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Written questions by Burghart.

Every parliamentary written question tabled by Alex Burghart this session, with the full answer and department. Back to the MP page.

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18 May 2026·Home Office·Pending
Asked

With reference to the Ministerial resignation letter to the Prime Minister by the Hon Member for Birmingham Yardley of May 2025, what is the status of the legislation on online child sex abuse.

Reply

Awaiting answer.

25 Feb 2026·Home Office·Answered
Asked

If she will make an assessment of whether Jeffery Epstein was (a) passing information to the Russian Government and (b) was otherwise compromised by Russian hostile actors.

Reply

It would not be appropriate for the Government to comment on matters of intelligence or national security. It is the longstanding policy of government not to comment on such issues.

13 Mar 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

How many people residing in the UK have indefinite leave to remain.

Reply

The Home Office publishes statistics relating to indefinite leave to remain in the Immigration system statistics publication.Data on grants and refusals of settlement can be found in the Settlement data tables. The latest data relates up to the end of 2024.

10 Feb 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

How many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain revoked by her Department's status review unit in each of the last five years.

Reply

The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at a disproportionate cost.

10 Feb 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

How many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain revoked by the special cases unit in each of the last five years.

Reply

The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

10 Feb 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

Whether the Government plans to implement the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in full.

Reply

On 16 January the Home Secretary set out to Parliament the steps the Government is taking to tackle the terrible crimes of child sexual exploitation and abuse.This included a commitment to set out a plan, before Easter, for the action the Government will take against the 20 recommendations from the final Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) report.This followed the Home Secretary's statement to Parliament of 6 January in which she committed to several new measures which respond to IICSA's recommendations, including introducing a mandatory duty for those working with children to report sexual abuse and exploitation, making grooming an aggravating factor to toughen up sentencing, and introducing a new performance framework for policing.The Home Secretary has written to the National Police Chiefs' Council requesting officers look again at these unsolved and closed grooming gangs cases, backed by £2.5m in funding for stronger investigations The remit of the Independent Child Sexual Abuse Review Panel has also been extended so that it covers not just historic cases before 2013 but all cases since to ensure victims of abuse have the right to an independent review.

10 Feb 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

How many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain status revoked by the foreign national offender returns command in each of the last five years.

Reply

Data on numbers of revocations of leave to remain are not currently published.The Home Office publishes data on returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on quarterly returns of FNOs by return type are published in tables Ret_D03 and Ret_D04 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’. The latest data is for end September 2024. Data to end December 2024 will be released on 27th February. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data on numbers of revocations of leave to remain are not currently published in these statistics, and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.Deportations are a specific subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good.A deportation order requires an individual to leave the United Kingdom. It also prohibits them from re-entering the country for as long as it is in force and invalidates any leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom given to them before the Order is made or while it is in force.Data on deportations are not currently published by the Home Office.

27 Jan 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

Which teams in her Department can revoke a person's Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Reply

Indefinite Leave to Remain can be revoked by the Home Office’s Status Review Unit (SRU), Special Cases Unit (SCU) and Foreign National Offender Returns Command (FNORC).

20 Jan 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

How many people had their Indefinite Leave to Remain status rescinded in each year for which data is available.

Reply

The information requested is not centrally held in an easily accessible from, and could only be collated for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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