Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of her Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Spending Review announcement set the overall budget for the Home Office. Officials are now going through the detail and will continue to provide advice to the Home Secretary on individual allocations and spending commitments. We anticipate that funding allocations for research and development will be confirmed in the new year.
Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are detained in prison for immigration control purposes under the service level agreement between her Department and the National Offender Management Service; and when that agreement is due to be renewed.
Answered by James Brokenshire
As at 15 December 2014 there were 394 detainees held in prison establishments
in England and Wales solely under Immigration powers as set out in the
Immigration Act 1971 or UK Borders Act 2007.
The current Service Level Agreement between the Home Office and National
Offender Management Service (NOMS) ends on 31 March 2015. The Home Office is
in negotiation with NOMS to renew the agreement.