Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Rwanda were granted asylum on (a) human rights and (b) other grounds in each year since 2010.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Those who need protection are normally granted refugee status or humanitarian protection.
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum decisions by nationality are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum Applications, Decisions and Resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 2023.
All asylum and human rights claims lodged from within the UK and admitted to the UK asylum system, including those seeking asylum from Rwanda, are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations, and against the background of relevant case law, policy guidance and the latest available country of origin information.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders were (a) subject to deportation action and (b) living in the community by the length of time since the end of their custodial sentence as of 1 March 2024.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Home Office does publish statistics on foreign national offenders (FNOs) subject to deportation action and living in the community by the length of time since the end of their custodial sentence. This is available from Table FNO_08 in: Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The latest data is published to September 2022.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of children that are looked-after.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The latest information on the number of children looked after in England on 31 March 2023 can be found in the annual statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoptions’, which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many breaches of (a) physical and (b) cyber security there were at Sellafield in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I will write to the hon. Member on this matter, and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the RAF spent on advertising (a) above the line, (b) on Tiktok, (c) on Facebook and Instagram, (d) on Snapchat and (e) on Twitter in each financial year since 2017.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question has been interpreted as spend on advertising for Recruitment. With regards to the figures for 2017, I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Spend £ | 742,162 | 9,453,479 | 8,334,191 | 2,820,455 | 8,541,160 | 11,240,860 | 2,209,334. |
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Facebook/Inst | £52,735 | £887,324 | £874,933 | £310,407 | £158,550 | £610,013 | £179,662 |
SnapChat |
| £63,001 | £178,558 | £6,663 | £542,277 | £654,943 | £175,206 |
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| £48,384 | £11,152 | £83,269 | £4,992 |
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Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Army spent on advertising (a) above the line, (b) on Tiktok, (c) on Facebook and Instagram, (d) on Snapchat and (e) on Twitter in each financial year since 2017.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The table shows the cost of the Army’s recruitment advertising costs by financial year.
Media Name | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2202-23 |
£231,425 | £576,454 | £494,971 | £532,996.82 | £606,351 | |
Snapchat | £79,903 | £130,020 | £204,345 | £388,521.19 | £479,342.14 |
£55,431 | £203,164 | £129,277 | £196,164.98 | £90,000 | |
Display | £1,292,885 | £3,506,037 | £3,804,808 | £3,500,017 | £2,309,891 |
Out of Home | £287,000 | £451,614 | £190,000 | £200,000 | £150,000 |
Radio | £388,980 | £1,813,738 | £859,134 | £1,045,000 | £964,998 |
Paid Search | £209,532 | £699,264 | £1,153,600 | £1,355,525 | £1,165,874.32 |
TV | £1,992,500 | £3,076,945 | £4,429,580 | £2,524,105 | £3,594,987 |
Please note the following notes/caveats:
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 13532 on Armed Forces: Parachuting, if he will break down the data provided by (a) broken bones, (b) respiratory illness, (c) punctured lungs, (d) other injury and (e) death.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
From 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2023, a total of 527 Service personnel sustained injuries from parachuting. Of these:
There was one fatality as a result of parachuting in 2021.
This information was drawn from a number of databases and relied on manual data extraction based on specific search terms.
The type of injury was identified from a number of different variables in the data including the free text narrative of the description of the incident. The MOD Health and Safety systems are not medical databases and do not contain clinical diagnoses. The databases are also live and therefore information is subject to change or revisions. As a result, there is a risk of inconsistency with the data, and the returns may not be exhaustive.
Any records that did not contain one of the search terms used has been categorised as ‘other’. These are reported conditions including but not limited to sprains, pain, bruising and lacerations.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Nico 9 stun grenades were used in prisons in each year since 2015, broken down by institution.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a second life sentence after being released from prison in each year since 2010; and if he will list the offences which resulted in the (a) first and (b) second life sentence for each person.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The answer to this question could only be provided at a disproportionate cost, as it involves linking prison data with the Ministry of Justice extract of the police national computer.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders sentenced to a suspended sentence order were subsequently sent to immediate custody for (a) breaching the conditions of the order and (b) reoffending in each year since 2017.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. The below detail is provided as background information.
A 2019 Ministry of Justice analysis of a matched cohort of over 30,000 offenders shows that those who serve sentences of immediate custody of less than 12 months reoffend at a rate higher than similar offenders given community orders and suspended sentence orders by the courts.
Our latest quarterly statistics, January – March 2022, suggest that 55.5% of people given a custodial sentence of less than 12 months reoffend within one year. For offenders punished with suspended sentence orders with requirements that are served in the community, the reoffending rate is significantly lower at 24.2%.
Based on this evidence, the Government introduced the presumption to suspend short sentences as part of the Sentencing Bill, currently before Parliament. The courts will retain a wide discretion to impose immediate custody in many circumstances.
Offenders will then serve their sentence in the community. When the court imposes a suspended sentence, they can impose requirements on the offender and the sentencing framework provides a flexible range of requirements, such as unpaid work, drug and alcohol treatment, curfew, and electronic monitoring, with the intention of punishing the offender, providing reparation to the community, and addressing any criminogenic or rehabilitative needs of the offender which may otherwise increase the likelihood of their reoffending.