Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individuals they estimate to be in the United Kingdom illegally.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Any estimate of the exact size of the illegal population is extremely difficult and there would be considerable uncertainty around it.
Exit checks were introduced in April 2015 and are, over time, providing more detailed insights into the behaviour of migrants and how they comply with the restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK, but the data obtained does not provide the total number of illegal migrants in the UK. Instead of producing inaccurate numbers, the Government is focused on making it harder for people to live in the UK illegally.
The International Passenger Survey is the responsibility of the Office for National Statistics and does not provide estimates of the size of the illegal population.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 23 October (HL Deb, cols 769–70), how many individuals are recorded by the Home Office as being in the United Kingdom illegally.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Any estimate of the exact size of the illegal population is extremely difficult and there would be considerable uncertainty around it.
Exit checks were introduced in April 2015 and are, over time, providing more detailed insights into the behaviour of migrants and how they comply with the restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK, but the data obtained does not provide the total number of illegal migrants in the UK. Instead of producing inaccurate numbers, the Government is focused on making it harder for people to live in the UK illegally.
The International Passenger Survey is the responsibility of the Office for National Statistics and does not provide estimates of the size of the illegal population.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 23 October (HL Deb, cols 769–70), how many individuals have been identified as being in the United Kingdom unlawfully only through checks carried out by banks and building societies under the Immigration Act 2016.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Any estimate of the exact size of the illegal population is extremely difficult and there would be considerable uncertainty around it.
The banking measures only apply to disqualified persons - these are illegal migrants who are known to the Home Office and are liable for removal or deportation from the UK. The Home Office shares details of disqualified persons with banks and building societies via a specified anti-fraud organisation, for them to check against their records.
The 2016 Act banking measures came into force on 30 October; however, banks and building societies are required to conduct their first immigration check on all personal current accounts within the first quarter (January – March) of 2018. Banks and building societies must report any matches to the Home Office and only take action on accounts when instructed by the Home Office.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions no ambulance or paramedic attended an incident reported by a 999 call in each month of the last year in (1) Sussex, and (2) London.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
This information is not collected centrally.
Not all 999 calls require a face-to-face response to be dispatched. Such calls may include incidents where the ambulance service receives multiple calls about the same incident, abandoned calls, calls resolved by providing telephone advice, calls to check on estimated time of arrival of an ambulance, calls to say an ambulance is no longer required, calls to update the service on the patient’s condition, hoax calls, and calls from frequent callers where no clinical assessment is required.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 10 October (HL Deb, col 105), what assessment they have made of the impact on the infrastructure and public services of the UK of migrants from outside the UK staying for (1) 12 months or more, and (2) less than 12 months.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Assessments of public service impacts of migration have been considered in previous Home Office publications – ‘Social and Public Service Impacts of International Migration at the Local Level’ published in 2013; and Annex 6 of the Impact Assessment accompanying The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2016 provide examples of how these have previously been considered.
These publications can be found at:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/177/impacts
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with Essex County Council regarding the projected costs and other implications of children re-entering the care system.
Answered by Lord Agnew of Oulton
The government is committed to delivering long-term, sustainable improvements to the children’s social care system. We are working to identify the sorts of interventions that really work to help prevent the need for children to become looked-after or re-enter the care system. This is a key focus for the Partners in Practice Programme, Innovation Programme and What Works Centre.
No representations have been received from county councils and local government organisations regarding increases in children re-entering the care system and no discussions have been had with Essex County Council on projected costs and other implications of children re-entering the care system.
However, we recognise that local councils are delivering children’s services in a challenging environment and need to make tough choices about priorities to achieve efficiencies. The government is supporting local councils to do this in a number of ways. The Department for Education (DfE) has invested £200m since 2014 in our Innovation Programme and Partners in Practice Programme. As part of this, we have committed £20m to provide additional support to local councils where the risk of service failure is highest. We are committed to working with partners to understand how DfE might further support improvement across the system.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have received from county councils and local government organisations regarding increases in children re-entering the county council care systems; and what is the impact of those increases on individual county councils 2017–18 forecast spend.
Answered by Lord Agnew of Oulton
The government is committed to delivering long-term, sustainable improvements to the children’s social care system. We are working to identify the sorts of interventions that really work to help prevent the need for children to become looked-after or re-enter the care system. This is a key focus for the Partners in Practice Programme, Innovation Programme and What Works Centre.
No representations have been received from county councils and local government organisations regarding increases in children re-entering the care system and no discussions have been had with Essex County Council on projected costs and other implications of children re-entering the care system.
However, we recognise that local councils are delivering children’s services in a challenging environment and need to make tough choices about priorities to achieve efficiencies. The government is supporting local councils to do this in a number of ways. The Department for Education (DfE) has invested £200m since 2014 in our Innovation Programme and Partners in Practice Programme. As part of this, we have committed £20m to provide additional support to local councils where the risk of service failure is highest. We are committed to working with partners to understand how DfE might further support improvement across the system.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 25 July 2016 (HL1295) and 1 November (HL2214), whether it is still their intention to publish an evaluation of the scheme, given their earlier stated intention to publish that evaluation in 2016; and if so, when that evaluation will be published.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The scheme is intended to to ensure that refugees who wish to apply for benefits are assisted with their application and receive prompt payment of any benefit for which they qualify. We will make information available about the scheme in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they and their agencies spent on commercial advertising on (1) TV, and (2) radio, in each year since 2009, broken down by region.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The Government only holds this information from 2011. The majority of spend is conducted on a network (national) basis and splitting this spend by region is not possible.
Year | TV | Radio |
2011 | £33,379,859 | £9,186,954 |
2012 | £48,351,924 | £15,243,673 |
2013 | £39,254,363 | £17,577,155 |
2014 | £32,729,643 | £14,308,621 |
2015 | £51,729,850 | £18,884,897 |
2016 | £48,669,686 | £11,927,962 |
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much investment has been made by NHS Property Services in Sussex for primary care infrastructure, in each year since 2013.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The table below sets out the capital expenditure by NHS Property Services (NHSPS) on health centres and primary care facilities owned by NHSPS in Sussex and Essex since the establishment of NHSPS in April 2013. The figures exclude hospital buildings from which primary care services may be provided.
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | TOTAL |
Sussex | 27 | 961 | 146 | 25 | 1,159 |
Essex | 448 | 873 | 427 | - | 1,748 |
Total | 475 | 1,834 | 573 | 25 | 2,907 |
There has been no such investment in Basildon Borough since the inception of NHSPS in 2013.