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Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: Expenditure
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 95 of the Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23: Supplementary Estimates, published on 21 February 2023, how the additional £269,000,000 funding to tackle illegal immigration was spent.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Funding drawn down to cover illegal migration spend across the illegal migration portfolio was used for both: a range of measures announced during the financial year 22/23; and additional asylum support costs. The £269,000,000 referenced was principally used for two areas: the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) with Rwanda Factsheet: Migration and Economic Development Partnership - Home Office in the media (blog.gov.uk); and to cover increasing asylum support costs.

Asylum Support costs represent spending to meet our statutory obligations for providing support to destitute asylum seekers in the UK, which includes the provision of accommodation, transportation, and support services to the Supported Population. We also fund Local Authorities for their costs incurred in supporting Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children & Care Leavers.


Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: Expenditure
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 96 of the Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23: Supplementary Estimates, published on 21 February 2023, how the additional £334,820,000 funding to tackle illegal immigration was spent.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office does not routinely publish data breaking down the additional expenditure spent on asylum support or illegal migration.

Home Office expenditure is detailed in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, with the most recent Annual Report and Accounts for 2021 to 2022 published on 14 July 2022 and available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022.


Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: Expenditure
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 96 of the Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23: Supplementary Estimates, published on 21 February 2023, how the additional £116,000,000 funding to tackle illegal immigration was spent.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office does not routinely publish data breaking down the additional expenditure spent on asylum support or illegal migration.

Home Office expenditure is detailed in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, with the most recent Annual Report and Accounts for 2021 to 2022 published on 14 July 2022 and available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022.


Written Question
Asylum: Finance
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 96 of the Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23: Supplementary Estimates, published on 21 February 2023, how the additional £1,614,856,000 for asylum support costs was spent.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office does not routinely publish data breaking down the additional expenditure spent on asylum support or illegal migration.

Home Office expenditure is detailed in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, with the most recent Annual Report and Accounts for 2021 to 2022 published on 14 July 2022 and available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022.


Written Question
Asylum: Expenditure
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 101 of the Central Government Supply Estimates 2021-22: Supplementary Estimates, published on 22 February 2022, how the additional £404,116,000 funding for asylum support was spent.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office does not routinely publish data breaking down the additional expenditure spent on asylum support or illegal migration.

Home Office expenditure is detailed in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, with the most recent Annual Report and Accounts for 2021 to 2022 published on 14 July 2022 and available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022.


Written Question
Crime: Rural Areas
Friday 3rd March 2023

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of rural crime in 2022.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

This Government is committed to driving down rural crime. Our manifesto committed us to use police resources to tackle rural crime, and as at 31 December 2022, 16,753 additional uplift officers have been recruited in England and Wales through the Police Uplift Programme. We are on target to recruit 20,000 additional officers by March 2023, taking us for the first time to over 148,000 officers across England and Wales. This is unprecedented and reflects the biggest recruitment drive in decades, and will help ensure the public is better protected, including in rural communities.

We are also taking steps to address issues that we know affect rural communities. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act empowers and equips the police and courts with the powers they need to combat hare coursing, and the Government is supporting the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill, which aims to prevent the theft of quad bikes and All-Terrain Vehicles. The Government is also providing funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) estimates that in 2021 rural theft cost the UK £40.5m, based on their insurance claim statistics.


Written Question
Police: Finance
Friday 9th December 2022

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was provided to police forces through (a) the DCLG grant, (b) the Welsh grant and (c) other grants in 2010/11.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The information requested is available online, on the Government website, at the link listed below. The tables show police forces’ funding allocations for 2010-11 which contain information on the DCLG grant, Welsh grant and other grants.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2009-11-26/debates/09112628000414/PoliceGrants

It is not possible to make direct comparisons between current police funding figures and police funding in the years before 2015-16 due to a number of significant changes in the structure of police funding and the structure of policing over the period.


Written Question
Emergency Services Network: Finance
Monday 24th October 2022

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the new Emergency Services Network (a) was originally projected to cost and (b) is currently projected to cost as of 19 October 2022.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The estimated cost of providing critical emergency services communications between 2015/16 and 2036/37 is £11.3bn, as per the plan agreed in the July 2021 Full Business Case.

Within this total, the cost of the programme to deliver ESN is £1.6bn, compared with the original estimate of £1.2bn. The £11.3bn also includes Airwave and Legacy contracts, and the ongoing costs of the replacement ESN service.

This assumed Airwave and Legacy system costs of approximately £450m annually (before any impact from the CMA findings), compared with ESN at around £250m per annum.

There are a number of elements that may impact the overall delivery cost and time.

This includes but is not limited to the recent provisional CMA findings into Motorola’s dual role as owner of Airwave and supplier on the programme and any extension to the Airwave shutdown date beyond the end of 2026, as well as contract negotiations for both Lot 2 and 3 as these are due to end in 2024.

Our goal is to work to deliver ESN as swiftly and safely as possible.


Written Question
Emergency Services Network
Monday 24th October 2022

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the planned completion date for the Emergency Services Network.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

In 2021 the Business Case for ESN set out the expectation that transition to ESN would take place in 2024 with Airwave shut down by 2026.

However, recent changes in our commercial arrangements with one of our key suppliers means that we are exploring future options for the delivery of the ‘user services’ contract with ESN.

This activity will have an impact on the timetable for ESN delivery and we will know more once any re-procurement activity concludes and integrated delivery plans are built. We will share more information when it is known.

Our goal is to work to deliver ESN as swiftly and safely as possible.


Written Question
Airwave Service: Operating Costs
Monday 24th October 2022

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the (a) daily, (b) monthly and (c) yearly cost for the use of the airwave service since 2017.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

From 2016/17 to 2021/22 the Airwave System has averaged approximately £370m per annum, which includes network and devices for the three emergency services. With the impact of inflation, the projected annual costs for the Airwave System were anticipated to be approximately £450m per year in the July 2021 Full Business Case. To note that there are other Airwave users beyond the three emergency services that are invoiced directly, and are not captured in these costs.

There are a number of elements that may impact the overall delivery cost and time. This includes but is not limited to the recent provisional CMA findings into Motorola’s dual role as owner of Airwave and supplier on the programme and any extension to the Airwave shutdown date beyond the end of 2026, as well as negotiations for both Lot 2 and 3 as both of these contracts are due to end in 2024. Our goal is to work to deliver ESN as swiftly and safely as possible.