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Written Question
Police
Monday 26th February 2024

Asked by: Sheryll Murray (Conservative - South East Cornwall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress he has made on making police services more accessible.

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

  • As set out in the Beating Crime Plan, we are investing in the development and delivery of the Single Online Home, a national platform allowing the public to access a range of interactive police services in one place, including details about their neighbourhood police officers and their contact details.
  • To ensure that the police know how responsive their local force is to 999 calls, we worked with policing to publish 999 answering times, and in September 2023 I wrote to police forces encouraging the publication of 101 answering time data.

Written Question
Hezbollah
Tuesday 20th February 2018

Asked by: Sheryll Murray (Conservative - South East Cornwall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Security of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 1008, how her Department differentiates between members of the political and military wings of Hezbollah, and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Ben Wallace

The Government distinguishes between those parts of Hizbollah which are involved in Lebanese politics (and that maintains a social welfare network that encompasses education and health services) and those which are actively concerned in terrorism (and are responsible for the planning, coordination and execution of terrorist attacks). The activity an individual in Hizbollah is engaged in will contribute to what part of the organisation they belong to.


Written Question
Emigration
Friday 7th July 2017

Asked by: Sheryll Murray (Conservative - South East Cornwall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people emigrated from the UK in 2016; what the destinations were of those leaving the UK, including how many entered other EU countries; and what assessment her Department has made of those trends in future net migration.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Data on long term emigration is produced by the Office for National Statistics. The most recent data, published in May 2017, can be found at:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/may2017

Long term international migration data show that emigration was 339,000 in 2016. The data do not record destination countries.

International Passenger Survey data show that there was a statistically significant increase in the estimated number of non-British citizens going home to live, from 29,000 to 52,000 in 2016. This increase was largely accounted for by EU citizens going home to live, an increase of 21,000 to 43,000.