Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain status revoked by the foreign national offender returns command in each of the last five years.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
Data on numbers of revocations of leave to remain are not currently published.
The Home Office publishes data on returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on quarterly returns of FNOs by return type are published in tables Ret_D03 and Ret_D04 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’. The latest data is for end September 2024. Data to end December 2024 will be released on 27th February. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data on numbers of revocations of leave to remain are not currently published in these statistics, and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Deportations are a specific subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good.
A deportation order requires an individual to leave the United Kingdom. It also prohibits them from re-entering the country for as long as it is in force and invalidates any leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom given to them before the Order is made or while it is in force.
Data on deportations are not currently published by the Home Office.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to implement the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in full.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
On 16 January the Home Secretary set out to Parliament the steps the Government is taking to tackle the terrible crimes of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
This included a commitment to set out a plan, before Easter, for the action the Government will take against the 20 recommendations from the final Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) report.
This followed the Home Secretary's statement to Parliament of 6 January in which she committed to several new measures which respond to IICSA's recommendations, including introducing a mandatory duty for those working with children to report sexual abuse and exploitation, making grooming an aggravating factor to toughen up sentencing, and introducing a new performance framework for policing.
The Home Secretary has written to the National Police Chiefs' Council requesting officers look again at these unsolved and closed grooming gangs cases, backed by £2.5m in funding for stronger investigations The remit of the Independent Child Sexual Abuse Review Panel has also been extended so that it covers not just historic cases before 2013 but all cases since to ensure victims of abuse have the right to an independent review.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain revoked by the special cases unit in each of the last five years.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain revoked by her Department's status review unit in each of the last five years.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (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 a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is her policy to implement in full all of the recommendations of the Bellamy Review of Criminal Legal Aid.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The previous Government commissioned the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review (CLAIR), chaired by Lord Bellamy KC, to provide analysis of the criminal legal aid system and explore the ways in which the Government could ensure its long-term sustainability. This Government continues to keep the Review’s findings under consideration as we look at options for reform in the criminal legal aid sector.
For example, in November 2024, in response to the Crime Lower consultation, we announced fee uplifts totalling £24 million. That included £18.5 million to uplift police station fee schemes to begin the process of removing financial disparities between police station schemes to establish uniformity, meaning most police station fee schemes in the same region attract one fixed fee as recommended by CLAIR.
We also introduced a separate Youth Court fee scheme, responding to CLAIR’s recommendation for the importance of youth work to be reflected. We invested £5.1 million, enhancing fees for the most serious cases. This will help to reduce the disparity between the Youth and Crown Courts by prioritising cases that would be paid at the Crown Court rates if the defendant were an adult.
In December 2024, we announced that criminal legal aid solicitors will receive up to £92 million more a year to help address the ongoing challenges in the criminal justice system. This is in addition to the £24 million and will take the total uplift in funding for criminal legal aid solicitor fees since CLAIR to 24%.
The previous Government established the Criminal Legal Aid Advisory Board (CLAAB) in October 2022. This followed the CLAIR recommendation that an advisory board be created to encourage a more joined-up approach to criminal legal aid within the criminal justice system. CLAAB published its first annual report in November 2024 which the Government is considering and Ministers remain committed to working with the sector, including representatives from the solicitor and barrister professions, on further opportunities for reform.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which teams in her Department can revoke a person's Indefinite Leave to Remain.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
Indefinite Leave to Remain can be revoked by the Home Office’s Status Review Unit (SRU), Special Cases Unit (SCU) and Foreign National Offender Returns Command (FNORC).
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had their Indefinite Leave to Remain status rescinded in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The information requested is not centrally held in an easily accessible from, and could only be collated for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20241 on Electronic Government, what his planned timetable is for onboarding HMRC to One Login.
Answered by Feryal Clark - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
GDS and HMRC continue to collaborate on delivering the technical requirements necessary to go-live and conducting end-to-end testing within GOV.UK One Login as part of its ongoing internal private beta phase to support users accessing HMRC services. The aim is to launch an external private beta in Spring 2025, followed by a rollout to all new users over the remainder of the year, with existing HMRC users included in subsequent phases.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy that the Civil Service Commission should be informed of recent political donations from people appointed to the Civil Service by exception.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Civil Service Commission’s prior approval is required for appointments by exception at SCS PB2 or above. Individual Civil Service departments and organisations have delegated authority to appoint by exception at grades below SCS PB2.
For appointments by exception delegated to departments, the department is responsible for both carrying out background checks on individuals who may be appointed, and addressing any potential propriety matters.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to issue Outcome Delivery Plans.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Government has published its Plan for Change, which sets out clear and ambitious milestones to reach over this Parliament from each of the Government’s national missions. Detail on wider government commitments will continue to be provided by relevant departments.