Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to repeal the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 and, if so, when.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary set out the government’s position in respect of the Illegal Migration Act in her statement to the house on 22nd July 2024. Any legislative plans flowing from the statement will be set out in the normal way in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the the rules which prevent peaceful protest at the Drax power station.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The management of protests are matters for the police, who are operationally independent from Government. The Home Office cannot direct the operational activities of the police.
Asked by: Alex Baker (Labour - Aldershot)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of reported incidents of anti-social behaviour in (a) Aldershot constituency and (b) Hampshire.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
Tackling anti-social behaviour is a top priority for this Government, and a key part of our Safer Streets Mission. We understand that anti-social behaviour causes great harm and misery to our communities, and, if left unchecked, can lead to more serious offending.
We will crack down on the adults making neighbourhoods feel unsafe and unwelcoming by introducing new powers, such as Respect Orders with tough sanctions and penalties, to tackle repeat offending.
The Office for National Statistics annually publishes anti-social behaviour incidents reported to the police by Police Force Area. The latest available data covering year to March 2024 can be found here: Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk). Data is also published at the Community Safety Partnership level. The latest available data covering year to March 2024 can be found here: Recorded crime data by Community Safety Partnership area - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
Monthly Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) police recorded incidents of anti-social behaviour are available through police.uk. The latest data covering incidents to end of July 2024 can be found here: Data downloads | data.police.uk
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the findings of the Decapods: Call for Evidence, published on 5 July 2023; and what recent estimate she has made of when the Animals in Science Committee will report on options for the future regulation of the use of decapod crustaceans in research.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
Following earlier research and reports on this issue, the next step is for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to decide whether to regulate Decapods under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Any decision of publication of earlier research or the commissioning of further advice will follow in due course.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Prime Minister plans to appoint an anti-corruption champion.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
I refer the Rt.Hon Member to my previous response, reference UIN 3572, answered on the 4th September 2024.
Asked by: Alex Baker (Labour - Aldershot)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports of, (b) charges for and (c) convictions for shoplifting there were in (i) Aldershot constituency and (ii) Hampshire in each of the last three years for which data is available.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of shoplifting offences, and their investigative outcomes, recorded by the police in England and Wales. This information is published at the Police Force Area level including Hampshire.
The latest information, for the year ending March 2024, is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
Statistics on convictions at court are published by the MoJ and can be accessed via their outcomes by offence data tool, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2023
Data are not available at the Parliamentary Constituency level.
Asked by: Tom Hayes (Labour - Bournemouth East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that her Department collects (a) comprehensive, (b) comparable and (c) disaggregated data on (i) violence against women and girls, (ii) the protected characteristics of (A) victims and (B) perpetrators and (iii) their relationship.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes a wide range of statistics collected across government on offences disproportionately experienced by women and girls. This includes data on the demographic characteristics of victims and their relationships with perpetrators.
The department is working with ONS and other government departments to improve and expand data collections in this area to provide a stronger evidence base to inform the Government’s commitment to halve violence against women and girls.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle online grooming of children.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
We are committed to working across government to take robust action to better safeguard children from all forms of child sexual abuse, including online grooming, and to ensure victims and survivors receive appropriate care and support while perpetrators face the full force of the law.
The Home Office funds a network of Undercover Online Officers (UCOLs) in Regional Organised Crime Units who deploy online to identify and pursue offenders seeking to groom or otherwise sexually abuse children.
Through the Online Safety Act, for the first time, tech companies will be held accountable to an independent regulator to keep their users safe. All in scope companies will need to take action to prevent the use of their services for criminal activity. Child sexual exploitation and abuse is categorised as priority illegal content, which includes grooming. In addition, officials engage directly with a range of tech companies to ensure they are taking a safety-by-design approach and are tackling the risks of child sexual abuse and exploitation on their platforms including grooming.
Asked by: Jo White (Labour - Bassetlaw)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign nationals who receive a custodial prison sentence are deported on completion of their sentence.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office regularly publishes statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders by nationality and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The published statistics refer to enforced returns which include deportations, as well as cases where a person has breached UK immigration laws, and those removed under other administrative and illegal entry powers that have declined to leave voluntarily.
Figures on deportations, which are a subset of enforced returns, are not separately available.
We are committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will pursue their deportation and they will be swiftly removed from the country.
In order to reduce the FNO prison population and support the MoJ in alleviating current prison capacity issues, we are focussing resources on those cases currently serving custodial sentences and maximising returns directly from prison.
Asked by: Tom Hayes (Labour - Bournemouth East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to remove clauses 22-25 from the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary set out the government’s position in respect of the Illegal Migration Act in her statement to the house on 22nd July 2024. Any legislative plans from the statement will be set out in the normal way in due course.