Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much will people whose claims have been rejected be offered to move to Rwanda voluntarily.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
Individuals who have no right to remain in the UK legally are being offered voluntary relocation to Rwanda under a new agreement with the Government of Rwanda. This will relocate individuals who have no right to work, rent or remain in the UK to relocate to Rwanda and allow them to build safe and prosperous lives there.
Individuals will receive £3,000 to support their relocation, paid to them on a card that can only be used in Rwanda.
This builds on our already widely used voluntary returns scheme, which saw more than 19,000 people return to their country-of-origin last year. We can also now facilitate relocation to Rwanda, providing an alternative for those whose country of origin is unsafe or those who would prefer not to return, but have no right to remain in the UK.
Under this Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Rwanda, individuals relocated voluntarily will have the same package of support for up to five years and access to integration programmes, so that they can study, undertake training, and work. Actual spend of the policy will be reported as part of the annual Home Office Reports and Accounts in the usual way.
Correspondence Apr. 29 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Correspondence from Sir Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, re Asylum Accommodation and
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Treasury Minutes – April 2024Found: The Home Office primarily leads on operational matters relating to the processing of visas and checks
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Treasury Minutes – April 2024Found: The Home Office primarily leads on operational matters relating to the processing of visas and checks
Correspondence May. 15 2024
Committee: European Affairs CommitteeFound: 15 May 2024, Letter from Lord Ricketts to the Minister for Europe re Commission Annual Work Programme
Correspondence Mar. 05 2024
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)Found: Letter from the Chair to the Home Secretary, regarding follow-up to the session on 31 January, dated
Correspondence Mar. 05 2024
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)Found: Letter from the Home Secretary, regarding follow-up to the session on 31 January, dated 28 February 2024
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was for (a) financial support and (b) accommodation for people (i) seeking asylum and (ii) arriving through other humanitarian routes in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered. Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. The Home Office is currently spending around £8.3m per day on hotel accommodation. Total expenditure on asylum and humanitarian routes is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Home Office does not publish a breakdown which disaggregates the cost of financial support and accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees by local authority.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Cross-Government Fraud Landscape: Annual Report 2022, published on 21 March 2023, what the basis is of the increase in detected error in his Department from £13.4m in 2019-20 to £17.1m in 2020-21.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
In reference to your question, the Fraud Landscape Report figures were reported to the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA, formerly the Counter Fraud Centre of Expertise) as part of established reporting cycles. The government defines error as losses arising from unintentional events, processing errors and official government errors - such losses are judged as without fraudulent intent. Since 2014, Fraud Landscape Reports show an increase in both detected fraud and error across government. This is in line with the government's explicit objective to find more fraud in the system. By detecting more, we can understand fraud better - and deal with it better.
The Home Office detected error in 2019/20 was published in the Fraud Landscape Bulletin and in 2020/21 was published in the Fraud Landscape Report. The reasons for any increase are set out in these documents.
The PSFA assists ministerial departments and public bodies in their delivery of specialist fraud activity. In its first year it delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2023 to Question 5034 on Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, if he will hold discussions with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on the publication of their annual reviews for each year since 2019-20.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Home Office Ministers regularly meet the Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. However, as an independent Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) the publication of its annual reports is a matter for the ACMD.