Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the net zero targets for the Home Office and its arm’s-length bodies are; and what guidance has been issued on adopting net zero targets earlier than 2050.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Net Zero target and timelines for the Home Office and its arm’s Length bodies, are those which are set out in the Climate Change Act 2008 as a target for the UK.
These targets form part of the Greening Government Commitments (GGC), which is the central framework for UK Government Departments and their agencies to reduce their impacts on the environment, including targets to reduce emissions, during the framework period.
The Greening Government Commitments are currently under review by DEFRA, to ensure that they remain aligned with government priorities.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many electric vehicles owned or leased by their Department or its arm’s-length bodies are allocated to (a) asylum accommodation operations, (b) migrant transportation, or (c) related contractor-led services; and for what operational purposes those vehicles are used.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information sought is not collected and would only be available at disproportionate cost
All readily available information on HO EV vehicles and infrastructure was provided in response to UIN: 87860.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether expenditure on electric vehicles or electric vehicle charging infrastructure since 4 July 2024 has been incurred directly by their Department or indirectly through contracts with asylum accommodation or transportation providers.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information sought is not collected and would only be available at disproportionate cost
All readily available information on HO EV vehicles and infrastructure was provided in response to UIN 87860.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2025 to Question 89631 on Driving under Influence: Testing, if she will publish all assessment her Department has made of the impact of the absence of any data on drug testing on road safety policy and enforcement.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not collect data on tests conducted by police for drug driving.
The Department for Transport is developing a Road Safety Strategy, the first in a decade and intends to publish by the end of the year.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2025 to Question 89631 on Driving under Influence: Testing, whether her Department will begin collecting and publishing data on tests conducted by police for drug driving.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not collect data on tests conducted by police for drug driving.
The Department for Transport is developing a Road Safety Strategy, the first in a decade and intends to publish by the end of the year.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2025 to Question 84267 on the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service, what direct financial or in-kind support her Department currently provides to NaVCIS; whether she has assessed the adequacy of its industry-funded model for tackling organised HGV and freight theft; and whether she plans to allocate public funding to support that Service in the 2026-27 financial year.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
As noted in response to question 84267, the Government does not fund the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) and has no plans to do so.
NaVCIS is funded by industry to provide dedicated specialist intelligence and enforcement. However we have regular discussions with key policing partners, including the NPCC, NaVCIS and Opal, the national policing intelligence unit for organised acquisitive crime, about the best ways to tackle organised freight crime.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2025 to Question 86746 on Roads: Accidents, whether her Department has received requests from the Department for Transport for data on (a) drug and (b) drink driving tests since July 4th 2024.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
As a part of the Annual Data Requirement, the Home Office collects information on roadside breath tests for alcohol, carried out by the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales.
The Home Office makes all information collected on roadside breath tests for alcohol publicly available as a part of its annual “Police powers and procedures: Roads policing” statistical publication. The latest release is available here:
Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK
Publication of this data makes it accessible for use by Other Government Departments, external organisations, and members of the public.
The Home Office does not collect data on tests conducted by police for drug driving.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much (a) their Department and (b) its arm’s length bodies have spent on (i) installing electric vehicle charging facilities and (ii) purchasing electric vehicles since 4 July 2024; and what estimate their Department has made of the difference in capital cost between (A) the electric vehicles purchased by their Department and (B) comparable (1) petrol and (2) diesel models.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
CDEL – HOPS Change Budget
RDEL – Resource Budget
FY CDEL RDEL
20/21 £1,153,957.77
21/22 £1,066,198.03
22/23 £495,547.89 £721,655.00
23/24 £442,482.00
24/25 £1,123,253.86
25/26 £318,642.00
Sub Total £4,600,081.55 £721,655.00
Total £5,321,736.55
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2025 to Question 31540 on Entry Clearances: Overseas Students, whether her Department has considered using (a) Programme for International Student Assessment results and (b) other international benchmarking data when determining which applicants are required to take additional English language tests.
Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
We refer the honourable member to our answer of 24 February 2025 to PQ UIN 31540. Our position has not changed.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on (a) enforcement and (b) prosecution rates by police force following reports from members of the public of road traffic offences captured on (i) dashcams and (ii) other video evidence.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold the requested information.
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on police enforcement of road traffic offences as a part of the annual ‘Police powers and procedures: Roads policing’ statistical release. These statistics include information on the number of offences by outcome, including Fixed Penalty Notice, driver retraining and referral to court action.
The latest publication, covering 2023, can be found on GOV.UK at:
As part of these statistics, the Home Office publishes breakdowns on the number of camera-detected offences. However, these figures relate to offences captured by official traffic enforcement cameras and do not include footage submitted by members of the public via dashcams or other private video recording devices.
Information on the prosecution outcome of offences referred to court action by the police is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.