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Written Question
Windrush Compensation Scheme
Wednesday 7th February 2024

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have requested the total sum of their Windrush compensation award be reviewed for each quarter since April 2019.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

Information relating to how many individuals have requested the total sum for their Windrush Compensation award offer to be reviewed is included in the Windrush Compensation Scheme Transparency Data, which is published regularly.

As set out in the Windrush Compensation Scheme Casework Guidance published online, claimants can request a review of the decision to refuse all or part of their claim. Detailed data is not published on which specific category a claimant requests to be reviewed.

The latest published data, covering the period up to November 2023, is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/windrush-compensation-scheme-data-november-2023.

The relevant data can be found on page WCS_09.


Written Question
Asylum: Leicester East
Friday 21st July 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many adults from Leicester East constituency were being held in an asylum processing centre on 1 July 2023.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

There are no asylum processing centres in the United Kingdom.


Written Question
Asylum: Children
Friday 21st July 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children from Leicester East constituency were being held in an asylum processing centre on 1 July 2023.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

There are no asylum processing centres in the United Kingdom.


Written Question
Windrush Compensation Scheme
Friday 21st July 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants for compensation under the Windrush compensation scheme died while waiting for a decision on their application.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Windrush Compensation Scheme staff are working hard to ensure where they are aware of claimants with critical or life-limiting illnesses, their cases are prioritised.

In the unfortunate circumstances where a claimant has passed away after submitting a compensation claim, but before the claim is fully resolved, the team continues to work closely with the appointed representative, usually members of the family, to ensure the compensation payment is made as quickly as possible to the family member.

The latest Transparency data is available at Gov.UK: Windrush Compensation Scheme data: May 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that this data is manually recorded and is reliant on the person receiving the information on a claimant’s death, notifying the Windrush Compensation Scheme to record this information.


Written Question
Police: Leicester
Wednesday 19th July 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were employed in Leicester (a) as of 1 July 2023 and (b) in 2010.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office collects and published data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

These data are collected by PFA only, and lower levels of geography, such as towns or boroughs are not collected. The Home Office does not hold data on the number of police officers working in Leicester.

Data is collected as a snapshot as at 31 March and 30 September each year. The Home Office does not hold data on the number of police officers as at 1 July 2023.

Information on the number of police officers in Leicestershire as at 31 March each year, from 2007 to 2022, on a full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount basis, can be found in the ‘Workforce Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093587/open-data-table-police-workforce-270722.ods.

The latest figures, as at 30 September 2022, are available in the data tables accompanying the latest ‘Police Workforce’ bulletin which can be accessed here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1130953/police-workforce-sep22-tables-300922.ods.

The next release of ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which will cover the situation as at 31 March 2023, is scheduled for release on Wednesday 26th July.

While the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, also broken down by PFA. Data as at 31 March 2023 are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The latest provisional data from the ‘Police Officer Uplift’ statistics shows, as at 31 March 2023, across England and Wales, there are over 149,500 police officers, the highest number of police officers on record, surpassing the previous peak of 146,030 in March 2010.

The deployment of officers is an operational matter for local Chief Constables.


Written Question
Firearms: Licensing
Wednesday 28th June 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Senior Coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths Report following the Plymouth mass shooting, whether she plans to amend guidance to licensing staff on allegations about the suitability of the applicant to hold a firearms licence, whether yet proven or not.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

We are carefully considering all of the recommendations that the Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon made in his Prevention of Future Deaths Reports to the Home Secretary, following the Inquest into the shootings that took place in Keyham, Plymouth on 12August 2021, and will respond to all of the recommendations made to the Department as soon as possible.


Written Question
Firearms Act 1968
Wednesday 28th June 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the conclusion of the Senior Coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths Report following the Plymouth mass shooting that the Firearms Act 1968 is unfit for purpose, what steps she plans to take to review that Act.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

We are carefully considering all of the recommendations that the Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon made in his Prevention of Future Deaths Reports to the Home Secretary, following the Inquest into the shootings that took place in Keyham, Plymouth on 12August 2021, and will respond to all of the recommendations made to the Department as soon as possible.


Written Question
Firearms: Licensing
Wednesday 28th June 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Senior Coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths Report recommendations following the Plymouth mass shooting, what plans she has to improve the training regime for firearms licensing staff.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

We are carefully considering all of the recommendations that the Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon made in his Prevention of Future Deaths Reports to the Home Secretary, following the Inquest into the shootings that took place in Keyham, Plymouth on 12August 2021, and will respond to all of the recommendations made to the Department as soon as possible.


Written Question
Firearms: Licensing
Wednesday 28th June 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the conclusions of the Senior Coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths report following the Plymouth mass shooting, whether she plans to order Chief Constables in England and Wales to carry out an urgent review of cases where a person currently holds a gun which has been returned to them after an earlier refusal or seizure by the police.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

We are carefully considering all of the recommendations that the Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon made in his Prevention of Future Deaths Reports to the Home Secretary, following the Inquest into the shootings that took place in Keyham, Plymouth on 12August 2021, and will respond to all of the recommendations made to the Department as soon as possible.


Written Question
Firearms: Licensing
Wednesday 28th June 2023

Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the conclusion of the Senior Coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths report following the Plymouth mass shooting, whether she plans to ensure that firearms licensing fees cover the cost of processing applications.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

We are carefully considering all of the recommendations that the Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon made in his Prevention of Future Deaths Reports to the Home Secretary, following the Inquest into the shootings that took place in Keyham, Plymouth on 12August 2021, and will respond to all of the recommendations made to the Department as soon as possible.