Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many doctors working in the UK on a Tier 2 visa work in the NHS.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
NHS workforce statistics are the responsibility of NHS Digital and are published at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/nhs-workforce-statistics-june-2017-provisional-statistics
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nurses working in the UK on a Tier 2 visa work in the NHS.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
NHS workforce statistics are the responsibility of NHS Digital and are published at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/nhs-workforce-statistics-june-2017-provisional-statistics
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many doctors working in the UK on a Tier 2 visa work in the NHS.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
NHS workforce statistics are the responsibility of NHS Digital and are published at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/nhs-workforce-statistics-june-2017-provisional-statistics
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the proportion of asylum claims processed within the six-month decision target.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Office has a Service Standard to make an initial asylum decision on straightforward claims within 182 days of the date of claim however we are aware of the number of older cases in the system. These are more complex cases which generally have barriers that prevents an initial asylum decision being made. These barriers are often varied and require time to clear.
The Home Office publishes performance against the service standard to decide 98% of straight forward asylum claims within 6 months of the date of claim.
The full data release can be found at the following address; https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 136604, on West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service: Finance, how many times in each of the last five years his Department has met the West Yorkshire Fire Authority to discuss funding for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office has had responsibility for fire since January 2016. Ministers regularly meet with and speak to fire stakeholders about a range of matters.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to reduce its use of single-use plastics.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Home Office is committed to reducing its use of single-use plastics and is actively taking steps to achieve this.
At our London headquarters, we have already replaced all single-use plastic coffee cups, food containers and cutlery from our catering services, with biodegradable alternatives. We have also begun to phase out single-use plastic water cups across the estate.
We will continue to work with The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and our suppliers to remove single-use plastics from our office estate.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on the registration of EU nationals for indefinite leave after the UK leaves the EU, and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
In December 2017 we delivered on our commitment to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK before we leave the EU in March 2019. This was further established in March, when a reciprocal deal was agreed extending citizens’ rights until the end of the implementation period – December 2020.
The Home Office is making good progress in developing the system to issue immigration status to all resident EU citizens, and their family members, and intend to launch the settlement scheme at the end of this year.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the West Yorkshire Fire Authority on funding for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Home Office Ministers regularly engage with fire and rescue authorities on a number of issues. In 2018/19 West Yorkshire Fire Authority will have a core spending power of £79.1m, an increase of 0.8% (£0.6m) compared with 2017/18.
At March 2017, West Yorkshire Fire Authority held £33m in reserves, an increase of £24.4m (283%) compared with March 2011.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to reduce dog theft in the last 12 months.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government understands the distress that can be caused by the theft of a pet. It is therefore important that these crimes, when they take place, are reported to the police so that they can be investigated and, where appropriate, the perpetrators taken through the courts and given appropriate sentences.
In 2017-18 the Government is providing police forces in England and Wales with direct Government funding worth over £7.5 billion to tackle all types of crime. As far as the police response to individual incidents are concerned, it is for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, as operational leaders and elected local representatives, to decide how best to deploy resources to manage and respond to crime and local priorities.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were employed in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis.
The latest available data, which cover the situation as at 30 September 2017, are published in the ‘Police workforce’ statistical bulletin, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-september-2017
Data for previous years, and as at 31 March, can be found in Table H3 of the annual bulletin, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods