Matt Vickers MP: written questions
4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress
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Written questions
Crime: Social MediaHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28430More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with social media companies on the preservation and provision to law enforcement agencies of content depicting suspected criminal offences.
Answer: Home Office Ministers and senior officials regularly engage with key stakeholders, including social media companies, on a range of policy and operational issues.It would not be appropriate to comment on the specifics of discussions with individual compani...
Answered 18 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCrime: Social MediaHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is available to police forces on the collection and preservation of social media content posted by suspected offenders for use as evidence in criminal investigations; and whether she has
Answer: Police forces have statutory powers, supported by guidance, to obtain and preserve data, including social media content. These include the online information powers under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 once commenced, powers under the Investigatory Power...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28428More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the use by police forces of social media content posted by suspected offenders as evidence in the investigation of (a) vehicle theft, (b) dangerous
Answer: Police forces have statutory powers, supported by guidance, to obtain and preserve data, including social media content. These include the online information powers under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 once commenced, powers under the Investigatory Power...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the safety of police officers responding to incidents involving vehicles being driven dangerously; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) train
Answer: The Government has not made a specific assessment of the adequacy of equipment, training and guidance available to officers responding to vehicles being driven dangerously. These are matters for policing who are best placed to assess local risks and opera...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of arrangements for police forces to combine intelligence from (a) police records, (b) automatic number plate recognition systems and (c) publicly ava
Answer: The Government recognises the serious impacts that vehicle theft and dangerous driving can have on businesses, communities and individuals and is determined to ensure that crimes such as these receive the response they deserve.Police Reform will support p...
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28420More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance and resources are provided to police forces on identifying, preserving and using publicly available social media content as (i) intelligence and (ii) evidence of suspected (a) vehicle th
Answer: Police forces have statutory powers, supported by guidance, to obtain and preserve data, including social media content. These include the online information powers under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 once commenced, powers under the Investigatory Power...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of arrangements for identifying and intervening with persistent offenders involved in (a) vehicle theft and (b) dangerous driving; and what steps she
Answer: The Government recognises the serious impacts that vehicle theft and dangerous driving can have on businesses, communities and individuals and is determined to ensure that crimes such as these receive the response they deserve.Police Reform will support p...
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28418More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who left Home Office asylum accommodation without receiving subsistence-only support are recorded as whereabouts unknown.
Answer: This data is not held in a reportable format.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28417More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what requirement exists for an asylum seeker to notify her Department of a change of address after leaving Home Office accommodation to stay with friends or family, where they are not in receipt of su
Answer: Where an asylum seeker makes an application for subsistence only support, an assessment is made on whether they are destitute. This may involve enquiries about the hosts circumstances where relevant to determining whether the asylum seeker is destitute. A...
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28416More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who left Home Office asylum accommodation to stay with friends and family members did not go on to receive subsistence-only support.
Answer: This data is not held in a reportable format.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28415More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in receipt of subsistence-only asylum support have had that support (a) withdrawn and (b) suspended in the last 12 months because her Department was unable to establish contact with th
Answer: This data is not held in a reportable format.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28414More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many addresses approved for subsistence-only asylum support are recorded as hosting more than one supported individual at the same time.
Answer: This data is not held in a reportable format.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks her Department undertakes on the immigration status of a person hosting an asylum seeker under the subsistence-only support route.
Answer: Where an asylum seeker makes an application for subsistence only support, an assessment is made on whether they are destitute. This may involve enquiries about the hosts circumstances where relevant to determining whether the asylum seeker is destitute. A...
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were in receipt of subsistence-only asylum support as of the most recent date for which figures are available.
Answer: The number of individuals in receipt of subsistence-only Home Office support is published in table Asy_D09 of the ‘Asylum support detailed datasets’. The latest data represents the number of people in receipt of support as at 30 June 2026.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 6 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 16093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that foreign national offenders are deported from prison when they eligible for removal.
Answer: The Home Office faces significant and complex challenges when seeking to return those who have no right to be in the UK to their country of origin or lawful place of return. Despite these barriers, we are fully committed to making our communities safer by...
Answered 14 Jul 2026
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