Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they have taken to establish the statutory inquiry into the Manston migrant processing centre.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
Following a decision to launch a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, the Home Office is taking steps to establish the Inquiry. In accordance with the Inquiries Act 2005, the Department will make a formal statement to Parliament, which will include details of the Chair and Terms of Reference, in due course.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many additional police officers were recruited in the financial years (1) 2020–21, and (2) 2021–22.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
As part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers in England and Wales, also broken down by Police Force Area. Data are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Table U2 accompanying this quarterly publication shows that as at the financial year ending 31 March 2021, police forces in England and Wales had recruited 8,762 additional police officers attributable to the Police Uplift Programme. A further 494 additional officers had been recruited and funded through other means, such as the Council Tax precept (Table U3).
As at 31 December 2021, forces have recruited 11,048 of the 20,000 additional police officers. This is against a target of recruiting 12,000 additional police officers by March 2022. Data on uplift progress as at the financial year ending 31 March 2022 will be published on GOV.UK on Wednesday 27 April.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many equality impact assessments undertaken in the Home Office since January 2019 identified the possibility of indirect discrimination on the basis of any of the protected characteristics defined by law; and in relation to any such assessments, on how many occasions they (1) altered the policy proposal, (2) decided not to proceed with the policy proposal, or (3) continued the policy proposal without amendment.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that all overseas student visa applications are processed in time to enable these students to register to study at UK universities in the 2020–21 academic year.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
UKVI have ensured that sufficient casework capacity is in place and are engaging with the Education Sector, to plan to meet the demands of the student market for Autumn enrolments. UKVI are also working with their Commercial Partners to enable this within the confines of international restrictions in place because of COVID-19.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to protect people who have been taken into police custody and have (1) mental health conditions, and (2) learning disabilities, from COVID-19.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
The Home Office continues to have regular contact with the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and other key stakeholders regarding custody related matters. The NPCC have circulated guidance for all police forces in order for them to safely manage their custody suites with respect to all detainees, staff and visitors.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether EU citizens who have already paid the £65 fee to apply for settled status will receive a full refund.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
As the Prime Minister announced on 21 January, there will be no fee for applications under the EU Settlement Scheme when we roll out the scheme in full by 30 March. Anyone who has applied during the pilot phase, or who does so, will have their fee reimbursed. The Home Office will set out further details in due course.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many European arrest warrants the UK has issued in each of the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
However, statistics on the European Arrest Warrant are published by the National Crime Agency each year. These figures include a breakdown of the numbers of requests made by the UK.
These figures are published at:
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/european-arrest-warrant-statistics
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications for children to register their entitlement to British citizenship there have been in each of the last three years; and of those, how many have received a waiver of the fee.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
The available published information on the total number of citizenship applications and grants is published as part of the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Citizenship tables, latest edition available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship
The table below provides figures for all registration applications (entitlement and discretionary) in the last 3 calendar years.
British citizenship applications by broad type | ||
Year | Applications for British | Of which: Applications for registration |
2015 | 150,767 | 42,968 |
2016 | 130,995 | 41,158 |
2017 | 141,794 | 41,905 |
Source: Home Office, Migration Border Analysis. | ||
Immigration Statistics year to June 2018 - table cz_01_q. | ||
Applications for British citizenship by the applicant’s age are not routinely published.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) police officers, and (2) police community support officers, were employed in Greater Manchester in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers, and Police Community Support officers (PCSOs) employed by each Police Force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical publication.
Data on the number of police officers, police staff and PCSOs in Greater Manchester, as at 31 March each year and going back to March 2007, can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what investment the Border Force has carried out at airports over the last five years, specifically at (1) Heathrow, (2) Gatwick, (3) Stansted, (4) Luton, and (5) Manchester.
Answered by Lord Taylor of Holbeach
In answer to the question on what investment the Border Force has carried out over the last 5 years at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Manchester, the information for investment specific to these airports is as follows:
Airport | Capital Investment in the last 5 years £m |
Heathrow | 8.2 |
Gatwick | 1.9 |
Stansted | 1.0 |
Luton | 0.2 |
Manchester | 0.6 |
Other (see note below) | 276.9 |
Total | 288.8 |
Note – For ‘other’ expenditure it is not possible to separate explicitly to individual ports across Border Force. This is capital investment not specifically being attributed to the 5 ports specified and covers the whole of Border Force including those 5 Ports.
Source: Internal Resource Planning Model