Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under the Ukraine Family Scheme visa have settled in the Huddersfield constituency since 24 February 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Information on the number of visas granted under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme can be found in our published data on the GOV.UK webpage: Ukraine Schemes: application data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Information requested that is not contained within this published data is not routinely captured. To capture numbers would require a manual trawl of data and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) the Home Office Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s Change Programme will not adversely affect animal protections and (b) regulations are effectively enforced which relate to the use of animals in research and testing in the UK.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s Change Programme aims to better deliver animal protections through the strengthening of its regulatory oversight.
The Regulator has published its process for rigorous full system audits at:
At audits the Regulator requires evidence for assessment of compliance against all legal licence conditions, including those for animal welfare, which are available at:
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the provisions of the Nationality and Borders Bill on Ukrainian refugees attempting to reach the UK.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
The Nationality and Borders Bill, part of the UK Government’s New Plan for Immigration, seeks to build a fair, but firm asylum and migration system.
The plan gives the Government the flexibility to respond at pace to conflict and humanitarian crises around the world, by establishing safe and legal routes to the UK.
Most recently, this Government has made its support for Ukrainians fleeing in fear of their lives clear, introducing two new schemes: the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.
There is no numerical limit on either scheme as we will welcome as many Ukrainians as wish to come and, for the sponsorship scheme, that are eligible and have matched sponsors.
The Home Office will work closely with international partners on the ground to support displaced Ukrainians in need of a home.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training is provided to police officers on tackling antisemitism.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This Government is clear that antisemitism has absolutely no place in our society.
The College of Policing provide police officers with training on how to respond to hate crime and incidents during initial learning and investigation training. This training targets the wider policing response to all forms of hate crime. Further training on tackling hate crime is subsequently provided for detectives, senior investigators, and supervisors. Local training is the responsibility of individual chief officers, according to policing needs and priorities.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council has a strategic partnership with the Community Security Trust - a charity that protects British Jews from antisemitism and related threats - and has held many joint events to raise awareness of the needs of the Jewish community and to highlight the nature of contemporary antisemitism.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of the rise of anti-Semitic hate crime on the safety of Jewish people.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Antisemitism must be understood for what it is - an attack on the identity of people who live, contribute and are valued in our society. There can be no excuses for antisemitism or any other form of racism or prejudice.
In 2020/21, 22% of religious hate crimes were targeted at Jewish people, or those perceived to be Jewish - 1288 reported incidents, up from 1205 the previous year.
In April 2021, the Home Secretary confirmed the continuation of the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant for 2021-22. This grant of £14m continues to provide for protective security measures at all Jewish state, free and independent schools, colleges, nurseries and some other Jewish community sites, including a number of synagogues.