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Written Question
Home Office: Offenders
Tuesday 12th March 2024

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.

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

All Home Office staff considered for appointment undergo stringent pre-employment and security checks before taking up post.

We recognise the contribution that former offenders can make to our workforce, however, in deciding whether to make an appointment we would consider a range of factors, including the nature of the position and the circumstances of the offence. However, to determine those members of staff with a criminal conviction in our current workforce can only be obtained with disproportionate effort.


Written Question
Tobacco: Seized Articles
Wednesday 6th December 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the provisions in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 allowing a constable to seize any tobacco or cigarette papers in the possession of any person apparently under the age of sixteen years whom they find smoking in any street or public place have been used in each of the last 10 years.

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

The Home Office collects and publishes data on use of police powers, as part of the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

However, data is not collected on the seizure of tobacco or cigarette papers under the Children and Young Person Act 1933.


Written Question
Public Sector: Crimes of Violence
Monday 11th September 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2023 to Question 192042 on Public Sector: Crimes of Violence, if she will take steps to ensure that information on the number of assaults of other public service workers is separately identifiable in the Police recorded crime and outcomes statistics.

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

Currently only assaults on Police and Emergency Workers are captured as a separate classification within the Home Office’s police recorded crime and outcomes statistics.

There is an ongoing review of the rules governing how crime is recorded by the police in England and Wales and this will consider the case for introducing additional classifications to better understand the impact of crime across other areas such as retail workers and public sector workers.


Written Question
Asylum
Thursday 7th September 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people denied asylum have been granted humanitarian protection in each of the last five years.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on people granted humanitarian protection can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.

Please note that the figures for grants of humanitarian protection include those granted humanitarian protection following a refused asylum claim, however this specific breakdown is not published separately.

The latest data relate to the year ending June 2023. Data for the year ending September 2023 will be published on 23 November 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.


Written Question
Public Sector: Crimes of Violence
Tuesday 11th July 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of (a) abuse and (b) other hostility towards public service workers were reported in the last 12 months.

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

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of police recorded offences on ‘assaults on a constable’ and the number of ‘assaults on an emergency worker (other than a constable)’ on a quarterly basis and that can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

Information on other public sector workers is not separately identifiable within police recorded crime.

The Office for National Statistics’ Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and its latest estimates shows that the number of incidences of violence has fallen by 41% since the year ending March 2010, to 1.1 million incidences.

The Home Office has taken a significant step to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against those who are serving the public, via the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This means the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences. This provision commenced in June 2022.


Written Question
Asylum
Monday 13th February 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who have had an asylum application refused and are still in the UK.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Information regarding the number of failed asylum seekers still living in the UK can be found on tables ASY03 and RCM02 of the most recently published immigration and protection transparency data:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q3-2022.


Written Question
Police: Disciplinary Proceedings
Tuesday 31st January 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what happens to the disciplinary records of police officers when they change (i) gender and (ii) name.

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

The maintenance of officers’ disciplinary records are not determined in legislation and would be an operational matter for police forces.


Written Question
Asylum: Finance and Housing
Wednesday 11th January 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum seekers who have had their applications rejected in each of the last five years are having (a) accommodation and (b) financial support paid for through the public purse as of 6 January 2022.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on initial decisions on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Data on asylum seekers in receipt of support can be found in table Asy_D09 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Please note the data show a snapshot as at the last day of each quarter, rather than the number of asylum seekers receiving support over the entire quarter. The latest data relates to as at 30 September 2022. Data as at 31 December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Guidance on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum work in progress in the Migration Transparency Data. Data on the number of failed asylum seekers subject to removal action are provided in table Asy_03 of the immigration and protection data.


Written Question
Asylum: Finance and Housing
Wednesday 11th January 2023

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have had their applications rejected in each of the last five years have (a) accommodation and (b) financial support provided to them from the public purse.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on initial decisions on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Data on asylum seekers in receipt of support can be found in table Asy_D09 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Please note the data show a snapshot as at the last day of each quarter, rather than the number of asylum seekers receiving support over the entire quarter. The latest data relates to as at 30 September 2022. Data as at 31 December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Guidance on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum work in progress in the Migration Transparency Data. Data on the number of failed asylum seekers subject to removal action are provided in table Asy_03 of the immigration and protection data.


Written Question
Home Office: Civil Servants
Monday 21st November 2022

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.

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

Home Office staff data can only be obtained via information retained as of the last day of the month.

Information on the latest Home Office staff data will be published on 30th November and for b) dated 31 January 2020 is published here. Workforce management information, 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)