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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Police: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to update data used to construct indicators for the calculation of Police Main Grant.
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 Chancellor has announced a real terms increase in police spending power over the next t...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86427More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum hotels have been closed since 5 July 2024.
Answer: This Government recognises that hotels are not a sustainable solution for accommodating asylum seekers and remains committed to ending their use, already reducing the number in operation. We do not provide a running commentary on hotel numbers, our object...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86426More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the scope is of the Future Asylum Contract Transformation project.
Answer: The focus of the Future Asylum Contract Transformation Project is scoping potential procurement and implementation of a new delivery model, to replace the current Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts, due to expire in 2029, the Advice Issue Reportin...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHomicideHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many murders have been committed by asylum seekers in each year since 2020.
Answer: The information you have requested is not available from published statistics. Work is currently underway to improve the quality of information held by the department on foreign national offenders (FNOs). If this work progresses as planned, the Home Offic...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: ImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025WithdrawnUIN 84532More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proposed change in the point of eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain will apply to (a) current and (b) former non-UK armed forces (i) personnel and (ii) their families.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83507More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 75431 on Undocumented Migrants: English Channel, how many migrants were (a) exchanged with France and (b) prevented from illegally entering the
Answer: As of 20 October 2025, 42 individuals have been returned to France and 23 have been brought to the UK via the new safe and legal route. Between the two dates specified, a total of 9,686 of these dangerous and unnecessary crossing attempts were prevented a...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled Record number of gang leaders charged for county lines offences, published on 8 October 2025, how many of the deal lines were in (a) Cambridgeshire and (b)
Answer: County Lines is the most violent model of drug supply and a harmful form of child criminal exploitation. Through the County Lines Programme, we are targeting exploitative drug dealing gangs while breaking the organised crime groups behind this trade.Betwe...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMBR Acres: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled New police powers to protect communities from disruption caused by protests, published on 5 October 2025, what assessment she made of the potential impact o
Answer: On 5 October, the Home Secretary announced that police forces will be granted new powers to put conditions on repeat protests. If a protest has taken place at the same site for weeks on end, and caused repeated disorder, the police will have the authority...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83494More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled Record number of gang leaders charged for county lines offences, published on 8 October 2025, how much and what proportion of the funding provided through t
Answer: County Lines is the most violent model of drug supply and a harmful form of child criminal exploitation. Through the County Lines Programme, we are targeting exploitative drug dealing gangs while breaking the organised crime groups behind this trade.Betwe...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordInfrastructure: HuntingdonHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what critical national infrastructure sites there are within Huntingdon constituency.
Answer: County Lines is the most violent model of drug supply and a harmful form of child criminal exploitation. Through the County Lines Programme, we are targeting exploitative drug dealing gangs while breaking the organised crime groups behind this trade.Betwe...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Armed ForcesHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83492More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) military service and (b) the military service of a (i) partner and (ii) parent in the contribution criteria for Indefinite L
Answer: We will be consulting on the new earned settlement rules later this year.The Government remains committed to supporting current and former serving personnel and their families; ensuring that they do not face any disadvantage due to their service.
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Armed ForcesHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's proposed change in the point of eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain would apply to (a) current and (b) former non-UK armed forces (i) personnel and (ii) their families.
Answer: We will be consulting on the new earned settlement rules later this year.The Government remains committed to supporting current and former serving personnel and their families; ensuring that they do not face any disadvantage due to their service.
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDiplomtic Relations: ChinaHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83060More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had this year with (a) the Speaker of the House of Commons and (b) the Speaker of the House of Lords on lifting the ban on China’s Ambassador to the UK entering Par
Answer: Access to Parliament is a matter for the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Speaker of the House of Lords. It would not be appropriate for the Home Office to comment on any conversations with the Speakers on these matters.
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Influence Registration SchemeHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press release entitled Foreign Influence Registration Scheme to come fully into effect, published on 30 September 2025, on what date the FIRS Case Management Team became fully op
Answer: The FIRS Case Management Team were fully operational on 1 July, when the scheme went live. Staff were in post ahead of that date, supporting the scheme’s implementation prior to go-live.
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Influence Registration SchemeHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press release entitled Foreign Influence Registration Scheme to come fully into effect, published on 30 September 2025, what criteria is used to assess whether a country poses an
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 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled First small boat migrant returned under new UK-France agreement, published on 18 September 2025, what the terms of the contract are under whic
Answer: Details of changes to the Immigration Rules covering the UK-France Treaty are published on gov.uk in an explanatory memorandum here.It means that those who use dangerous small boats crossings to enter the UK can be returned to France. The Home Office uses...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2025 to Question 71964 on Asylum: Finance, what criteria qualifies a person for (a) Section 4 and (b) Section 95 Asylum Support.
Answer: Asylum seekers and their dependents who would otherwise be destitute can obtain support under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. The destitution threshold is the minimum an individual needs to enable them to obtain adequate accommodation a...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's news story entitled First illegal migrants returned under new UK-France agreement, published on 18 September, what was the cost of each flight.
Answer: The Home Office has made returns under the new UK-France agreement utilising both charter flights and regular scheduled flights. This approach allows the Home Office to maximise value for money and best satisfy operational requirements.We do not comment o...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFabian HenryHome OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure the removal of Fabian Henry from the UK since February 2021.
Answer: While I understand the strong public interest in this individual due to their horrific crimes, it is a longstanding government policy that we do not routinely comment on individual cases. However, I can assure the Honourable Member that the Home Office is...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: RefugeesHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what security checks her Department undertakes on refugees coming to the UK from Gaza.
Answer: The Government is supporting a group of Chevening Scholars and fully funded scholarship students to depart from Gaza to take up university places in the UK in Autumn for the 2025/26 academic year. The Government has also committed to evacuate a limited nu...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: FranceHome OfficeTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many commercial flights there have been with people being removed under the UK’s migration treaty with France since 1 September 2025; and how many people have been removed under this treaty.
Answer: As published on GOV.UK on 9 October, 2 group flights saw 19 individuals returned to France. This was following the successful returns of an additional 7 individuals prior in the weeks prior to that. Further flights to France through the UK-France Agreemen...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79684More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's document entitled How many people claim asylum in the UK?, published on 21 August 2025, if she will set the reasons why people claimed asylum increased in 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’. The reason for individual asylum claims is not published. Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of pr...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79682More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's document entitled How many people claim asylum in the UK?, published on 21 August 2025, if she will set out the methodology that was used to estimate that 76 per cen
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 recordAsylum: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's accredited official statistics entitled How many people claim asylum in the UK?, published on 21 August 2025, what assessment she made of the potential implications
Answer: In the year ending June 2025, UK Visas and Immigration issued 2.2 million Visitor visas. Applicants must satisfy the decision-maker that they are a genuine visitor who will leave the UK at the end of their Visit, and if not the decision-maker will refuse ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: GazaHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's news story entitled, Update on Gaza medical evacuation scheme, published on 22 August 2025, what immigration status will the Gazan (a) children and (b) immediate fam
Answer: The children medically evacuated to the UK, alongside their immediate family members, will be granted leave to stay for up to two years with the ability to access public funds, including treatment and wraparound support in the UK.Those who wish to remain ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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