Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Social Media: CrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25440More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a review of sentences for people serving a custodial sentence for posting offensive remarks on social media.
Answer: Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent courts. There are a range of communication related offences, both summary-only and triable either way, across different pieces of legislation with varying maximum penalties. For example, secti...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25439More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January to question 22418 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 recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25438More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to question 22421 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 recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25437More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to question 22422 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 recordOffences against Children: ProsecutionsHome OfficeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 22424 on Offences Against Children: Prosecutions, whether her Department holds information on whether family members (a) had knowledge of or (b) f
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 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 22429 on Offences against Children, whether her Department holds information on the number of (a) police officers, (b) officials of local authorit
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 recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23578 on Undocumented Migrants, if she will make an estimate of the number of irregular migrants in the UK.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave on 15 January to Question UIN 22990.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January to Question 23582 on Undocumented Migrants, what information her Department holds on the number of irregular migrants defined as absconders.
Answer: The requested data is not readily accessible from published statistics, and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at a disproportionate cost.Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public purse was of penalty payments to people who faced delays in the processing of their immigration case in each of the last five years.
Answer: Immigration Enforcement, UK Visas & Immigration and Border Force occasionally make ex-gratia payments to customers, beyond any legal or statutory requirements, as redress for maladministration. These payments are made at the discretion of the Home Off...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Social ServicesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to the public purse is of the campaign to advocate for family-based care for children across the globe, announced on 17 January 2025.
Answer: The campaign to promote family care for children globally has not spent any additional UK funding on staff or programmes to date. We are assessing future requirements for staff and programmes to support the campaign.
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many citizenships were granted to refugees in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The publicly available immigration statistics for the last 10 years include statistics for naturalisation as a British citizen for all relevant routes of entry. Migration transparency data - GOV.UK
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24742More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2024 to Question 23051 on Offences against Children, whether this information is held by her Department.
Answer: The information previously requested by the Rt Hon Member is not held by the Department. The Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce currently holds the best data available on police-recorded child sexual abuse and exploitation crimes, including group-...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEconomic Policy: ArgentinaTreasuryTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24741More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential lessons that could be learned for (a) her Department and (b) other Departments from the policies of the Javier Milei administration in Argentina in the context of tren
Answer: The UK Government continually monitors international economic developments and is aware of the domestic reforms that the administration of Javier Milei is undertaking to reduce inflation and restore economic growth. The UK regularly engages with Argentina...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her oral statement on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of 16 January 2024, Official Report, column 560, how the £10 million will be spent.
Answer: The information previously requested by the Rt Hon Member is not held by the Department. The Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce currently holds the best data available on police-recorded child sexual abuse and exploitation crimes, including group-...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24739More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with stakeholders on the potential impact of changes to Business Property Relief.
Answer: The Government published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief at www.gov.uk/government/publications/agricultural-property-relief-and-business-property-relief-reforms. The Government takes into account ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24738More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had (a) farmers and (b) relevant stakeholders on the potential impact of changes to Agricultural Property Relief.
Answer: The Government published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief at www.gov.uk/government/publications/agricultural-property-relief-and-business-property-relief-reforms. The Government takes into account ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will list all meetings (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials in his Department have had on the transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Answer: Negotiations with Mauritius on sovereignty of BIOT / the Chagos Archipelago began in November 2022. Since then, there have been 13 rounds of negotiations, including two rounds under the current UK Government. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary met t...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British citizenships were removed; what other citizenships were held by people impacted; and what the reason was for removal in each of the last five years.
Answer: Detail on the numbers of conducive deprivation orders made under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, are published in the Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Eight reports have been published to date providi...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Ministerial correspondence of 17 January 2025 with reference MC2024/24342/SB, when the consultation process on the review of the existing funding formula will (a)
Answer: This Government inherited an outdated funding formula for allocating money to proposed flood defences. That’s why we will launch a consultation in the coming months which will include a review of the existing flood funding formula to ensure that the chall...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Great YarmouthDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating funding to the Vauxhall roundabout project in the context of the potential impact of that project on other infrastructure projects in Great Y
Answer: The A47 Great Yarmouth Vauxhall Junction scheme was cancelled due to a combination of cost increases and poor value for money. Great Yarmouth is benefiting from the Third River Crossing, a Norfolk Council scheme funded by DfT, and the National Highways sc...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: InterviewsHome OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum casework interviews are conducted remotely.
Answer: Most asylum interviews are now conducted remotely using video conference facilities outside of Home Office locations.This has enabled the Home Office to increase the availability of interview locations, interpreters and decision makers, and often reduce t...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: DeportationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing records of meetings with the Pakistani government on the deportation of Pakistani national prisoners.
Answer: This Government is fully committed to making our communities safer by deporting those who break our laws. Despite significant and complex challenges when seeking to return foreign national offenders.I raised these issues with Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar an...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: RepatriationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24554More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Pakistani authorities on the return of Pakistani national prisoners.
Answer: This Government is fully committed to making our communities safer by deporting those who break our laws. Despite significant and complex challenges when seeking to return foreign national offenders. The UK has regular constructive discussions with Pakist...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InternetHome OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department collects on child grooming activities online.
Answer: The Home Office has access to a variety of data sources on child sexual abuse, which covers grooming both offline and online.ONS publishes information on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis, ...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: VictimsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has allocated funding for victims of grooming gangs.
Answer: NHS England and the police and crime commissioners jointly commission 48 sexual assault referral centres (SARCs) for victims of sexual assault and abuse. SARCs provide crisis care, medical and forensic examinations, emergency contraception, and testing fo...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
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