Ben Goldsborough MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Inland Border Facilities: AshfordHome OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) operating system and (b) version of that operating system is used at (i) Sevington inland border facility and (ii) other border control posts.
Answer: Our Border IT systems have a range of measures in place to ensure they can continue to run critical services in the event of any major service issues. This includes critical incident, crisis and business continuity plans depending on the nature of the iss...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordInland Border Facilities: AshfordHome OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the IT system at Sevington inland border facility was last updated.
Answer: Our Border IT systems have a range of measures in place to ensure they can continue to run critical services in the event of any major service issues. This includes critical incident, crisis and business continuity plans depending on the nature of the iss...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordInland Border Facilities: ICTHome OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure Border Control facilities have back-up plans in place in case of IT (a) systems failures and (b) service provider outages.
Answer: Our Border IT systems have a range of measures in place to ensure they can continue to run critical services in the event of any major service issues. This includes critical incident, crisis and business continuity plans depending on the nature of the iss...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordInland Border Facilities: ICTHome OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure Border Control IT systems operate with full functionality.
Answer: Our Border IT systems have a range of measures in place to ensure they can continue to run critical services in the event of any major service issues. This includes critical incident, crisis and business continuity plans depending on the nature of the iss...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMetals: TheftHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of legislating to ensure that the (a) historic and (b) cultural value of heritage metal is considered in prosecutions for metal theft.
Answer: This Government recognises the distress and disruption that heritage theft can cause to local communities.That is why the sentencing guidelines on theft were amended in 2016 to highlight that where theft is of heritage assets or causes disruption to infra...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCrime: World Heritage SitesHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of legislating to ensure that all crimes committed (a) on and (b) against a designated heritage site are provided with a single heritage crim
Answer: Legislation is not required to introduce a specific crime recording code within the Home Office Counting Rules for police recorded crime.At present, one offence relating to designated heritage sites damage to certain ancient monuments under Section 28 of ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMetals: TheftHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making training on the theft of heritage metal a mandatory requirement for acquiring a scrap metal dealer licence.
Answer: This Government recognises the distress and disruption that heritage theft can cause to local communities. The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 was introduced to reduce metal theft by strengthening regulation of the scrap metal industry. The Act requires scra...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Skilled WorkersHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77332More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the Skilled Workers visa route on recruitment in (a) the biological sciences research sector, (b) universitie
Answer: On 12 May, we published our Immigration White Paper, outlining our future approach to legal migration routes. We have now made Immigration Rules changes to bring the first of these reforms into effect.It is our intention to publish an Impact Assessment (I...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCultural Heritage: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77329More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the financial cost of heritage crime in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: This Government recognises the distress and disruption that heritage theft and vandalism can cause to local communities. We have supported the work of Historic England which leads on a number of initiatives to tackle heritage crime, particularly theft fro...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Border Force: StaffHome OfficeTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74600More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force staff have been allocated to fast parcels in each of the last 10 financial years.
Answer: As an intelligence-informed organisation, Border Force do not disclose specific details regarding the deployment of resources to individual border threats. This is to ensure the integrity of our operations, and avoid compromising the effectiveness of our ...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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