Asked by: Nigel Farage (Reform UK - Clacton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on police protection provided to people other than Ministers and members of the Royal Family.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The government’s protective security system is rigorous and proportionate. It is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on protective security arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect individuals’ security.
Decisions on security arrangements are independent operational decisions for the police.
Asked by: Nigel Farage (Reform UK - Clacton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel who are not intercepted by Border Force.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
On a daily basis, the Home Office publishes data on the number of small boats crossing the Channel that have been involved in uncontrolled landings. The latest such publication, and a time series dating back to 2018, can be found at: Small boat activity in the English Channel - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Nigel Farage (Reform UK - Clacton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to work with young people to help prevent radicalisation.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government is committed to ensuring all children and young people are safe, including from radicalisation.
The Prevent programme tackles ideological causes of terrorism and provides early intervention for people at risk of radicalisation.
Where a young person has been exposed to harmful terrorist narratives, early intervention through Prevent can provide vital safeguarding measures. The programme provides training for educators, healthcare staff and other frontline staff to help them identify and protect those susceptible to radicalisation.
The Home Secretary has commissioned the Counter-Extremism Sprint to identify gaps in current policy approaches and to recommend a new approach to tackling radicalisation that can draw individuals to hateful ideologies, both online and offline.
We will continue to consider any new measures to prevent youth radicalisation.
Asked by: Nigel Farage (Reform UK - Clacton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the value for money of payments made to the French government to stop the departures of illegal boats travelling to the UK from northern France.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
Expenditure and value for money are monitored closely, with a joint governance structure to ensure the suitability of proposed expenditure against the shared aim of the UK and French Governments of stopping these dangerous and unnecessary crossings.
Asked by: Nigel Farage (Reform UK - Clacton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many small boats without permission to enter the UK departing from northern France have been disrupted this year, and of those how many migrants were (a) detained or (b) attempted a further crossing.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
So far in 2024 (to 6 October) a total of 607 boats have been prevented from crossing the Channel as a result of our joint work with the French.
Asked by: Nigel Farage (Reform UK - Clacton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to offer an amnesty to illegal immigrants residing in the UK.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
No.