Home Office

The Home Office does not centrally collect data on the number of police forces using polygraph tests, the frequency of their use, or their application in specific investigation types. Police forces are operationally independent of Government, and it is for chief constables, working with locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners, to determine how best to deploy resources and operational tools.

The Home Office has commissioned research to explore the use of credibility assessment tools within offender management settings. This work identified that credibility assessment tools including polygraphs are being used in some policing and offender management contexts for risk management and intelligence-gathering, rather than evidential purposes. The research identified variation in adoption and use, as well as challenges relating to resources, training, validation and governance.

Through a focused law enforcement working group on Credibility Assessment, stakeholders from policing, the Ministry of Justice and the National Crime Agency have also discussed the need for robust validation, governance and standards surrounding the use of credibility assessment tools to ensure any wider adoption is evidence-led and consistent across organisations, helping to improve understanding of the key considerations associated with their use.

The Home Office does not centrally collect data on the number of police forces using polygraph tests, the frequency of their use, or their application in specific investigation types. Police forces are operationally independent of Government, and it is for chief constables, working with locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners, to determine how best to deploy resources and operational tools.

The Home Office has commissioned research to explore the use of credibility assessment tools within offender management settings. This work identified that credibility assessment tools including polygraphs are being used in some policing and offender management contexts for risk management and intelligence-gathering, rather than evidential purposes. The research identified variation in adoption and use, as well as challenges relating to resources, training, validation and governance.

Through a focused law enforcement working group on Credibility Assessment, stakeholders from policing, the Ministry of Justice and the National Crime Agency have also discussed the need for robust validation, governance and standards surrounding the use of credibility assessment tools to ensure any wider adoption is evidence-led and consistent across organisations, helping to improve understanding of the key considerations associated with their use.

The Home Office does not centrally collect data on the number of police forces using polygraph tests, the frequency of their use, or their application in specific investigation types. Police forces are operationally independent of Government, and it is for chief constables, working with locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners, to determine how best to deploy resources and operational tools.

The Home Office has commissioned research to explore the use of credibility assessment tools within offender management settings. This work identified that credibility assessment tools including polygraphs are being used in some policing and offender management contexts for risk management and intelligence-gathering, rather than evidential purposes. The research identified variation in adoption and use, as well as challenges relating to resources, training, validation and governance.

Through a focused law enforcement working group on Credibility Assessment, stakeholders from policing, the Ministry of Justice and the National Crime Agency have also discussed the need for robust validation, governance and standards surrounding the use of credibility assessment tools to ensure any wider adoption is evidence-led and consistent across organisations, helping to improve understanding of the key considerations associated with their use.

I meet regularly with the Chair of the Inquiry to monitor progress.The final Terms of Reference were published for the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs on 31 March and the Inquiry was formally established on 13 April 2026, under the Inquiries Act 2005. The Inquiry is time-limited for 3 years and a budget of £65 million. It has powers to compel witnesses and will run a series of local investigations, examining failings in historic and current practices at both local and national levels.

On 24 June 2026, the Inquiry published its Victims and Survivors Charter, setting out how it will engage with victims and survivors throughout its work, alongside its local area selection criteria, which explain how areas are chosen for investigation. It also confirmed Bradford and Keighley, and London as the first areas for local investigation, alongside Oldham, announced in December 2025. The Inquiry publishes updates on its website: www.grooming-gangs.independent-inquiry.uk.

Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs) can impose positive requirements on perpetrators, where appropriate, to address the underlying causes of abusive behaviour and better protect victims. These requirements may include attendance on behaviour change programmes which are funded locally or by the Home Office, substance misuse or mental health interventions which are funded by DHSC.

DAPOs are currently being piloted in selected areas of England and Wales. There is an ongoing independent evaluation of the pilot, which will aim to assess the process, impact and value for money. This includes consideration of how positive requirements are being used in practice. The independent evaluation is expected to be completed by the end of 2026.

We recognise that provision of perpetrator interventions varies across England and Wales and that access to services is not currently consistent in every area. As set out in the VAWG Strategy, the Government has committed to work to establish a more consistent and comprehensive offer of perpetrator interventions across England and Wales. To support this ambition, the Home Office has launched a £74.5 million Domestic Abuse and Stalking Perpetrator Intervention Fund, providing funding until 31 March 2029.

The UK and EU agreed that we will work towards the establishment of a balanced Youth Experience Scheme.

We have agreed that any scheme will be capped, subject to a visa requirement and time-limited, but the exact parameters are subject to ongoing discussions.

We are working towards concluding negotiations on the Youth Experience Scheme by the time of the next EU-UK summit.

The Home Office publishes the data you have requested in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on sponsored study outcomes are published in table Vis_D02 of the entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed datasets’. The latest data goes up to the year ending March 2026. Please find below a table on sponsored study visas issued and refused for each year between the year ending March 2024, to the year ending March 2026.

Sponsored study (‘Student’ and ‘Child Student’) entry clearance visas issued and refused between the YE March 2024 to the YE March 2026

Notes: The figures include both main applicants and dependant family members.

The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy sets out a ten-year vision to halve VAWG in a decade.

We are ensuring effective delivery of this through a rigorous cross-government governance structure. Ministers from across government departments meet on a bi-monthly basis to review progress, provide updates on delivery of their commitments as outlined in the action plan and unblock barriers to delivery.

We are measuring our progress through the performance framework, which is outlined in the VAWG Strategy. This includes a package of cross-government metrics that will monitor progress against the overall strategy.

In respect of offenders sentenced to less than four years, the current Article 8 regime allows a deportation decision to be made with consideration to only the impact on the criminal or their family. Clause 20 changes this so that account must be taken of the wider public interest in deportation. The actual test in relation to unduly harsh will reflect current case law requiring the need to demonstrate a significant interference with family life.

However, the new s117C framework will thereafter allow a person’s criminal and immigration history to be considered before a person’s deportation can be deemed disproportionate.

This government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse. The new mandatory reporting duty we are working to implement will be a vital step in safeguarding children more effectively across a range of institutions and settings.

The duty will apply to those working or volunteering with children in faith settings, and there will be no exceptions based on religious practices.

Ministers and officials from the Home Office have had discussions on mandatory reporting with representatives of various Church denominations over recent months as this new duty progressed through the Crime and Policing Act. We will continue to engage across government and with stakeholders to help manage the implementation of the new duty to ensure readiness and compliance for when the duty comes into effect in 2027.

This Government is deeply concerned by the devastating impact online fraud can have on victims, both financially and emotionally, including that which is artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled.

That is why, under the Online Safety Act (OSA), the Government has taken action to ensure online platforms and services are required to implement robust preventative measures to stop fraudulent content from reaching potential victims. AI content is treated no differently to other types of content under the OSA – if it is fraudulent in nature, platforms are required to prevent it from reaching users and take swift action if it does appear.

From mid-2027 the largest in-scope companies will also be required to take greater steps to prevent fraudulent adverts from appearing, including those that are AI-enabled.

Access to data in the Police National Computer is restricted to cleared authorised users in the Police Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies and authorisation of its use and data contained is managed via the Police; therefore, the Home Office does not hold this information, as data added loaded is the responsibilities of the Data Controllers.

The Government is committed to strong enforcement of animal welfare legislation and ensuring that those convicted of serious animal welfare offences can be subject to disqualification orders preventing them from owning or keeping animals. Animal welfare and rehoming organisations play an important role in protecting animal welfare and promoting responsible ownership. The Home Office is also working with key partners, including the RSPCA, to strengthen the recording and use of relevant animal abuse information on police systems where appropriate.

In accordance with current legislation, people with a valid pending claim for asylum are permitted to remain in the UK while their claim is being processed, and as they have permission to remain in the UK during that time, they cannot be routinely detained. Detention is primarily used to facilitate removal of those who have no lawful right to remain in the UK, and who refuse to leave voluntarily.

Those in the asylum system who have valid leave may be subject to conditions under section 71 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Asylum Seekers who have no leave to be in the UK, who are not detained, will be placed on immigration bail with strict conditions set under Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016.

The conditions imposed are considered on a case-by-case basis and can include requirements on where a person must live, as well as obligations to maintain regular contact with the Home Office. This may include reporting in person, by telephone or digitally, and notifying the Home Office of any changes to contact details. Failure to comply with these conditions may result in further immigration enforcement action including immigration detention.

The Minister for Border Security and Asylum wrote to the Rt. Hon. gentleman on 13 and 23 July.

The 30-month review period for those granted protection reflects the Government’s view that protection should be provided for as long as it is needed. As conditions in countries of origin can change over time, it is appropriate to review whether an individual continues to require international protection before further permission is granted.

Individuals with an ongoing protection need will have their status renewed, while those who no longer require protection will be expected to leave the UK unless they qualify for leave on another basis. Safe return reviews have long been a feature of the UK's protection system. Protection needs can change over time, and it is therefore right that an individual's circumstances are reviewed before further leave or settlement is granted. The Government remains committed to providing protection to those who need it, in line with the UK's international obligations.

Settlement for those granted protection has never been automatic. Individuals have always needed to meet the requirements in place at the point they become eligible to apply, including demonstrating that they continue to require protection where relevant. The principle that protection should be provided for as long as it is needed, and reviewed where circumstances change, is a longstanding feature of the UK's protection system.

In addition, in future those on core protection will be able to switch to the protection work and study route, which will provide greater certainty about their future in the UK. This will also allow them to earn down the time it takes to obtain settlement and open up refugee family reunion rights. Individuals who switch to this route will no longer be subject to safe return reviews, recognising their contribution through work or study.

We recognise that achieving a sustainable improvement in quality requires a cultural shift towards a shared, collective responsibility across all those working within the asylum system. We have introduced a refreshed governance structure and have appointed an SCS Quality lead for asylum, supported by thematic leads to bridge operational and assurance functions.

Alongside this, a refreshed quality framework has been introduced, with technical staff being upskilled on the tools. Improved collaborative working with appeals colleagues will provide feedback for decision making staff and provide data to drive quality improvements.

There are a number of initiatives and working groups for colleagues to be involved in which will ensure that staff at all levels are engaged, supported, and empowered to contribute to consistently higher quality decision making.

In 2024, eight project licence applications and, in 2025, six project licence applications were withdrawn by the applicant. The Regulator does not hold information on the reasons why those applications were withdrawn so cannot comment on whether they were withdrawn in response to regulatory feedback.

Amendments to project licence applications are a routine part of the assessment process, are based on discussions between the Regulator and the applicant and could be about any aspect of the licence. There is no limit to the number of revisions and resubmissions that can be made.

All applications are subject to multiple stages of review prior to submission to the Home Office, including the scrutiny by an establishment’s Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body and sign off by the establishment licence holder. A licence may only be granted where the application satisfies all relevant requirements of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

When asylum and human rights applications are decided, it is necessary to consider the health of applicants, both physical and mental.

Over time, we have seen an expansion in the way human rights arguments are relied upon in some asylum and immigration cases, including those involving mental health issues. This can create barriers to the removal of individuals with no right to remain in the United Kingdom.

Through the Immigration and Asylum Bill, and in line with the Chişinău Political Declaration adopted by the Council of Europe, the Government is ensuring that human rights protections are applied as intended, with appropriate thresholds and proper weight given to the public interest.

Modern slavery is a vicious crime that dehumanises people. Safeguarding victims of modern slavery, and human trafficking is a priority, and this Government is committed to tackling it in all its forms and to giving survivors the support and certainty they need to recover.

Child victims are supported through statutory local authority support, and the Government-funded Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship (ICTG) service, which provides advocacy and specialist support to children referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and the professionals supporting them. In September 2025, the invitation-to-tender for the national contract was launched, which will expand the current service coverage from two-thirds of local authorities to all child victims referred into the NRM in England and Wales.

Adult victims of modern slavery identified through the NRM in England and Wales can access the Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC). The MSVCC provides safe accommodation where necessary, financial support and a support worker to help victims access a range of services, including healthcare and legal advice. The Government will enhance support available to victims through the forthcoming Support for Victims of Modern Slavery contract, which will replace the MSVCC in 2027.

The Government has also taken steps to strengthen safeguarding and support for victims. We have launched an updated NRM referral form to improve the quality of referrals, better reflect victims’ experiences and support more informed and consistent decision-making.

To add, we understand that embedding the voices of people with lived experience in policymaking is imperative to achieving better outcomes. We are strengthening our engagement with existing sector-led Lived Experience Advisory Panels (LEAPs). These panels, coordinated by trusted experts, offer a safe and inclusive environment and provide access to a broad range of survivor perspectives. In March 2026, we held eight survivor engagement workshops to better understand lived experience on the themes of definitions, identification, and decision-making. The evidence we have received is informing the on-going policy development to improve the process of identifying victims of modern slavery, human trafficking, and exploitation.

The Immigration Rules provide for the cancellation of entry clearance, permission to enter and permission to stay on suitability grounds, regardless of the category in which an individual makes an application.

A person’s permission to enter or stay will usually be cancelled if the person’s character, conduct, or associations mean it is undesirable for them to enter or stay in the UK. The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.

The Government looks to FIFA to investigate the issue and take action in accordance with its tournament rules.

An Impact Assessment and an Equality Impact Assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill were published on GOV.UK on 30 June. The Equality Impact Assessment sets out an assessment of how the policies in the Bill may impact children in relation to the protected characteristic of age.

Careful consideration will continue to be given as to how children will be impacted by the measures within the Immigration and Asylum Bill, in line with Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship, and Immigration Act 2009.

The Home Office will assess all applications to ensure that only those who meet the eligibility requirements can access the named sponsorship route. Refugee status will be determined in partnership with the UNHCR, and all applicants will be subject to appropriate security, identity, and background checks before arrival in the UK.

The government’s proposals for settlement reform were set out in the Command Paper ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’ (CP1448) and were the subject of a public consultation between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026. The Command Paper proposed there would no longer be a separate long residence route.

We received over 200,000 responses from the public and organisations and are now considering all responses received.  This will help inform the development of the final earned settlement model.

Once the final model has been decided, the Government will communicate the outcome, including any transitional measures publicly.  This will also include both economic and equality impact assessments.

Although the Government has a policy of not commenting about groups or individuals, there are cases where it is in the public interest to do so. The Government has previously made the decision to not engage with organisations that have taken positions that contradict our fundamental values and have not explicitly retracted these positions.

The Government is committed to engaging with a broad range of leaders and organisations across many different communities and civil society groups. Engagement with communities can strengthen our democracy, our policymaking and our society.

As highlighted in the Government's social cohesion action plan, Protecting What Matters, the Home Office is updating and embedding the 2024 engagement principles to assist public bodies to not confer legitimacy, funding or influence on extremist groups.

Police forces are operationally independent from Government. Chief Constables and their officers are responsible for determining what action is appropriate in individual cases, including when information should be shared with relevant safeguarding partners, local authorities or other agencies.

The statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children sets out clear expectation that safeguarding partners must work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Practitioners should be alert to children showing signs of being drawn into anti-social or criminal behaviour and should consider whether a referral to local authority children's social care, or Youth Offending Team, is required.

The Home Office is returning Cameron Barracks to the Ministry of Defence and the transfer will be completed on or before the agreed hand back date of October 2026.

As responsibility for the site will then rest with the Ministry of Defence, decisions on its future use, including any timetable for reopening and any notifications to Highland Council or other interested parties, will be matters for the Ministry of Defence.

The Government takes road safety seriously and are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs is unacceptable and there are tough penalties and rigorous enforcement in place.

The Government’s Road Safety Strategy, published in January 2026, recognises drug driving as a major road-safety risk and proposes a combination of stronger enforcement, potential licence-suspension powers, improved evidence gathering, and behaviour-change campaigns to reduce it.

The Road Safety Motoring Consultation specifically sought views on new powers to suspend driving licences for those suspected of drink‑ or drug‑driving offences:

i)while forensic analysis is undertaken;

ii) until attendance at court or a guilty plea, or if bailed, pending forensic analysis being undertaken; or

(iii) when there has been a fatality or serious injury, to better protect the public.

The consultation closed in May, the responses are being considered.

The police already have extensive powers. Under section 10 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 they are able to arrest and detain an individual if they have provided a specimen of breath, blood or urine that exceeds the prescribed drink or drug driving limit or the individual’s ability to drive properly is impaired. How the police decide to use these powers is an operational matter for their discretion.

The Government continues to support the police to ensure that they have the tools needed to enforce road traffic legislation. The Home Office does not hold data on the number of convictions for drug-driving offences or driving licences endorsed following a conviction for drug driving.

As the government department responsible for the courts and criminal justice system, the Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on criminal convictions as part of its Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly publication

The Government takes road safety seriously and are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs is unacceptable and there are tough penalties and rigorous enforcement in place.

The Government’s Road Safety Strategy, published in January 2026, recognises drug driving as a major road-safety risk and proposes a combination of stronger enforcement, potential licence-suspension powers, improved evidence gathering, and behaviour-change campaigns to reduce it.

The Road Safety Motoring Consultation specifically sought views on new powers to suspend driving licences for those suspected of drink‑ or drug‑driving offences:

i)while forensic analysis is undertaken;

ii) until attendance at court or a guilty plea, or if bailed, pending forensic analysis being undertaken; or

(iii) when there has been a fatality or serious injury, to better protect the public.

The consultation closed in May, the responses are being considered.

The police already have extensive powers. Under section 10 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 they are able to arrest and detain an individual if they have provided a specimen of breath, blood or urine that exceeds the prescribed drink or drug driving limit or the individual’s ability to drive properly is impaired. How the police decide to use these powers is an operational matter for their discretion.

The Government continues to support the police to ensure that they have the tools needed to enforce road traffic legislation. The Home Office does not hold data on the number of convictions for drug-driving offences or driving licences endorsed following a conviction for drug driving.

As the government department responsible for the courts and criminal justice system, the Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on criminal convictions as part of its Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly publication

The published guidance states that positive and negative factors will need to be balanced against each other to form an overall assessment of whether a foreign national is socially and culturally integrated in the UK.

These factors include the ability to speak English, financial independence, immigration status, and criminal offending. Mere presence in the UK is not an indication of integration. However, under the new section 117C framework, the courts must consider not only the interference with a person’s rights under Article 8 that exist by virtue of meeting the private life criteria (including that the person is socially and culturally integrated in the UK), but also whether that can be justified by the public interest in favour of the person’s deportation.

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is an absolute right and cannot be balanced against the public interest.

Over time, the interpretation of “inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” has been expanded. We have seen that Article 3 can create a barrier to return - including in medical cases, extradition and foreign national offenders excluded from protection.

In line with The Chisinau Political Declaration, adopted by consensus by the Council of Europe, the Government will ensure that Article 3 must remain tightly applied, with a high threshold.

Police and private live facial recognition systems are procured and operated independently of government. However, the government welcomes the guidance provided to private operators by the Information Commissioners Office and support retailers’ use of technology to protect their staff, customers and property.

To this end, through the Retail Crime Forum, we are actively engaged with retailers and law enforcement agencies to strengthen digital evidence-sharing and the responsible use of facial recognition technology, making it easier to identify repeat offenders and build stronger cases against them.

For example, shops and business are encouraged to send images they capture of criminals on their CCTV systems to the police. These can then be searched by police investigators against a police database of images of people who have previously been arrested, using retrospective facial recognition, to try and identify the offender.

We also launched a public consultation last year to support development of a new legal framework for law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology, which will ultimately support responsible increase in its use. The consultation asked questions about whether the framework should extend to private users of facial recognition such as retailers, and the Government are working through the responses and policy implications.

The Home Secretary set out in the Immigration White Paper published on 12 May 2025 that the Home Office will ensure children who have been in the UK for some time, turn 18 and discover they do not have status, are fully supported and able to regularise their status and settle. This also included a clear pathway for those children in care without status.

In light of this commitment, we are considering the specific position of migrant children in care who reach adulthood without having secured immigration status and the support currently available to help them regularise their status. We are considering appropriate safeguards for these children, through our ‘children in care’ policy, recognising that many of these children may have been unaware of their unlawful status.

A range of reforms are underway across the immigration and asylum system, and the development of a pathway to settlement for children in care without status must be considered alongside these changes.

No formal consultation will take place. Instead, we will undertake targeted engagement with external stakeholders to help us to understand the challenges in this area and develop a policy solution which supports children in care without status while upholding the need to have a robust and coherent migration system.

Any changes for this cohort will complement the existing work already undertaken by our Public Protection Specialist Safeguarding Team in relation to nationality issues.

The Home Secretary set out in the Immigration White Paper published on 12 May 2025 that the Home Office will ensure children who have been in the UK for some time, turn 18 and discover they do not have status, are fully supported and able to regularise their status and settle. This also included a clear pathway for those children in care without status.

In light of this commitment, we are considering the specific position of migrant children in care who reach adulthood without having secured immigration status and the support currently available to help them regularise their status. We are considering appropriate safeguards for these children, through our ‘children in care’ policy, recognising that many of these children may have been unaware of their unlawful status.

A range of reforms are underway across the immigration and asylum system, and the development of a pathway to settlement for children in care without status must be considered alongside these changes.

No formal consultation will take place. Instead, we will undertake targeted engagement with external stakeholders to help us to understand the challenges in this area and develop a policy solution which supports children in care without status while upholding the need to have a robust and coherent migration system.

Any changes for this cohort will complement the existing work already undertaken by our Public Protection Specialist Safeguarding Team in relation to nationality issues.

The National Security (State Threats) Act 2026 provides a power for the Home Secretary to designate bodies involved in foreign power threat activity, where it is necessary to protect the safety or interests of the United Kingdom.

The designation power and its associated offences are modelled on terrorism proscription. However, the power to designate is fundamentally different to proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000 in the type of harm it addresses and given the different nature of state bodies and terrorist organisations.

This difference is reflected in the offences available under each regime. There is no membership offence in the new Act, reflecting the need to comply with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961.

The new support offence captures, activity where the person engaging in it does so for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the UK. This reflects the fact that there will be some cases where UK persons need to have legitimate dealings with a state entity. The ‘prohibited purpose’ test protects legitimate conduct without creating loopholes that can be exploited by hostile actors.

In addition, the designated body condition unlocks the offences and powers in the National Security Act 2023, allowing them to be used against designated bodies and those who support them. That means that those carrying out state threat activities such as espionage and sabotage for designated bodies will now feel the full force of the law, including sentences of up to life imprisonment.

The white paper ‘Restoring control over the immigration system’, published on 12 May 2025, stated that consideration would be given to reducing financial barriers to acquiring British citizenship for young adults who have lived in the UK through their childhood. Reflecting this commitment, the fee for an application to register as a British citizen for individuals under the age of 18 was reduced from £1,214 to £1,000 on 8 April 2026.

Fees are kept under review. However, no further announcements have been made at this time.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on arrests for notifiable offences in England and Wales as part of the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical series, available here: Stop and search, arrests, and mental health detentions, March 2025 - GOV.UK

Data are collected by age group, such as 10-17 years old, and more detailed breakdowns are not available. Additionally, data on arrests is collected by offence group only, for example ‘Sexual offences’. Data on arrests for the specific offences requested is not held centrally.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on arrests for notifiable offences in England and Wales as part of the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical series, available here: Stop and search, arrests, and mental health detentions, March 2025 - GOV.UK

Data are collected by age group, such as 10-17 years old, and more detailed breakdowns are not available. Additionally, data on arrests is collected by offence group only, for example ‘Sexual offences’. Data on arrests for the specific offences requested is not held centrally.

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.

Contribution levels will be designed to be fair and proportionate. The payment will take the form of a flat-rate charge, with eligible adults paying off an amount above a set threshold. Payments will be linked to receiving settled status in this country. Those who have received support and been removed from the country will not be able to return until their debt is repaid.

The detailed design of the scheme, including repayment thresholds, exemptions, repayment rates, mechanisms for collection and operational delivery, will be set out in secondary legislation. Draft regulations will be shared during the passage of the Immigration and Asylum Bill through Parliament.

As these elements have not yet been finalised, it would be premature to provide an estimate of the administrative cost of the scheme, future revenue, or a specific repayment amount. An estimate will be calculated once the detailed design of the scheme is finalised.

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.

Contribution levels will be designed to be fair and proportionate. The payment will take the form of a flat-rate charge, with eligible adults paying off an amount above a set threshold. Payments will be linked to receiving settled status in this country. Those who have received support and been removed from the country will not be able to return until their debt is repaid.

The detailed design of the scheme, including repayment thresholds, exemptions, repayment rates, mechanisms for collection and operational delivery, will be set out in secondary legislation. Draft regulations will be shared during the passage of the Immigration and Asylum Bill through Parliament.

As these elements have not yet been finalised, it would be premature to provide an estimate of the administrative cost of the scheme, future revenue, or a specific repayment amount. An estimate will be calculated once the detailed design of the scheme is finalised.

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.

Contribution levels will be designed to be fair and proportionate. The payment will take the form of a flat-rate charge, with eligible adults paying off an amount above a set threshold. Payments will be linked to receiving settled status in this country. Those who have received support and been removed from the country will not be able to return until their debt is repaid.

The detailed design of the scheme, including repayment thresholds, exemptions, repayment rates, mechanisms for collection and operational delivery, will be set out in secondary legislation. Draft regulations will be shared during the passage of the Immigration and Asylum Bill through Parliament.

As these elements have not yet been finalised, it would be premature to provide an estimate of the administrative cost of the scheme, future revenue, or a specific repayment amount. An estimate will be calculated once the detailed design of the scheme is finalised.

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.

Contribution levels will be designed to be fair and proportionate. The payment will take the form of a flat-rate charge, with eligible adults paying off an amount above a set threshold. Payments will be linked to receiving settled status in this country. Those who have received support and been removed from the country will not be able to return until their debt is repaid.

The detailed design of the scheme, including repayment thresholds, exemptions, repayment rates, mechanisms for collection and operational delivery, will be set out in secondary legislation. Draft regulations will be shared during the passage of the Immigration and Asylum Bill through Parliament.

As these elements have not yet been finalised, it would be premature to provide an estimate of the administrative cost of the scheme, future revenue, or a specific repayment amount. An estimate will be calculated once the detailed design of the scheme is finalised.

Deportation decisions are taken on a case-by-case basis, and we cannot know in advance what any decision will be. The Bill makes clear that deporting foreign criminals is in the public interest and will be required unless the individual impact is disproportionate to the public interest.

The current system allows the courts to make a decision in the case of “medium offenders” who have been sentenced to less than four years just on the basis of the impact on the criminal or their family. We are changing this so that the courts must also take account of the wider public interest in deportation and in particular the interest in public safety and the prevention of disorder or crime before making a determination as to whether deportation would be a disproportionate interference with Article 8 rights.

The Home Office is in the early stages of assessing the feasibility of using the MOD Linton-on-Ouse site and no decision has been made on whether it will be used to accommodate asylum seekers. No planning application has been submitted. The submission of any planning application would form part of the process of assessing whether the site is suitable for use. A final decision on whether to proceed would be taken only once all relevant assessments had been completed and any necessary approvals, including planning permissions and other consents, had been secured.

The number and demographic profile of people claiming asylum varies across Europe with some nationalities claiming more in certain countries. This may be linked to factors including language, existing diasporas in these countries, the routes taken to reach them, and the likelihood of being granted refugee permission.

Published data on people claiming asylum in the UK compared to the EU+ is available in ‘How does the UK compare with the EU+?’ of ‘How many people claim asylum in the UK?’.