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Written Question
Fraud: Victims
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Gary Sambrook (Conservative - Birmingham, Northfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support victims of fraud.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

This Government takes the issue of fraud very seriously and is dedicated to protecting the public from this devastating crime.

We are working to improve the victim support system to ensure everyone receives the support and advice they need to feel safe again and to prevent revictimisation. Raising awareness and safeguarding victims will form a key pillar of the Government’s forthcoming fraud strategy.


Written Question
Asylum: EU Countries
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Gary Sambrook (Conservative - Birmingham, Northfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum applications made by people from (a) Albania and (b) other European countries were accepted in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions made on asylum applications, by nationality, can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.


Written Question
Asylum: Albania
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Gary Sambrook (Conservative - Birmingham, Northfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum applications made by people from Albania were accepted in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions made on asylum applications, by nationality, can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.


Written Question
Immigration Controls
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Gary Sambrook (Conservative - Birmingham, Northfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of adopting a process similar to the Swedish Migration Agency's (a) list of safe countries and (b) rules on expulsion in the UK.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

We already have provision for a list of designated states through section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.


Written Question
Police
Monday 7th June 2021

Asked by: Gary Sambrook (Conservative - Birmingham, Northfield)

Question to the Home Office:

What steps her Department is taking to increase the number of police officers.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

We are increasing the number of police officers by 20,000 by March 2023. The increase over three years is unprecedented and reflects the biggest recruitment drive in decades.

Police forces across England and Wales have already recruited 8,771 additional officers, exceeding the first target of 6,000 additional officers by March 2021.


Written Question
Hezbollah
Tuesday 26th May 2020

Asked by: Gary Sambrook (Conservative - Birmingham, Northfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her EU counterparts on tackling Hezbollah fundraising operations in the EU.

Answered by James Brokenshire

The UK has a strong reputation for tackling terrorist financing and we work very closely with international partners and financial institutions to exchange and analyse information. This ensures we are better able to detect, prevent and disrupt the movement of global terrorist funds. Our EU cooperation is part of a wider landscape of international counter terrorism work, which includes cooperation through relationships such as Interpol, the Five Eyes, and bilateral work with individual countries.

The entirety of Hizballah is proscribed and designated under the UK’s domestic counter terrorism sanctions regime (the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 (TAFA)). Hizballah’s Military Wing is also designated along with two named individuals associated with the group under the EU CP931 regime. The investigation and prosecution of offences relating to proscribed organisations is a matter for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.