Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of their Department's employees are recorded as having a disability.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The proportion of Home Office staff who have declared they have a disability is 12%.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help prevent hate crime against disabled people.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.
All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.
Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.
To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help encourage individuals to report hate crime against disabled people.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.
All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.
Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.
To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disability hate crime reports resulted in a charge in each of the last five years.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.
All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.
Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.
To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disability hate crime reports resulted in a court summons in each of the last five years.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.
All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.
Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.
To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of disabled people hold a valid passport.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
His Majesty’s Passport Office can apply exemptions to its policies where a disability would create undue difficulties in applying for a passport and will hold data on an individual record where such an exemption has been applied. However, a person being disabled otherwise has no bearing upon applying for a passport, and therefore data relating to a disability is not routinely captured or held in a reportable format.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2022 to Question 67097, on what date her Department publish its new Hate Crime Strategy.
Answered by Sarah Dines
No date has yet been determined for publication of the Hate Crime Strategy.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the levels of hate crime directed toward people with disabilities, when his Department's new hate crime strategy will be published.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.
All forms of hate crime are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.
The Government is committed to reducing crime and getting more police on the streets and is considering the next best steps to do so.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of September 26 to Question 51845, what methods her Department uses to assess levels of satisfaction.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The MP Account Management Team (MPAM) meets weekly to discuss operational performance, including feedback from MPs, to ensure we are providing the best service possible. A formal MP satisfaction survey is being launched in January 2023.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is still her Department's policy that eligibility for a British National (Overseas) visa will be extended to people born to at least one British parent in Hong Kong after 1997 in October 2022.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
On 24 February 2022, the Government announced in a Written Ministerial Statement a change to the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route, which will allow adult children of BN(O) status holders born on or after the 1 July 1997, who are currently unable to apply for the BN(O) route independently to do so. The statement is available at: Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.
The change is currently scheduled to come into effect this Autumn, at which point further information will be published on GOV.UK.