Richard Tice MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Police: PensionsHome OfficeTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52941More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of Regulation C9 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 that removes survivor benefits on (a) widows and (b) widowers who (i) rem
Answer: From 1 April 2015, the 1987 police pension scheme was amended to allow widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers who have died as a result of an injury on duty to receive their survivor benefits for life regardless of remarriage, civil partne...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProtestHome OfficeTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with police forces to (a) help prevent antisemitic marches and (b) ensure that public order legislation is effectively enforced where protests involve (i) incitemen
Answer: The Government is committed to tackling antisemitism and other forms of hate crimes and supports the police in taking robust action where protests cross the line into criminality. Where protest activity does involve criminality, the police have a broad ra...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmbassies: Counter-terrorism and Public orderHome OfficeTabled 7 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen (a) counter-extremism measures and (b) public order enforcement following the recent attack on the Israeli Embassy in London; and how the Department p
Answer: The Government takes the protective security of diplomatic missions extremely seriously. The UK Government's protective security system is rigorous and proportionate. It is our longstanding policy not to provide detailed information on those arrangements,...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: IranHome OfficeTabled 7 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Iranian nationals have been detected arriving in the United Kingdom via small boat crossings in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025 to date.
Answer: The Home Office publishes statistics on detected small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on small boat arrivals by nationality and year is published in table Irr_02b of the ‘Irregular migration to the U...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTransgender People: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people (a) arrested and (b) charged following the trans rights demonstration on 19 April 2025; and what were the offences recorded.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold the information requested.This is an operational matter for the Metropolitan Police.
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAli KololoHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a review has been undertaken of the Metropolitan Police’s involvement in the case of Ali Kololo.
Answer: The Home Office has not undertaken a review of the Metropolitan Police’s involvement in the case of Ali Kololo.
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Freedom of InformationHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27392More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests related to police forces in England and Wales; and if she will make an estimate of the annua
Answer: The Home Office does not centrally hold this information.Each police force is a separate public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act and is responsible for processing and responding to requests they receive.However, we agree with t...
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Freedom of InformationHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse o
Answer: The Home Office has a central team consisting of 13.7 FTEs managing FOI requests and related appeals work. The annual salaries paid to this group of staff were approximately £663K in the year ending September 2024.To determine precisely how many staff are...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: ExpenditureHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23065More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of providing public services including (a) healthcare, (b) education and (c) housing of migrants that have arrived via small boat cros
Answer: The Home Office publishes all available information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Undocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23063More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle crimes committed by individuals who have entered the country illegally.
Answer: The police deal with all criminals without fear or favour, irrespective of their nationality or immigration status.Foreign nationals who commit serious crimes in our country should also be in no doubt that where practical and lawful, we will pursue their ...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23062More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure asylum seekers are no longer housed in hotels in Boston and Skegness constituency.
Answer: This government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Boston and SkegnessHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase police funding in Boston and Skegness constituency.
Answer: In December 2024 the Government published the 2025-26 provisional police funding settlement, which proposed funding of up to £19.5 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1 billion when compared to 2024-...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to deport people with dual citizenship who are charged with child grooming offences.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer given on 15 January to Question 22427.
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMarriage: RelativesHome OfficeTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many first-cousin marriages were recorded in each of the last three years, broken down by the nationalities of the parties involved.
Answer: This information is not collected or held.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been deported (a) in total and (b) by nationality in each month since July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office routinely publishes data on returns in the “Immigration Systems Statistics” quarterly release. Data on quarterly returns of individuals since July 2024 can be found in table Ret_D01 of the “returns detailed datasets”. The latest data is fo...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLincolnshire Police: Translation ServicesHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Lincolnshire Police spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation services in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold information relating to the proportion of budgets spent on translation and interpretation services for police forces.Decisions on how to use funding and resources are an operational matter for Chief Constables. Police and Cri...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNon-crime Hate Incidents: LincolnshireHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents were recorded in Lincolnshire in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Home Office does not currently centrally hold or collate information on the number of non-crime hate incidents recorded by individual police forces.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14790More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have surrendered firearms licences in the last 12 months; and what data her Department holds on the reasons recorded for those surrenders.
Answer: The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the number of armed police officers in the Police use of firearms statistics. The latest available data is for the year ending 31 March 2024 and can be accessed at the following link:Police us...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Crime and Non-crime Hate IncidentsHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14789More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the staff time taken to (a) record and (b) investigate (i) non-crime hate incidents and (ii) suspected criminal offences in each of the last five years; what the cost
Answer: The Home Office holds data on notifiable crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales including the date when they were recorded and the date when a resulting investigation has been closed.This data is routinely published as official statistics.The ...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Detainees and DeportationHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that illegal entrants to the United Kingdom are (a) detained and (b) promptly removed; and how many and what proportion of those illegal entrants have been (i) detaine
Answer: Data on how many people are in immigration detention and how many people have been removed in each of the last five years is available up to year ending June 2024, and can be found within the Returns and Detention data tables at, https://www.gov.uk/govern...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: ExpenditureHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on (a) housing and (b) supporting individuals who entered the United Kingdom illegally in each of the last five years.
Answer: Overall asylum support costs are published in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts, which is available through the following link:Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)Data for Financial Year for 2024-25 will be published fo...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been granted indefinite leave to remain in each of the last five years, broken down by the individual's (a) occupation and (b) employment sector.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on Settlement by country of nationality and by visa category in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Visa Category relates to type of leave held immediately prior to being granted settlement.The published s...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been granted indefinite leave to remain in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) visa category and (b) country of origin.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on Settlement by country of nationality and by visa category in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Visa Category relates to type of leave held immediately prior to being granted settlement.The published s...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAnti-social Behaviour: Public Spaces Protection OrdersHome OfficeTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Public Space Protection Orders in reducing antisocial behaviours; and what the evidential basis of that assessment is.
Answer: The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of tools and powers, including Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO) that they can use to respond to anti-social behaviour...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of illegal immigration on (a) local law enforcement and (b) levels of police (i) funding and (ii) manpower required to tackle illegal entry-related
Answer: This Government recognises that irregular migration is too high and that is why we are committed to restoring order to the system so that it is faster, fairer, and the rules are properly enforced.Other Border Security partners, including Border Force, Imm...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
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