Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims have been open for longer than one year in (a) Ilford North constituency and (b) the London Borough of Redbridge.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications awaiting a decision can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Data on asylum seekers by local authority is published only for those in receipt of support, in table Asy_D11 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.
Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The data show a snapshot of people awaiting an initial decision or in receipt of support as at 30 September 2022, rather than over the entire quarter. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to promote the use of the Employer Checking System by employers.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
We have published guidance and a statutory code of practice for employers, which contains information on when to contact the Home Office Employer Checking Service (ECS).
This information is kept up to date and can be accessed on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/right-to-work-checks-employers-guide
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/illegal-working-penalties-codes-of-practice-for-employers
The Home Office engages regularly with a wide range of employers and their representative bodies either via established Home Office-led fora such as the Home Office consultation groups, as part of engagement with other government departments, or upon invitation to other events including webinars. We will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure processes are secure, accessible and employers understand their obligations and responsibilities concerning right to work checks and use of the ECS.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many residents in Ilford North constituency are on leave that has been extended by section 3C of the Immigration Act.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not hold data on how many people have had their leave extended by section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971. Once a valid, in time application has been made to the Home Office for permission to stay (leave to remain) or settlement (indefinite leave to remain) and their permission expires, section 3C will automatically extend their permission, including any conditions, until the application is decided or withdrawn and during any time that an appeal or administrative review may be brought or is pending.
The Home Office cannot provide the data without disproportionate cost. However, the transparency data, which is published quarterly, provides outstanding applications by specific route and can be found here: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data on appeals is published by the Ministry of Justice and their latest quarterly figures are here: Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: April to June 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data on administrative reviews is not currently published.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average waiting time is for an application for Discretionary Leave to Remain in the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Please note there is no standalone application for Discretionary Leave: instead, Discretionary Leave is considered when an individual does not qualify for leave under the Immigration Rules or for Leave outside the Rules (LOTR) for Article 8 reasons. Discretionary Leave applies to those who provide evidence of exceptional compassionate circumstances or there are other compelling reasons to grant leave on a discretionary basis.
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on those issued with Discretionary leave following an asylum application can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’, and data on asylum applications awaiting a decision can be found in table Asy_D03. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.
Please note the data on applications awaiting a decision show a snapshot as at the last day of each quarter, rather than the number of asylum applications awaiting a decision over the entire quarter. The latest data relates to as at 30 June 2022. Data as at 30 September 2022 will be published on 24 November 2022.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many travellers are currently arriving in the UK each day on average.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on daily air passenger arrivals in the ‘Immigration and border statistics relating to COVID-19’ publication.
The latest published information on daily air passenger arrivals to 31 October 2021, can be found in table Air_01, available at:
The Home Office also publishes quarterly data on admissions across all modes of transport in the ‘Immigration Statistics quarterly release’ publication.
The latest published information on quarterly admissions to 30 September 2021, can be found in table Adm_01, available at:
Immigration statistics data tables, year ending September 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been provided to support the London Fire Brigade in the London Borough of Redbridge in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not hold this information. The amount of funding allocated to London Fire Brigade is a matter for the Mayor.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police staff serve in the London Borough of Redbridge in February 2021 compared to May 2010.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin. However, data are collected at Police Force Area (PFA) level only, and information on officer and staff numbers in specific London Boroughs are not held centrally.
The latest in this statistical series covers the situation in both full time-equivalent (FTE) and headcount terms as at 30 September 2020 and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2020
While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales. Data are available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the judgement of 21 October 2020 of the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission in the case of Arumugam and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to remove the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from the list of organisations proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2011.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Government was disappointed with the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission’s (the Commission) decision to allow the appeal in the matter of the ongoing proscription of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE remains proscribed at this time and we await a further decision from the Commission on the action that the Government must take in response to the judgment.
The appeal was allowed on a procedural point. The Commission has acknowledged there was material available to support the then Home Secretary’s conclusion that the LTTE is concerned in terrorism. The Government has made submissions to the Commission that the decision on whether or not to maintain proscription should be retaken.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
What assessment she has made of the adequacy of Government funding allocated to the recruitment of 6,000 police officers by March 2021.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This Government is delivering on the people’s priorities by giving policing the biggest funding increase in a decade.
In total we’re increasing the funding available to the policing system by over £1bn this year.
In order to help recruit we are giving PCCs an additional £700 million this year to help deliver the recruitment of 6,000 additional officers by the end of March 2021; we have already recruited 3000 new officers.
We are giving the police the resources they need to fight crime and keep the public safe.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) police community support officers, (c) non-uniformed police staff, (d) special constables, (e) designated officers, (f) dogs and (g) horses were deployed in (i) the London Borough of Redbridge and (ii) the Metropolitan Police Service area in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers, police staff, designated officers, police community support officers and special constables employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.
The Home Office collects this information at Police Force Area level only. Data on the number of police officers, police staff, designated officers, police community support officers and special constables in the Metropolitan Police Service, as at 31 March each year and going back to March 2007, can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods
The Home Office does not hold information on the total number of dogs or horses deployed by police forces.