Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas were issued to Albanian nationals in each year since 2021.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office publishes data on Student visas by nationality in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of Student visas are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset. Selecting ‘Student’ from the visa type subgroup filter will output data on Student visas. Nationality and time frames can also be filtered. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates from 2005 up to the end of September 2023.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were caught attempting to enter the UK illegally through the Channel Tunnel in each year since 2021.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Home Office does not comment on port specific information for security reasons.
The latest published figures on Irregular Migration to the UK can be found at the following link: Irregular migration to the UK, year ending September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had their British citizenship revoked under the British Nationality Act 1981 between 1997 and 2010.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
The Home Office publishes data relating to those deprived of British Citizenship. Statistics are available from May 2010.
The British Nationality Act 1981 provides the Secretary of State with powers to deprive a person of citizenship status only under the circumstances set out at sections 40(2) (if deemed to be conducive to the public good) and 40(3) (citizenship was obtained by means of fraud, false representation, or concealment of material fact) of the Act.
Details on the numbers of conducive deprivation orders made under Section 40(2) of the Act, are published in the Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Seven reports have been published to date providing the number of deprivations of citizenship orders made up until the end of 2022 and are all published online. The latest can be found at this link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-terrorism-disruptive-powers-report-2022
We intend to publish more recent data in future publications.
Numbers of Section 40(3) deprivation orders can be found in quarterly published transparency data at the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help reduce levels of organised crime in Lincolnshire.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
This Government is committed to tackling the threat from Serious and Organised Crime (SOC). It has recently published a new SOC strategy that commits to reducing SOC in the UK by disrupting and dismantling organised crime groups and networks operating in and against the UK.
The Home Office is committed to ensuring that the police have the resources they need. Ultimately, it is for Chief Constables and directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), and Mayors with PCC functions to make operational decisions based on their local knowledge and experience. This includes how to allocate resources to reduce levels of organised crime.
Chief Constables, PCCs and Mayors with PCC functions have provided significant resource to the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) network by allocating 725 extra officers to ROCUs between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2023. Those officers are tackling the range of SOC threats, helping to reduce crime and keep communities safe.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers are not British nationals in (a) England and (b) Wales.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The Home Office does not collect information on the nationality of police officers employed by police forces in England and Wales.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force personnel have left the force since 2019.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The latest published staffing and finance figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2022-2023 at:
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum seekers who were given the right to remain in the UK had had a previous application for the right to remain denied in each of the last five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of asylum applications at initial decision is published in table Asy_D02 of the Asylum applications, decisions and resettlement detailed dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2023. Data up to December 2023 is due to be published on 29 February 2024.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
Please note that the data relates to applicants’ first asylum claim and the initial outcome; the data does not indicate whether the individual has previously applied for any other leave; for further information on the journey of asylum seekers, see the Migrant Journey 2022 report.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted under the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 in each year since 2015.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) is an arms lengths body of the Home Office.
The number of licences the GLAA issued in Lincolnshire between 2021-2023 are as follows:
a) 2021 – 6 licences
b) 2022 – 4 licences
c) 2023 – 10 licences
The GLAA publishes the total number of annual convictions on its website which can be found at Gangmasters Licensing Offences - Modern Slavery Offences - GLAA.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority licences were issued in Lincolnshire in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) is an arms lengths body of the Home Office.
The number of licences the GLAA issued in Lincolnshire between 2021-2023 are as follows:
a) 2021 – 6 licences
b) 2022 – 4 licences
c) 2023 – 10 licences
The GLAA publishes the total number of annual convictions on its website which can be found at Gangmasters Licensing Offences - Modern Slavery Offences - GLAA.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been granted the right to remain in the UK on the ground of fear of persecution because of their religion of Christianity in each of the last five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This information is not recorded in a reportable format.
Information regarding initial decisions on asylum applications, by outcome, is contained within the ASY_D02 tab of the Asylum applications, decisions and resettlement dataset: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
This does not include the grounds for granting leave to remain in the UK.