Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women each year who were held in migrant detention while pregnant died in the perinatal period (a) before the implementation of the 72-hour detention limit for pregnant women in 2016 and (b) after the implementation of that limit.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
It is important that we do not inadvertently create perverse incentives for evil people smuggling gangs to target particularly venerable groups. Therefore, pregnant women who come to the UK illegally and fall within the duty to remove will not be exempt from detention and removal under this Bill.
The Home Office takes the welfare of those in detention seriously. We will only detain pregnant women when it is necessary and in appropriate accommodation with appropriate healthcare provisions.
An equality impact assessment has been completed for the Illegal Migration Bill, and is available here: Illegal Migration Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament.
The Home Office are not aware that any women who have been pregnant whilst in immigration detention have died during their perinatal period.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women who were held in migrant detention while pregnant miscarried or experienced a still birth each year (a) before the implementation of the 72-hour detention limit in 2016 and (b) after the implementation of that limit.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
Data on the total number of pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate each quarter is published in table PWD_01 of the ‘Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2022’. This data is only available from July 2016 and goes up to the end of September 2022. For data prior to 2010, see the archived Detention tables.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the ten years up to and including 2016, how many midwife appointments on average did (a) pregnant women held in migrant detention centres and (b) pregnant women in the wider UK population have in the course of their pregnancy.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
Data on the total number of pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate each quarter is published in table PWD_01 of the ‘Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2022’. This data is only available from July 2016 and goes up to the end of September 2022. For data prior to 2010, see the archived Detention tables.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s totality report into Child Sexual Abuse; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Sarah Dines
The National Police Chiefs’ Council’s totality report into Child Sexual Abuse is a vital tool for government and police policy makers in understanding the scale and nature of the child sexual abuse threat. It is important that policies to tackle child sexual abuse, in every part of Government and across all agencies - education, health, social care, law enforcement, industry and civil society, are grounded in evidence so that they are effective in tackling this crime and safeguarding children.
To further build our understanding of the threat, Home Office funding provides a dedicated analyst, working on child sexual abuse and exploitation, in each of the ten policing Regional Organised Crime Units based in England and Wales. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary recently announced a new Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce, which will develop a Complex and Organised Child Abuse Database to strengthen what we know about the scale, risk and prevalence of child sexual abuse and exploitation, as well as rolling out the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme to give a clearer picture of organised exploitation. They will work collectively to enable us to build on the totality report analysis and improve local forces’ understanding of risk in their areas, and thereby better identify and disrupt offending and safeguard children.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 142 of that report.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.
The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.
As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 143 of that report.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.
The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.
As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, , with reference to the the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 140 of that report.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.
The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.
As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 139 of that report.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.
The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.
As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published October 2022, what progress her Department has made on recommendation 141 of that report.
Answered by Sarah Dines
Child sexual abuse is a horrific crime which has no place in our society. The final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse constitutes an important milestone in our efforts to tackle this crime.
The work of the Inquiry over the past seven years has shone a light on the institutional failings of the past and given a voice to victims. The Final Report provides truly shocking insight on the unimaginable abuse suffered by children, and draws out stark failings by institutions, leaders, and professionals to protect them from harm. We owe it to victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s final recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention.
As set out in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 April, we will publish the Government response to the Inquiry’s final report in May 2023.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to enable local and regional profiles ensure transparency on the representation and treatment of people of different ethnicities in the criminal justice system.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
To ensure transparency of police use of powers, the Home Office collect and publish statistics on the use of police powers in the annual "Police powers and procedure" statistical release. This includes data on those arrested for notifiable offences and stopped and searched, including by ethnicity, and broken down by police force area. This is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales
In addition, the Ministry of Justice already publishes a range of data from across the CJS with an ethnicity breakdown. This information can be found via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ethnicity-and-the-criminal-justice-system-statistics-2020/ethnicity-and-the-criminal-justice-system-2020