Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Undocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 23575 on Deportation, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of recording this information centrally.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the letter I sent him on 11 December 2024 regarding the collection of official statistics.
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: InterviewsHome OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January to Question 24556 on Asylum: Interviews, what proportion of asylum interviews were conducted remotely in each of the last five years.
Answer: Most asylum interviews are now conducted remotely using video conference facilities outside of Home Office locations.The number of substantive asylum interviews is published online in tab ASY_05(M) in the Immigration and protection data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK ...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26350More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has produced modelling on the number of irregular migrants it expects will be eligible for settled status in the next ten years.
Answer: No. The Government’s Plan for Change makes clear our commitments to reduce both irregular migration and overall net migration.
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: GenderHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence is required to determine gender identity as basis for claiming asylum.
Answer: All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. The Substantive asylum interview is the claimant’s main opportunity to provide detailed evidence that relates specific...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ChristianityHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26193More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence is required to determine Christianity as basis for claiming asylum.
Answer: All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. The Substantive asylum interview is the claimant’s main opportunity to provide detailed evidence that relates specific...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HomosexualityHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence is required to determine homosexuality as basis for claiming asylum.
Answer: All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. The Substantive asylum interview is the claimant’s main opportunity to provide detailed evidence that relates specific...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: InterviewsHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of interpretation for asylum interviews in each of the last five years.
Answer: Cost information on Asylum-specific and interpretation costs is not readily available from our financial systems and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum claims have been withdrawn due to non-attendance in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on asylum claims certified under Section 94 is published in table Asy_D08 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datas...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum claims were rejected under section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on asylum claims certified under Section 94 is published in table Asy_D08 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datas...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugeesHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with refugee status have received settled status in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on refugees granted settlement in Table Se_D01 within the Settlement dataset in the ‘Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK’. The figures for grants of settlement to “Recognised refugees” include people who...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugeesHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with refugee status became UK citizens in each of the last ten years.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave him on 28 January to the same question asked in a slightly different form (UIN 25043).
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that people entering the UK illegally can never apply for (a) settled status and (b) citizenship.
Answer: The Government keeps all aspects of the immigration system under regular review.
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Voting RightsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that people entering the UK illegally can never vote in elections.
Answer: Only those foreign nationals who are eligible to vote and who have leave to enter or remain, or who do not require such leave, are entitled to register and vote in elections over which the UK Government and Parliament have responsibility.
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26184More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of an urgent review of successful claims of refugee status by migrants who arrived by small boat including (a) face-to-face interviews and (b) en
Answer: All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. The Substantive asylum interview is the claimant’s main opportunity to provide detailed evidence that relates specific...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22427 on Offences against Children, whether her Department holds information on how many deportations to Pakistan for convictions related to child
Answer: The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 21759 on Offences against children, whether the information requested is held by her Department.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions and convictions at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, including rape. They can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal J...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorismHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department records an ideological breakdown of people in the Desistance and Disengagement Programme.
Answer: The Home Office does collect information relating to the ideology of participants of the Desistance and Disengagement programme. However, this information is considered to be protected information which we are unable publish as this constitutes personal d...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorismHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of Prevent cases were (a) dropped and (b) downgraded in each of the last five years.
Answer: Information on Prevent referrals is already publicly available in the published annual statistics on GOV.UK: Individuals referred to Prevent: to March 2024, including the outcome of each referral.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: PakistanHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22431 on Visas: Pakistan, whether her Department holds information on the number of visa applications from people with Pakistani nationality rejec
Answer: The requested data is not centrally held in easily accessible format and could only be collated for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25833More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22427 on Offences against Children, whether this information is held by her Department.
Answer: The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: Development Aid and VisasForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 22425 on Pakistan: Extradition, whether the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, North Africa, Af
Answer: We recognise and appreciate the great contribution of Pakistani people to the diverse culture of the UK. Despite significant and complex challenges when seeking to return foreign national offenders, this government is fully committed to making our communi...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22417 on Offences against Children: Girls, whether the information requested is held by her Department.
Answer: The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25830More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 24000 on Offences against Children, when the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce will publish the information.
Answer: The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Legal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost to the public purse was of legal aid for people (a) accused and (b) convicted for their involvement in grooming gangs, broken down by nationality [in each of the last five years].
Answer: This information requested is not held centrally.There is no single criminal offence of ‘involvement in a grooming gang’. As such, the information recorded and tracked regarding offence type when applying for legal aid does not differentiate between defen...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse of legal aid for foreign national offenders was, broken down by nationality, in each of the last ten years.
Answer: This information requested is not held centrally.Where proceedings are before a court or tribunal in England or Wales, legal aid is available to individuals who qualify for services irrespective of their nationality or usual place of residence. As nationa...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
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