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Written Question
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders of each nationality were living in the community in the most recent year for which data is available.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Any foreign national offender (FNO) convicted of a crime who receives a custodial sentence in the UK is considered for deportation consideration following sentencing.

The latest published information shows that at the end of Q3 2024 there were 18,069 FNOs living in the community having completed their custodial sentences and subject to deportation, a number that increased substantially during the previous government, and is more than three times the level recorded in the same quarter in 2017 (5,933). The breakdown of the nationality of these FNOs in the community is not available from published data. The published information can be found at: Immigration Enforcement data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK.

We will continue to pursue deportation action against individuals living in the community rigorously, actively monitoring and managing cases through the legal process and working hard to overcome any barriers to removal.


Written Question
Asylum
Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on local authority spending on successful asylum claimants in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The information requested is not held by the Home Office.


Written Question
Asylum: Social Rented Housing
Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of successful asylum claimants who have moved into social housing since 2018 by local authority.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The information requested is not held by the Home Office.


Written Question
Asylum: Finance
Monday 20th January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how (a) many people were in receipt of and (b) much was spent on support under section (i) four, (ii) 95 and (iii) 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in each year since 2015.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Home Office publishes information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.

Prior to 2023/24 asylum support costs were not published separately.

The government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly, and fairly, including reviewing all spending to ensure the best value for money for the British taxpayer.


Written Question
Asylum
Friday 17th January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum claims in each local authority were (a) successful, (b) ongoing and (c) rejected since 2018.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the initial decision of asylum claims (including grants and refusals), and data on asylum claims awaiting initial decision, is published in tables Asy_D02 and Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’ respectively. This data is not broken down by local authority.

Local authority level data on people in the asylum system who are in receipt of support is published in table Asy_D11 of the ‘Asylum seekers in receipt of support by local authority detailed datasets’.

The latest data relates to the year ending September 2024.


Written Question
Undocumented Workers: Fines
Thursday 16th January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of penalties issued in illegal working civil penalties was in each quarter for which data is available; and how many and what proportion of the penalties issued in each quarter have been paid.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Information on illegal working civil penalty statistics has been published since 2016 as part of the Home Office Immigration Transparency Data and can be found at Immigration Enforcement data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK on tab CPO2.

Please note the figures are for penalties levied at the initial decision stage which may be reduced, cancelled or increased at the objection or appeal stage, or whose collection may be affected by any subsequent decision by business in question to cease operations or declare bankruptcy as a result of the enforcement action taken against them.

We do not hold cohort data on how many and what proportion of the penalties issued in each quarter have been paid.


Written Question
Migrant Workers: Sponsorship
Wednesday 15th January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) workers and (b) temporary workers each of the sponsors on the register of licensed sponsors sponsored in each year for which data is available.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Home Office does not routinely publish data on sponsorship numbers broken down by each individual sponsor.


Written Question
Asylum: Housing
Tuesday 14th January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what difference each of the Contract Change Notices made to the contract.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The information sought on costs and changes related to the Contract Change Notices referenced in Question 20254 has been identified as being of operational and commercial sensitivity and cannot therefore be disclosed.


Written Question
Asylum: Housing
Tuesday 14th January 2025

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what the cost was of each of the Contract Change Notices.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The information sought on costs and changes related to the Contract Change Notices referenced in Question 20254 has been identified as being of operational and commercial sensitivity and cannot therefore be disclosed.


Written Question
Asylum: Housing
Monday 30th December 2024

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what occasions a Contract Change Note has been issued for contracts for asylum accommodation and support services since 2021.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Since 2021, Contract Change Notices have been issued for the Asylum Accommodation and Support contracts on the following occasions:

Serco MEE

CCN Number

Date Effective

006.02

01/03/2021

006.04

12/11/2021

006.07

06/01/2022

006.08

01/04/2022

006.10

24/05/2022

006.12

24/08/2022

006.14

31/10/2022

006.16

12/01/2023

006.18

12/01/2023

006.20

07/03/2023

006.22

27/03/2023

006.24

06/04/2023

006.26

24/05/2023

006.28

27/06/2023

006.30

20/07/2023

006.32

03/08/2023

006.34

20/10/2023

006.36

20/10/2023

008.00

14/12/2021

008.01

01/04/2022

008.02

16/11/2022

008.03

27/11/2022

009.00

01/01/2021

011.00

01/05/2022

012.00

24/05/2022

014.00

14/02/2022

015.00

01/09/2022

017.00

10/01/2023

018.00

01/01/2022

019.00

01/01/2023

019.10

11/08/2023

020.00

11/08/2023

022.00

03/08/2023

022.10

06/11/2023

022.20

05/01/2024

022.30

05/03/2024

022.40

05/06/2024

022.50

05/08/2024

023.00

04/07/2023

023a

08/09/2023

023b

18/09/2023

023c

18/09/2023

024.00

07/08/2023

024.10

07/08/2023

025.00

06/10/2023

026.00

08/12/2023

027.00

01/10/2024

Serco NW

CCN Number

Date Effective

005

23/11/2021

006.01

28/01/2021

006.03

13/07/2021

006.05

12/11/2021

006.06

06/01/2022

006.09

01/04/2022

006.11

24/05/2022

006.13

24/08/2022

006.14

31/10/2022

006.15

31/10/2022

006.17

12/01/2023

006.19

12/01/2023

006.21

07/03/2023

006.23

27/03/2023

006.25

06/04/2023

006.27

24/05/2023

006.29

27/06/2023

006.31

20/07/2023

006.33

03/08/2023

006.35

20/10/2023

006.37

20/10/2023

009

06/01/2022

011

01/05/2022

012

24/05/2022

013

11/05/2022

013.1

24/06/2022

014

11/02/2022

017

10/01/2023

018

01/01/2022

019

01/01/2023

019.01

01/04/2024

020

11/08/2023

025

06/10/2023

026

18/12/2023

027

01/10/2024

Mears NEYH

CCN Number

Date Effective

013

23/02/2021

014

01/03/2021

015

21/05/2021

016

06/09/2022

019

25/02/2022

022

06/04/2022

023

04/11/2022

024

01/01/2023

025

27/02/2023

026

11/07/2023

027

30/08/2023

028

17/11/2023

029

14/09/2023

030

05/01/2023

030A

20/02/2024

031

08/12/2023

033

08/01/2024

034

01/01/2024

035

01/02/2024

036

08/03/2024

037

15/03/2024

038

29/06/2024

039

24/07/2024

040

31/08/2024

041

29/09/2024

042

01/11/2024

043

17/11/2024

044

01/10/2024

048

01/12/2024

049

13/12/2024

Mears NI

CCN Number

Date Effective

009

17/01/2022

012

17/01/2022

013

04/04/2022

016

23/08/2023

019

09/02/2024

020

01/02/2024

021

01/10/2024

022

13/12/2024

Mears Scotland

CCN Number

Date Effective

010

15/01/2021

011

23/02/2021

012

01/03/2021

013

15/01/2021

014

25/02/2022

015

04/04/2022

016

15/01/2021

017

15/01/2021

018

15/01/2023

019

15/01/2021

020

23/08/2023

020A

23/08/2023

021

15/01/2021

022

01/02/2024

023

01/10/2024

024

18/11/2024

025

18/11/2024

026

01/10/2024

027

13/12/2024

CRH South

CCN Number

Date Effective

006e

22/03/2022

006f

25/10/2022

010

28/01/2021

011

31/03/2021

012

02/12/2021

013

11/02/2022

014

28/01/2022

015

01/04/2022

016

03/11/2022

016a

10/11/2022

016b

11/12/2022

016c

12/03/2023

016d

12/06/2023

016e

12/09/2023

016f

12/12/2023

017

22/11/2022

018

01/10/2021

019

01/01/2023

020

25/04/2023

021

11/06/2023

022

06/06/2023

023

26/07/2023

024

27/11/2023

025

13/11/2023

026

29/11/2023

028

23/07/2024

CRH Wales

CCN Number

Date Effective

010

28/01/2021

012

02/12/2021

013

11/02/2022