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Written Question
Home Office: Standards
Tuesday 26th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations have been undertaken by his Department's professional standards unit in each year since 2015, broken down into the categories of (a) immigration, borders and citizenship, (b) policing and (c) counter-terrorism.

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

The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department.


Written Question
UK Border Force: Corruption
Tuesday 26th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2024 to Question 15819 on UK Border Force: Corruption, if he will provide a breakdown of the allegations and referrals received by the Border Force Joint Anti-Corruption Intelligence Team by type in 2023.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

As the public rightly expect, we demand the highest standards from our Border Force officers and have measures in place to prevent and tackle corruption. There were 204 allegations and referrals received by Border Force Joint Anti-Corruption Intelligence Team in 2023, broken down as follows:

Type of allegation/referral

Number of allegations/referrals

Conspiracy Cross Border Offences

54

Crime

42

Vulnerable

22

Risk from associates

21

Local management issues

44

Not Border Force

6

Assist key partner

15


Written Question
Asylum: Rwanda
Tuesday 19th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Rwanda were granted asylum on (a) human rights and (b) other grounds in each year since 2010.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Those who need protection are normally granted refugee status or humanitarian protection.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum decisions by nationality are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum Applications, Decisions and Resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 2023.

All asylum and human rights claims lodged from within the UK and admitted to the UK asylum system, including those seeking asylum from Rwanda, are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations, and against the background of relevant case law, policy guidance and the latest available country of origin information.


Written Question
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
Tuesday 19th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders were (a) subject to deportation action and (b) living in the community by the length of time since the end of their custodial sentence as of 1 March 2024.

Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)

The Home Office does publish statistics on foreign national offenders (FNOs) subject to deportation action and living in the community by the length of time since the end of their custodial sentence. This is available from Table FNO_08 in: Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The latest data is published to September 2022.


Written Question
Aviation: Passengers
Thursday 14th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 15272 on Aviation: Passengers, if he will estimate the number of general aviation flights that landed in the UK without providing advance passenger information in each year since 2015.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

Given our commitment to protecting the UK from harm, I remain unable to share figures which can reveal operational practices that could be exploited to evade border controls.


Written Question
Armed Forces: Counter-terrorism
Thursday 14th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times a member of the Armed Forces was referred to Prevent in each year since 2018.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

The Home Office publishes data on Prevent referrals in the annual Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent Programme statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

This includes publishing a breakdown of the ‘Sector of referral of those referred’. Table 1 provides a yearly breakdown of the number of referrals from ‘Other’ sectors. ‘Other’ sectors includes military, government (includes Home Office Enforcement and HMRC), or other private sectors of employment. At this time we are unable to disaggregate the military component for the full time series.


Written Question
Portakabin: Contracts
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract agreed by his Department with Portakabin, published on 16 February 2024, reference CF-0358300D58000000L5A4EAK, what the spaces required are as set out in the Statement of Requirements v.1 point 4; and if he will publish an unredacted version of the document entitled Final 02 Offer Document Rev C.

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

An unredacted version of the sections in the document in question will be published in due course.

The Home Office ensures that all accommodation is safe, fit for purpose and meets all regulatory requirements.


Written Question
UK Border Force: Corruption
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals were made to the Border Force Joint Anti-Corruption Intelligence Team in each year since 2015.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

As the public rightly expect, we demand the highest standards from our Border Force officers and have measures in place to prevent and tackle corruption.

Allegations and referrals received by Border Force Joint Anti-Corruption Intelligence Team since it was formed in 2018:

2018

108

2019

121

2020

118

2021

130

2022

127

2023

204


Written Question
UK Border Force: Standards
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times has the IOPC carried out investigations into Border Force staff in each year since 2015; and if he will publish a list of each instance, broken down by the circumstances as listed in 3.18 of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration's Report: An Inspection of Border Force Insider Threat.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The IOPC have not themselves conducted any independent investigations into Border Force staff in that period.


Written Question
UK Border Force: Standards
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the recommendations included in the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s report: An inspection of Border Force insider threat have yet to be been implemented; and if will he list them.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

2 of the 8 recommendations that were either partially or fully accepted have been fully implemented, work is progressing on the other 6 recommendations.