Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was between an application for asylum being rejected and the asylum seeker being deported in each of the last five years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office is unable to provide timespans between asylum claims being initially refused and eventual return. There are many different factors that can impact on timescales ranging from legal interventions such as appeals and the raising of further submissions, to the ability to secure travel documents and individuals going to ground. Any figure would therefore be arbitrary and not indicative of the circumstances surrounding any individual case.
The Home Office publishes data on how many unsuccessful applicants left the UK either voluntarily or by enforced removal. The latest data can be found in the published immigration statistics, with table Ret_05 of the summary tables relating to both Asylum and Non Asylum returns.
Those whose asylum claim has been refused but could be liable to return can be found in table Asy_03 of the published immigration statistics at
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-protection-data-august-2020
Those with no right to be in the UK should return home. We expect people to leave the country voluntarily but, where they do not, Immigration Enforcement will seek to enforce their departure.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have claimed asylum in each of the last six months.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
There were 32,423 asylum claims in the UK (main claimants only) in the year ending June 2020.
This information can be found in the published immigration statistics, updated, 27th August 2020 at Asy_01a and Asy_02b:
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 are accommodated in (a) Shipley constituency, (b) Bradford district and (c) West Yorkshire.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people refused asylum have been deported in each of the last six months.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum-related returns are published in table Ret_05 of the returns summary tables.
Asylum-related returns relate to cases where there has been an asylum claim at some stage prior to the return. This will include asylum seekers whose asylum claims have been refused, and who have exhausted any rights of appeal, those returned under third country provisions, as well as those granted asylum/protection, but removed for other reasons (such as criminality).
The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/910114/returns-summary-jun-2020-tables.xlsx
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of assaults on shop workers in each of the last three years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects data relating to assaults and threats against retail staff via the ‘Commercial Victimisation Survey’ (CVS). However, the latest estimates are from the 2018 CVS (available in the link below).
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2018-commercial-victimisation-survey.
The next survey will be conducted in early 2021 with results available later in that year.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have died as a direct result of police restraint or use of force, by ethnicity, in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to delivering meaningful and lasting change to prevent deaths in custody.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) publish figures for deaths during or following police contact each year. The data includes ethnicity but does not state whether restraint caused the death. This report presents figures on deaths during or following police contact that happened within a financial year.
These figures cover deaths that happen whilst a person is being arrested or taken into detention, including deaths that occur in or on the way to hospital following transfer from the scene of arrest or police custody. They do not include suicides that occur after a person has been released from police custody. It provides a definitive set of figures for England and Wales, and an overview of the nature and circumstances in which these deaths occurred.
Figures on annual deaths during or following police contact statistics are published on the IOPC website
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assaults on police officers there were by ethnicity of police officer in each of the last three years; and what the ethnicity was of each of the perpetrators.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects data on the number of assaults on police officers and these are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics. The latest figures, for the year ending December 2019, can be accessed on the ONS website (available here):
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables
However, it not possible to identify the ethnicity all victims and perpetrators involved in assaults of police officers in data held centrally.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential risk to security from the compulsory wearing of face coverings on public transport.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
On the 15 June, the Government introduced Regulations to mandate the wearing of face coverings on all forms of public transport as a condition of travel. We continue to work closely with transport operators and the police on the implementation of these measures and any associated issues.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2019.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office recognised International Men’s Day on 19 November 2019 with a news item on our internal intranet site. The story explained the significance of the event and that the day shone a positive light on male role models, fatherhood and men’s issues.
It also highlighted the importance of good mental health for men. The story included an audio interview with a member of staff who discussed his experience of adoption and fatherhood. All staff had an opportunity to engage in these communications.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 2.4.137 of the report entitled, The Independent Review of the Metropolitan Police Service's handling of non-recent sexual offence investigations alleged against persons of public prominence, published on 4 October 2019, whether the police have plans to undertake an investigation of the two individuals referred to as potential witnesses A and B for perverting the course of justice and wasting police time; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The police are independent of Government, and it is an operational decision by forces whether to conduct investigations into alleged criminality.