Victoria Collins MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Visas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 5 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 7257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dependants of care worker and senior care worker Skilled Worker visa holders continually employed in the UK since before 11 March 2024 have been refused extensions to their leave to remain; a
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The immigration rules and caseworker guidance set out how visa applications should be handled. Dep...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordFraud: InternetHome OfficeTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussion her Department has had with the Department for Science Innovation and Technology about the impact of social media platforms in enabling online scams and fraud.
Answer: The Home Office and DSIT work closely on online harms and ensuring people are safe online from fraud. This includes the Online Safety Act which is in the process of implementation. Since March 2025, Ofcom have been enforcing the illegal content codes whic...
Answered 18 May 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: Ethnic GroupsHome OfficeTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127337More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve levels of confidence in the police amongst minority communities.
Answer: The Government actively supports the aims of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and College of Policing’s ‘National policing culture and inclusion strategy’ which aims to tackle discrimination within policing, as well as the Police Race Action Pla...
Answered 22 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordHate Crime: Harpenden and BerkhamstedHome OfficeTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle hate crimes in Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency.
Answer: The Government is committed to tackle all forms of hate crime wherever in the country it occurs, including in Harpenden and Berkhamsted.We have a robust legislative framework in place to respond to hate crimes and work closely with the police to ensure th...
Answered 22 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordKnives: Harpenden and BerkhamstedHome OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made in trends in the level of reported knife offences in Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency.
Answer: The Home Office publishes official statistics on violent crime recorded by the police in England Wales at the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) Area level.Figures for the CSP areas of St Albans and Dacorum can be found in Open Data Tables, available here...
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: Harpenden and BerkhamstedHome OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of reported violent crime in Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency.
Answer: The Home Office publishes official statistics on violent crime recorded by the police in England Wales at the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) Area level.Figures for the CSP areas of St Albans and Dacorum can be found in Open Data Tables, available here...
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordVetting: Voluntary WorkHome OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120179More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the duplication of safeguarding requirements for volunteers working across schools, charities and community organisations.
Answer: It is for employers and the sectors involved to set requirements for criminal record checks as part of their safeguarding requirements. However, the disclosure and barring regime does allow for transfer of criminal record certificates, provided by the Dis...
Answered 20 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordVettingHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the feasibility of making enhanced DBS certificates transferable between organisations where the role and level of check required are equivalent.
Answer: Under current arrangements, enhanced and other certificates issued by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) are transferable between organisations, where the role and level of check required are equivalent. That is, where the level of check for which t...
Answered 16 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordRefugees: FamiliesHome OfficeTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for refugee family reunion submitted before the route was temporarily suspended have been awaiting a decision for longer than the published service standard.
Answer: The Home Office temporarily paused the Refugee Family Reunion route from 4 September 2025, with applications submitted before that point continuing to be processed under the previous rules.The number of Refugee Family Reunion applications submitted before...
Answered 9 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPrivate Life: FraudHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of Dating Scam Fraud were reported in 2025; and what the financial loss was.
Answer: The Home Office does not collect information on Dating Scam Fraud. City of London Police are the national lead force for fraud and operate the Report Fraud (formerly Action Fraud) reporting service which collects data on Dating Scam Fraud. The below data ...
Answered 3 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordChild Sexual Abuse Material: Artificial IntelligenceHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 107872More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timeline her Department has for introducing regulations that ensure generative AI cannot be misused to create extreme sexual abuse material involving children.
Answer: The Government recognises the serious and evolving threat posed by AI being misused to create child sexual abuse material. We know offenders will seek to exploit emerging technologies for their own sexual gratification.AI-generated child sexual abuse is n...
Answered 5 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTools: RegistrationHome OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to establish a national registration scheme for tradespeople’s power tools; and whether she has had discussions with manufacturers, retailers, insurers and the police on this matter.
Answer: We recognise the negative impact theft has on victims who rely on the tools of their trade to earn a living.We are partnering with tradespeople’s representatives, policing and other partners, including retailers and manufacturers, to co-design actions Gov...
Answered 26 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordFraudHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to provide a month-by-month breakdown of the number of people who are victims of (a) online and (b) offline fraud, for each year from 2020 to 2025.
Answer: Fraud is the most experienced crime in England and Wales according to the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW). It accounts for 44% of all estimated surveyed crime committed in England and Wales in the year ending ...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: Hong KongHome OfficeTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent changes to the eligibility criteria for Indefinite Leave to Remain on British Nationals (Overseas) students who have resettled in the UK.
Answer: The Government remains steadfast in its support for members of the Hong Kong community in the UK.BN(O) visa holders will attract a 5-year reduction in the qualifying period for settlement, meaning they will continue to be able to settle in the UK after 5 ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: FraudHome OfficeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of economic loss from AI-enabled fraud and scams.
Answer: The Government does not hold an estimate of the full socio-economic cost from AI enabled fraud. Not all incidents of fraud are reported but reports to Action Fraud which reference the suspected use of artificial intelligence resulted in estimated losses o...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordProscribed OrganisationsHome OfficeTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95862More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of section 12(1A) and 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Answer: The UK has one of the strongest counter-terrorism frameworks in the world, but we keep this under continuous review. The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation provides recommendations to HMG on the effective functioning of the counter-terrorism fr...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVans: TheftHome OfficeTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94507More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring police forces to record thefts (a) from and (b) of light commercial vehicles as distinct crime categories to enable accurate nat
Answer: The Home Office has access to a monthly extract of data from the Police National Computer (PNC) which provides additional intelligence information on the type of vehicles stolen in England and Wales. Such data already enables the monitoring of offences in...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsHome OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to transfer oversight of cannabis-based medicinal products to the Department of Health and Social Care.
Answer: The Home Office is the lead department for controlled drug legislation. The Department for Health and Social care and its arms’ length bodies, including the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (‘MHRA’), have responsibility for healthcar...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordVans: TheftHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89926More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on detection rates for thefts (a) from and (b) of light commercial vehicles, broken down by police force area; and whether she is taking steps to support forces w
Answer: The Home Office requires the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales to report trends in crime using aggregated categories such as theft of a vehicle or theft from a vehicle and we do not hold detailed data on the type of vehicles involved.This ...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEquipment: TheftHome OfficeTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87554More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to issue guidance to police forces on responding to (a) thefts from vans and (b) tool theft, in the context of the implementation of the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023.
Answer: The Government is currently bringing forward legislative proposals to extend the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 to include tradespeople’s power tools. As set out in the recently published Government Response to the Call for Evidence on the scope of...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordTools: TheftHome OfficeTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 to include tradespeople’s power tools.
Answer: The Government is currently bringing forward legislative proposals to extend the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 to include tradespeople’s power tools. As set out in the recently published Government Response to the Call for Evidence on the scope of...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSuicideHome OfficeTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory suicide preventing training for emergency service workers.
Answer: The Home Office only has responsibility for territorial police forces.The College of Policing set the professional standards for police in England and Wales. The College’s core guidance includes the initial training for officers under the Policing Educati...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: GazaHome OfficeTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support Palestinian students from Gaza who have been accepted onto UK university courses with (a) access to secure (i) English language testing (ii) visa process
Answer: The Government has outlined plans to support the departure from Gaza of a group of Chevening Scholars so they can take up university places in the UK in the Autumn for the 2025/26 academic year. We are extending this support to students in Gaza with full ...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordProtestHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Crime and Policing Bill on the right to peaceful protest; and what steps she is taking to ensure that lawful demonstration
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that protest legislation is both effective and proportionate. The Government keeps all public order legislation under constant review.While the right to protest remains a cornerstone of our democracy, the legal fram...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefibrillators: Emergency ServicesHome OfficeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of increasing the proportion of (a) police, (b) fire and (c) other emergency service vehicles that are fitted with defibril
Answer: The Department for Health and Social Care has confirmed that all ambulances carry defibrillators. Provision of defibrillators in police and fire vehicles is an operational matter for either the individual police force or fire and rescue service to determi...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
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