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Written Question
Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Children
Thursday 8th February 2024

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether children will be detained at Derwentside immigration removal centre.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

Derwentside immigration removal centre, currently a female only centre, will be converted into a facility for men in due course. There is no intention for children to be detained at Derwentside.


Written Question
UK Border Force: Patrol Craft
Wednesday 20th December 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2023 to Question 172353 on UK Border Force: Patrol Craft, what his Department's timescales are for the formal launch of market engagement for the procurement of replacement Border Force vessels.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

Progress continues to be made on plans to procure a replacement Cutter and Coastal Patrol Vessel maritime capability for Border Force. The procurement schedule has not yet been finalised.


Written Question
UK Border Force: Finance
Tuesday 19th December 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget for Small Boats Operational Command is for 2023-24.

Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)

The latest published figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2022-2023 Home Office annual report and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 2023-2024 figures will be published in future reports.


Written Question
Retail Trade: Crime
Wednesday 6th December 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of recorded crime against retailer workers was associated with age-related sales in the last 12 months.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office collects and publishes data on crime affecting retail premises as part of the Commercial Victimisation survey. The most recent publication covers the year 2022 and estimated that in 2022, 4% of premises which experienced violent incidents stated that asking for ID for age restricted products was one of the most common reasons for the violent crime.

The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any public-facing worker is never acceptable. We take this issue very seriously and recognise the implications these incidents can have on businesses as well as the victims.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Wednesday 13th September 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to correspondence of 11 August 2023 from the Rt Hon. Member for North Durham, case reference KJ30777.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office replied to your office on 11 September 2023.


Written Question
English Channel: Surveillance
Monday 12th June 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 June to Question 187056 on English Channel: Surveillance, what her Department's budget was for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations over the English Channel in each of the last five financial years.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

This complex operating and budgetary landscape means that the question could only be definitively answered at a disproportionate cost.


Written Question
English Channel: Surveillance
Wednesday 7th June 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what aircraft her Department uses for the purposes of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations over the English Channel as of 1 June 2023.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

The Home Office uses a range of ISR platforms for a variety of reasons and these are provided either directly by contracted suppliers, or through arrangements with other government departments, but it is not in the interests of operational security to itemise each of these capabilities or how they are used.


Written Question
Surveillance: Finance
Wednesday 7th June 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the total budget allocated by her Department for the provision of a fixed-wing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance service by PAL Aerospace Ltd between April 2023 to October 2024.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

Specific expenditure on ISR contracts is considered commercially and operationally sensitive information and is not published.


Written Question
English Channel: Surveillance
Wednesday 7th June 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations over the English Channel in each of the last five financial years.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

Specific expenditure on ISR contracts is considered commercially and operationally sensitive information and is not published.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 25th April 2023

Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a process exists for hon. Members to raise urgent immigration cases directly with the Minister for Immigration.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

All urgent enquiries should be sent to the MP Account Management team’s urgent inbox at mpurgentqueries@homeoffice.gov.uk.