Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2019 to Question 215154 on Undocumented Migrants: Kent, what number of people does the figure 40% represent.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Please see below a Home Office publication link to the Home Secretary’s statement on 31 December 2018. This can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-bolsters-border-force-fleet-in-the-channel.
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2019 to Question 215154 on Undocumented Migrants: Kent, how many suspected illegal migrants entered the UK by small boat in each month from October 2018 to January 2019.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
We do not routinely publish this level of data on clandestine entry or attempts to enter the UK. Published data on the numbers can be found in the links below for the Home Secretary’s statement on 31 December 2018 and the subsequent Westminster Hall Debate on 30 January.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-bolsters-border-force-fleet-in-the-channel
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance response time to emergency calls is from (a) Dover and (b) Deal.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Information is not available in the format requested. National and individual ambulance National Health Service trust level performance is available and is published monthly by NHS England. This can be found online at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants entering the UK illegally in small boats were detected in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Secretary delivered a statement to Parliament providing the following figures relating to 2018 arrival.
Over 500 migrants - mostly Iranian - attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels in 2018. 80% of them attempted this in the last three months of the year. Around 40% of the attempts were either disrupted by French law enforcement or returned to France via French agencies.
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of migrants entering the UK illegally in small boats in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Secretary delivered a statement to Parliament providing the following figures relating to 2018 arrival.
Over 500 migrants - mostly Iranian - attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels in 2018. 80% of them attempted this in the last three months of the year. Around 40% of the attempts were either disrupted by French law enforcement or returned to France via French agencies.
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total Government spend per person in the Dover district local authority area has been in each year between 2009 and 2018.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
HM Treasury does not collect expenditure information on total government spend at a local authority level. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government produce local government expenditure statistics, which is part of total government spend. These statistics, along with population statistics are available at the following links:
Revenue financing and expenditure:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing
Capital expenditure, receipts and financing:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-capital-expenditure-receipts-and-financing
Population statistics at local level:
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of Government funding per head in the Kent County Council local authority area in each year since 2009.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
HM Treasury does not collect total government funding information per head at the local authority level.
Local government funding information is available via statistics published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and through the local government settlement, which is part of total government spend.
Local government finance statistics and population statistics are available at the following links:
Revenue financing and expenditure:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing
Capital expenditure, receipts and financing:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-capital-expenditure-receipts-and-financing
Population statistics at local level:
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the total number of attempts by persons who were suspected migrants to enter Kent by small boat in (a) October 2018, (b) November 2018, (c) December 2018 and (d) January 2019.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Secretary delivered a statement to Parliament providing the following figures relating to 2018 arrivial.
Over 500 migrants - mostly Iranian - attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels in 2018. 80% of them attempted this in the last three months of the year. Around 40% of the attempts were either disrupted by French law enforcement or returned to France via French agencies.
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of dualling the A2 between the Lydden traffic lights and the Port of Dover.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department recognises the support that exists locally for dualling the remaining sections of the A2 to Dover, and this proposal is one of the many that it is considering for inclusion in the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2). The Department will make decisions on RIS2 later this year, after which it will be possible to develop robust estimates of the cost of specific options for schemes included in the investment plan.
Asked by: Charlie Elphicke (Independent - Dover)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government provided to the French Government in 2010 for the purposes of (a) border security, (b) border infrastructure, (c) countering organised crime (d) countering people trafficking and (e) any other programmes linked to countering migrant and people trafficking activity in the Departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The UK and France have for many years maintained close cooperation at our shared border and have worked to uphold high security standards. The UK has committed various funding packages to the French Government to support this work and uphold these standards.
The first payment to support this work was made by the UK to France in September 2014, totalling £14.7 million. These funds were dedicated to security improvements at the port of Calais. In 2015, both countries signed a Joint Declaration which committed £10 million towards security reviews of the juxtaposed controls and to moving migrants into reception centres across France. This was followed by payments in 2016 (£17 million) and 2017 (£36 million) to further strengthen the border and maintain the operation of the juxtaposed controls.
Most recently, in January 2018 both countries signed the Sandhurst Treaty, which demonstrates our ongoing commitment to preventing irregular migration, deterring engagement with organised crime groups and people traffickers, and to the continued operation of the juxtaposed controls. As part of this package, the UK made a further commitment of €50 million, of which a significant portion has been dedicated to improving border security infrastructure across Northern France.