Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of the (a) capital set-up and (b) revenue for the first five years for the provision of (i) a home, (ii) NHS care, (iii) school places and (iv) other public services for migrants paid below the national average wage.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office has previously estimated the cost of migrants to the UK in terms of NHS care, education and social services (welfare) payments. This analysis did not consider different earnings thresholds, nor did it consider capital and revenue costs of housing, which would be outside the Home Office’s remit.
Home Office analysis can be found in table A4.2 in the Impact Assessment “The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020”: The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (legislation.gov.uk).
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make a comparative assessment of the amount paid in penalty charges for speeding in (a) the last year for which data are available and (b) the year preceding 1 March 2020.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Data on the amount paid in penalty charges for speeding is not held by the Home Office.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on fixed penalty notices (FPNs) and other outcomes for motoring offences in England and Wales on an annual basis. The most recent data, up to 2021, is available here:
In 2021, there were 2,378,373 speed limit offences recorded on the central PentiP system in England and Wales (excludes British Transport Police).
In 2020, there were 2,006,382 speed limit offences recorded on the central PentiP system in England and Wales (excludes British Transport Police).
In 2019, there were 2,253,948 speed limit offences recorded on the central PentiP system in England and Wales (excludes British Transport Police).
However these figures may be an underestimation since Durham, North Wales, South Wales, Gwent, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire forces do not record all outcomes on the PentiP system.
Data for 2022 will be published in November/December of 2023, and is pre-announced on gov.uk here: Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending March 2023 - National statistics announcement - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many speeding offences were recorded in (a) 2020 and (b) 2022.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on fixed penalty notices (FPNs) and other outcomes for motoring offences in England and Wales on an annual basis. The most recent data, up to 2021, is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1118166/fixed-penalty-notices-and-other-motoring-offences-statistics-police-powers-and-procedures-year-ending-31-december-2021.ods
In 2020, there were 2,006,382 speed limit offences recorded on the central PentiP system in England and Wales (excludes British Transport Police). However this figure may be an underestimation since Durham, North Wales, South Wales, Gwent, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire forces do not record all outcomes on the PentiP system.
Data for 2022 will be published in November/December of 2023, and is pre-announced on gov.uk here: Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending March 2023 - National statistics announcement - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The number of FPNs and other outcomes given for speed limit offences increased by 34% between 2011 and 2020.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average capital cost of providing (a) housing, (b) school places, (c) health services and (d) transport capacity for a new migrant family.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not hold this information.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of providing (a) housing, (b) benefits and (c) public service capacity for a new migrant who takes a job below the average wage in their first year in the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not hold this information.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the total budget allocated to housing illegal migrants in hotels is commercial in confidence when that total would not reveal the contract terms of individual suppliers.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Rt Hon. Gentleman’s question appears to relate to a Freedom of Information (FOI) response. Responses to all FOI requests are handled in line with the legislation, including applying relevant exemptions where applicable.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the 2020-21 budget is for housing illegal migrants.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Accommodation costs are commercially confidential; therefore, the Home Office does not publish this information.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on providing hotel accommodation or more permanent homes for migrants arriving without permits.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Migrants who enter the UK unlawfully are not eligible to mainstream housing assistance. When someone applies for asylum, if they are destitute, they are provided with support and accommodation for the period that their claim is under consideration.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what further steps her Department plans to take to arrest people who take money from people seeking to cross the Channel illegally in unsuitable boats.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government stands resolute in its commitment to tackle Organised Immigration Crime (OIC). We continue to pursue the Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) who facilitate illegal travel to the UK and who exploit vulnerable migrants, knowingly putting people in life-threatening situations.
We are committed to prosecuting those who profit from dangerous and unnecessary Channel crossings in small boats. We are working with national and international partners in these investigations, and are continuing to improve the intelligence co-operation that underpins them. The multi-agency NCA-led OIC Taskforce is the UK government’s response to tackling people smuggling. It has been involved in more than 1000 arrests, both in the UK and overseas, with suspects convicted sentenced to more than 720 years in prison. It takes a whole of route approach, deploying over 150 officers to operate in 17 countries, with Crown Prosecution Service prosecutors placed in key source and transit countries to disrupt OCGs profiting from people smuggling.
We also pursue those involved in the financial flows that support this activity. Using criminal powers in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, an individual can be prosecuted for money laundering offences if sufficient evidence is obtainable and CPS agree to charging, or civil powers within the same act permit the action to be taken against the money concerned. Both these approaches are used to undermine the financial flows supporting small boat and wider clandestine smuggling, both in the UK and with foreign partners.
We are working with NCA and social media companies to agree a joint action plan to tackle content advertising illegal OIC services on online platforms, including content relating to small boat crossings.
Additionally, the Government published the New Plan for Immigration containing provisions to establish legislation to deter illegal entry into the UK, thereby breaking the business model of criminal people smuggling networks and protecting the lives of those they endanger. In July 2021, the Government introduced this legislation through the Nationality and Borders Bill.
The Government will continue to work tirelessly to stop the criminal networks facilitating OIC and protect the lives of those they wish to recklessly exploit.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding cases her Department is considering for (a) asylum and (b) permission to be an economic migrant living and working in the UK in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Kevin Foster
a) The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.
Data on the number of asylum applications currently awaiting a decision, either an initial decision or pending further review, are published in table Asy_D03 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest published statistics relate to data up to the end of June 2021.
Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘asylum and resettlement summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
(b) This information requested is routinely published as part of UKVI Transparency data.
The current data is available for Quarter 2 of 2021 and can be found in the attached link:
Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Data for Q3 2021 will be published in the next transparency data release.