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 - Shadow Minister (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.
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 - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
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’.
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 - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
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’.
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 - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
We already have provision for a list of designated states through section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.
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.
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.