Gregory Stafford MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Domestic AbuseHome OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of domestic abuse reports closed or recorded as a Domestic Incident rather than as a recorded crime, on the basis that the conduct reported was financial o
Answer: The Home Office collects information from the police forces of England and Wales on the crime outcomes of domestic abuse-related offences. These are published annually by the Office for National Statistics. The most recent data, for the year ending March ...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDomestic AbuseHome OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11354More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance the Home Office and the College of Policing have issued to ensure that frontline officers recognise coerced debt and the misuse of civil and insolvency proceedings as domestic abuse.
Answer: The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 makes clear that domestic abuse extends beyond physical injury to include non-physical forms of harm, including controlling or coercive behaviour and economic abuse, such as coerced debt.The College of Policing is the standard ...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDomestic AbuseHome OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the use of statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery and insolvency proceedings as a means of economic abuse within the meaning of sect
Answer: We recognise that statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery or insolvency proceedings may be used by perpetrators as a form of economic abuse, where they are used to control, coerce or cause financial harm to a victim. Economic abuse...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDomestic AbuseHome OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11352More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on (a) National Crime Recording Standard outcomes for course-of-conduct domestic abuse reports recorded as Domestic Incident rather than as a recorded crime, and (b) the
Answer: The Home Office collects information from the police forces of England and Wales on the crime outcomes of domestic abuse-related offences. These are published annually by the Office for National Statistics. The most recent data, for the year ending March ...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDomestic AbuseHome OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11351More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department and the College of Policing have issued guidance to address the physical-injury threshold in frontline police triage of domestic abuse reports.
Answer: The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 makes clear that domestic abuse extends beyond physical injury to include non-physical forms of harm, including controlling or coercive behaviour and economic abuse, such as coerced debt.The College of Policing is the standard ...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDomestic AbuseHome OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11350More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the persistence of a physical-injury threshold in frontline police triage of domestic abuse reports, in the co
Answer: Controlling or Coercive Behaviour prosecutions have increased from 3,999 in 2023/24 to 5,374 in 2024/25, and 3,293 in the first half of 2025/26. However, we are aware that this offence is still under identified in how frontline police triage domestic abus...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9951More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role her Department has had in the Department for Health and Social Care’s consideration of banning the sale of low and no alcohol products to under 18s.
Answer: In Fit for the Future, a 10-Year Health Plan for England, the Government committed to explore options to restrict access to no- and low-alcohol products so they are treated in the same ways as all alcohol products, including banning sales to under 18 year...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the use of operational assessment frameworks such as THRIVE (Threat, Harm, Risk, Investigation, Vulnerability and Engagement) in informing polic
Answer: Police forces across England and Wales use a structured way of assessing threat, harm and risk at point of point of contact and deployment. THRIVE is one particular definition and model of such an assessment. The adoption of THRIVE or similar models is ba...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that DEI training provided to police forces is informed by relevant operational policing experience and reflects frontline policing.
Answer: The College of Policing sets clear, evidence-based national standards for police training through the National Policing Curriculum and Authorised Professional Practice. The College regularly reviews the policing curriculum, including elements relating to ...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) evaluation mechanisms and (b) outcome metrics are used to assess the effectiveness of diversity, equality and inclusiveness training in police forces.
Answer: The College of Policing sets clear, evidence-based national standards for police training through the National Policing Curriculum and Authorised Professional Practice. The College regularly reviews the policing curriculum, including elements relating to ...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of diversity, equity and inclusion training delivered to police forces in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
Answer: The College of Policing sets clear, evidence-based national standards for police training through the National Policing Curriculum and Authorised Professional Practice. The College regularly reviews the policing curriculum, including elements relating to ...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the average administrative cost per asylum applicant of processing an asylum claim, including costs associated with interviews, interpretation, legal support a
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.A breakdown of Asylum Costs and Productivity, is ...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: CandidatesHome OfficeTabled 25 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 123871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Defending Democracy Taskforce has made an assessment of the potential impact of convicted terrorists standing for elected public office on levels of national security.
Answer: The Defending Democracy Taskforce coordinates work across Government to continually review and respond to the full range of threats to our democratic system, working closely with the security and intelligence agencies, law enforcement and other partners.I...
Answered 13 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordHome Office: YotiHome OfficeTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any services provided by Yoti are currently used in Home Office identity verification, border control, or age assurance systems.
Answer: Details of central government contracts above £12,000 for procurements commenced before 24 February 2025 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts procured under the Procurement Act 2023, which came into force on 24 February 2025, are published on the ...
Answered 31 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMotorcycles: Seized ArticlesHome OfficeTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to police forces on the disposal of seized off-road electric motorbikes.
Answer: Decisions on the methods of disposal of seized vehicles are operational matters for individual police forces, or the recovery bodies acting on their behalf, to determine.The police have powers under section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002 to seize vehicl...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Disclosure of InformationHome OfficeTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the risk to public safety arising from the publication of sensitive information relating to the physical security of properties on local authority planning regist
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to UIN 106884 on 27 January 2026 by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Answered 5 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Dual NationalityHome OfficeTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason dual British-Australian nationals, including children of such nationals who were born in Australia, will be required to hold a UK passport or a Certificate of Entitlement to enter the
Answer: Under UK immigration legislation, a dual British Citizen is not eligible for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). Dual British citizens should prove their permission to travel and enter the UK border with a valid British passport or a passport contai...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Livestock IndustryHome OfficeTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of refusal to grant temporary visas to overseas sheep shearers on rural farming communities and animal welfare.
Answer: Immigration Rules concessionary arrangements are temporary and subject to regular Ministerial review. The sheep shearing concession had been operating for 14 years and closed after the 2025 shearing season as it reasonable to expect that over this period ...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 9 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the potential impact of historical sex-based discrimination in British nationality law on individuals born to British mothers prior to January 1983.
Answer: Legislative reforms made through the British Nationality Act 1981 removed previous sex-based restrictions on the acquisition of British nationality. Further changes made in 2003 and 2022 provide routes for individuals born before 1983 to claim citizenship...
Answered 17 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordAbu WadeeHome OfficeTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of permitting Abu Wadee to (a) enter and (b) remain in the United Kingdom on (i) national security and (ii) public safety; and what chec
Answer: The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.The first priority of government is protecting national security. All applications for UK immigration status, including asylum claims, are subject to comprehensive security checks. Where an in...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSocialist Workers PartyHome OfficeTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of the Socialist Workers Party with the criteria for proscription.
Answer: To proscribe an organisation the Home Secretary must have a reasonable belief that it is currently concerned in terrorism, and it must be necessary and proportionate to do so. This means the organisation participates or commits; prepares for; promotes, en...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: National SecurityHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she plans to maintain the integrity of UK borders while fulfilling international obligations towards asylum seekers, in the context of evolving security risks.
Answer: All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations so that we do not remove anyone to a country where they would face persecution or serious harm. All asylum claimants ar...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: VettingHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what vetting processes are in place to prevent people with a history of violence or extremism from being granted asylum, in the context of recent developments in the Middle East.
Answer: All asylum claimants are subject to mandatory security checks to establish their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to the delivery of a safe and se...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Middle EastHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that (a) the Border Force and (b) UK national security agencies are aware of the identities of high-risk individuals released in prisoner exchanges in the Middle Eas
Answer: The Home Secretary has not had any engagement with Israeli authorities to discuss these matters. Since October 2023, a specialist team of experts from the FCDO have been providing support to family members in the UK and Israel. Officials have offered supp...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Middle EastHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Israeli authorities on the sharing of (a) intelligence, (b) biometric data and (c) watchlists in relation to people released under prisoner agreements related to
Answer: It is the long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment publicly on discussions related to the UK sharing intelligence with international partners. The Home Office uses various tools to detect and disrupt travel by terrorists, by criminals...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
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