Chris Philp MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Visas: StudentsHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57292More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking in relation to institutions that have sponsored high numbers of students who have later claimed asylum.
Answer: The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May, sets out proposals for reform in a wide range of areas, including student visas, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: StudentsHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57291More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number people who came to the UK on a study visa and later claimed asylum for each sponsoring institution.
Answer: The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May, sets out proposals for reform in a wide range of areas, including student visas, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Skilled WorkersHome OfficeTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to implement the £38,000 family visa salary threshold.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 22 May to Question 52912.
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40546More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the rules laid in Parliament on 12 March 2025 on care workers, how many social care workers have (a) been removed from the UK and (b) had their visas cancelled as a result of their s
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 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40545More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the rules laid in Parliament on 12 March 2025 regarding social care, how a social care provider can prove that they have tried to recruit domestically before seeking to sponsor new r
Answer: The Home Office will publish guidance for sponsors in line with the new rules coming into effect on 9 April.
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32018More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the judgement in case UI-2024-005295 issued in the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber on 13 January 2025, whether her Department has plans to appeal the judgement.
Answer: The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases or legal proceedings in which it is a participant.
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: AlbaniaHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28942More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the Italian Government decision to use naval ships to transport migrants to Albania.
Answer: The Italian navy has competence for the transfer of migrants rescued in international waters to the centres in Albania run by the Italian government.As part of this Government’s expansion of international cooperation in the fight against Organised Immigra...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28532More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will use sanctions including visa penalties on countries that do not cooperate with the removal of their nationals.
Answer: Where cooperation with countries on returns falls below the levels expected, and where appropriate, we stand ready to use all levers available to us to encourage cooperation, including the power to impose visa penalties.
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders and Undocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will accelerate deportations of (a) foreign national offenders and (b) illegal immigrants.
Answer: We pledged to deliver the highest rate of removals since 2018 and this has been surpassed, with a surge in returns activity since the election leading to nearly 19,000 people with no right to be in the UK being removed in the first six months this governm...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to proscribe drug cartels as terrorist organisations.
Answer: The criteria for proscribing an organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000, and the Governments approach to commenting on those decisions remain exactly the same as they were when the Rt Hon Member was a Home Office Minister.
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSouthport InquiryHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct the Southport public inquiry to make an assessment of the adequacy of public communications by the Government in the aftermath of those murders.
Answer: We are moving swiftly to set up the inquiry.We will consult the families and other interested parties on its scope to ensure all critical issues are addressed while remaining manageable and sensitive to the needs of those most affected.We will announce fu...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: SoftwareHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average annual number is of case files rejected due to incorrectly submitted documents using (a) Case Overview and Prosecutions Application (COPA) and (b) CONNECT computer software.
Answer: Police forces and Policing and Crime Commissioners are responsible for their procurement and commercial strategies for Records Management Systems.Each force is responsible for evaluating the performance of their Record Management System in line with those...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice Custody: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22938More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of open custody records was in (a) 2019, (b) 2022, (c) 2023 and (d) 2024.
Answer: The information requested is not currently held centrally.The Home Office collects and publishes data on detentions in police custody in England and Wales, available here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK.This data includ...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: SoftwareHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22937More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of case file (a) rejections and (b) discontinuations by the Crown Prosecution Service was (i) before and (ii) after the introduction of the CONNECT computer software.
Answer: Police forces and Policing and Crime Commissioners are responsible for their procurement and commercial strategies for Records Management Systems.Each force is responsible for evaluating the performance of their Record Management System in line with those...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: SoftwareHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces purchased CONNECT computer software; and how many such forces (a) no longer and (b) continue to use the software.
Answer: Police forces and Policing and Crime Commissioners are responsible for their procurement and commercial strategies for Records Management Systems.Each force is responsible for evaluating the performance of their Record Management System in line with those...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: SoftwareHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time it takes an officer to complete a case file is on (a) CONNECT and (b) Case Overview and Prosecutions Application (COPA).
Answer: Police forces and Policing and Crime Commissioners are responsible for their procurement and commercial strategies for Records Management Systems.Each force is responsible for evaluating the performance of their Record Management System in line with those...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: SoftwareHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on the CONNECT computer software since its introduction by the Metropolitan Police on (a) further development of the software, (b) training including (i) accommodation, (ii) tr
Answer: Police forces and Policing and Crime Commissioners are responsible for their procurement and commercial strategies for Records Management Systems.Each force is responsible for evaluating the performance of their Record Management System in line with those...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice CustodyHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time spent by people in custody in police holding cells was in the two years (a) before and (b) after the introduction of the CONNECT software; and how many people have been detained
Answer: Police forces and Policing and Crime Commissioners are responsible for their procurement and commercial strategies for Records Management Systems.Each force is responsible for evaluating the performance of their Record Management System in line with those...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Sri LankaHome OfficeTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 18968 on Asylum: Sri Lanka, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of relocating to St Helena asylum seekers who have trave
Answer: The specific purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding with St Helena was to deal with the risk of further migrants attempting to travel to the British Indian Ocean Territory, prior to the sovereignty agreement with Mauritius being formally completed. Th...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSynthetic Opioids TaskforceHome OfficeTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20018More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a Minister in her Department has chaired a meeting of the synthetic opioids taskforce; and how many times that taskforce has met since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Ministers are prioritising the risk of synthetic opioids as part of the wider long-term drug strategy. The Synthetic Opioids Taskforce is chaired by the Director General of the Public Safety Group at the Home Office on behalf of the Minister. The Taskforc...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVisas: FamiliesHome OfficeTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase the salary threshold for family visas.
Answer: On 10th September the Home Secretary commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to review the financial requirements in the Family Immigration Rules. Conducting a review of the financial requirements across the family routes will ensure we have a...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCrimeHome OfficeTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a breakdown of crimes committed by nationality in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answer: As the Rt Hon Member is aware, the Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis, but Information on the nationality of offenders is not routinely coll...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylum: SyriaHome OfficeTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on returning Syrians (a) seeking and (b) granted asylum if that country becomes safe.
Answer: The Home Office acted swiftly to pause decisions on Syrian asylum claims whilst we assess the current situation. We keep all country guidance relating to asylum claims under constant review so we can respond to emerging issues.
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of Foreign National Offenders challenged deportation in each of the last five years for which data is available; and how many and what proportion of those challenges were
Answer: I refer the Right Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 26 November to Question UIN 14746.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: ArrestsHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested as a result of investigations by the Grooming Gangs Taskforce since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce (or ‘Grooming Gangs Taskforce’) provides practical, expert, on the ground support for local forces investigating complex, group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation, with a focus on grooming gangs. It su...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
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