Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026. One record per UIN and tabled date; the named department is not a measure of answer quality.
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Undocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled UK-France treaty targeting illegal crossings comes into force, published on 7 August 2025, what discussions she has had with the French author
Answer: In their Joint Declaration of the 37th UK-France Summit on 10 July 2025 the Prime Minister and President Macron committed to deepening UK/France cooperation on tackling irregular migration to the UK.As a result of the strengthened relationship between the...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled UK-France treaty targeting illegal crossings comes into force, published on 7 August 2025, what Border Force's operational strategy is to (a)
Answer: We do not comment on operations. This would give criminal gangs an insight into our operational processes, undermining the work we are carrying out to deter small boat crossings and tackle the criminal smuggling gangs behind these.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Removal CentresHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79303More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled UK-France treaty targeting illegal crossings comes into force, published on 7 August 2025, what the total capacity is of each Immigration Remo
Answer: The Home Office currently operates seven immigration removal centres (IRCs) throughout the UK, (six in England and one in Scotland). As of 13 October, the Home Office has the capacity to detain around 2,400 people in IRCs. The table below sets out the cur...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Removal CentresHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled UK-France treaty targeting illegal crossings comes into force, published on 7 August 2025, how many Immigration Removal Centre there are.
Answer: The Home Office currently operates seven immigration removal centres (IRCs) throughout the UK, (six in England and one in Scotland). As of 13 October, the Home Office has the capacity to detain around 2,400 people in IRCs. The table below sets out the cur...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCambridgeshire Constabulary: PayHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79301More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled 4.2% pay rise for police officers across England and Wales, published on 1 August 2025, what proportion of the £120 million was allocated to C
Answer: This Government is committed to ensuring that policing has the resources it needs and the allocation of funding to police forces remains an important consideration.The method for distributing the additional funding will be communicated in due course.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of unsuccessfully appealed rejected initial asylum applications have been (a) returned to their country of origin, (b) returned to France and (c) remain in the UK since 5
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of rejected initial asylum applications have been (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully appealed since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘asylum detailed datasets’ as part of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on asylum claims by route of entry to the UK is published in table Asy_D01a and data on initial decisions on a...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of initial asylum applications have been (a) approved and (b) rejected since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘asylum detailed datasets’ as part of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on asylum claims by route of entry to the UK is published in table Asy_D01a and data on initial decisions on a...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Age AssuranceHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers claiming to be children were subsequently discovered to be adults since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘asylum detailed datasets’ as part of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on asylum claims by route of entry to the UK is published in table Asy_D01a and data on initial decisions on a...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adult males, (b) adult females and c) children have arrived via small boat since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on detected irregular arrivals by method of entry (including small boat arrivals), age group, and sex is published...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Criminal InvestigationHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) prosecutions have occurred as a result of Operation Beaconport.
Answer: The National Police Operation, launched in response to the Casey Independent Audit of Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, has been named Operation Beaconport. The Operation is being set up to, as Baroness Casey recommended, ensure that past f...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Criminal InvestigationHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79293More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the full scope is of Operation Beaconport.
Answer: The National Police Operation, launched in response to the Casey Independent Audit of Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, has been named Operation Beaconport. The Operation is being set up to, as Baroness Casey recommended, ensure that past f...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordExploitation: Criminal InvestigationHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79292More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when access to the capabilities environment of the Tackling Organised Exploitation programme will be available to police forces.
Answer: As part of the response to the Casey Independent Audit of Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse the government has recently provided £426,000 of new funding to the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme (TOEX). The new funding will enable TOE...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordExploitation: Criminal InvestigationHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79291More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces have access to the capabilities environment of the Tackling Organised Exploitation programme.
Answer: As part of the response to the Casey Independent Audit of Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse the government has recently provided £426,000 of new funding to the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme (TOEX). The new funding will enable TOE...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordExploitation: Criminal InvestigationHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79290More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the full scope is of the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme.
Answer: As part of the response to the Casey Independent Audit of Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse the government has recently provided £426,000 of new funding to the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme (TOEX). The new funding will enable TOE...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Influence Registration Scheme: ChinaHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 39 of the National Security Strategy 2025, published in June 2025, CP 1338, whether she plans to place China on the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.
Answer: As set out in the National Security Act 2023, the Secretary of State may make a specification under the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) where they consider it is reasonably necessary to do so to protect the safety or inte...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational SecurityHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 26 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, what recent steps her Department has taken to remove (a) platforms and (b) privileges to people wh
Answer: The information requested on visa data is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office is committed to countering extremism in all its forms where it divide...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSubversionHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 25 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, how many people have been denied visas on the grounds that they would spread discord in the last 1
Answer: The information requested on visa data is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office is committed to countering extremism in all its forms where it divide...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Influence Registration SchemeHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 25 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, whether she plans to add other countries to the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registratio
Answer: As set out in the National Security Act 2023, the Secretary of State may make a specification under the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) where they consider it is reasonably necessary to do so to protect the safety or inte...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational SecurityHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79197More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 26 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, what her planned timetable is for implementing the recommendations of the Independent Reviewer of
Answer: As the previous Home Secretary set out in her oral statement on 19 May 2025, the Government is committed to taking forward legislation to implement all of the recommendations made by Jonathan Hall KC, Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation, in ...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational SecurityHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79196More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 25 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, when she plans to introduce new powers to help tackle state threats.
Answer: As the previous Home Secretary set out in her oral statement on 19 May 2025, the Government is committed to taking forward legislation to implement all of the recommendations made by Jonathan Hall KC, Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation, in ...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorismHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 25 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, how much funding was provided to the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 20
Answer: The Counter-Terrorism Operations Centre (CTOC) is the flagship of the UK's CT capability, bringing together expertise and resource across police, the intelligence agencies and the criminal justice system, enabling us to better identify and disrupt emergin...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum claims were made by people who entered the country legally since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘asylum detailed datasets’ as part of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on asylum claims by route of entry to the UK is published in table Asy_D01a and data on initial decisions on a...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79177More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what methods of illegal entry into the UK have been used since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on detected irregular arrivals by method of entry (including small boat arrivals), age group, and sex is published...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79176More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who illegally crossed the English Channel were brought ashore by (a) Border Force, (b) the Royal Navy and (c) Royal National Lifeboat Institution since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Information of this kind is only readily available for whole calendar years and the current year to date, rather than the part year commencing 5 July 2024 when the present Government came into office. The specific information requested could therefore onl...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
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