Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 19 November 2025, to Question 90248, on Official Cars: Prime Minister, if she will set out the reason that disclosing the aggregated figure would impact national security.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
It is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on those arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect individuals’ security.
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on the provision of official cars to Ministers outside the Government Car Service by (a) the Metropolitan Police and (b) private contractors.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
The Home Office has not issued guidance regarding the provision of official cars to Ministers outside the Government Car Service, whether through (a) the Metropolitan Police or (b) private contractors.
The provision of any vehicle as part of a protective security package is determined by an assessment of threat and risk faced by a Minister.
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the annual cost to the public purse of the Prime Minister’s official cars provided by the Metropolitan Police.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
This is a matter of national security and therefore we cannot comment.
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) disciplinary actions and (b) dismissals of Home Office officials have there been for unauthorised access to personal data since July 2024.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
We do not hold data specifically on the number of cases involving unauthorised access to personal data and would otherwise be disproportionate effort to retrieve.
The nearest category for which we hold data is ‘Unauthorised Access IT Systems, Databases and Record Systems’, the following have been prepared using these figures.
(a) Number of discipline actions ‘Unauthorised Access IT Systems, Databases and Record Systems’ | 19 | |
(b) Number of dismissals where the charge type is ‘Unauthorised Access IT Systems, Databases and Record Systems’ | 12 |
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 169 of the Home Office Annual report and accounts 2024-25, HC 1133, published in July 2025, and page 170 of the Home Office Annual report and accounts 2023-24, HC 184, published in July 2024, what was the business case for the increase (a) in trade union facility time from £1,134,980 in 2023-24 to £1,424,127 in 2024-25, and (b) to FTE numbers of 387 facility time staff; and whether ministers authorised the increase.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The number of Home Office employees elected/appointed to trade union representative positions is for individual trade unions to determine. Additionally, there is no requirement for ministers to authorise increases in the cost of facility time, but, in line with a facility time framework provided to Civil Service departments under the previous administration, if the cost of facility time were to exceed 0.1% of the paybill that would require Secretary of State approval. The cost of facility time in the Home Office in percentage terms was the same in 2024-25 as it was in 2023-24 (0.05%).
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the aggregate value of crypto-assets held by (a) her Department and (b) police forces.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government does not currently publish the amount of cryptocurrency restrained / recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
The Home office is reviewing plans to publish new statistics on Crypto assets as part of future annual stats bulletins on asset recovery in response to the new powers that came into effect in April 2024.
Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data. These reviews allow us to balance the production of our regular statistics whilst developing new statistics for future release.
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Statement of 21 July 2025, on Events at Orgreave, HCWS855, by what mechanism the panel of independent experts will be (a) selected and (b) appointed; whether they will be paid; and what steps she is taking to ensure transparency over declarations of interest.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
As set out in the previous Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement of 21 July 2025, the Orgreave Inquiry will be established as a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, with a small panel of independent experts to be appointed in due course.
The appointment of panel members will therefore be made in accordance with provisions in the Inquiries Act 2005. Those appointments and any related remuneration matters remain to be determined.
Details of panel members and the Inquiry’s terms of reference will be provided to both Houses at the earliest opportunity.
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the students from Gaza granted permission to study in the United Kingdom under the Chevening scheme will be subject to any security checks or vetting.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Robust security checks will be undertaken on the Chevening Scholars and all students who enter the UK through this process. Biometrics will be collected as part of the visa application process and prior to the final decision on granting entry to the UK as a student.
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's planned (a) timetable and (b) process are for reviewing Code C, Annex L of the Home Office guidance entitled Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, in the context of the ruling from the Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) of 16 April 2025.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided to UIN 45760 on 2nd May 2025.