Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money her Department has spent on asylum accommodation in each of the last 5 years.
Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes total spending on asylum support and accommodation in its Annual Report and Accounts. Over the last five years, total spending, including accommodation, was £3.7bn in 2025/26, £4.0bn in 2024/25, £4.7bn in 2023/24, £3.6bn in 2022/23 and £1.5bn in 2021/22.
Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department has considered the potential merits of preventing asylum seekers from being able to roam in local communities.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
Asylum accommodation is non-detained.
Asylum seekers are clearly advised of the expectations the Home Office and accommodation providers have for them to behave responsibly while they are accommodated in Home Office properties and not to engage in any form of anti-social behaviour or criminal activity. While we are unable to comment on specific instances, consideration must be given to report anti-social behaviour to your local authority, if appropriate. All incidents are reported to the Home Office immediately by the providers and this is a contractual requirement. If required, the Home Office will then work with the provider to put additional measures in place.
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase awareness of spiking.
Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Spiking is an appalling crime that undermines the public's right to feel safe whether they are out and about or in their own home. The Government is taking a range of actions to increase awareness of spiking and reduce its occurrence through a combination of prevention, education, enforcement and victim support. This includes:
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce spiking.
Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Spiking is an appalling crime that undermines the public's right to feel safe whether they are out and about or in their own home. The Government is taking a range of actions to increase awareness of spiking and reduce its occurrence through a combination of prevention, education, enforcement and victim support. This includes:
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of (a) asylum seekers and (b) people given indefinite leave to remain who have committed crimes in each of the last 5 years.
Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering these questions at a disproportionate cost.
Please note that the Home Office does not hold all the data on an individual’s, crimes, convictions, and offences. This information is administered by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Police, who will record the offender’s nationality, although not by immigration status. However, Foreign national offenders (FNOs) are referred to the Home Office for deportation immediately following sentencing.
11,733 FNOs have been returned from the UK under this government (1 July 2024 to 31 July 2026). This is a 41% increase on the last two years of the previous government (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2026, when compared to the previous 2-year period), and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to protect the Jewish community from antisemitic attacks.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
This Government is committed to tackling antisemitism and protecting Jewish communities. We are clear that all communities should feel safe to practise their faith and participate in public life free from intimidation or fear.
In July 2026, we announced a £251.1 million package over three years to strengthen policing and security arrangements for Jewish communities. The package provides additional police officers in areas with significant Jewish populations, funds surge capacity in Jewish communities around key events and Jewish holidays, supports antisemitism training for officers across England and Wales, strengthens national policing capabilities, and improves the response to online hate crime.
The nine forces receiving dedicated funding under the package have produced delivery plans setting out how they will deliver a sustained uplift in policing presence within communities, and are implementing those plans, including through the deployment of additional officers in neighbourhoods. Increased police support was provided over the recent Jewish High Holy Days to reassure communities.
This builds on the £25 million of immediate funding announced in April 2026 following the terrorist attack in Golders Green to strengthen policing, enhance protective security measures, and provide reassurance to Jewish communities. This included an additional £4 million for the Jewish Community Protective Security (JCPS) Grant, taking the total available for the scheme in 2026/27 to £32.4 million. The grant funds protective security measures including security personnel services, CCTV and alarm systems at synagogues, Jewish educational establishments and other communal locations.
Together, these measures represent a significant commitment to the safety and security of Jewish communities.
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to support police officers in tackling knife crime amongst young adults.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
Preventing children and young people from becoming involved in knife crime while supporting the police to tackle offending where it occurs, is central to our mission to halve knife crime in a decade and to make our streets safer. Protecting Lives, Building Hope: A Plan to Halve Knife Crime details the full range of measures that Government is taking to tackle the root causes of knife crime among young people and to strengthen enforcement.
In February 2026, the Home Office and Ministry of Justice announced new action to tackle child knife possession. The new guidance, which came into force on 1 April 2026, ensures that Police and Youth Justice Services work together so that every child caught carrying a knife is given a mandatory targeted plan to address the root causes of their offending and help prevent further offending.
We are also supporting early intervention and prevention by investing over £66 million in the Serious Violence Reduction Programme and the Serious Violence Duty this financial year. This funding will help continue the work of Violence Reduction Units, which bring together local partners to understand and tackle the drivers of serious violence in their areas, and will support the Young Futures Panel pilots, which identify young people at risk of being drawn into crime and provide early, targeted and diversionary support.
Our new Knife Crime Concentrations Fund will also invest £26.25 million this year to strengthen enforcement and prevention in the areas most affected by knife crime. Building on last year's hyperlocal knife crime pilots, we are expanding this approach across 27 police force areas, which together account for around 90% of knife crime in England and Wales. This funding will support police forces and local partners to work together to identify and tackle the specific factors driving knife crime in the locations most affected, enabling targeted and evidence-led interventions.
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she is taking to prevent knife crime amongst young people.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
Preventing children and young people from becoming involved in knife crime while supporting the police to tackle offending where it occurs, is central to our mission to halve knife crime in a decade and to make our streets safer. Protecting Lives, Building Hope: A Plan to Halve Knife Crime details the full range of measures that Government is taking to tackle the root causes of knife crime among young people and to strengthen enforcement.
In February 2026, the Home Office and Ministry of Justice announced new action to tackle child knife possession. The new guidance, which came into force on 1 April 2026, ensures that Police and Youth Justice Services work together so that every child caught carrying a knife is given a mandatory targeted plan to address the root causes of their offending and help prevent further offending.
We are also supporting early intervention and prevention by investing over £66 million in the Serious Violence Reduction Programme and the Serious Violence Duty this financial year. This funding will help continue the work of Violence Reduction Units, which bring together local partners to understand and tackle the drivers of serious violence in their areas, and will support the Young Futures Panel pilots, which identify young people at risk of being drawn into crime and provide early, targeted and diversionary support.
Our new Knife Crime Concentrations Fund will also invest £26.25 million this year to strengthen enforcement and prevention in the areas most affected by knife crime. Building on last year's hyperlocal knife crime pilots, we are expanding this approach across 27 police force areas, which together account for around 90% of knife crime in England and Wales. This funding will support police forces and local partners to work together to identify and tackle the specific factors driving knife crime in the locations most affected, enabling targeted and evidence-led interventions.
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of preventing asylum seekers in Home Office supported accommodation from being able to go out into the community freely.
Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)
In accordance with current legislation, people with a valid pending claim for asylum are permitted to remain in the UK while their claim is being processed, and as they have permission to remain in the UK during that time, they cannot be routinely detained. Detention is primarily used to facilitate removal of those who have no lawful right to remain in the UK, and who refuse to leave voluntarily.
Those in the asylum system who have valid leave may be subject to conditions under section 71 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Asylum Seekers who have no leave to be in the UK, who are not detained, will be placed on immigration bail with strict conditions set under Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016.
The conditions imposed are considered on a case-by-case basis and can include requirements on where a person must live, as well as obligations to maintain regular contact with the Home Office. This may include reporting in person, by telephone or digitally, and notifying the Home Office of any changes to contact details. Failure to comply with these conditions may result in further immigration enforcement action including immigration detention.
Asked by: Lee Anderson (Reform UK - Ashfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have entered Britain illegally in the last three years that have previously been convicted of a crime in another country.
Answered by Alex Norris - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of people who are detected arriving in the UK via illegal entry routes in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release. The published statistics do not show whether those arriving have previously been convicted of a crime.
Information on the number of people in the immigration system who may have foreign convictions would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by various teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.