Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what public appointments have been made by ministers in her Department since she took office.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The complete list of Home Office public appointments are set out in the Public Appointments Order in Council.
Since the Home Secretary took up office, Ministers have appointed one new Security Industry Authority Non Executive Board member .
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what responsibility he has for borders and migration policy; what responsibility for borders and migration has been retained by the Home Office; what work is being conducted by civil servants in his Department on borders and migration; and what Machinery of Government changes have happened in relation to responsibility for borders and migration.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Responsibility for migration and borders policy remains with the Home Office. Issues relating to migration have impacts across Government and we work with other departments, including with the Cabinet Office, to consider them.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2022 to Question 11691 on Home Office: Photographs and Video Recordings, (a) at what band-equivalent each videographer was employed at and (b) which contractor was used.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The videographers are part of the HO social media team and video production is their primary responsibility as part of this team.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many photographers and video producers were employed by her Department in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
No photographers were employed during this period.
Three people have been employed as videographers over the course of the period 2019-2021, including one contractor: 2019 (1), 2020 (1), 2021 (3, with two employed at one time).
They have worked in the department's social media team within the Communications Directorate.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of safer schools officers in each year since 2015.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The current number of apprentices in employment at the Home Office and undertaking an apprenticeship is 335. As a proportion, this is 1% of our workforce.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the staff employed by her Department are apprentices.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The number and proportion of staff employed in the Home Office as apprentices are in the attached table.
In addition to the figure recorded we have around 170 more apprentices currently going through pre-employment checks who, subject to successful completion, will be in post by the end of the financial year.