Asked by: Amanda Martin (Labour - Portsmouth North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to Portsmouth City Council over the past two years for domestic abuse services and to tackle violence against women and girls.
Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Home Office has allocated funding to Hampshire & Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary to tackle domestic abuse.
The Home Office has not provided funding directly to Portsmouth City Council for tackling domestic abuse and violence against women and girls (VAWG)over the last two years.
In addition, the Home Office launched a £74.5 million multi-year funding competition for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in June 2026, for Domestic Abuse and Stalking Perpetrator Interventions to reduce re-offending, providing funding to local police force areas.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will invest nearly £500 million into local authorities to provide support in safe accommodation to victims of domestic abuse over the next three years.
Asked by: Amanda Martin (Labour - Portsmouth North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by her Department at the rank of Chief Immigration Officer at the end of the 2015-16 financial year.
Answered by Alex Norris - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Border Force had 760 BFOs at grade CIO as of FY 2015/16.
Asked by: Amanda Martin (Labour - Portsmouth North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 30583 on Undocumented Migrants: English Channel, on how many days Border Force implemented a red rating for expected numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel between (a) 5 July 2023 and 5 March 2024 inclusive and (b) 5 July 2024 and 5 March 2025 inclusive.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Border Force records show that crossing attempts were assessed as being ‘likely’ or ‘highly likely’ on 117 occasions between 5 July 2024 to 5 March 2025, and on 61 occasions between 5 July 2023 to 5 March 2024.
Asked by: Amanda Martin (Labour - Portsmouth North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days significant wave heights in the English Channel were forecast to be less than 0.5 meters high in each calendar month between January 2021 and December 2024.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The information requested is set out in the table below:
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
2021 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 155 |
2022 | 12 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 169 |
2023 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 120 |
2024 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 156 |