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Written Question
Immigration: EU Nationals
Monday 21st October 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will publish details on the application outcomes of the EU Settlement Scheme at a (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency level.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Updated EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics to 30 September 2019 are planned for publication in November 2019.

The Home Office is committed to publishing more detailed quarterly statistics on the EU Settlement Scheme. Home Office statisticians are currently considering the content of the next quarterly release.


Written Question
Immigration: EU Nationals
Monday 21st October 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will provide data by age on the number of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme at a (a) regional, (b) local authority and (c) parliamentary constituency level.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Updated EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics to 30 September 2019 are planned for publication in November 2019.

The Home Office is committed to publishing more detailed quarterly statistics on the EU Settlement Scheme. Home Office statisticians are currently considering the content of the next quarterly release.


Written Question
Hezbollah
Monday 22nd July 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2018 to Question 122667 on Hezbollah, whether his policy on not collecting that data has changed since the Government's decision to proscribe Hezbollah in its entirety in February 2019.

Answered by Ben Wallace

The Government’s approach to this issue has not changed. Investigations into individuals who may be members or supporters of proscribed organisations are an operational matter for the police and intelligence agencies. The department does not collect data on specific numbers of Hizballah members or supporters in the UK.


Written Question
Islamic State
Monday 22nd July 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information he holds on the number of Daesh (a) members and (b) supporters in the UK.

Answered by Ben Wallace

For reasons of national security, it would not be appropriate to disclose figures on the number of Da’esh affiliated individuals in the UK.

Membership and support for a proscribed terrorist organisation is an offence under sections 11 and 12 of the terrorism act 2000. The police and security services work day and night to keep the public safe, they are currently managing nearly 800 live investigations of around 3,000 individuals.


Written Question
al Qaeda
Monday 22nd July 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information he holds on the number of Al Qaeda (a) members and (b) supporters in the UK.

Answered by Ben Wallace

For reasons of national security, it would not be appropriate to disclose figures on the number of Al Qaeda affiliated individuals in the UK.

Membership and support for a proscribed terrorist organisation is an offence under sections 11 and 12 of the terrorism act 2000. The police and security services work day and night to keep the public safe, they are currently managing nearly 800 live investigations of around 3,000 individuals.


Written Question
Drugs: Organised Crime
Wednesday 26th June 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the number of girls being sexually exploited in the county lines drugs trade.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

The latest threat assessment on county lines was published by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in January 2019. This sets out that while criminal exploitation is the most common exploitation type within county lines, victims are sometimes subjected to sexual exploitation and these victims are largely female. The assessment also points out the likelihood that females are underrepresented as both victims and perpetrators of county lines criminality.

Work is ongoing to protect those who are exploited and target county lines offenders. The Home Office has provided £3.6m to establish the National County Lines Coordination Centre (NCLCC) to enhance our cross border intelligence and activity on county lines and to better safeguard and protect victims of county lines. NCLCC has so far carried out three separate weeks of operational intensification leading to over 1600 arrests and over 2100 individuals engaged with for safeguarding.

In addition, the Government provides a range of support for county lines victims including; funding Young People’s Advocates in Birmingham, Manchester and London to work directly with gang-affected women and girls, especially if they have been victims, or are at risk, of sexual violence by gangs including county lines; funding through the Trusted Relationships fund of £13 million over two years to help foster relationships between frontline professionals and young people at risk of exploitation including county lines; and we have provided funding through the £22m Early Intervention Youth Fund over two years for six projects which will specifically address those at risk of involvement in county lines and criminal exploitation.


Written Question
Hezbollah
Monday 24th June 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of UK citizens who are members of Hezbollah.

Answered by Ben Wallace

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 15 January 2018, UIN 122667.


Written Question
Islamic Resistance Support Organization and Hezbollah
Monday 24th June 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the relationship between Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance Support Organisation.

Answered by Ben Wallace

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 15 January 2018, UIN 122667.


Written Question
Islamic Resistance Support Organization
Tuesday 18th June 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Islamic Resistance Support Organisation operates in the UK.

Answered by Ben Wallace

The Home Office does not keep a central register of all the organisations that operate in the UK.


Written Question
Missing Persons: Databases
Monday 10th June 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings he (a) has had and (b) plans to have with the National Police Chiefs’ Council through the Home Office National Law Enforcement Data Programme on the introduction of the National Register of Missing Persons.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Officials have been and will continue to be in regular contact with the National Police Chiefs’ Council on the introduction of the National Register of Missing Persons.