Josh Babarinde MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Police: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64173More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase funding for training in (a) Sussex Police and (b) other local police forces.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring police forces are supported to effectively tackle crime. That is why we have increased funding for policing in England and Wales by up to £1.2 billion this financial year. Sussex Police will receive up to £423 milli...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: EastbourneHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with Sussex Police on the adequacy of police response times in Eastbourne.
Answer: Chief Constables are responsible for determining the allocation of resources for operational policing and managing their response times, in line with the priorities set out by their Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constab...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCrime: Urban AreasHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle crime in (a) town centres and (b) Eastbourne town centre.
Answer: Creating Safer Town Centres is a top priority for this Government and a key part of our Safer Streets Mission. This Government wants town centres to be vibrant, welcoming places where businesses thrive and people feel safe to come to shop, socialise and l...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung Offenders: EastbourneHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle youth offending in Eastbourne.
Answer: In 2025/26 the Home Office is investing over £1.04m in grant funding to the Sussex Violence Reduction Unit, alongside £269k to continue the implementation of the Serious Violence Duty. This funding will support delivery of a range of early intervention an...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: EastbourneHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle drug-related crime in Eastbourne.
Answer: To deliver on our pledge to halve knife crime in the next decade, it is crucial that we tackle the gangs that lure children and young people into crime and run county lines through violence and exploitation.County Lines are the most violent model of drug ...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHate Crime: EastbourneHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hate crime incidents were recorded in Eastbourne in the latest year for which data is available.
Answer: The Home Office publishes official statistics on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level.Data for Sussex, for the year ending March 2024, can be found here: Hate crime, England and Wales, year e...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: Hate CrimeHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent (a) hate crime and (b) harassment towards people with hidden disabilities.
Answer: We are clear that all hate crimes, including those targeting disability, are completely unacceptable. There must be zero tolerance for every form of hate crime in Britain and we back the police in taking strong action against the perpetrators of these app...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: Workplace PensionsHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) the Government Actuary Department and (b) fire service pension providers have adequate tools to calculate pension entitlements for retired fire s
Answer: The Home Office works closely with the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) to ensure that all actuarial advice, guidance and tools provided to Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) actively reflect changes to the firefighters’ pension schemes and regulatio...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking (a) to protect the right to peaceful protest and (b) to prevent politically motivated prosecutions against peaceful protesters.
Answer: Peaceful protest is a vital part of our democracy. It is a long-standing tradition in this country that people are free to gather and to demonstrate their views, provided that they do so within the law. This Government is committed to protecting and prese...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergency Services: MedalsHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29008More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to introduce medal recognition for emergency services personnel injured in the line of duty.
Answer: The Home Office is happy to consider proposals for new medals for members of the emergency services who get injured in the line of duty. It is only right that we recognise the sacrifices made by these personnel, and it is important to make sure this is do...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTelephone Services: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26123More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department provided to the (a) Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline, (b) National Perpetrator Helpline, (c) Men’s Advice Line, (d) Galop national LGBT+ victims' Helpline, (e) Natio
Answer: The Home Office allocated funding to the following organisations in FY2023-24 and FY2024-25:Name of organisationFY2023-24 AllocationFY2024-25 AllocationRefuge - National Domestic Abuse Helpline£2,079,718£1,000,000Respect – Perpetrator Helpline£150,000£150...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: SentencingHome OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of proposals to increase the maximum sentence for coercive control beyond five years.
Answer: Controlling and coercive behaviour (CCB) is a particularly insidious form of domestic abuse and I recognise the devastating impact that it has on victims.The Ministry of Justice has launched an Independent Review of Sentencing chaired by former Lord Chanc...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVetting: Health Services and Social ServicesHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the processing time for Disclosure and Barring Service checks for people working in the health and social care sector.
Answer: The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is operationally independent from the Home Office and operates to service standards of completing 85% of Basic check applications within 2 days, 85% of Standard check applications within 3 days, and 80% of Enhanced...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHomes for Ukraine SchemeHome OfficeTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the Homes for Ukraine Scheme beyond April 2025.
Answer: To provide future certainty, Ukrainians who have been provided with sanctuary in the UK under the Ukraine schemes will be able to apply for 18 months further permission to remain in the UK through a bespoke Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme due to...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
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