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Written Question
Magistrates' Courts
Monday 18th September 2023

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a mechanism by which to review magistrates' decisions following arrests by the police.

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

The Home Office does not have any jurisdiction over the decision making of the independent judiciary. However, if my Hon Friend wishes to raise any points of law that may lead to an appeal, the Minister of State for Courts and Justice is happy to work with him on how this may be taken up with the Attorney General.


Written Question
Licensed Premises: Opening Hours
Monday 11th September 2023

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce legislation to enable Ministers to make one-off changes to (a) pubs and (b) other licensed premises' opening hours for special events.

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

The Licensing Act 2003 already allows the Home Secretary to make legislation for blanket relaxations of licensing hours for “an occasion of exceptional international, national, or local significance”.

The Government continues to keep the Licensing Act 2003 under review and works closely with licensing practitioners to ensure the regime remains fit for purpose and meets emerging challenges.


Written Question
Water: Safety
Wednesday 18th January 2023

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to initiate public information announcements across appropriate media warning of the danger of walking or playing on ice over waterways and ponds.

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

The Home Office is not responsible for water safety.

Fire and Rescue Services may make local decisions to publish water safety information according to local circumstances or need.


Written Question
Animal Experiments
Wednesday 9th November 2022

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of launching an urgent inquiry into the death of animals in establishments licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 as a result of failure to provide adequate food or water, as set out in the Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s annual reports for 2019-2021.

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

The Government continues to be committed to assuring that animals used in science are protected by the legal framework.

The Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) has published its compliance framework which identifies and investigates potential incidents of non-compliance and decides on appropriate and proportionate measures and remedies to minimise the risk of recurrence.

All cases of non-compliance during 2019 to 2021 have been thoroughly investigated and the outcomes have been published in ASRU’s annual report.


Written Question
Passports: Applications
Wednesday 8th June 2022

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were waiting for the issue of a passport (a) in each of the last 12 months for which data are available and (b) in each month in 2019.

Answered by Kevin Foster

Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic. The vast majority of all passport applications continue to be dealt with well within 10 weeks.

Her Majesty’s Passport Office carries work in progress across the year as part of normal operational planning, and approximately 250,000 passport applications are being processed each week.


Written Question
Asylum: Rwanda
Thursday 26th May 2022

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Rwanda policy for asylum seekers, whether the Government provides funding to Care4Calais; what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recent comments made by Care4Calais on her Rwanda policy for asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement.

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

There is no record of Care4Calais as a grant recipient for the Home Office.

There is a global migration crisis, and we must look to new world leading solutions to tackle this issue. We are fully committed to the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda. It fully complies with international and national law and we will defend it robustly.


Written Question
Metropolitan Police: Complaints
Tuesday 8th February 2022

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints have been received by the Metropolitan Police concerning the activities of the (a) Government Whips Office and (b) Opposition Whips Office in the House of Commons over the last four weeks; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of complaints received by the Metropolitan Police concerning the activities of the Government Whips Office or the Opposition Whips Office in the House of Commons.


Written Question
Alpha Men Assemble
Friday 14th January 2022

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department or its agencies are aware of and are monitoring the activities of anti-vax group Alpha Men Assemble and Mr Danny Glass who reportedly recently held an exercise in Chasewater Park near Lichfield; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

Home Office officials are aware of the event held at Chasewater Park at the weekend and police were in attendance to ensure safety of the public.

The Government engages with partners to build a picture of the prevalence of potentially radical groups within communities. We keep our response to groups and individuals under constant review to ensure it is best placed to tackle the evolving threat.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 13th December 2021

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to correspondence from her Department to the hon. Member for Lichfield's office dated 7 December 2021 on a constituent's communication on immigration, which stated that her Department's Private Office Direct Communications Unit would not reply due to their judgment that the constituent’s email was of a racist and offensive nature, what her policy is on whether (a) Ministers are shown all correspondence from Members and (b) officials can make the decision not to respond to a constituent's communication passed on by a Member.

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

When the Department receives correspondence, it is triaged by officials to assess the appropriate response, which includes consideration of whether a letter may not be suitable for a reply due to racist or offensive content.

Any correspondence received directly from a Member is shared with the relevant Minister’s office. Where constituency correspondence is provided directly from Member’s offices, rather than from Members themselves, the Minister’s office is not routinely shown the correspondence if it has been assessed to fall into the racist or offensive content category.

In this case there was an error in the process for assessing whether the correspondence was racist or offensive and a substantive reply should have been sent. The correspondence will now be replied to by me as the Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration as a matter of priority


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 22nd July 2021

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant the the Answer of 19 July 2021 to Question 33109, when her Department plans to respond to the email from Mr Peter Jones of January 2021, sent to his Department by the hon. Member for Lichfield's office; for what reason a reply has not been forthcoming from her Department for in excess of six months since the receipt of that email; and what her Department's policy is on timely responses to constituency enquiries from hon. Members.

Answered by Kevin Foster

I have responded to the email from the hon. member for Lichfield most recently on 22 July.

Discussions remain ongoing regarding Educational Oversight for Private further education colleges and I will provide a further response as soon as possible.

We aim to respond to all correspondence from MPs in a timely manner. The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of MPs written correspondence within 20 working days.