Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to establish an independent national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
On the 16 June the Home Secretary announced that she had accepted all 12 of Baroness Casey’s recommendations from her National Audit into Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
As part of this, and as recommended by Baroness Casey, the Government is moving swiftly to establish an Independent Commission on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation under the Inquiries Act 2005.
We are working closely with partners across government and beyond to develop the Terms of Reference, which will be shaped through engagement with the appointed Chair, victims and survivors, and other key stakeholders.
Following the appointment of the independent Chair and the establishment of the inquiry structure, the Commission will begin considering evidence and data to select the first local areas for targeted investigations.
Further details will be announced in due course.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will provide a breakdown of offences by the nationality of the serving inmate.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
Our current approach to publication of nationality data is in line with that used during the previous Conservative Government and does not include a breakdown of offences by nationality of prisoners. However, we are monitoring the data that we collect and publish on the prison population and will keep this under review.
Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced. Where appropriate, the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Since 5 July 2024, more FNOs have been returned than in the same period 12 months prior.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will provide a breakdown of the number of foreign national offenders supervised by the Probation Service by nationality.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The latest published data on the nationality of offenders supervised by the Probation Service as at 31st December 2024 can be found at Table 6_9_Caseload_Nationality in the attached link: probation-Oct-to-Dec-2024.ods.
Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced. Where appropriate, the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Since 5 July 2024, more FNOs have been returned than in the same period 12 months prior.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number people who came to the UK on a study visa and later claimed asylum for each sponsoring institution.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May, sets out proposals for reform in a wide range of areas, including student visas, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking in relation to institutions that have sponsored high numbers of students who have later claimed asylum.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May, sets out proposals for reform in a wide range of areas, including student visas, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders are in (a) the community and (b) prison as of 31 March 2025, broken down by nationality.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) in prison and the number of Foreign National Offenders supervised by the Probation Service as part of its Offender Management Statistics Quarterly. For the purposes of these statistics offenders supervised in the community include those subject to a court order or post release supervision by the Probation Service.
The requested data can be found:
Prison population (based on the prison population as of 31 March 2025; latest available published data) can be found at Table 1_Q_12 in the attached link: prison-population-31-Mar-2025.ods.
Offenders supervised by the Probation Service (on 31 December 2024; latest available published data) can be found at Table 6_9_Caseload_Nationality in the attached link: probation-Oct-to-Dec-2024.ods. Probation data for the 31 March will not be available until 31 July when we publish data for 2025 Q1.
Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced. Where appropriate, the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Between 5 July 2024 and 18 May 2025 more FNOs have been returned than in the same period 12 months prior under the previous Government. We are also investing £5 million in 82 new FNO Specialist roles in prisons to speed up the removal of prisoners who have no right to be in this country.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to implement the £38,000 family visa salary threshold.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 22 May to Question 52912.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the rules laid in Parliament on 12 March 2025 on care workers, how many social care workers have (a) been removed from the UK and (b) had their visas cancelled as a result of their sponsor losing their licence since 4 July 2024.
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 disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the rules laid in Parliament on 12 March 2025 regarding social care, how a social care provider can prove that they have tried to recruit domestically before seeking to sponsor new recruits from overseas.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Home Office will publish guidance for sponsors in line with the new rules coming into effect on 9 April.
Asked by: Chris Philp (Conservative - Croydon South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the judgement in case UI-2024-005295 issued in the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber on 13 January 2025, whether her Department has plans to appeal the judgement.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases or legal proceedings in which it is a participant.