Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of the Windrush generation have been detained; and for how long each person was detained.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Department is reviewing all immigration detentions, dating back to 2002, of Caribbean Commonwealth nationals now aged over 45 (i.e. born before 01/01/1973), to establish whether any could have entered the UK prior to 1973 and therefore might be protected by the Immigration Act 1971. As the Home Secretary stated to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on 6 June 2018, this work is due to be completed by the middle of July.
The Home Secretary has committed to regularly updating the Home Affairs Select Committee on the findings of this review.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people from the Windrush Generation who live in (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency, (b) the London Borough of Southwark and (c) London.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information requested is not held by the Department.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Office for National Statistics. The Office for National Statistics has published data on an estimate of the population classified as usually resident in the UK, from National level to Region level in England and Wales, by country of birth and by year of arrival in the UK. The published data can be found on the ONS website at:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/adhocs/008406ct08002011censuscobukcaribbeancontinentsbyyrarrivalbypassportnattoregion
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average emergency response time to 999 calls in (a) the London Borough of Southwark, and (b) London in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not collect this data as the handling of 999 calls is an operational matter for the police. It is for elected Police Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables to decide how best to manage their communications and response to the public.
However, in March 2018, as part of its annual effectiveness reports on all police forces in England and Wales, HMICFRS briefly assessed calls from the public.
The report for the Metropolitan Police force can be found at:
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many administrative and office-based support staff were employed by (a) Metropolitan Police Southwark and (b) the Metropolitan Police Service in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the roles of police officers, police staff and police community support officers (PCSOs), including the number of full time equivalents primarily employed in ‘support function’ roles. Those with multiple responsibilities or designations are recorded under their primary function. Therefore, the data does not provide a complete picture of all officers and staff assigned to support function roles.
The Home Office only collects these data at Police Force Area level. This information can be found in the data tables published alongside the annual ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin.
The latest data available, which show the picture as at 31 March 2017, can be found in Tables F1 (officers), F2 (staff) and F3 (PCSOs) of the police workforce statistics published in July 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629865/police-workforce-tabs-jul17.ods
Data as at 31 March 2015 and 31 March 2016 can be found in Tables F1-F6 of the police workforce statistics published in July 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544954/police-workforce-tabs-jul16.ods
Previous data were collected under a different framework, with different definitions, and are therefore not directly comparable with data as at 31 March 2015 onwards. Data under the old framework have been published since 2012, and can be found in the supplementary data tables of the relevant police workforce publications via the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales
Police functions data are often affected by re-structuring within police forces. Therefore, comparisons over time for specific functions should be made with care.
Decisions on the size and composition of the police workforce are operational matters for Chief Officers working with their Police and Crime Commissioners and taking into account local priorities.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours police officers spent on patrol in (a) the London Borough of Southwark and (b) the Metropolitan Police Service in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the primary roles that police officers perform, as well as the number of frontline officers, for Police Force Areas in England and Wales. Data are collected on a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis, with no information available for the number of hours spent performing each role. These data are published annually as part of the 'police workforce, England and Wales' statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017
Data on the primary roles officers perform, and the number of officers on the frontline, are only collected at Police Force Area level and cannot be broken down any further. Furthermore, the number of officers specifically on foot patrol cannot be separately identified. The latest available data on frontline officers, broken down by Police Force Area and going back to 2010, can be found in Table_F5 of the data tables accompanying the main release.
Data for the years 2010 to 2014 are estimated since data prior to 31 March 2015 were collected under a different framework, with different definitions.
Decisions on the size and deployment of the police workforce are operational matters for Chief Officers working with their Police and Crime Commissioners and taking into account local priorities.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many residents have been detained in immigration detention centres with issues outstanding from (a) the constituency of Camberwell and Peckham and (b) the London Borough of Southwark in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information requested could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.
Home Office data is not broken down by Parliamentary constituency or metropolitan borough. The latest data, which goes back to 2009, is published in ‘Immigration Statistics, October to December 2017’, and is available at:
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were granted entry to reside in the UK on the basis of ties to a family member in the UK in each of the last seven years; how many of those people were under the age of 25; and how many applications were made on that basis in that same period.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Statistical information on people coming to the UK for family reasons is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, in the section “Why do people come to the UK? (4) For family reasons” at
The available information relates to entry clearance visa applications and grants by category and applicant type, published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas data tables Volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/list-of-tables#visas.
Neither an age breakdown nor the underlying reasons for an application are available in the published entry clearance visa data.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken to conclude a visa application was in each of the last seven years; and steps her Department is taking to reduce the time it takes to process such applications.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Performance against service standards for processing of visas is published in the Migration Transparency data at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-february-2018 "
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on tackling knife crime in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
It is not possible to disaggregate all funding for tackling knife crime as it is provided through a number of routes. This includes funding for police forces in England and Wales and our overall investment in policing will grow from £11.9 billion in 2015/16 to around £13 billion in 2018/19. Our work to tackle knife crime has been taken forward through the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme and the subsequent Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation programme.
In October 2017, we launched our anti-knife crime Community Fund through which we awarded £765,000 to 47 successful projects to support local communities tackle knife crime, and we announced in March up to a £1million for a new round of the Community Fund in 2018/19 and this will be launched later this Spring. We have also just launched a new £1.3 million national media campaign under the banner of #knifefree which is aimed at 10 -21 years old and is aimed at bringing home the consequences of carrying a knife and to inspire young people to take up more positive activities.
On 9 April, we published the Serious Violence Strategy to take action to address serious violence and in particular the recent increases in knife crime, gun crime and homicide. The strategy represents a step change in the way we think and respond to serious violence. Our approach is not solely focused on law enforcement, very important as that is, but depends also on partnerships across a number of sectors such as education, health, social services, housing, youth services, victim services and others.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of children under the age of 18 living in the London Borough of Southwark who have (a) undergone female genital mutilation in the UK, (b) undergone female genital mutilation abroad and (c) been subjected to a forced marriage in each of the last five years.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
So called 'honour-based' violence, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage, is a terrible form of abuse, and this Government is clear that we will not allow political or cultural sensitivities to get in the way of tackling it. Work to tackle these crimes is an integral part of our cross-Government Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy, published last year.
The NHS FGM Enhanced Dataset provides information on the number of women and girls with FGM who are being cared for by the NHS in England and has been published quarterly and annually by NHS Digital since 2014. A detailed breakdown of these statistics by local authority, age at which FGM was carried out and country where FGM was undertaken is available online at http://content.digital.nhs.uk/fgm.
The joint Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Home Office Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) operates a public helpline to provide advice and support to victims of forced marriage as well as to professionals dealing with cases. Statistics on the number of cases dealt with by the FMU are published annually, including a breakdown by region and age and are available online at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/forced-marriage#statistics-on-forced-marriage-collected-by-fmu. The statistics are available for the region of London. However, they cannot be broken down into specific London boroughs for data protection reasons. For example, the number of cases from a specific borough may be low enough to allow a victim to be identified, and the FMU must safeguard those it supports.