Every parliamentary written question tabled by Andrew Rosindell this session, with the full answer and department. Back to the MP page.
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How many (a) officials from her Department and (b) police officers have visited Pitcairn Island in each of the last 12 months.
I can confirm that no officials from the Home Office or UK police officers have visited Pitcairn Island in the last 12 months.
What steps she is taking to help reduce the number of drug-related deaths.
Drug-related deaths are tragically at record highs and this government is committed to gripping this problem.The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) is actively working to reduce the number of drug-related deaths and has invested an additional £267 million in drug and alcohol treatment this year, improving the quality and capacity of drug and alcohol treatment services in England.This is supporting delivery of a national action plan to prevent a greater number of drug and alcohol-related deaths. The plan has five priorities around improving: treatment practice; local systems; toxicology and surveillance; stigma; and poly-drug and alcohol use. Guidance was published in September 2024 Preventing drug and alcohol deaths: partnership review process - GOV.UK to help local partnerships set up and evaluate their review processes for drug-related deaths, alcohol-related deaths and near-fatal overdoses.Alongside this, the Home Office is providing funding to law enforcement partners to target the organised crime groups and county lines gangs supplying harmful drugs to our streets.A further part of our response is addressing the threat from synthetic drugs, including synthetic opioids like nitazenes, as well as synthetic cannabinoids and benzodiazepines, which have been linked to drug related deaths in the UK. The Home Office, DHSC, National Crime Agency, Border Force and the National Police Chiefs Council are working with local partners to proactively monitor the situation, tracking drug related deaths and other intelligence to ensure a quick response to respond to the threat as required. This includes expanding access to naloxone, a life-saving medicine that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, including synthetic opioids.Through our mission-driven government, we will continue to work with partners across health, policing, devolved governments and wider public services to coordinate and drive down drug use and build a fairer Britain for all.
How many people of Chagossian descent have applied for (a) British overseas territories and (b) British citizenship in the last five years for which data is available, broken down by the country in which each applicant lived at the time of application.
We are unable to provide this data as we do not record data relating to an individual’s ancestry.Whilst the BIOT (British Indian Oceans Territory) citizenship registration route was introduced in November 2022, there may be people of Chagossian descent who have applied outside of this route within the requested period and we would not be able to identify such cases.
How many people of Chagossian descent have taken British nationality since 2022.
We are unable to provide this data as we do not record data relating to an individual’s ancestry.Whilst the BIOT (British Indian Oceans Territory) citizenship registration route was introduced in November 2022, there may be people of Chagossian descent who have applied outside of this route within the requested period and we would not be able to identify such cases.
What steps she is taking to help reduce pickpocketing in London.
In the last year of the previous government, we saw a 40% increase in snatch theft. As part of our Safer Streets mission, this government is determined to crack down on pickpocketing, snatch theft, robbery, and other crimes that make people feel unsafe in our communities.This government is determined to tackle the scourge of the street crime. That starts with strengthening neighbourhood policing, and we will introduce a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee to provide a more visible presence in town centres, recruiting thousands of additional neighbourhood police officers, police community support officers and Special Constables, and giving every community a named local officer.One way of preventing these crimes is to tackle the market for stolen goods, making items such as mobile phones less attractive to steal in the first place. This is why we have announced that we will be be working with tech companies and law enforcement to see what more can be done to break the business model of mobile phone thieves.
What assessment she has made of the threat of pro-Iranian front groups operating in (a) Parliament and (b) Westminster.
While we do not routinely comment on the detail of specific threats, it is an absolute priority for this Government to protect our democratic and electoral processes from interference by any foreign state, including Iran.The National Security Act 2023 provides the security services and law enforcement agencies with tools to deter, detect, and disrupt modern-day state threats, including foreign interference. Alongside this, the Defending Democracy Taskforce is working to safeguard our democracy from threats we face.The Government's top priority is our national security, and we will use all the tools at our disposal to protect the UK, and its people, from state threats.