Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to revoke existing licences for testing cosmetics ingredients on animals issued between 2019 and 2022.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat
The Government is engaging with the relevant companies to urgently determine a way forward on legacy licences.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of how many (a) outstanding asylum claims there are from people in and (b) refugees there are in Bolton South East constituency as of 30 March 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The requested information is not held in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Whilst the Home Office holds information on the addresses of asylum claimants and those seeking further leave to remain, the number residing in Bolton South East constituency as of 30 March 2023 is not held in a reportable format and would require a manual search through individual records.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what impact assessments her Department has conducted in relation to data protection measures and the Prevent duty; and whether her Department requires external agencies to conduct assessments in line with the Data Protection Act 2018 in relation to them adhering to that Duty.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat
To protect individuals against radicalisation, information may need to be shared with other statutory partners, such as the local authority or police. The Prevent duty guidance makes it clear that this must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
The Home Office has policies and procedures in place to ensure impacts are thoroughly considered on a case-by-case basis, undertaking its statutory duties including Equality Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments. The majority of Home Office data is processed under Part 2, General Processing, of the Data Protection Act 2018; however, this can vary.
The Prevent duty training offer has recently been updated and is available on gov.uk. Information sharing principles and data protection form a key element of the training courses. This also includes a good practice video and links to other government resources for further advice. Data protection will also feature in our new training offer that will replace the Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent. This is currently in development.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data protection is covered in her Department's training on the Prevent Duty as part of its Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat
To protect individuals against radicalisation, information may need to be shared with other statutory partners, such as the local authority or police. The Prevent duty guidance makes it clear that this must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
The Home Office has policies and procedures in place to ensure impacts are thoroughly considered on a case-by-case basis, undertaking its statutory duties including Equality Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments. The majority of Home Office data is processed under Part 2, General Processing, of the Data Protection Act 2018; however, this can vary.
The Prevent duty training offer has recently been updated and is available on gov.uk. Information sharing principles and data protection form a key element of the training courses. This also includes a good practice video and links to other government resources for further advice. Data protection will also feature in our new training offer that will replace the Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent. This is currently in development.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her Department's policy to ban animal testing where it causes animals severe suffering; and whether she is taking steps to promote New Approach Methodologies to replace animal testing.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The use of animals in science supports the development of new medicines and the safety of our environment, for the benefit of humans and animals.
The Home Office assures appropriate protection of the use of animals in science through licensing and compliance assurance under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. This legal framework, implemented by the Home Office Regulator, requires that animals are only ever used in science where there are no alternatives, where the number of animals used is the minimum needed to achieve the scientific benefit, and where the potential harm to animals is limited to that needed to achieve the scientific benefit.
The Government actively supports and funds the development and dissemination of the 3Rs. This is achieved through funding UK Research and Investment who fund the National Centre for the 3Rs and research through Innovate UK, the Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council into the development of alternatives.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average spending, per head, on police in (a) Bolton South East constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, (c) the North West and (d) England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not hold figures below the level of Police Force Area.
On the 2nd February 2022, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £16.9 billion in 2022/23, an increase of up to £1.1 billion when compared to 2021/22.
Lancashire’s funding will be up to £343.7m in 2022/23, an increase of up to £17.9m when compared to 2021/22.
Operational decisions, including those on local priorities, remain the responsibility of Chief Constables and directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner’s.
We recognise that the current police funding formula is out of date and no longer accurately reflects demand on policing. We are committed to introducing a new formula that fairly and transparently distributes the circa £8.6bn of annual core grant funding to the 43 police forces in England and Wales.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were based in (a) Bolton South East constituency and (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
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 lower levels of geography, such as Parliamentary Constituencies or Metropolitan Boroughs are not collected. Data on the number of police officers in Greater Manchester Police, on both a full-time equivalent (FTE) and a headcount basis, as at 31 March each year since 2007 are available in the Open Data Tables that accompany the release here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005761/open-data-table-police-workforce-280721.ods
The next release of ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’, which will cover the situation as at March 2022, is scheduled for release on Wednesday 27th July.
While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, throughout the duration of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount only) in England and Wales by Police Force Area. The latest release contains provisional headcount figures for 31 March 2022, which are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees from (a) Ukraine and (b) Afghanistan have been settled in Bolton South East constituency since June 2020.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The UK has a long and proud history of welcoming those in need of protection, including recent arrivals from Ukraine and Afghanistan.
This government is working closely to provide those we welcome to our country with access to the support and services they need, including a place to live.
Data on the Homes for Ukraine and Ukraine Family Scheme, broken down by local authority, can be found at:
Data relating to local authorities who have pledged properties to Afghan families, through the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) is not currently available, but is expected to be included in future publications, in line with equivalent data for other resettlement schemes. The Home Office publishes data on resettlement at:
Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data cover up to the end of March 2022.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential risks to Kurdish asylum seekers of being deported to Iraq.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the background of any relevant caselaw and the latest available country information. Our position on Iraq is set out in the relevant country policy and information note on the gov.uk website.
Where someone establishes a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country, they are normally granted protection and are not expected to return there. The Home Office only seeks to return those whose asylum claim have been unsuccessful. By definition, they do not need protection and not at risk on return.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s travel advice to British nationals is not the correct legal test for determining whether or not a person qualifies for international protection or whether to remove a foreign national with no right to remain in UK.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South and Walkden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to Question 129103 tabled by the hon. Member for Bolton South East on 24 February 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The response for UIN 129103 was given on 21 March 2022.