Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals working in the NHS paid the NHS surcharge in each month of 2020.
Answered by Kevin Foster
This information is not readily available nor held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost due to the fact the IHS is payable across multiple application routes.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to asylum claims, which countries her Department has assessed as persecuting LGBTQ+ people.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Our assessment of the situation for LGBTQ+ people in different countries is set out in the relevant country policy and information notes, which are available on the Gov.uk website.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-policy-and-information-notes
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been dismissed for sexual harassment in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the outcome of misconduct proceedings and criminal investigations involving officers, including the number of officers that have been dismissed following proceedings. However, information on the circumstances that led to a case being brought is not collected centrally by the Home Office
The latest data on the outcomes following misconduct proceedings, which covers cases in the year ending March 2019, are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2019.
The College of Policing publish data annually relating to those who have been dismissed from policing and placed on the Police Barred List. The most recent data shows that, in the period ending 31 March 2019, 14 officers were dismissed under the category ‘sexual conduct towards a colleague’. This data is available here:
https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Documents/Barred_List_2019.pdf.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted asylum in the UK as a result of persecution for being LGBTQ+ in their home state in each of the last 15 years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office is unable to state how many people have been granted asylum in the UK as a result of persecution for being LGBTQ+ in their home states in each of the last 15 years.
The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation.
While the Department does not hold pre-July 2015 data in a reportable format and does not currently break down the data into the separate lesbian, gay or bisexual category, experimental data on asylum claims lodged on the basis of sexual orientation, including the number of claimants who were granted asylum, between July 2015 and August 2019 is available at SOC_00 and SOC_04 of the published immigrations statistics year ending March 2020 and is broken down by nationality:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2020/list-of-tables#asylum-on-the-basis-of-sexual-orientation.
The data does not represent the number of asylum claimants who define themselves as LGB. Having an identifier that an asylum case is based on sexual orientation does not indicate that a claimant has any particular sexuality or that sexual orientation is the reason for any grant or refusal of asylum. It also does not signify whether that aspect of the claim has been accepted. Sexual orientation as a basis of claim could be due to imputed assertions or association rather than a defining characteristic of the claimant.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) solar panels and (b) wind turbines her Department's buildings (a) have in 2020 and (b) had in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is not held centrally.
The Home Office is committed to reducing its carbon emissions on a trajectory to Net Zero by 2050 or sooner; and has reduced its total emissions by 55% by 2019-20 compared to 2009-10. During 2020-21 a study will be commissioned to understand how Home Office will meet the Government’s net zero by 2050 target whilst working to make the estate more sustainable including opportunities to adopt renewable energy. Site specific renewables surveys are already underway to determine the scope for using a range of renewable technologies, including solar panels and wind turbines.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests there have been as a result of domestic violence in (a) each of the last five years and (b) 2020.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This information is publicly available on www.gov.uk
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in each police force worked solely on domestic violence in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This information is publicly available on www.gov.uk
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been (a) dismissed and (b) disciplined for using excessive force in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2020, by police force.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This information is publicly available on www.gov.uk
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The following numbers of Home Office staff have declared they had caring responsibilities in each of the last four years. No data is held for the period ending 31 Mar 16.
31-Mar-20 | 31-Mar-19 | 31-Mar-18 | 31-Mar-17 |
10,272 | 9,914 | 9,401 | 9,256 |
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much energy was used by her Department's buildings in (a) 2020 to date and (b) each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The amount of energy used by the Home Office in each of the last five years is as follows:
Financial Year | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
Energy (MWh) | 128,067 | 132,752 | 124,560 | 114,134 | 115,858 |
Data is not yet available for any part of 2020-21 as this is collated quarterly in arrears.
The department is committed to reducing its carbon emissions on a trajectory to Net Zero by 2050 or sooner; and has reduced its total emissions by 55% by 2019-20 compared to 2009-10.