost of increased demand on local authority services arising from asylum seekers was factored into the estimates contained in the impact assessment.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, whether the opportunity cost of increased demand on NHS services arising from asylum seekers was included in the calculations underpinning the impact assessment.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, whether the opportunity cost of asylum accommodation capacity being occupied was included in the calculations for the impact assessment.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to question 10230 answered on 16 June 2026, whether the a) equalities impacts assessments and b) outcomes resulting from the National Physical Laboratory review of Home Office Facial Age Estimation testing will be published upon completion.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The policy on facial age estimation is still being developed, and the Home Office is currently undertaking rigorous testing and trialling of the technology throughout 2026. Subject to the results of the testing and trials, FAE is planned to be rolled out from 2027. In line with the public sector equality duty, equalities impacts are being fully considered. No decisions have been made regarding publication of documents.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the breakdown of the 17,346 assisted returns made with assistance from the Home Office by type of assistance provided.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Note 12 of the Returns Detailed Datasets (Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK) sets out that 'Assisted returns' relate to returns where people liable to removal from the UK who wish to leave voluntarily make an application to the Voluntary Returns Service and who are accepted to receive a re-integration package as part of their departure, or those who are assisted in their return by having the flights arranged at Home Office expense.

Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on completing the construction of the Haslar Immigration Removal Centre in late 2026.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office is working at pace to open the redeveloped Haslar immigration removal centre (IRC) in 2027.

The Home Office is developing a new IRC at the site of the former Haslar IRC in Gosport, Hampshire. The Government is committed to maintaining a safe, secure and effective immigration detention estate that supports the removal of those with no right to remain in the United Kingdom. The redevelopment of Haslar is a key part of this work, providing additional detention capacity to strengthen enforcement activity and help deliver a more effective returns system.

Planning permission to expand the site’s capacity is being sought through the Crown Development route for nationally important development on Crown land. The Notification of Intent was submitted to the Planning Inspectorate on 7 May 2026. The Statement of National Importance was subsequently submitted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and the Crown Development planning application to the Planning Inspectorate, both on 29 May 2026. Further details about the application can be found here: CROWN/2026/0000005 - Application information – Find a Crown development application.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Haslar Crown Development Application Notification of Intent and Ministerial ITN was submitted in May 2026.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office is working at pace to open the redeveloped Haslar immigration removal centre (IRC) in 2027.

The Home Office is developing a new IRC at the site of the former Haslar IRC in Gosport, Hampshire. The Government is committed to maintaining a safe, secure and effective immigration detention estate that supports the removal of those with no right to remain in the United Kingdom. The redevelopment of Haslar is a key part of this work, providing additional detention capacity to strengthen enforcement activity and help deliver a more effective returns system.

Planning permission to expand the site’s capacity is being sought through the Crown Development route for nationally important development on Crown land. The Notification of Intent was submitted to the Planning Inspectorate on 7 May 2026. The Statement of National Importance was subsequently submitted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and the Crown Development planning application to the Planning Inspectorate, both on 29 May 2026. Further details about the application can be found here: CROWN/2026/0000005 - Application information – Find a Crown development application.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with her French counterpart to tackle encampments of people whose intention is to cross the channel to gain access to the UK illegally.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Secretary works closely with the French Minister of the Interior to tackle illegal migration and the organised criminal gangs that facilitate it. The three-year funding deal, signed by the Home Secretary and her French counterpart in April, is preventing dangerous small boat crossings, saving lives and tackling organised immigration crime. This deal significantly has significantly boosted law enforcement boots on the ground, who are now supported by enhanced drone surveillance, helicopters and camera systems. UK-France intelligence sharing has increased to target smuggling networks at every stage of the route. French authorities are using new maritime tactics to target so-called taxi boats. Since March, 12 vessels have been intercepted on the water before they could collect additional migrants along the coastline. Together, these measures aim to stop boats before launch and make these perilous crossings less viable. The agreement also supports expanded detention and removals capacity in France, alongside enhanced operational activity to disrupt migrant movements and smuggling networks across the route.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information the department holds on the average length of time between an Albanian national receiving a final refusal of an asylum claim and their return to Albania.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders subject to active deportation orders are residing in community accommodation; and what timeline her Department has established to enforce their removal from the United Kingdom.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The information you have requested on the number of foreign national offenders (FNOs) living in the community subject to a deportation order and the timescales to remove them is not available from published information.

Latest published information shows that at the end of Q2 2026 there were 21,294 FNOs living in the community and subject to deportation. We will work tirelessly to clear legal barriers, secure documentation or overcome other impediments to a return. The latest published information can be found at: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK.

The increase in FNOs living in the community since last year mainly occurred after March 2026, coinciding with changes introduced through the Sentencing Act 2026. These changes have increased numbers by expanding the use of suspended sentences as an alternative to custody, and by broadening the duty to deport to include foreign national offenders given suspended sentences of 12 months or more.

In recognition of the impacts of the Sentencing Act, the Home Office is recruiting more staff to focus more intensively on community FNOs and continues to review what more can be done. Measures contained within the Immigration & Asylum Bill will reduce abuse and enable increased returns.

On 1 September 2026, further sentence exclusions were announced under the new Progression Model introduced by the Sentencing Act 2026, which will apply to all FNOs serving eligible custodial sentences. These exclusions will also apply to the expansion of the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) which will remove the requirement for eligible FNOs to serve any minimum custodial period before they can be deported. FNOs who are excluded from ERS0 may still be eligible for removal having served 30% of their custodial sentence.

Where deportation cannot take place before an FNO reaches their Progression Model release date, the Home Office will consider if it is appropriate to detain them under immigration powers or to release the individual subject to immigration bail and any HMPPS licence conditions.

In the time since this government came to power and 31 July 2026, 11,733 FNOs have been returned from the UK. In the two years since the election, there has been a 41% increase in FNO returns on the last two years of the previous government (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2026, when compared to the previous 2-year period), and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, what estimate has been made of the average lifetime fiscal impact of (a) a single asylum claimant, (b) an asylum claimant with a partner and (c) an asylum claimant with a partner and dependent children.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

In the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, the costs and benefits associated with the Article 8 reforms have been quantified for the individuals directly impacted. Table 13 in Appendix A1 states that 81% of in-country family and private life visa grants were main applicants and 19% were dependants.

The Impact Assessment sets out a lifetime fiscal cost of -£141,000 per main applicant on the Family and Private Life route. In line with the Migration Advisory Committee’s methodology for estimating the lifetime fiscal impact of family partner visas, which did not account for the dependants of these main applicants, the equivalent lifetime fiscal cost of dependants has not been calculated, either for Article 8 or Asylum claimants.

The analysis produced by the Migration Advisory Committee can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2025/migration-advisory-committee-mac-annual-report-2025-accessible#chapter-1-fiscal-analysis-of-the-family-visa

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, published on 30 June 2026, what estimate has been made of the average net fiscal impact on the public purse of each additional dependant associated with an asylum claimant.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

In the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment, the costs and benefits associated with the Article 8 reforms have been quantified for the individuals directly impacted. Table 13 in Appendix A1 states that 81% of in-country family and private life visa grants were main applicants and 19% were dependants.

The Impact Assessment sets out a lifetime fiscal cost of -£141,000 per main applicant on the Family and Private Life route. In line with the Migration Advisory Committee’s methodology for estimating the lifetime fiscal impact of family partner visas, which did not account for the dependants of these main applicants, the equivalent lifetime fiscal cost of dependants has not been calculated, either for Article 8 or Asylum claimants.

The analysis produced by the Migration Advisory Committee can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2025/migration-advisory-committee-mac-annual-report-2025-accessible#chapter-1-fiscal-analysis-of-the-family-visa

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Preliminary market engagement notice 2026/S 000-077285, published on 28 May 2025, how many properties are required within the scope of the Future Asylum Contracts Transformation programme.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Future Asylum Contract Transformation Project (FACT) is the Project responsible for delivering the replacement Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts (AASC) and Advice, Issue, Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) contracts to ensure continuous delivery of asylum accommodation from September 2029 onwards.

As with all Public Sector contracts, re-procurement is required to replace any expiring contracts to ensure value for money solutions to support delivery of future Asylum initiatives. Throughout 2025 and 2026 the Home Office has been conducting market engagement to ensure the delivery model meets the above aims.

Work continues to refine requirements, including property volumes, test delivery approaches and inform future commercial decisions, while ensuring the Department remains able to meet its statutory obligations and secure effective, sustainable and value-for-money services.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Transparency Data, Returns from the UK between 1 December 2022 and 31 January 2026, published on 24 July 2026, how many Other Verified Returns were there between 1 Feb 2025 and 31 Jan 2026.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The published transparency data are not broken down to include the number of other verified returns.

The Home Office publishes data on returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’. Data on returns by return type (including ‘Other verified returns’) can be found in table Ret_D01 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Table 7 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill's Impact Assessment, whether she has any plans to publish the Home Office's Internal Calculations.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026: Impact Assessment was produced in line with guidance set out in the HMT Green Book.

The Article 8 policy reforms are estimated to increase the number of refusals from migrants applying on the family and private life visa route. This would therefore lead to an overall reduction in demand on the NHS, education system and local authorities. Fiscal pressures avoided are included in Table 18 in Appendix A1.

Table 17 in Appendix A1 sets out the opportunity costs that have been identified and quantified. Additional costs identified but not quantified are set out in Section C.

For opportunity costs arising from the usage of hotel and asylum accommodation, the cost of this accommodation used in the Impact Assessment reflects the market price for the goods and services that it provides. This represents the economic value of the accommodation being occupied and not used for other commercial purposes.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, what metrics will be used to assess the effectiveness of the public awareness campaign.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, whether her Department plans to publish an evaluation of the campaign's effectiveness.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, what the cost will be of the public awareness campaign.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of previous Border Force public awareness campaigns in reducing the number of UK nationals recruited as drug couriers.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, whether discussions have taken place with social media companies on tackling the recruitment of UK nationals by organised criminal gangs advertising drug smuggling opportunities online.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, what data the Department holds on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal gangs to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, what data the Department holds on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, what discussions have taken place with the Government of Thailand on preventing organised criminal groups recruiting UK nationals to act as drug couriers.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered using existing Border Force resources, staff and communication channels.

Border Force undertakes internal reviews of operational activity to identify lessons learned and inform future safeguarding and prevention work. There are currently no plans to publish internal evaluations produced for operational learning purposes.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals arrested overseas for attempting to smuggle cannabis into the UK.

Border Force does not hold data on the number of UK nationals recruited by organised criminal groups to smuggle controlled drugs into the UK.

As part of its safeguarding work, Border Force works with a range of partners, including the travel industry and media organisations, to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation. Border Force has not engaged directly with social media companies as part of this activity.

The activity was intended to raise awareness of the risks associated with organised criminal groups exploiting individuals to act as drug couriers. Border Force considers a range of information when reviewing such activity, including operational intelligence, detection trends, media reach and feedback from frontline officers and partners.

The Home Office and operational partners work closely with international partners to prevent illegal drug trafficking and disrupt the organised crime groups enabling it. There is frequent and ongoing engagement with the Government of Thailand on countering drug trafficking from Thailand, including by senior Home Office, FCDO, National Crime Agency and Border Force officials. In July 2026, Thai authorities introduced a scheme to fine drug couriers who are caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand to any other country. So far, almost 100 couriers have been caught, over 60 of whom were heading for the UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of UK asylum processing backlogs on Scottish local authority public services.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

We have restored order to what was a huge backlog of cases, with a streamlined and stable caseload that can be processed quickly and efficiently, ensuring people spend less time awaiting an initial asylum decision.

At the end of June 2026 there were 40,168 people (relating to 32,401 cases) awaiting an initial decision, 56% less than at the end of June 2025 and the lowest level since June 2019.

The Home Office recognises the importance of a smooth transition for individuals leaving asylum accommodation following a positive asylum decision. We have deployed Asylum Move On Liaison Officers (AMLOs) across the UK, including in Glasgow and Aberdeenshire. AMLOs work with newly granted refugees, local authorities and partner organisations to support successful move on from asylum accommodation.

The Home Office continues to engage regularly with local authorities, Strategic Migration Partnerships and other stakeholders to understand local pressures and address issues raised by local partners.

To support local planning and preparedness, the Home Office shares the Discontinuation Prediction Tool (DPT) on a weekly basis. This provides a forward look of cases expected to enter the discontinuation process and the potential number of individuals who may seek support from local authorities following a positive asylum decision.

Following notification from the Home Office that a decision has been served, accommodation providers notify local authorities within two working days. The Home Office continues to work with accommodation providers to support consistent and timely notifications across all areas.

The steps we have already taken to streamline the asylum process and increase our efficiency are paying off and is an important achievement in building an asylum system that is efficient, sustainable and flexible.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Returns from the UK between 1 December 2022 and 31 January 2026, updated on 24 July 2026, what was the breakdown by number of returnees of the 70 charter flights for returns between 1 Feb 2025 and 31 January 2026.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the maximum temperatures recorded in the animal accommodation at MBR Acres in each week of June and July 2026.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Regulator for animals in science holds some temperature monitoring data for MBR Acres for the June and July 2026 period, although this information is not collected and held on a routine basis.

Under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA), licensed establishments are responsible for ensuring the welfare of animals in their care at all times, including during periods of extreme temperature. All such establishments must comply with ASPA, the Code of Practice for the Housing and Care of Animals Bred, Supplied or Used for Scientific Purposes, and relevant licence conditions. This includes requirements for daily checks of animal welfare and environmental conditions, and for breaches or potential breaches of licence conditions to be reported to the Regulator.

The Regulator monitors establishments’ compliance with these standards through a risk-based programme of announced and unannounced audits, as well as well as broader compliance and enforcement activity, and engagement with establishments.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many licences to cultivate cannabis have been issued under regulation 12 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 in each year since 2018; and what fees are payable for such a licence.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

Licences to cultivate 'High THC' (tetra hydrocannabinol, the primary psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant) are issued by the Home Office under Regulations 5 and 12 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. These licences are issued for a period of one year to a specific entity operating at a site.

The numbers of High THC Cultivation Licences issued each year between 2018 and 2026 (to 31 August) were as follows:

NB These figures do not include low THC 'industrial hemp' licences which are considered under a separate light touch licensing regime, also managed by the Home Office.

The fees payable for such licences are between £326 and £1,371 for repeat cultivators, depending on whether a site-based compliance visit is needed, and £4,700 for a first-time licensee.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of housing and welfare conditions for dogs kept at MBR Acres, including the effectiveness of heat mitigation measures during periods of high temperature; and how many inspections of the establishment have been undertaken by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit in the last three years.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 sets a rigorous and robust framework for protecting the welfare of animals used in science, including dogs. The framework establishes minimum standards for the care and accommodation of animals, including environmental conditions and arrangements to safeguard animal welfare. The delivery of this framework is the responsibility of the Regulator, who has conducted three audits of MBR Acres in the last three years.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Deposited Paper, DEP2026-0371, committed on 19 May 2026, on Civil Service facility time framework and guidance, whether there will be new or revised guidance to the police on trade union facility time.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

Under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, police staff are entitled to reasonable facility time to carry out certain duties as representatives of recognised trade unions. The Government does not have any plans at present to issue new or revised guidance regarding trade union facility time for police staff.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum plans to respond to the letter of 24 July 2026 from the Rt hon. Member for Braintree.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum responded on 1 September 2026.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with representatives of farming organisations on the potential impact of bringing Section 2 shotgun licensing more closely into line with Section 1 firearms licensing on rural communities.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government will undertake a consultation in due course on strengthening the controls on shotguns to bring them more into line with the controls on other firearms.

We will carefully consider the views put forward during the consultation before taking any decision on whether and what changes may be necessary in the interests of public safety. The Government will provide an assessment of the impact of any changes that we intend to bring forward, including on rural communities and businesses, at the relevant time.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child-sex dolls have been seized via Operation Shiraz in each year since the operation began.

Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Border Force works with law enforcement partners under Operation Shiraz to identify and disrupt the importation of child-like sexual abuse dolls and related items into the United Kingdom. Seizures made under the operation are recorded for operational and intelligence purposes.

The Home Office does not publish official statistics on seizures made under Operation Shiraz and does not hold a verified annual breakdown suitable for publication. Protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation remains a priority for this Government.

Border Force plays an important role in preventing prohibited and harmful items from entering the United Kingdom and works closely with domestic and international partners to detect, seize and investigate suspected criminal activity.

The Government remains committed to strengthening protections against child sexual abuse and exploitation and is supportive of measures being brought forward through the Private Member's Bill process to address these harmful items.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the new community sponsorship scheme will commence before the number of immigrants entering the country illegally has been reduced to zero.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

As set out in the Restoring Order and Control statement, arrivals under the new named sponsorship route will be capped. The number of arrivals will be carefully managed to align with the UK’s capacity to support refugees, and the Home Office will retain overall control on numbers.

Refugee status will be determined in partnership with the UNHCR, and all refugees will be subject to appropriate security, identity, and background checks before arrival in the UK.

Safe and legal routes offer an alternative to dangerous journeys for refugees genuinely fleeing war and persecution. The launch of the named sponsorship route will not depend on illegal entry reaching zero.

The government will set out further details on the schemes, including eligibility requirements, in due course.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria migrants applying under the new community sponsorship scheme will have to meet.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

As set out in the Restoring Order and Control statement, arrivals under the new named sponsorship route will be capped. The number of arrivals will be carefully managed to align with the UK’s capacity to support refugees, and the Home Office will retain overall control on numbers.

Refugee status will be determined in partnership with the UNHCR, and all refugees will be subject to appropriate security, identity, and background checks before arrival in the UK.

Safe and legal routes offer an alternative to dangerous journeys for refugees genuinely fleeing war and persecution. The launch of the named sponsorship route will not depend on illegal entry reaching zero.

The government will set out further details on the schemes, including eligibility requirements, in due course.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce (a) temporary visa extensions and (b) other immigration flexibility for Iranian nationals and dual nationals whose permission to stay in the UK is due to expire and who are unable to return to Iran.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office continues to monitor the situation in Iran and its impacts. We recognise the disruption to travel routes through the Middle East and the impact on people whose onward travel has been delayed.

The UK has not introduced a bespoke visa route for this situation and no specific temporary visa extensions or other special provisions for Iranian nationals or dual nationals affected by the situation in Iran have been implemented.

Existing visa routes remain available and applications must meet the requirements of those routes.

Regardless of age, those already living in the UK who have permission to stay should continue to follow their immigration conditions.

For those whose permission to stay is due to expire, there are a variety of existing routes under the Immigration Rules to allow a person to extend or vary their permission in the UK.

Guidance on varying permission to stay can be found on the GOV.UK website: Vary your immigration application - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab).

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration her Department has given to the needs of elderly Iranian nationals and dual nationals visiting the UK unable to return to Iran.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office continues to monitor the situation in Iran and its impacts. We recognise the disruption to travel routes through the Middle East and the impact on people whose onward travel has been delayed.

The UK has not introduced a bespoke visa route for this situation and no specific temporary visa extensions or other special provisions for Iranian nationals or dual nationals affected by the situation in Iran have been implemented.

Existing visa routes remain available and applications must meet the requirements of those routes.

Regardless of age, those already living in the UK who have permission to stay should continue to follow their immigration conditions.

For those whose permission to stay is due to expire, there are a variety of existing routes under the Immigration Rules to allow a person to extend or vary their permission in the UK.

Guidance on varying permission to stay can be found on the GOV.UK website: Vary your immigration application - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab).

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether processes are in place to manually decouple British citizens' biometric profiles from persons of interest once a false-positive match can be established at e-gates.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The eGates check biometric details of passengers against their passports, whilst a separate biographic check is made against watchlists of persons of interest.

Where a watchlist match is subsequently assessed as a false positive, capability to further distinguish between subjects of interest and false positive matches is restricted to a limited number of watchlist entry types. The Home Office continues to invest in improvements to identity matching and identification processes to reduce false positive matches.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a cap on the number of people who can apply under the new community sponsorship scheme announced in June 2026.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

As set out in the Restoring Order and Control statement, arrivals under the new named sponsorship route will be capped. The number of arrivals will be carefully managed to align with the UK’s capacity to support refugees, and the Home Office will retain overall control on numbers.

Refugee status will be determined in partnership with the UNHCR, and all refugees will be subject to appropriate security, identity, and background checks before arrival in the UK.

Safe and legal routes offer an alternative to dangerous journeys for refugees genuinely fleeing war and persecution. The launch of the named sponsorship route will not depend on illegal entry reaching zero.

The government will set out further details on the schemes, including eligibility requirements, in due course.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an individual's leave to remain or UK settlement status is subject to review in instances where they have committed UK insolvency offences and is acting as a director while an undischarged bankrupt.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity. Deportation will be pursued where a foreign criminal is given a prison or suspended sentence of least 12 months, if their offending has caused serious harm or if they are a persistent offender. Section 5(1) of the Immigration Act 1971 provides that any leave, including indefinite leave, is invalidated when a deportation order is made.

Where the threshold for deportation is not met, the Immigration Rules provide that entry clearance or permission may be cancelled where the person has been convicted of a criminal offence in the UK or overseas for which they have received a custodial or suspended sentence of less than 12 months or more or a non-custodial or out-of-court disposal that is recorded on their criminal record.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces in England and Wales currently track suspected domestic abuse-related suicides as a distinct category; and what funding is being allocated to maintain the NPCC Domestic Homicide Project in future financial years.

Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

This Government is committed to tackling the most severe and heartbreaking outcomes of violence against women and girls (VAWG), including suicides that occur following domestic abuse.

The Home Office funds the Domestic Homicide Project to capture information on these deaths from all 43 police forces in England and Wales and identify how the response can be improved.

Across the five-year period from April 2020 to March 2025, 1,452 domestic abuse related deaths were recorded, with 553 (38%) classified as suspected victim suicides following domestic abuse. The latest report can be found online: https://www.vkpp.org.uk/vkpp-work/domestic-homicide-project/

The Domestic Homicide Project now sits within the National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection, which received £13.9 million of Home Office funding in 2026-27, building on £13.1 million in the previous year.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the cost to the public purse of returning an Albanian national who has no legal right to remain in the UK.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Border Force does not hold published data on the specific cost of returning Albanian nationals who have no legal right to remain in the United Kingdom. Return activity can involve a range of operational and administrative processes, the costs of which vary according to the circumstances of individual cases. The Government is committed to ensuring that immigration enforcement and returns activity is delivered efficiently and provides value for money for the taxpayer.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many naturalised citizens who had citizenship removed were left with no citizenship of any country in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The information requested is not held in a reportable format and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what lessons the Government has identified from the recent illegal crossings into Ceuta and Melilla that could be applied to the security of the UK's borders.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Government keeps all migration risks under constant review. While the operation of the Schengen Area is a matter for the EU and Schengen member countries, the Government continues to monitor the situation closely. We note Spain’s cooperation with Morocco to bring the situation swiftly under control; that over 97% of those who crossed into Ceuta have now returned to Morocco; and that permanent border controls remain in place between Ceuta and mainland Spain.

Based on the information currently available, there is no evidence that the events in Ceuta have created a new route to the UK. The Prime Minister has offered support to Prime Minister Sánchez following the incident, and the Government is working closely with Spanish and Moroccan counterparts. The Government keeps all migration risks under constant review and continues to work with international partners to strengthen border security, tackle illegal migration and disrupt organised immigration crime.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has contingency plans for responding to increased illegal migration from southern Europe.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Government keeps all migration risks under constant review. While the operation of the Schengen Area is a matter for the EU and Schengen member countries, the Government continues to monitor the situation closely. We note Spain’s cooperation with Morocco to bring the situation swiftly under control; that over 97% of those who crossed into Ceuta have now returned to Morocco; and that permanent border controls remain in place between Ceuta and mainland Spain.

Based on the information currently available, there is no evidence that the events in Ceuta have created a new route to the UK. The Prime Minister has offered support to Prime Minister Sánchez following the incident, and the Government is working closely with Spanish and Moroccan counterparts. The Government keeps all migration risks under constant review and continues to work with international partners to strengthen border security, tackle illegal migration and disrupt organised immigration crime.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how does procurement within the Home Office’s current funding opportunity, entitled 'Violence against women and girls advocacy support fund', align with the Government's commitment to specialist by-and-for services.

Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

We understand the importance of specialist and ‘by and for’ services in providing the tailored support that victims and survivors of VAWG need to survive and thrive.

As part of the ‘Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-government strategy to build a safer society for women and girls', the Home Office committed to deliver specialist VAWG Helplines across England and Wales alongside 1-1 advocacy support for victims of VAWG who are least likely to be able to access support locally. The competitions to deliver this £24 million investment closed on 31 July 2026. As the competitions are still ongoing, we are unable to comment on the details beyond what has already been published.

The Strategy committed to reforming the commissioning landscape to improve the provision of specialist and ‘by and for’ services for victims. As part of this, we will publish a new cross-government commissioning statement on VAWG. This statement will provide clear definitions of ‘by-and-for’ and specialist services, helping commissioners allocate funding more effectively and clarify the responsibilities and best practice for local commissioners in commissioning ‘by and for’ and specialist services.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether criminal convictions given to Hong Kongers in Hong Kong courts under the National Security Act can result in denied Electronic Travel Authorisation to the UK.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

An application for an ETA must be refused where the applicant has been convicted of a criminal offence in the UK or overseas for which they have received a custodial or suspended sentence of 12 months or more, or has been convicted of a criminal offence in the UK or overseas unless more than 12 months have passed since the date of conviction.

Applicants whose ETA is refused are still free to apply for a visit visa, which will allow for a more thorough consideration of their circumstances by a decision-maker. Refusal of an ETA will not necessarily result in a subsequent visa application being refused; this will depend on individual circumstances and vary on a case-by-case basis.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent Border Force officers were assigned to customs functions at airports in each year from 2020 to 2026.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The security of the UK border is Border Force's number one priority. Border Force operates a flexible resourcing model, regularly assessing deployments against operational requirements and emerging border security threats. Officers are deployed dynamically to ensure that critical customs, immigration and security functions are delivered effectively.

Border Force does not publish information on the number of officers assigned to specific operational functions or locations. Releasing such information could reveal operational practices and capabilities, increasing the risk of those seeking to evade customs controls and potentially undermining border security.

Border Force continues to deliver strong enforcement outcomes against illicit goods and organised crime. In the year ending March 2025, Border Force seized record volumes of drugs, demonstrating the effectiveness of our operational approach and targeted deployment of resources.

We keep our resourcing under constant review and will continue to deploy staff where they are needed most to protect the public and maintain the security of the UK border.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of the implementation of the McCloud remedy on waiting times for the production of Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV) quotations under police pension schemes.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

No such assessment has been made. CETV quotations are produced for scheme members by the relevant scheme administrator. While the Home Office has responsibility for overarching policy and legislative changes to the police pension regulations, the police pension schemes are locally administered by individual police forces.

It is for each Chief Constable, in their role as scheme manager for their force, to determine their administrative timetable. This includes the production of CETV quotations.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the updated business case for the Emergency Services Mobile Communications programme has received final Treasury approval.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The 2025 Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme Business Case has been refreshed to reflect delivery progress and final contract values. A successful HM Treasury Approvals Panel took place on 11 February 2026, and approval from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury was obtained on 1 May 2026, subject to conditions. A summary of the Business Case was published on GOV.UK on 4 August 2026.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list each industrial dispute live within her Department, including the nature of the dispute and level of industrial action.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

There are currently no live industrial disputes within the Home Office.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department’s (a) Permanent Secretary and (b) Ministers have had correspondence with Flint Global since July 2024.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

Information on meetings and correspondence with external organisations is published through the Home Office's quarterly transparency returns for Ministers and senior officials. Details of any engagement by Home Office Ministers with Flint Global since July 2024 can be found in the Department’s published ministerial transparency data, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-ministers-hospitality-data. [gov.uk]

Details of any meetings between the Home Office Permanent Secretary and external organisations are published in the Department’s quarterly senior officials’ transparency returns, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-senior-officials-business-expenses-and-meetings. [gov.uk]

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data will be collected and reported for the use of polyclonal antibodies.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office collects and reports data on procedures for the routine production of blood-based products, which includes the production of polyclonal antibodies. Polyclonal antibody production may also be reported under the purposes of “Basic research” or “Translational/applied research”. Polyclonal antibody production is not currently reported separately in the annual statistics.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2025, published in July 2026, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the 6 per cent increase in regulatory procedures for the routine production of blood-based products compared with 2024; what factors account for the increased use of beagles, rats, sheep, cattle, rhesus monkeys, cynomolgus monkeys and pigs in those procedures; and whether her Department has identified the reasons for those increases.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The number and type of regulated procedures carried out can vary from year to year, reflecting factors such as scientific and public health priorities, scientific innovation, research funding, regulatory requirements, and the availability of suitable non-animal alternatives.

The Government’s Replacing Animals in Science strategy, backed by £75 million in funding, sets out measures to accelerate the development, validation and uptake of non-animal methods, including through increased research investment and the establishment of a UK Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces in England and Wales have issued warrant cards to reflect different genders for police officers who regard themselves as gender-fluid; and how many officers in each force hold warrant cards for more than one gender.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

Decisions on issuing warrant cards are an operational matter for Chief Constables. The Home Office does not collect data on this

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2025, published in July 2026, what analysis she has undertaken of the factors contributing to the increase in regulatory procedures for toxicity and other safety testing, including pharmacology, involving beagles, mice, cynomolgus monkeys, domestic fowl, other birds, goats and pigs; and what steps she is taking to accelerate the replacement of animals in those procedures with human-specific technologies.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The number and type of regulated procedures carried out can vary from year to year, reflecting factors such as scientific and public health priorities, scientific innovation, research funding, regulatory requirements, and the availability of suitable non-animal alternatives.

The requirements for regulatory testing are set by the relevant product regulators, including the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for medicines and the Health and Safety Executive for chemicals.

The Government’s Replacing Animals in Science strategy, backed by £75 million in funding, sets out measures to accelerate the development, validation and uptake of non-animal methods.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many local authority closure orders were issued against high street retailers operating illicit trade in the East Midlands during the 2025-26 financial year.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not hold centrally verified data on the number of closure orders issued against high street retailers operating illicit trade in the East Midlands during the 2025-26 financial year.

Closure orders are local powers under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, and decisions on their use are made by local agencies and the courts according to the circumstances of each case.

As part of our wider work to strengthen the response to anti-social behaviour, the Crime and Policing Act introduces a mandatory anti-social behaviour data reporting duty. This will support more consistent national data collection on the use of anti-social behaviour powers and improve transparency and accountability across local agencies.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4161, on Government departments: marketing, how much has been spent on branded goods and merchandise by the Department's Arm’s Length Bodies since the Government Chief Commercial Officer letter was sent; on what items, and at what cost.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The information sought would only be available at disproportionate costs.

The Home Office have implemented the policy but do not collate this data centrally.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide an update on her Department’s work to ensure all relevant governance structures are appropriately established when the post of Police and Crime Commissioner is abolished in 2028.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office is working with policing and local government through a range of transition working groups to design and implement future governance arrangements to replace Police and Crime Commissioners from May 2028. We remain committed to developing a system of police governance that maintains consistently high standards of democratic oversight, which is joined up with other local services and that the public can trust.

We will legislate for these changes as part of the second session Police Reform Bill, which we will bring forward in due course.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2026, to Question 6867, on Religious Buildings: Registration, if she will break down the 29,340 certified places by denomination across each local authority area.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The information held by the Registrar General for England and Wales and published on the government website includes the denomination and registration district of each religious building:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/places-of-worship-registered-for-marriage

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Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government which Arms Length Bodies have been shut down as a result of the ALB Review launched in April 2025.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The Arm’s Length Bodies (ALB) review, launched in April 2025, is an ongoing, multi-phase programme designed to ensure public bodies provide value for money, eliminate duplication, and remain directly accountable to Ministers and Parliament.

Since the announcement of the review on 7 April 2025, the following bodies have been abolished or merged, with their essential functions either absorbed into other ALBs, repatriated to parent departments, or ceased where no longer required:

• Valuation Office Agency (HM Revenue and Customs) – Dissolved as a standalone executive agency in April 2025 (functions integrated into HMRC)

• Infrastructure and Projects Authority (Cabinet Office/HM Treasury) – Closed and replaced by the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, also incorporating the functions of the National Infrastructure Commission, in April 2025

• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Department for Education) – Closed June 2025

• Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Cabinet Office) – Closed October 2025

• Committee on Standards in Public Life (Cabinet Office) – Merged into the Ethics and Integrity Commission in October 2025

• Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons (Ministry of Defence) – Closed November 2025

• Building Digital UK (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) – Repatriated into the former DSIT in November 2025

• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) – Reclassified as an expert committee in November 2025

• Committee on Fuel Poverty (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) – Reclassified as an expert committee in November 2025.

• Independent Medical Expert Group (Ministry of Defence) – Reclassified as Expert Committee in December 2025

• LocatED (Department for Education) – Repatriated into DfE in April 2026

• UK Space Agency (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) – Repatriated to the former DSIT in April 2026

• Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (Home Office) – Abolished, functions transferred to the Fair Work Agency in April 2026

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to support the Crown Prosecution Service in pursuing motor vehicle theft cases.

Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Government has demonstrated its commitment to tackling retail crime and vehicle theft through the Crime and Policing Act 2026. Once commenced, the Act removes the £200 low-value threshold for shoplifting, meaning the maximum sentence for shop theft is seven years, regardless of the value of the stolen items. It also introduces two new offences covering the possession, importation, making, adapting, or supply of electronic devices, such as signal jammers, for use in vehicle theft or theft from a vehicle. The maximum penalty is five years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both.

The Crown Prosecution Service continues to work closely with policing partners and the Home Office to support the effective prosecution of retail crime and the management of prolific offenders. This includes joint work to improve the use and effectiveness of Criminal Behaviour Orders to tackle serious and persistent anti-social behaviour.

The Crown Prosecution Service makes prosecution decisions independently, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and the facts of each case.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to support the Crown Prosecution Service in pursuing shop-lifting cases.

Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Government has demonstrated its commitment to tackling retail crime and vehicle theft through the Crime and Policing Act 2026. Once commenced, the Act removes the £200 low-value threshold for shoplifting, meaning the maximum sentence for shop theft is seven years, regardless of the value of the stolen items. It also introduces two new offences covering the possession, importation, making, adapting, or supply of electronic devices, such as signal jammers, for use in vehicle theft or theft from a vehicle. The maximum penalty is five years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both.

The Crown Prosecution Service continues to work closely with policing partners and the Home Office to support the effective prosecution of retail crime and the management of prolific offenders. This includes joint work to improve the use and effectiveness of Criminal Behaviour Orders to tackle serious and persistent anti-social behaviour.

The Crown Prosecution Service makes prosecution decisions independently, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and the facts of each case.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether (1) high security hospitals or high security units within hospitals, (2) Immigration Removal Centres, and (3) Young Offender institutions and detention centres, are regulated by the Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate; and whether they are covered by Crown immunity regarding fire risk.

Answered by Baroness Blake of Leeds - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

High security hospitals (or high security units within hospitals) are not regulated by the Crown Premises’ Fire Safety Inspectorate (CPFSI). These are inspected by local Fire and Rescue Services.

Immigration Removal Centres are managed by private sector operators and are regulated by the Crown Premises’ Fire Safety Inspectorate (CPFSI). Crown immunity does not apply to the elements of IRCs that are managed by private operators. Where elements remain within the control of the Home Office, Crown immunity applies to these areas only. Short term holding facilities and processing centres operated by the Home Office are regulated by the Crown Premises’ Fire Safety Inspectorate (CPFSI) and Crown immunity does apply.

Young Offender Institutions and Detention Centres form part of His Majesties Prison and Probation Service and are regulated by the Crown Premises’ Fire Safety Inspectorate (CPFSI) and Crown immunity does apply. There are no private operators of Young Offender Institutions and Detention Centres. Secure training schools are privately operated and these are inspected by local Fire and Rescue Services.

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what records his Department holds on incidents of damage to Ministry of Defence sites used for asylum accommodation since 2022; and what the estimated cost of rectifying that damage has been.

Answered by Calvin Bailey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)

Any Defence sites currently or previously used for asylum accommodation are managed by the Home Office. Records and costs of damages to those sites are held by the Home Office and under the terms of the occupation agreement the Home Office is responsible for any costs arising from use of any MOD sites for asylum accommodation.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of the Immigration and Asylum Bill on the social care sector.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department of Health and Social Care works closely with the Home Office on immigration issues affecting the adult social care sector, including the workforce. On 29 July, the Prime Minister set out his objectives for reforming social care and brought forward the timetable for Baroness Casey’s commission. The objectives are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-sets-out-new-path-to-fix-social-care-together-29-july-2026

The commission will review all aspects of the current system, including staffing in the social care sector, and the Government will continue to update Parliament as this work progresses.

Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department are taking to help ensure members of the LGBTQ community in Heywood and Middleton North constituency feel represented.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

It is crucial that LGBT+ people in all areas of Britain are safe, included and protected from discrimination. To achieve this we must end the recent politics of division. Work is continuing to progress the commitments set out in the Government’s manifesto, advancing the rights and protections afforded to LGBT+ people.

These include:

• delivering a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices, and having published our draft Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. The Government will ensure its approach provides protection from these abusive practices while preserving the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity, and also respecting the important roles of those supporting them.
• Continuing to work with the Home Office to deliver our commitment to equalise all existing strands of hate crime to make them aggravated offences.
• working with the Department of Health and Social Care to improve services for LGBT+ people. This includes implementing the recommendations of the Cass Review and reviewing adult gender identity services to ensure that all trans people receive appropriate and high-quality care.
• continuing our work with our international and European allies to advance LGBT+ rights and reinforce our position as a global leader on Human Rights once again.

We work alongside a range of stakeholders, including those based in the North West such as the LGBT Foundation and the Proud Trust. It is very important to this Government that local voices are heard and included in national policy development.

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Found: Memorandum from the Home Office to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee

Found: 140 115 0 0 0 69 1 26 11 7 0 1 65 3 16 23 12 7 3 1 21 0 0 0 7 0 4 4 3 0 2 32 0 0 3 4 5 0 20 2025 Home Office

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Found: Commonwealth and Development Office [note 11] 1847 1694 0 153 30 HM Treasury 1939 1903 0 36 19 Home Office

Found: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office [note 4] 498 338 0 160 14 HM Treasury 323 310 0 13 0 Home Office

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Found: This page does not relate to the community sponsorship route announced by the Home Office in June 2026

Found: Further information about eligibility and entitlements can be found in Home Office guidance: Applying

Found: The Home Office publishes information on how to apply for a criminal record check for someone from overseas

Found: This is a decision for the Home Office. Application process 1.

Found: The Home Office will run the security checks as part of the sponsorship scheme approval process.

Found: Further information about eligibility and entitlements can be found in Home Office guidance: Applying

Found: Security and criminal record checks The Home Office will make security and criminal record checks on

Found: Spirit Care Group Limited Worksop S80 2PU Care, childcare or social care Committed Central Midlands Home & Office

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Found: CJS result codes v.10 (ODS, 63.6 KB) CJS result codes v.10 (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 96.5 KB) Home Office

Found: Understanding between the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Poland and the Ministry of Justice and Home Office

Found: AP147 - Secretariat to progress DEA/F/40 (HMRC & Home Office) Ministerial Submission upon receiving revised

Found: victims and suspects of homicide: report produced by BOLD Substance Misuse England Pilot (DHSC), Home Office

Found: out later in this document. 3.7 Where the offender is a Foreign National Offender (FNO) with Home Office

Found: and Technology (DSIT), now the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (DBIST) • Home Office

Found: 20 July 2026) Major The Rt Hon Dan Jarvis MBE MP Minister of State for Security (paid by the Home Office

Found: 20 July 2026) Major The Rt Hon Dan Jarvis MBE MP Minister of State for Security (paid by the Home Office

Found: Previous updates for all Phase 1 recommendations were published by the Home Office.

Found: agency of the Department for Education) and DBS (a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Home Office

Found: prior to April 2018 where data is still held by the requestor as at 30 June 2026) data shares with Home Office

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Found: This clearly demonstrates that the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System (HOLMES) incident room and

Found: more detailed offence groups shown in this table broadly align with the groups presented by the Home Office

Found: expert/medical report 79 4 14 61 0 AP01 Appellant/Sponsor/witness non attendance 73 8 3 61 1 HO03 Home Office

Found: the Immigration Act 2014. 5) The Immigration Act 2014 removed a number of appeal rights against Home Office

Found: Executive • Hillsborough Law Now • HM Prison and Probation Service • Home Affairs Committee • Home Office

Found: bereaved people within the coronial process, Voicing Loss, Policy Brief No2 (viewed April 2026) 8 Home Office

Found: standards • Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) • Food Standards Agency (FSA) • Home Office

Found: • Home Office, Ministry of Justice • Foreign Office • Department for Work & Pensions • National Cyber

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Found: This page does not relate to the community sponsorship route announced by the Home Office in June 2026

Found: The Home Office publishes information on how to apply for a criminal record check for someone from overseas

Found: The Home Office will run the security checks as part of the sponsorship scheme approval process.

Found: Security and criminal record checks The Home Office will make security and criminal record checks on

Found: Page 1 of 91 Published for Home Office staff on 11 September

Found: Page 1 of 28 Published for Home Office staff on 11 September 2026 Operational

Found: log into SMS, change your password, manage SMS users and view important messages posted by the Home Office

Found: the first time, change your password, manage SMS users and view important messages posted by the Home Office

Found: log into SMS, change your password, manage SMS users and view important messages posted by the Home Office

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Found: If you’re reasonably satisfied that the worker has an outstanding application with the Home Office that

Found: Page 1 of 26 Published for Home Office staff on 9 September 2026

Found: out later in this document. 3.7 Where the offender is a Foreign National Offender (FNO) with Home Office

Found: are a colony of animals kept for the specific purpose of blood donation then an application for a Home Office

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: means that total arrivals over long time periods should be similar between the two sources, but Home Office

Found: Related content Home Office press statement on small boat crossings For press enquiries, please contact

Found: The Home Office and the policing system worked together to develop the white paper.

Found: The Home Office and the policing system worked together to develop the white paper.

Found: provides services across a wide range of legal matters for all UK Government departments including: Home Office

Found: We continue to work closely with our landlords and Home Office Property Services (HOPS) to ensure our

Found: and experience to seek to influence and inform policy discussions, including close work with the Home Office

Found: and experience to seek to influence and inform policy discussions, including close work with the Home Office

Found: In Alexander v Home Office [1988] ICR 685 Lord Justice May stated: As with any other awards of damages

Found: It submitted that, as established in Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency); Naeem v Secretary of State

Found: The Future Borders and Immigration System (FBIS) programme is a major Home Office initiative to modernise

Found: The Home Office has published guidance which provides more detail about how to determine the principal

Found: Ltd. on behalf of the Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery OfficeOur purpose By working with Home Office

Found: Ltd. on behalf of the Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office.Our purpose By working with Home Office

Found: Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation in Digital Health & Healthcare AI Director No Yes Home Office

Found: Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation in Digital Health & Healthcare AI Director No Yes Home Office

Found: the Chief Dental Officer England has worked with the Department of Health and Social Care, the Home Office

Found: been included in the public sector series from Q2 2004.4, 6Q1 2005Other Civil Service includes Home Office

Found: Fish tagging and translocation were carried out in compliance with UK Home Office regulations and were

Found: The Scottish Government is a member of the Modern Slavery Engagement Forum, hosted by the Home Office

Found: During this part of the process, it is normal for the UK Home Office to contact the Scottish Government

Found: Asylum accommodation is provided by the UK Government, through the Home Office under the Immigration

Found: data held on the number of asylum seekers and/or refugees supported in Wales (whether through Home Office

Found: Immigration policy is not devolved, and therefore the UK Home Office is responsible for the delivery