Rupert Lowe MP: written questions 2024
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Children in Care: MigrantsDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in the care system are from non-UK citizenship families; and what the total cost to the public purse is of their care.
Answer: The information on the nationality of children looked after by local authorities in England is not held centrally by the department. Therefore, we are not able to provide the figures requested.
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordVeterans: HomelessnessMinistry of DefenceTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of homeless veterans.
Answer: This is a Government of service that will always stand up for those who serve our country. I am working across Government and with civil society to ensure veterans across the UK have access to the support they need with regard to housing, as well as healt...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: IncentivesCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14732More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the (a) total number and (b) cost to the public purse per Department of Government bonuses in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: Departments have published aggregated annual information on their bonus spend on their own websites since 2011. This data includes information on total bonus spend, the number of civil servants receiving bonuses, and the size of payments.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals per nationality were convicted of child sex offences in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for sexual offences in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2023. However, it is not possible to identify an offender’s nationality from the centrally collated conv...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: SentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of convictions for child sex offences did not result in a custodial sentence in in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the sentencing outcomes for offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offence data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice St...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Climate Change ConventionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many delegates the Government has sent to attend COP 29; and what the cost to the public purse is of the Government's involvement in COP 29.
Answer: The final list of COP29 delegates should be published by the UNFCCC shortly. The UK delegation includes officials (some already based in Baku) and Ministers as well as businesses, Arm’s Length Bodies, Devolved Administrations, Crown Dependencies and Overs...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMedical Treatments: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many private provider contracts have been commissioned by the NHS to treat irregular migrants each of the last ten years; and what the cost to the public purse was of those contracts.
Answer: The Home Office and its contractors work closely with the National Health Service, local authorities, and non-governmental organisations to ensure that people can access the health care and support they need. All asylum seeker accommodation providers have...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment: Cost EffectivenessCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14714More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a department for government efficiency.
Answer: There are currently no plans for a Department for Government Efficiency. The Budget set out plans for an Office for Value for Money which will work alongside other reforms such as the 2% Efficiency target aimed at improving savings, efficiency and product...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNon-crime Hate Incidents: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many under-18's were investigated for non-crime hate incidents in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office does not at present centrally hold or collate this information.
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice InterrogationHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14546More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspect interviews were conducted broken down by the language used in the interview in each police force in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold the information requested.The Home Office annually collects and publishes information on the number of people detained in custody. The latest available data is for the year ending March 2023 and can be found here: Other PACE ...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Contracts for ServicesCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14545More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public contracts were awarded without competitive tendering by each Department in the last financial year; and for what reason each contract was awarded without competitive tendering.
Answer: Details of all Government contracts, including the procurement procedure used, are published on Contracts Finder, and Find a Tender above a certain threshold. Details can be found at:https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCompaniesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14543More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies were (a) registered and (b) liquidated on each day in 2024.
Answer: Official statistics on company incorporation and liquidation are published quarterly. These are made publicly available online by Companies House. We have excerpted and reproduced the relevant figures for your convenience below: DateIncorporationsTotal Li...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Age and DeportationHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14541More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is available to immigration staff for dealing with irregular migrants found to have given false information about their age; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of
Answer: If there is a discrepancy between the information someone provides at any stage in the asylum process, and any related facts subsequently established, this will be taken into account alongside any other underlying factors when assessing their credibility ...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14540More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total number of nights spent in hotels by irregular migrants is by constituency.
Answer: Available data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, by local authority and accommodation type, can be found within the Asy_D11 tab for our most recent stats release: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(op...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2024 to Question 11414 on Undocumented Migrants: Crimes of Violence, whether her Department collects data on incidents of assault by irregular migrants against Dep
Answer: Immigration Enforcement capture all recorded incidents of assault against staff, regardless of the immigration status.
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordStalking: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14538More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12201 on Stalking: Convictions, whether her Department collects data on foreign national offenders found guilty of stalking involving fear of violence.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for stalking offences involving fear of violence in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2023.However, this does not include an offenders’ nationality. This informa...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordReoffenders: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14537More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12200 on Reoffenders: Foreign Nationals, how many (a) non-violent and (b) violent foreign national reoffences there were in each of the last five years.
Answer: It is not possible to identify which reoffences committed by foreign nationals are ‘violent’ and ‘non-violent’ from the Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer. This would require a manual search of court records and would therefore be...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordTerrorismHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November to Question 12319 on Terrorism, if she will publish (a) a breakdown by ideological motivation of those late stage attacks that would not affect either on-going in
Answer: As the Director General of MI5 said in their annual threat report, MI5’s counter terrorist work remains roughly 75% Islamist extremist, 25% extreme right-wing terrorism.Further detail on disruptions is not disclosable without jeopardising ongoing investig...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Translation ServicesTreasuryTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14531More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent by HMRC on (a) translation and (b) interpretation in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: HMRC don’t hold all of the data required to provide a full response to the question. However, data is available on spend information from April 2020 up to November 2024: 2020/2021 – a) £0.32m b) £0.50m2021/2022 – a) £0.29m b) £0.53m2022/2023 – a) £0.45m b...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people and (b) boats have been prevented from crossing the English Channel by the French authorities since the start of UK payments for this purpose.
Answer: The UK began funding French operations to counter crossings of the Channel by migrants in small boats in January 2019. Since that time, over 5,000 boats carrying more than 115,000 persons have been prevented from crossing.Weekly summary of small boat arri...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14507More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funds her Department has provided to the French government to help prevent irregular migrant crossings of the English Channel.
Answer: Our cooperation with France on irregular migration is underpinned by the Uk’s commitments under the 2023 Sandhurst Treaty, published on 10th March 2023 and available at the following link:UK-France Joint Leaders' Declaration - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of full-time translation and interpretation staff working in the NHS; what externally-provided translation and interpretation services are availa
Answer: The Department is unable to provide a response about the number of full-time translation and interpretation staff working in the National Health Service, because the data is not held centrally. Information on the externally provided translation and interp...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: StandardsDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of people affected by train delays in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the number of people affected by train delays. Rail industry data measures train delays. The Office of Rail and Road publishes quarterly and periodic (four-weekly) statistics on punctuality, reliability and caus...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigration: EnforcementHome OfficeTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many enforcement visits have taken place in each local authority in each of the last ten years; and what the total cost to the public purse was of these visits.
Answer: Information about the number of Enforcement Visits conducted by Immigration Enforcement in each local authority in each of the past ten years is not available in our published data. Our published national data on enforcement visits from 2019 – April 2024 ...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a breakdown of the preferred (a) written and (b) spoken language of people claiming Universal Credit.
Answer: We do not have a breakdown of the preferred language of people claiming Universal Credit because we do not ask customers this information at any stage of the application or process.
Answered 21 Nov 2024
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