Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many penalties for (a) traffic noise offences and (b) illegally modified exhaust systems have been issued in each year 2016.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects and publishes data on Fixed Penalty Notices and other outcomes for motoring offences, including wider offence category. The most recent data is available here:
Data on the number of penalties for traffic noise offences, by year since 2016, has been provided in Annex A.
However, data is not collected specifically on penalties for illegally modified exhaust systems.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to minimise the time taken for Ukrainian children to travel to the UK with a legal guardian.
Answered by Kevin Foster
We have received thousands of applications submitted to one of the fastest and largest visa programmes in UK history.
The Home Office has reallocated staff across its operations to meet demand and minimise any delays, and other government departments have loaned staff to assist.
Staff in the UK are working seven days a week to process applications as quickly as possible.
Where we have applications from family groups, we would look to group these decisions together, so families receive decisions wherever possible at the same time.
As part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, since 15 March, Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK.
Unaccompanied minors are only eligible under the Homes for Ukraine scheme if they are reuniting with a parent or legal guardian in the UK – this is outlined in the Immigration Rules, however, the eligibility of all the Ukraine schemes is kept under review.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to minimise the time taken to process visas for teenagers in Ukraine who plan to travel with a legal guardian.
Answered by Kevin Foster
We have received thousands of applications submitted to one of the fastest and largest visa programmes in UK history.
The Home Office has reallocated staff across its operations to meet demand and minimise any delays, and other government departments have loaned staff to assist.
Staff in the UK are working seven days a week to process applications as quickly as possible.
Where we have applications from family groups, we would look to group these decisions together, so families receive decisions wherever possible at the same time.
As part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, since 15 March, Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK.
Unaccompanied minors are only eligible under the Homes for Ukraine scheme if they are reuniting with a parent or legal guardian in the UK – this is outlined in the Immigration Rules, however, the eligibility of all the Ukraine schemes is kept under review.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle delays in processing visas for unaccompanied children needing to travel to the UK.
Answered by Kevin Foster
We have received thousands of applications submitted to one of the fastest and largest visa programmes in UK history.
The Home Office has reallocated staff across its operations to meet demand and minimise any delays, and other government departments have loaned staff to assist.
Staff in the UK are working seven days a week to process applications as quickly as possible.
Where we have applications from family groups, we would look to group these decisions together, so families receive decisions wherever possible at the same time.
As part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, since 15 March, Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK.
Unaccompanied minors are only eligible under the Homes for Ukraine scheme if they are reuniting with a parent or legal guardian in the UK – this is outlined in the Immigration Rules, however, the eligibility of all the Ukraine schemes is kept under review.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle delays in processing visas for unaccompanied children in Ukraine needing to travel to the UK.
Answered by Kevin Foster
We have received thousands of applications submitted to one of the fastest and largest visa programmes in UK history.
The Home Office has reallocated staff across its operations to meet demand and minimise any delays, and other government departments have loaned staff to assist.
Staff in the UK are working seven days a week to process applications as quickly as possible.
Where we have applications from family groups, we would look to group these decisions together, so families receive decisions wherever possible at the same time.
As part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, since 15 March, Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK.
Unaccompanied minors are only eligible under the Homes for Ukraine scheme if they are reuniting with a parent or legal guardian in the UK – this is outlined in the Immigration Rules, however, the eligibility of all the Ukraine schemes is kept under review.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of prosecutions for (a) benefit-related offences and (b) tax-related offences from 2010 to 2019; and what comparative assessment she has made of the criteria used by the Department for Work and Pensions and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in their respective decisions to refer cases to the Crime Prosecution Service; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
Nil return. The Home Office holds no data.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's affordability fee waiver scheme for citizenship registration for individuals under the age of 18, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing low-income families who have accrued considerable debt while applying for visas for their children to apply retrospectively for such a waiver.
Answered by Kevin Foster
This waiver is only applicable to the fees to register a child as a British citizen and is not being applied retrospectively, which means it will only be applied to eligible applications submitted on or after 16 June. The affordability assessment is set out in guidance available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase support for youth services aimed at reducing crime and anti-social behaviour in Kingston upon Hull.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police and local authorities with flexible tools and powers they can use to respond quickly and effectively to anti-social behaviour (ASB). The powers in the 2014 Act are local in nature, and it is for local agencies to determine whether their use is appropriate in the specific circumstances.
It is for Chief Constables and PCCs, as operational leaders and elected local representatives, to decide how best to respond to local crime priorities, but to help ensure that the police have the resources they need, we have given them the biggest funding increase in a decade and are recruiting 20,000 additional officers by March 2023, which provides extra resource to protect the public and keep us safe.
The Home Office announced in March this year that ASB would be one of the primary crime and issue types being targeted in the fourth and fifth rounds of the Safer Streets Fund. This is a total of £150m over two rounds which aims to support local areas in preventing and tackling neighbourhood crimes, ASB and violence against women and girls. As part of this, the Home Office welcomes innovative bids relating to community-based projects and early intervention.
Violence Reduction Units are delivering a range of early intervention and prevention programmes to divert people away from a life of crime, and have reached 100,000 young people in year one alone. In addition, we are providing £200m through the 10-year Youth Endowment Fund to prevent a cohort of children and young people at highest risk of involvement in serious violence from becoming involved in crime and violence, including reoffending; to reduce the numbers of children and young people becoming perpetrators and victims of crime; and to reduce offending and re-offending in the target cohort across other crime types.
Also, the Government is investing £560 million in youth services in England over the next 3 years, including the Youth Investment Fund, to transform the Government’s offer for young people and level up opportunities right across the country.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of community engagement methods in reducing anti-social behaviour.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police and local authorities with flexible tools and powers they can use to respond quickly and effectively to anti-social behaviour (ASB). The powers in the 2014 Act are local in nature, and it is for local agencies to determine whether their use is appropriate in the specific circumstances.
It is for Chief Constables and PCCs, as operational leaders and elected local representatives, to decide how best to respond to local crime priorities, but to help ensure that the police have the resources they need, we have given them the biggest funding increase in a decade and are recruiting 20,000 additional officers by March 2023, which provides extra resource to protect the public and keep us safe.
The Home Office announced in March this year that ASB would be one of the primary crime and issue types being targeted in the fourth and fifth rounds of the Safer Streets Fund. This is a total of £150m over two rounds which aims to support local areas in preventing and tackling neighbourhood crimes, ASB and violence against women and girls. As part of this, the Home Office welcomes innovative bids relating to community-based projects and early intervention.
Violence Reduction Units are delivering a range of early intervention and prevention programmes to divert people away from a life of crime, and have reached 100,000 young people in year one alone. In addition, we are providing £200m through the 10-year Youth Endowment Fund to prevent a cohort of children and young people at highest risk of involvement in serious violence from becoming involved in crime and violence, including reoffending; to reduce the numbers of children and young people becoming perpetrators and victims of crime; and to reduce offending and re-offending in the target cohort across other crime types.
Also, the Government is investing £560 million in youth services in England over the next 3 years, including the Youth Investment Fund, to transform the Government’s offer for young people and level up opportunities right across the country.