Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to facilitate school trips between France and the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
At the Leaders’ summit in Paris on 10 March 2023 the UK committed to ease the travel of school groups to the UK by making changes to documentary requirements for schoolchildren on organised trips from France.
France and the UK further agreed to establish a Mobility Dialogue through a Technical Working Group under joint ministerial oversight to address bilateral mobility issues.
The first of these was held in early June and we are currently working through the details of implementation.
More information will be provided in due course.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the UK-France Joint Leaders' Declaration, published on 10 March, what discussions she has had with her French counterpart on facilitating school trips between France and the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
At the Leaders’ summit in Paris on 10 March 2023 the UK committed to ease the travel of school groups to the UK by making changes to documentary requirements for schoolchildren on organised trips from France.
France and the UK further agreed to establish a Mobility Dialogue through a Technical Working Group under joint ministerial oversight to address bilateral mobility issues.
The first of these was held in early June and we are currently working through the details of implementation.
More information will be provided in due course.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the UK-France Joint Leaders' Declaration, published on 10 March, what progress she has made on facilitating school trips between France and the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
At the Leaders’ summit in Paris on 10 March 2023 the UK committed to ease the travel of school groups to the UK by making changes to documentary requirements for schoolchildren on organised trips from France.
France and the UK further agreed to establish a Mobility Dialogue through a Technical Working Group under joint ministerial oversight to address bilateral mobility issues.
The first of these was held in early June and we are currently working through the details of implementation.
More information will be provided in due course.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress he has made on negotiating bilateral youth mobility schemes with countries in Europe.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
We remain open to negotiating youth mobility scheme (YMS) arrangements with other countries and territories. However, as each YMS is subject to a bilateral, reciprocal agreement which also provides benefit to UK nationals, with the detail negotiated and agreed between the relevant parties, we are unable to disclose the status of negotiations as they occur.
We remain committed to expanding our YMS to more nations, including but not limited to those within the EU. Further details of any additional YMS agreements will be announced once they are concluded.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to table Asy_09a of the Asylum and Resettlement Summary tables for the year ending March 2023, for what reasons there was an increase in the number of asylum applications admitted into the UK’s asylum process having previously been considered potentially inadmissible in the first quarter of 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not routinely record reasons why each individual was admitted to the UK asylum process and this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) prosecutions for antisocial behaviour in rural areas there have been in each year since 2020.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on arrests for notifiable offences in England and Wales, by financial year, available here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
However, the data are collected by wider offence group, e.g. “theft offences”, therefore data on more specific offences such as antisocial behaviour and theft of agricultural machinery are not available.
Additionally, the data are collected by Police Force Area only with no further geographical breakdown, therefore the number of arrests that occurred in rural areas is not available.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions as part of the quarterly ‘Criminal Justice System’ statistical bulletin, available here: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The outcomes by offence data tool provides a breakdown of prosecutions by offence type, including offences which would be considered ASB. A detailed breakdown of items stolen within theft offences is not available.
The Home Office does not hold data showing trend in these crimes (ASB or theft of agricultural machinery) over time.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) prosecutions for theft of agricultural machinery there have been in each year since 2020.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on arrests for notifiable offences in England and Wales, by financial year, available here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
However, the data are collected by wider offence group, e.g. “theft offences”, therefore data on more specific offences such as antisocial behaviour and theft of agricultural machinery are not available.
Additionally, the data are collected by Police Force Area only with no further geographical breakdown, therefore the number of arrests that occurred in rural areas is not available.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions as part of the quarterly ‘Criminal Justice System’ statistical bulletin, available here: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The outcomes by offence data tool provides a breakdown of prosecutions by offence type, including offences which would be considered ASB. A detailed breakdown of items stolen within theft offences is not available.
The Home Office does not hold data showing trend in these crimes (ASB or theft of agricultural machinery) over time.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum applications were submitted by people who arrived in the UK (a) irregularly by (i) small boat and (ii) other means and (b) through a safe and legal route in 2022.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes statistics on asylum claims from small boat arrivals in ‘4. Asylum claims from small boat arrivals’ of the ‘Irregular Migration to the UK statistics’ report.
Data on detected irregular arrivals by method of entry are published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed dataset’ of the ‘Irregular Migration to the UK statistics’.
The Home Office does not publish how many irregular arrivals who do not arrive by small boats have claimed asylum. Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.
The latest data relate to the year ending December 2022. Data for the year ending March 2023 will be published on 25 May 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
Please note, asylum applications are not a recognised 'safe and legal entry route' to the UK. The safe and legal entry routes are country-specific and global:
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what would happen to a person whose protection or human rights claim is deemed inadmissible under clause 4(2) of the Illegal Migration Bill but who cannot be removed from the UK.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Those who come to the UK illegally who cannot be returned home, will be relocated to a safe third country such as Rwanda, where they will be provided with the support to rebuild their lives.
If a person is considered unfit to travel, they will be exempt from removal until they are safely able to do so.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the asylum claims identified for consideration on inadmissibility grounds since January 2021 and subsequently admitted into the UK asylum system had a period between the asylum claim being submitted and admitted into the asylum system of (a) less than six months, (b) six to nine months, (c) ten to twelve months and (d) over a year.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on inadmissibility can be found in table Asy_09a and Asy_09b of the ‘asylum and resettlement summary tables’. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published in future editions of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
The Home Office does not publish wait times between asylum applications being raised and the outcomes of cases considered under inadmissibility rules.
Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.