Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Offences against Children: VictimsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of conducting a study of the impact of rape gang grooming on the long-term (a) physical and (b) mental health of victims.
Answer: We know that children who experience violence or abuse can suffer from a range of physical and mental health issues over the course of their lifetime, and some may go on to become perpetrators themselves.The Department funds research on health and social ...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: VictimsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24550More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role NHS Trusts have in (a) identifying and (b) reporting suspected incidences of child grooming by organised gangs.
Answer: Every National Health Service trust has a contractual obligation to adhere to the NHS Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework 2024, which includes the protection of children from abuse, harm, or violence.In addition, every registered health pr...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: VictimsDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24549More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how data on suspected victims of grooming gangs in schools is (a) collected and (b) shared with (i) law enforcement and (ii) child protection services.
Answer: The department can confirm that the statutory safeguarding guidance, ‘Keeping children safe in education’ (KCSIE), provides clear and robust guidance on how schools and colleges must report all safeguarding concerns.It covers issues such as grooming, sexu...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Offences against ChildrenDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24548More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what protocols are in place for schools to report suspected grooming gang activities involving students.
Answer: The department can confirm that the statutory safeguarding guidance, ‘Keeping children safe in education’ (KCSIE), provides clear and robust guidance on how schools and colleges must report all safeguarding concerns.It covers issues such as grooming, sexu...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCryptocurrencies: GovernmentHome OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24547More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the is value is of (a) Bitcoin and (b) other cryptocurrency held by the Government.
Answer: The Government does not hold any cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin.The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) contains powers to deprive criminals of their money, or other property connected to criminal activity, and recover the proceeds of crime, including ...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Economic SituationTreasuryTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24546More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking an analysis of the fiscal contribution of migrants by their country of origin.
Answer: The OBR produces economic and fiscal forecasts. Box 4.5 of the OBR’s published Economic and Fiscal Outlook in March 2024 sets out estimated impacts of migration on the fiscal forecast. This looks at the fiscal impact of migration scenarios and is a functi...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) nationality, (b) ethnicity, (c) gender and (d) age is of the victims of Pakistani heritage grooming gangs.
Answer: The Government continues to invest in a range of work to strengthen law enforcement capacity and capability to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation, including group-based offending. We support the Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce, which ha...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an awareness programme to protect primary and secondary school children from rape gang abuse.
Answer: Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Schools and colleges have a critical role to play in protecting children and keeping them safe. The department has an established robust safeguarding framework in place in th...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a programme to increase awareness of the signs of rape gang abuse for teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Answer: Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Schools and colleges have a critical role to play in protecting children and keeping them safe. The department has an established robust safeguarding framework in place in th...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxis: Migrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation to require more (a) frequent and (b) detailed checks on the immigration status of licenced taxi drivers.
Answer: The Government sets the regulatory structure within which local licensing authorities license the private hire vehicle (PHV) and taxi sector. The primary function of licensing authorities is to ensure that the sector is safe, including defining the criter...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the operation of Sharia courts on the legal system.
Answer: I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 December to Question 18879: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-12-10/18879.Sharia Councils are not part of the judicial system.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to close all Sharia courts in the UK.
Answer: I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 December to Question 18879: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-12-10/18879.Sharia Councils are not part of the judicial system.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of Sharia Courts there are in the UK.
Answer: I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 December to Question 18879: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-12-10/18879.Sharia Councils are not part of the judicial system.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to commission a study into the potential impact of Halal meat on animal welfare.
Answer: Legislation requires that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain. The only exception to the requirement to stun is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government wou...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time is for grooming-gang offences to proceed through the judicial system from initial report to final decision.
Answer: Information on timeliness through the criminal justice system is published as part of the quarterly Accredited Official Statistics series “Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly” which is available at the link provided: Criminal court statistics.Information ...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23588More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a comparative review of grooming-gang offences with other countries to learn best practice.
Answer: The Government continues to invest in a range of work to strengthen law enforcement capacity and capability to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation, including group-based offending. We support the Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce, which ha...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department (a) collects and (b) analyses the (i) demographic, (ii) ethnic and (iii) religious backgrounds of people convicted of grooming gang offences.
Answer: The Government continues to invest in a range of work to strengthen law enforcement capacity and capability to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation, including group-based offending. We support the Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce, which ha...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: SentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a review of sentencing guidelines for people convicted of grooming-gang offences.
Answer: Child sexual abuse and exploitation are the most horrific of crimes and the Government is determined to act to strengthen the law in this area. We have committed to legislate to make grooming an aggravating factor in the sentencing of child sexual offence...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training programmes there are for (a) law enforcement and (b) judicial officers to (i) identify and (ii) tackle grooming gang activities.
Answer: The Government continues to invest in a range of work to strengthen law enforcement capacity and capability to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation, including group-based offending. We support the Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce, which ha...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been returned to their country of origin by the Third Country Unit in the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The Third Country Unit is responsible for inadmissible asylum cases, which may be removed to a safe third country. Data on inadmissibility related removals...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: FamiliesHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 18440 on Visas: Families, whether her Department collects data on the immigration status of sponsors for family visa applications.
Answer: There are a number of different family application routes including partner, parent, child and adult dependent relative and the immigration status requirements vary depending on the route. We routinely check the immigration status of those who sponsor fam...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of known irregular migrants the Department has lost track of in each of the last five years.
Answer: Robust procedures are in place to ensure that individuals with no right to be in the UK are removed, either voluntarily or through enforcement action.When an individual fails to engage with the Home Office or attend a reporting event, we automatically see...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation to lower the threshold at which the Department has a legal duty to deport foreign national offenders.
Answer: Under the UK Borders Act 2007, the Home Secretary has a duty to deport a foreign criminal convicted in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of 12 months or more unless an exception applies. Where the automatic deportation threshold is not met,...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBail: ImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23580More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on bail for immigration cases have public authorities lost track of in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and could only be collated for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: TravelHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many travel warrants have been issued to irregular migrants in each of the last five years; and what the total cost to the public purse of these were.
Answer: Obtaining the information requested would involve checking multiple databases across multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be collated at disproportionate cost.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
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