Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of which nationalities are most likely to overstay their visa.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration system under regular review, in consultation with a wide range of experts and stakeholders, and published a white paper on Immigration on 12th May setting out our proposed reforms in a range of areas, including overstaying of visas.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much amphetamine by (a) volume and (b) value has been seized in the UK over the last 12 months.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office latest published data on amphetamine, ketamine and MDMA seizures made by the police and Border Force for England and Wales covers the period April 2023-March 2024 and can be found here:
The Home Office does not publish the monetary (£) value of drugs seized. In the year ending March 2024, the latest published statistics show that police forces and Border Force seized:
Border Force also publish quarterly transparency data which includes amphetamine, ketamine and MDMA seizures, and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-q4-2024
Please find below the relevant statistics from the Q4 Border Force transparency data publication.
| 2023 Q4 | 2024 Q1 | 2024 Q2 | 2024 Q3 | Total |
Amphetamines (KG) | 13.09 | 13.70 | 5.90 | 25.75 | 58.44 |
Ketamine (KG) | 152.08 | 311.80 | 100.33 | 419.40 | 983.61 |
MDMA (Ecstasy) (Dose 000s) | 466.80 | 241.33 | 284.16 | 219.45 | 1,211.73 |
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much MDMA by (a) volume and (b) value has been seized in the UK over the last 12 months.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office latest published data on amphetamine, ketamine and MDMA seizures made by the police and Border Force for England and Wales covers the period April 2023-March 2024 and can be found here:
The Home Office does not publish the monetary (£) value of drugs seized. In the year ending March 2024, the latest published statistics show that police forces and Border Force seized:
Border Force also publish quarterly transparency data which includes amphetamine, ketamine and MDMA seizures, and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-q4-2024
Please find below the relevant statistics from the Q4 Border Force transparency data publication.
| 2023 Q4 | 2024 Q1 | 2024 Q2 | 2024 Q3 | Total |
Amphetamines (KG) | 13.09 | 13.70 | 5.90 | 25.75 | 58.44 |
Ketamine (KG) | 152.08 | 311.80 | 100.33 | 419.40 | 983.61 |
MDMA (Ecstasy) (Dose 000s) | 466.80 | 241.33 | 284.16 | 219.45 | 1,211.73 |
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much ketamine by (a) volume and (b) value has been seized in the UK over the last 12 months.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office latest published data on amphetamine, ketamine and MDMA seizures made by the police and Border Force for England and Wales covers the period April 2023-March 2024 and can be found here:
The Home Office does not publish the monetary (£) value of drugs seized. In the year ending March 2024, the latest published statistics show that police forces and Border Force seized:
Border Force also publish quarterly transparency data which includes amphetamine, ketamine and MDMA seizures, and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-q4-2024
Please find below the relevant statistics from the Q4 Border Force transparency data publication.
| 2023 Q4 | 2024 Q1 | 2024 Q2 | 2024 Q3 | Total |
Amphetamines (KG) | 13.09 | 13.70 | 5.90 | 25.75 | 58.44 |
Ketamine (KG) | 152.08 | 311.80 | 100.33 | 419.40 | 983.61 |
MDMA (Ecstasy) (Dose 000s) | 466.80 | 241.33 | 284.16 | 219.45 | 1,211.73 |
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Police Constable Degree Apprenticeships were (a) started and (b) completed in the last three years.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not routinely publish information on entry routes of police officers.
The Home Office published a one-off release including data on the entry routes of police officers recruited during the Police Office Uplift Programme, from 1 November 2019 to 31 March 2023, available here:
The data includes the number of police officers recruited via the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship pathway but it does not include the number of completed programmes. The Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship is one of four complementary entry routes available for forces to choose from to suit their local workforce requirements. The College of Policing is currently working with the policing sector and other partners to ensure that all police constable entry routes are as effective as they can be, to improve the experience of forces and participants and to enable streamlined, practical training with reduced cost to forces.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with local authorities on improving processing times for death certificates.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
Home Office Ministers have not recently discussed processing times for death certificates with local authorities.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had to wait longer than 10 days for a death certificate to be issued following the death of a family member since 2019.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Office for National Statistics publishes weekly and annual data sets on death registration which includes the median time taken to register a death.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were convicted of taking control over the home of another person to use it for criminal activity in each of the last five years.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The taking control over the home of another person to use it for criminal activity, often referred to as ‘cuckooing’, is not currently a standalone criminal offence and therefore there is no data on the number of convictions.
However, the Government recognises the harm caused by cuckooing which is why we are introducing a new criminal offence in the Crime and Policing Bill.
This new cuckooing offence will ensure that we are taking strong action against those who prey on vulnerable people and help to ensure that victims are identified and protected from this appalling crime.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of recent trends of retail crime in Lincolnshire.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes official statistics on various retail offences recorded by Police Force Area, including Lincolnshire, on a quarterly basis, which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to tackle fraudulent Certificates of Sponsorship as a route for illegal immigration.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
Certificates of sponsorship (CoS) are electronic documents created by sponsors licensed by the Home Office. If we identify that a fraudulent, non-genuine CoS has been submitted, that does not match our records, we shall refuse the application.