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Written Question
Road Traffic Offences: Cycling and Electric Scooters
Friday 13th March 2026

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.


Written Question
Home Office: Arms Length Bodies
Friday 13th March 2026

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.


Written Question
Home Office: Facilities Agreements
Friday 13th March 2026

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.


Written Question
Children in Care: Missing Persons
Friday 13th March 2026

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


Written Question
Counter-terrorism: Finance
Thursday 12th March 2026

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 8 September 2025, to Question 71459, on Counter-terrorism: Finance, if she will list the individual quantitative and qualitative elements and metrics used by the Homeland Security Analysis and Insight team to determine the funding to individual councils.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

Each year the Home Office conducts an annual prioritisation exercise to understand which Local Authorities (LAs) are facing the highest threat from radicalisation to terrorism. The process incorporates both quantitative and qualitative elements.

The quantitative element of the model draws on counter-terrorism investigations data and arrests data for terrorism and terrorism-related offences; the number of cases that have been discussed at a Channel multi-agency panel or are being managed separately under the police-led process; community tension reports; hate crime data; Indices of Multiple Deprivation; and annual employment statistics. It is regularly reviewed and adapted to ensure that it provides a sound basis to make effective evidence-based decisions.

As part of the qualitative element, we hold a series of regional roundtables with key Prevent delivery partners, which allows us to sense check the preliminary rankings and make adjustments by drawing on the knowledge and experience of front-line Prevent practitioners from across a range of sectors, including CT Policing; Department for Education; Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government; Health; and HM Prisons and Probation.

Funding for posts and dedicated projects is allocated as part of an annual bidding process, with funding allocations informed by factors including the amount of funding available, the level of threat, the level of funding provided for Prevent posts in the previous financial year, and inflation-related increases.


Written Question
Drugs: Smuggling
Thursday 12th March 2026

Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government will make additional financial contributions to the EU as a consequence of the agreement to ooperate in relation to drugs risks and threats.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

No decisions have yet been taken as to whether the UK will make additional financial contributions to the European Union as a consequence of the new provisions set out in the Common Understanding of 19 May 2025 2025 to cooperate in relation to drugs risks and threats.

Our position remains that we are prepared to make an appropriate financial contribution to support the relevant costs associated with the European Union's work in this policy area, for example to access EU agencies or databases. We will need to work through the details of this in further discussions with the EU.

Any decisions on such matters will be assessed in accordance with Government Accounting Officer rules, including value for money.


Written Question
Hacking: Social Media
Thursday 12th March 2026

Asked by: Andrew Snowden (Conservative - Fylde)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential risk of social media account hacking to public office holders.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

The Defending Democracy Taskforce, chaired by the Security Minister, works closely with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Westminster Parliamentary authorities, and Devolved Partners to help protect public office holders against the risk of cyber-attacks.

We strongly encourage public office holders to follow the NCSC’s guidance for high-risk individuals on protecting accounts and devices, found on their website, and sign up for its cyber defence services to help bolster their protection.

Public office holders should also consider turning on 2-step verification for all important online accounts, including social media, to improve their security.


Written Question
Counter-terrorism: Finance
Thursday 12th March 2026

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


Written Question
Protective Security for Mosques Scheme
Thursday 12th March 2026

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.


Written Question
Domestic Abuse
Thursday 12th March 2026

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:

  • £550 million for victims’ services from the Ministry of Justice;
  • £499 million for safe accommodation from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

This sits alongside wider investments, across government, to support victims.