Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of digital roles within his Department were vacant as of 26 February 2024.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
There are 2691 digital roles within the departments’ digital function, of which 6% (160) are currently vacant.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding their Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
In the Home Office, a total of 13% of the department’s main IT systems are regarded as Legacy, being on platforms deemed no longer to be invested in.
However, it is not possible to determine the amount spent on software updates alone on legacy systems, as those costs are often shared and/or not itemised under other service line costs.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police recorded cases of human trafficking there were in (a) 2021, (b) 2020, (c) 2019 and (c) 2018.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office routinely publishes the number of human trafficking offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. Such offences are recorded within the Modern Slavery” category in the quarterly police recorded crime open data tables which can be found here:
Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff were employed during (a) 2021 and (b) 2019 in Border force.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The latest published staffing and finance figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2020-2021 on page 107 at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021.
The published staffing and finance figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2018-2019 on page 85 at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on every (a) company or (b) employer found to be engaged in modern slavery offences in the UK, under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
The Government does not hold the information in the requested format.