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Pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2025 to Question 41117 on Public Order, where the additional costs of policing last year’s disorder were funded from.
Details of any additional funding provided to police forces outside their allocated budgets are routinely published in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts.
Pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2025 to Question 41117 on Public Order, what the additional costs were of policing last year’s disorder.
Details of any additional funding provided to police forces outside their allocated budgets are routinely published in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts.
Pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2025 to Question 40928 on Human Trafficking: West Africa, in which West African countries her Department has (a) policy and (b) operational officers.
Home Office International Operations (HOIO) has UK based staff operating in Ghana and Nigeria. These teams work with host countries to support on combatting Serious Organised Crime.
What meetings policy and operational officers from her Department in West Africa have had with countries in that region on child-trafficking; and which countries were involved.
Home Office International Operations (HOIO) in Nigeria hold Ad Hoc meetings with The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to help combat the threat of human trafficking from West Africa.
Pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38433 on Public Order, how much and what proportion of the Police Grant has been used to support forces with the additional costs incurred in policing disorder as part of the National Violence Disorder Programme.
Any additional costs arising from the policing of last year’s disorder have been funded from outside core police grants.
What steps she is taking to tackle the trafficking of children to the UK from West Africa.
The Home Office has a network of policy and operational officers posted across West Africa to engage host countries on home affairs issues, including child trafficking, and provide cooperation on investigations where necessary.
Whether the Home Office has conducted any investigation into child-trafficking between Guinea-Bissau and the UK since 2010.
The Home Office has a network of policy and operational officers posted across West Africa to engage host countries on home affairs issues, including child trafficking, and provide cooperation on investigations where necessary.
How much the Government spent on housing asylum seekers in (a) hotels and (b) other forms of temporary accommodation on (i) 3 July 2024 and (ii) 24 March 2025.
Information on asylum expenditure is published on gov.uk in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts.
What recent progress she has made with Cabinet colleagues on implementing the strategy on tackling violence against women and girls.
The scale of violence against women and girls in our country is intolerable and this Government is treating it as the national emergency that it is.We are going further than ever before to deliver a cross-Government transformative approach to halving violence against women and girls (VAWG) in a decade, underpinned by a new VAWG strategy to be published before summer recess. The new strategy will set out the concrete actions being taken across Government to deliver our ambition to tackle VAWG in all its forms.
What progress she has made on the implementation of her planned coalition to tackle knife crime.
The Prime Minister launched the Coalition to Tackle Knife Crime in September 2024, bringing together campaign groups, families of those who have tragically lost their lives to knife crime, young people who have been impacted and community leaders, united in their mission to save lives.The Coalition has already met six times to discuss key issues with further engagements planned over the coming months. We remain committed to drawing on a range of experiences and voices in our ambition to halve knife crime in the next 10 years.
What the outcome was of her Department's consultation on the accountability of social media executives for not removing adverts for weapons and knives.
The Government will be publishing the response to the consultation on the personal liability measure this spring.This measure, which implements a manifesto commitment, will introduce personal liability on senior executives of online companies that do not take down illegal content relating to knives and offensive weapons when requested to do so by the police.
When the National Violence Disorder Programme became operational.
The National Violent Disorder Programme consisted of the police’s activation of the National Mobilisation Plan on 1st August; the Government commitment that the Police Special Grant would be used to support forces with the additional costs incurred in policing the disorder; and the criminal justice system moving at pace to bring swift justice to offenders.We are committed to working with the police to ensure that the future of the Programme is suitably designed to tackle policing challenges of the future.
Pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 35843 on Marshall Bioresources: Audit, what the outcome was of the unannounced audit by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit of Marshall BioResources in April 2024.
The outcome of the last unannounced audit carried out in April 2024 was that there were no critical, major or minor findings, and no low-level concerns identified.
Pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 35843 on Marshall Bioresources: Audit, on what dates did (a) announced and (b) unannounced audits by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit of Marshall BioResources take place between 2016 and 2025 inclusive.
Marshall BioResources was granted an establishment licence in October 2017. Since then, the Animals in Science Regulation Unit have conducted 8 announced inspections/audits and 7 unannounced as set out below.AnnouncedUnannounced2021 September2024 April2020 November2023 August2020 September2022 July2019 November2021 June2019 May2019 July2019 March2018 July2018 October2018 January2018 April
Pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 36472 on Human Trafficking: Cambridgeshire, if she will publish a breakdown of the nationality of all National Referral Mechanism referrals between 2016 and 2024.
The Home Office publishes National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and Duty to Notify data on a quarterly basis on gov.uk and the National Crime Agencies website.The Home office have been publishing NRM data since 2019, with the NCA publishing this previously. The Home Office also publish disaggregated data on the UK Data Service which goes back to 2014 with this data included.This Government has been clear that identifying and supporting victims effectively is a key priority - that is why we have invested in 200 new decision makers to clear the backlog of cases and reduce wait times for victims.
How many instances of (a) child sexual exploitation and (b) child-trafficking related to (i) Guinea-Bissau and (ii) Portugal have been recorded since 2010.
The Home Office does not hold information centrally on instances of child sexual exploitation or child-trafficking offences related to Guinea-Bissau or Portugal.
Pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2025 to Question 35834 on Immigration: Afghanistan, how many people who have been resettled or relocated under the Afghan Resettlement Programme were granted (a) Indefinite Leave to Enter and (b) Indefinite Leave to Remain (i) before and (ii) after 15th August 2021.
The Afghan Resettlement Programme (ARP) brings together existing Afghan resettlement ACRS & ARAP into a single, efficient pipeline.Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) was launched on 1 April 2021. The UK formally opened the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) on 6 January 2022.Statistics on individuals resettled or relocated under the Afghan schemes are available in the Immigration System Statistics release. For a summary of the data, see the resettlement section of the ‘How many people come to the UK via safe and legal (humanitarian) routes?’ chapter; for detailed data, see table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement datasets.Afghan Operational Data is published quarterly and is viewable at: Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UKThe latest release was on the 27 February 2025.
Pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2025 to Question 34055 on Emergency Services: Domestic Abuse, when she expects the first phase of embedded external domestic abuse specialists in police force control rooms to be completed in (a) Northumbria, (b) Northamptonshire, (c) Bedfordshire, (d) Humberside and (e) West Midlands police forces.
Raneem's Law is the first time the Government is delivering a national, coordinated approach to embedding specialism into 999 control rooms. We intend to use learning from Phase One of Raneem's Law to inform plans for further national rollout across all 43 forces in England and Wales, as soon as possible. Exact timings for this will be announced in due course.
How many cases of child-trafficking have been investigated in Cambridgeshire since 2010.
The Government is committed to tackling modern slavery; ensuring that victims are provided with the support they need to begin rebuilding their lives and that perpetrators are prosecuted and punished.The Modern Slavery Act 2015 gives law enforcement agencies the tools to tackle modern slavery, including potential maximum sentences of life imprisonment for perpetrators and specific support and protection for victims, including children. The Home Office has provided over £19 million of dedicated funding to the police since 2016, to improve national policing capabilities to identify victims and to investigate offenders to bring them to justice.The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the UK's framework for identifying and supporting victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. The table below shows the number of NRM referrals where Cambridgeshire Constabulary were the police force responsible for investigation for individuals that were under 18 at the time of referral. This data is available up to 2016.YearNumber of NRM referrals2024552023682022452021372020520195520182920171520165The identification of a child who is a potential victim of modern slavery, or is at risk of being a victim, should always trigger the agreed local child protection procedures to ensure the child's safety and welfare, and to enable the police to gather evidence about abusers and coercers.
How many people from (a) Guinea-Bissau and (b) Portugal have entered the UK by (i) age and (ii) ethnicity since 2010.
The Home Office publishes available data on entry clearance visas by nationality in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of visas are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data is from 2005 up to the end of 2024.