Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered sex offenders are recorded as having changed their (a) name and (b) gender.
Answered by Sarah Dines
The UK has some of the toughest powers in the world to manage sex offenders and those who pose a risk, and we are committed to ensuring our system is as robust as it can be.
Registered sex offenders are required to notify their personal details to the police - including their name, date of birth and bank details - annually and whenever these details change. Failure to comply, including providing false information, is a criminal offence punishable by up to five years' imprisonment.
Data on registered sex offenders is published in the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Annual Report. The most recent report was published by the Ministry of Justice on 27 October. It shows that on 31 March 2022, there were 66,741 registered sex offenders in England and Wales. Data on the number of registered sex offenders who have changed their name or gender are not centrally collected.
We have strengthened police powers through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 with new provisions that came into force on 29 November. To help ensure our processes are as robust as possible, the Home Office has conducted an internal review into the issue of offenders changing their name and the name change process to ensure it as robust as possible.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make a comparative assessment of the level of support her Department provides to Ukrainian people coming to the UK under the (a) Ukraine Family Scheme and (b) Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Ukrainian nationals who arrive in the UK through both the Homes for Ukraine and the Ukraine Family Scheme are permitted to work and have access to public funds and services, including those offered by Local Councils.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken is for processing an application for certificates of sponsorship for overseas nationals waiting to start employment in the UK; what the size was of the caseload of those applications waiting to be processed as of 9 January 2023; and how many and what proportion of those cases have not been completed within the Department's targets for processing those applications.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not routinely publish data on applications for Certificates of Sponsorship for overseas nationals waiting to start employment in the UK.
The Home Office Transparency data sets out how the Department is performing against its service standard. The latest published information can be found on the GOV.UK webpage at Sponsorship transparency data: Q3 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants awaiting determination of status in the UK and subject to electronic tagging have broken the conditions of the tag in the last 2 years by nationality.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
A pilot was launched on 15 June 2022 with the purpose of establishing whether electronic monitoring is an effective way to improve and maintain regular contact management with asylum claimants who arrive in the UK via unnecessary and dangerous routes, in order to progress their immigration case.
The total numbers of migrants who have broken the conditions of tag is 151.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Albanian nationals held in immigration detention centres in the UK have subsequently been subject to criminal charges in the last 2 years.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) FTE police officers and (b) PCSOs have been deployed in each local authority area in Sussex in each of the last 5 years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). These data are collected by Police Force Area only and information at lower levels of geography, such as local authority are not held by the Home Office.
Data on the number of police officers and PCSOs in Sussex Police, on both a full-time equivalent (FTE) and a headcount basis are available in the Open Data Table that accompanies the release:
The deployment of officers across a police force area is a decision for operationally independent Chief Constables.