Asked by: Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative - Thirsk and Malton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 82334 on Home Office: Facilities Agreements, whether there has been a change to facility time arrangements in her Department since July 2024; and if she will make an assessment of the reasons for the change in the (a) cost and (b) number of facility time staff.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
There have not been any changes to facility time arrangements in the Home Office since July 2024.
There will always be fluctuations from one year to another in terms of the number of employees elected as trade union reps and the amount of facility time they use to undertake their duties.
These fluctuations will be driven by a range of factors, such as vacancies on trade union committees being filled, the number of consultation exercises the employer needs to engage the unions on and the level of personal casework (e.g. grievances and disciplinaries) where trade union representatives may be supporting individual employees.
Asked by: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 26 February (HL14639), how many fixed penalty notices have been issued to cyclists and scooter riders for (1) jumping red lights, and (2) riding on pavements, in England in the past 12 months; and whether they have plans to introduce legislation to reduce those practices.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not collect or hold specific data on the number of fixed penalty notices issued to cyclists or scooter riders.
The Home Office’s annual publication Police Powers and Procedures: Roads Policing - the most recent edition of which is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-roads-policing-to-december-2023 - provides statistics on fixed penalty notices and other outcomes for motoring offences, all of which apply exclusively to motor-vehicle drivers. Cyclists are therefore excluded from the scope of the published figures.
It is an offence for a cyclist to jump a red light and to cycle on a pavement, and the Government is determined to go further to make our streets safer for pedestrians by introducing new cycling offences through the Crime and Policing Bill, which will tackle instances where victims have been killed or seriously injured by irresponsible cyclists, ensuring parity of enforcement powers against dangerous behaviour on our roads, for all road users.
The Crime and Policing Bill will also give police greater powers to clamp down on anti-social behaviour involving e-scooters, with officers no longer required to issue a warning before seizure. This will allow police to put an immediate stop to offending.
Asked by: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Home Office has declined to lay before Parliament a draft statutory code submitted by an arm's-length body between January 2015 and December 2025, where that code has not been subject to litigation.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
For all Home Office administratively classified arm’s length bodies, with the exception of National Crime Agency and Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the Home Office has not declined to lay before Parliament any draft statutory codes submitted in the time frame given, where that code has not been subject to litigation.
For National Crime Agency and Investigatory Powers Tribunal a reasonable search has failed to locate the requested information in the time available.
Asked by: Jess Brown-Fuller (Liberal Democrat - Chichester)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the number of children that go missing by region every year.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold this data centrally.
Information about current missing persons incidents is held by individual police forces.
The National Crime Agency’s UK Missing Persons Unit holds the national database for all missing incidents that are unresolved after 72hours, allowing the police to have access to missing persons information across force boundaries. In addition, annual missing persons statistics, broken down to police force level, are published by the National Crime Agency’s Missing Person’s Unit in its annual data report which can be found here: Downloads - National Crime Agency
Asked by: Mark Pritchard (Conservative - The Wrekin)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of sexual offences that have been committed by asylum seekers in (a) the West Mercia Police region and (b) Shropshire since 2025.
Answered by Alex Norris - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold data on the number of people in asylum accommodation who have been accused of a crime. Allegations of criminal activity are matters for the police, who are responsible for recording, investigating, and progressing criminal reports.
Home Office accommodation providers and operational staff work closely with local police forces to share relevant safeguarding information to manage risks within the asylum accommodation estate. Where incidents occur, established processes ensure that appropriate action is taken to protect both asylum seekers and staff, and additional support is deployed where necessary.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2025, to Question 71458, on Counter-terrorism: finance, if he will list how much was paid to each individual local authority for (a) local authority posts and (b) project delivery in 2024-25.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
In 2024/25, the Home Office paid dedicated Prevent grant funds to the 30 highest threat priority area local authorities. A breakdown of the funding that was paid to local authorities via the Home Office Prevent grant for posts and projects is outlined in Table A.
In addition, in 2024/25 all local authorities in England and Wales were able to apply for targeted Prevent projects, which were delivered through the Preventing Radicalisation Fund (PRF). The PRF is now available to local authorities in Scotland. These projects are delivered by trusted third sector organisations, including local civil society organisations. The funding for approved PRF projects was not paid to local authorities directly and was administered separately by a Grant Administrator. The funding that was allocated for PRF projects delivered in local authorities in 2024/25 is outlined in Table B.
Please note that some priority areas in receipt of Home Office Prevent grant funding also applied for additional project funding via the PRF to support project delivery in other adjacent local authorities as part of regional activities. In addition, some local authorities teamed up to place joint PRF bids to support project delivery across multiple local authorities, and have been grouped together in Table B.
Table A
| Local Authorities (Alphabetical order) | Funds paid (£) for Posts (Home Office Grant) | Funds paid (£) for Projects (Home Office Grant) |
1 | Birmingham | 351,324.81 | 229,176.00 |
2 | Blackburn with Darwen | 267,925.04 | 0 |
3 | Bradford | 223,230.88 | 56,214.25 |
4 | Brent | 268,876.60 | 11,000.00 |
5 | Bristol | 102,512.31 | 0 |
6 | Calderdale | 170,554.62 | 18,122.00 |
7 | Cardiff | 258,713.51 | 87,020.45 |
8 | Croydon | 143,976.07 | 0 |
9 | Derby | 211,942.03 | 95,350.00 |
10 | Ealing | 139,348.01 | 0 |
11 | Enfield | 202,208.92 | 33,105.00 |
12 | Hackney | 137,053.60 | 0 |
13 | Haringey | 142,757.15 | 33,000.00 |
14 | Kent | 246,595.05 | 0 |
15 | Kirklees | 160,652.47 | 46,905.00 |
16 | Lambeth | 155,856.32 | 0 |
17 | Leeds | 251,136.77 | 186,453.40 |
18 | Leicester | 186,792.29 | 133,431.75 |
19 | Liverpool | 295,107.65 | 7,047.00 |
20 | Luton | 214,554.33 | 134,624.50 |
21 | Manchester | 392,184.44 | 107,292.00 |
22 | Newcastle upon Tyne | 102,390.73 | 0 |
23 | Newham | 162,565.93 | 59,233.86 |
24 | Nottingham | 129,317.13 | 0 |
25 | Redbridge | 193,073.69 | 115,041.45 |
26 | Sandwell | 149,199.99 | 0 |
27 | Sheffield | 160,784.35 | 0 |
28 | Tower Hamlets | 192,498.63 | 100,074.28 |
29 | Waltham Forest | 142,697.04 | 0 |
30 | Westminster | 281,887.25 | 30,000 |
Table B
| Local Authorities (Alphabetical order) | Allocated Funds (£) for Projects (PRF) |
1 | Barnsley | 13,500 |
2 | Cambridgeshire | 20,430 |
3 | Coventry | 19,638.50 |
4 | Dorset | 24,483 |
5 | East Midlands: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | 60,650 |
6 | Essex | 14,672.38 |
7 | Greater Manchester: Oldham, Trafford, Bolton, Wigan, Salford, Stockport, Rochdale | 40,792 |
8 | Havering | 8,973 |
9 | Humberside: Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire | 20,922.50 |
10 | Isle of Wight | 13,701 |
11 | Lancashire: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Lancashire | 31,820.40 |
12 | Merseyside: Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral | 122,060.5 |
13 | Rotherham | 25,604.40 |
14 | Solihull | 10,050 |
15 | Southampton | 10,675 |
16 | South London: Lambeth, Croydon & Wandsworth | 17,559.20 |
17 | South West London: Kingston, Richmond & Wandsworth | 6,195 |
18 | Thurrock | 19,988.27 |
19 | Wakefield | 20,250 |
20 | Wales: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Powys | 34,646.40 |
21 | Wales: Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend | 23,949.00 |
22 | West London: Hammersmith & Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Ealing, Hillingdon, Richmond & Wandsworth, Hounslow, Merton | 43,420 |
23 | West Midlands: Wolverhampton and Dudley | 8,275.00 |
24 | Wiltshire | 26,303.60 |
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will amend the Protective Security for Mosques scheme to remove the requirement for a hate crime to have already been committed in order to qualify for protective security.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
Mosques and associated Muslim community centres where regular worship takes place are eligible to apply for the Protective Security for Mosques scheme through the application form on gov.uk.
Applicants are asked to provide a summary of any security concerns or hate crime experienced at their mosque or community centre, and the impact these have on the people who use it.
Applicants are also asked to provide further details or evidence of any incidents of hate crime, where relevant. This will be considered as part of their application alongside other factors set out in the guidance.
Asked by: Julian Lewis (Conservative - New Forest East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the likely impact of the recent changes in immigration rules on the practicability of continuing the rescue from oppressive regimes of academics in danger by awarding fellowships at United Kingdom universities, arranged until now by the Council for At-Risk Academics.
Answered by Alex Norris - Minister of State (Home Office)
The visa brake will apply to nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan, for the Student route, and nationals of Afghanistan for the Skilled Worker route. We understand decision may be disappointing to some people. If fellowship schemes use the specified routes, they will be impacted; schemes that use any other visa routes will be unaffected.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the adequacy of funding for domestic abuse services.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-government strategy committed to invest more than £1 billion over the next three years to support victims, including:
This sits alongside wider investments, across government, to support victims.
Asked by: Richard Quigley (Labour - Isle of Wight West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of support available for survivors of sexual assault on the Isle of Wight.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This Government is investing £550 million in victim support services over the next three years through: