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Written Question
Offenders: Deportation
Thursday 26th May 2022

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral statement of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department on 18 May 2022, on Foreign National Offender Removal Flights, Official Report, column 687, in respect of each of the 112 individuals originally included on the flight manifest, whether each of those individuals were on the flight when it departed; what criminal convictions each of those individuals had; and for what reasons certain individuals did not depart on that flight.

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

This Government’s priority is keeping the people of this country safe, and we make no apology for seeking to remove dangerous foreign criminals. Foreign national offenders (FNOs) who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.

We do not comment on individual cases. However, convicted criminals guilty of heinous crimes, including manslaughter, rape, robbery, child sex offences, drug offences and violent crime, and persistent offenders, were not deported on 18 May 2022. These are extremely serious offences which have a real and lasting impact on victims and communities.

All those returned are provided with the opportunity to raise claims prior to their removal. But where representations are made at the last minute, despite the offender having ample opportunity to raise these at an earlier stage, and the claim cannot be resolved in time for the flight’s departure, it can act as a barrier to removal.

We are doing everything possible to reduce legal challenges and to increase the numbers of FNOs being removed. Our New Plan for Immigration, underpinned by the Nationality and Borders Act, is the first major reform of the system in decades and will end the merry-go-round of last-minute legal challenges that stop us removing those with no right to be in the country.

The Government is committed to removing FNOs with no legal basis to be here and since January 2019 we have returned over 10,000 people from the UK.


Written Question
Airports: Security
Wednesday 5th December 2018

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on maintaining national security at smaller airports and airfields that facilitate cost-sharing flights between the UK and EU member states.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

Border Force Pilots are subject to the same reporting requirements whether they are operating a flight sharing aircraft or another general aviation aircraft; assesses 100% of general aviation flights notified to Border Force arriving into the UK.


Written Question
Human Trafficking: Children
Friday 28th October 2016

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals for her Department to take responsibility for the care and accommodation of trafficked children.

Answered by Sarah Newton

Trafficked children are some of the most vulnerable children in the country.

It is in the best interests of the child that the social care professional responsible for making decisions relating to the care of the child, should be familiar with the area and able to access other local services, including those the local authority are already responsible for.

Keeping responsibility at a local level enables and empowers professionals from police, education, health, housing and special educational needs provision to work together to assess the child’s needs and regularly review the child’s care.

The Government has made improvements to the care and protection of trafficked children, including setting a clear expectation that placement decisions should take particular account of protecting the child from any continued risk from traffickers and from a heightened risk of going missing through statutory guidance, launching a Child Trafficking Protection Fund of up to £3m and committing to the roll out Independent Child Trafficking Advocates.


Written Question
Immigration Controls
Wednesday 20th January 2016

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.

Answered by James Brokenshire

Uncontrolled mass immigration increases pressure on public services and can drive down wages. That is why our ambition remains to cut net migration to sustainable levels. We continue to work across government to reduce net migration outside of the EU and seek reform in Europe to reduce the pull factors behind EU migration. Building on the measures in the Immigration Act 2014, our new Immigration Bill will address illegal working, the availability of public services which help migrants remain here unlawfully and will extend our 'deport first appeal later' approach to ensure that even more illegal migrants are removed from the UK.


Written Question
Members: Surveillance
Monday 12th October 2015

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role she has in authorising interception of hon. Members' communications.

Answered by Theresa May

All warrants for the interception of communications are authorised by a Secretary of State. I am not going to comment on any individual instances of interception.


Written Question
Human Trafficking
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many victims of human trafficking were identified during the first year of the operation of the NSPCC Child Trafficking helpline; which countries those people came from; what the (a) gender and (b) age was of those people; what support has been offered to those people; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Karen Bradley

The Home Office does not fund the NSPCC Child Trafficking and Advice helpline and does not hold data on the number of victims identified through that helpline.


Written Question
Human Trafficking
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to continue to finance the NSPCC Child Trafficking helpline when the contract for that helpline ends; and what the cost of the previous contract was.

Answered by Karen Bradley

The Home Office does not fund the NSPCC Child Trafficking Advice Centre helpline. The Child Trafficking Advice Line has been consistently funded by Comic Relief.


Written Question
Human Trafficking
Monday 20th July 2015

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adults and (b) children her Department has identified as being at risk of human trafficking in (i) England and Wales, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Northern Ireland in each of the last three years.

Answered by Karen Bradley

The Home Office does not collect data on individual adults or children identified as being at risk of human trafficking. The National Referral Mechanism provides data on the number of individuals who have been referred as potential victims of trafficking, and these numbers are available on the National Crime Agency website. The National Crime Agency also regularly publishes information about the threat from serious and organised crime, including human trafficking and modern slavery.