Chris Philp MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Asylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has received any legal notices, pre-action correspondence and letters before action from Wealden District Council on the proposed use of the Crowborough Training Camp.
Answer: The Home Office has received a Planning Contravention Notice from Wealden District Council regarding Crowborough. We have not received any pre-action protocol letters or letters before action from Wealden District Council.
Answered 30 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when asylum seekers are expected to be accommodated at the Crowborough Training Camp.
Answer: We are continuing to assess the feasibility of the Crowborough site. No final decision has been made, and as such no arrival date for service users has been confirmed.
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the minutes of meetings between her Department and Wealden District Council on the proposed use of the Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: The Home Office engages regularly with Wealden District Council regarding Crowborough Training Camp. The department does not routinely publish minutes of such meetings.
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of whether an Environmental Impact Assessment is required for the use of the Crowborough Training Camp site to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish all assessments made by her Department on the adequacy of the Crowborough Training Camp site for accommodating asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90281More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assurances she has received from statutory service providers that they could meet the needs arising from the use of the Crowborough Training Camp site to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what factors her Department has had regard to in making its assessment as to the suitability of the Crowborough Training Camp site to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a community impact assessment and an Equalities Impact Assessment of the potential use of Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89504More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when (a) Wealden District Council and (b) local communities will be informed of the decision on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89503More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how local residents will be formally consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consult (a) Wealden District Council, (b) other affected local councils and (c) statutory service providers prior to a decision being taken on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to a
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the decision on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers will be taken; by whom the decision will be taken; and what is is the mechanism for taking that decision.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the security services on the monitoring of foreign offenders who may be crossing the Channel to avoid justice for crimes they have committed in other European coun
Answer: We have launched the Border Security Command (BSC) whose work is imperative not only to stop criminals from entering the UK via small boats in the first place but to stop anyone from making these dangerous journeys. This is why the BSC is working with par...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: OldhamHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Oldham Council on the potential starting date for its inquiry into grooming gangs operating in Oldham.
Answer: In June this year, Baroness Casey published her independent audit into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse, and the Government accepted every recommendation it made, including establishing a new national inquiry. The national inquiry, equipped...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InquiriesHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will re-open the application window for the role of Chair of the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Answer: Chairs of national inquiries established under the Inquiries Act 2005, are appointed directly by Ministers. Under section 3 of the Act, the Minister who sets up the inquiry has the power to appoint the Chair and any other panel members.As has long been co...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InquiriesHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for the role of Chair of the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Answer: Chairs of national inquiries established under the Inquiries Act 2005, are appointed directly by Ministers. Under section 3 of the Act, the Minister who sets up the inquiry has the power to appoint the Chair and any other panel members.As has long been co...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: OffendersHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to stop foreign offenders wanted for crimes abroad from (a) crossing the Channel and (b) claiming asylum in the UK.
Answer: We have launched the Border Security Command (BSC) whose work is imperative not only to stop criminals from entering the UK via small boats in the first place but to stop anyone from making these dangerous journeys. This is why the BSC is working with par...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to track people crossing the Channel who might pose a security risk.
Answer: We have launched the Border Security Command (BSC) whose work is imperative not only to stop criminals from entering the UK via small boats in the first place but to stop anyone from making these dangerous journeys. This is why the BSC is working with par...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Greater LondonHome OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82355More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the cases included in her formal review of grooming gang investigations are in London; in which London boroughs these cases are; and what the dates are of each case.
Answer: We can confirm that over 1,200 cases have been identified for review in the first phase of the review of cases that ended with ‘No Further Action’ that was announced by the previous Home Secretary in January 2025. This is now a component part of Operation...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 24 June 2025 to Question 59762 on Immigration, what progress her Department has made on each of the proposals she plans to bring into effect.
Answer: The Restoring Control of the Immigration System White Paper published 12 May 2025 set out reforms to legal migration, so that we can restore order, control and fairness to the system, bring down net migration and promote economic growth. On 1 July 2025 ...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76292More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had Indefinite Leave to Remain status revoked in each of the last five years.
Answer: In order to respond to your request, a manual data extraction would be required. Under section 12(1) of the FOIA, the Home Office is not obliged to comply with an information request where to do so would exceed the appropriate limit. We estimate that the ...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Private Rented HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76291More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether landlords in Croydon are being offered rents above market rates to house asylum seekers.
Answer: The Home Office has a legal obligation to provide accommodation for asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, whilst their claims are being processed.This Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, f...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented Housing: RentsHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76290More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that long-standing tenants in Croydon are not (a) evicted and (b) displaced by higher rental offers made to landlords by (i) Serco and (ii) other contractors.
Answer: The Home Office has a legal obligation to provide accommodation for asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, whilst their claims are being processed.This Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, f...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Private Rented HousingHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70608More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum accommodation contracts on the private rented housing market in Croydon.
Answer: When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Serco has been contracted to provide asylum seeker accommodation in Croydon.
Answer: When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
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