Every parliamentary written question tabled by Gregory Campbell this session, with the full answer and department. Back to the MP page.
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How many people who were born in the Irish Republic have applied for a UK passport through the naturalisation process between 2019 and 2024.
The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Pursuant to the Answers of 23 June 2025, 30 June 2025 and 7 July 2025 to Questions 60413, 61747 and 63990 on Asylum: Northern Ireland, whether she plans to purchase (a) tower blocks and (b) student accommodation solely to house people already living in Northern Ireland and claiming asylum not the wider cohort living elsewhere.
I refer the Hon Member to the Answer he received on 23 June 2025 to UIN 60413.
Pursuant to the Answers of 30 June to Questions 60413 and 61747 on Asylum: Northern Ireland, whether she plans to purchase (a) tower blocks and (b) student accommodation to house people claiming asylum in Northern Ireland.
I refer the Hon Member to the Answer he received on 23 June 2025 to UIN 60413.
Pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 61724 on Defending Democracy Taskforce: Northern Ireland, whether she plans to hold meetings in Northern Ireland in 2025.
Meetings of the Taskforce are attended by Ministers and senior officials from multiple Government departments and have to date taken place in secure Government premises within the Whitehall estate.There are currently no plans for the Taskforce to meet in Northern Ireland. However, meetings of the Taskforce are complemented by official led engagement with Devolved Governments including Northern Ireland.
Pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 60821 on Immigration Controls: Northern Ireland, whether Operation Gull is currently operating in Northern Ireland.
Yes, Operation Gull is an intelligence led operation and is deployed on that basis.
How many times the Defending Democracy Taskforce met in Northern Ireland between January 2025 and June 2025.
Meetings of the Taskforce are attended by Ministers and senior officials from multiple government departments, and have to date, all taken place in secure government premises within the Whitehall estate. These meetings, that I chair in my role as Security Minister, are complemented by official led meetings with Devolved Governments including Northern Ireland.
Pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 60413 on Asylum: Northern Ireland, whether her Department plans to purchase (a) tower blocks and (b) student accommodation to house those people claiming asylum in Northern Ireland.
I refer the Hon Member to the Answer he received on 23 June 2025 to UIN 60413.
Pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57984 on Road Traffic Offences: Speed Limits, how many drivers undertook a second driver retraining course between 2019 and 2024.
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of speed limit offences that resulted in ‘driver retraining’, as part of its annual ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Roads policing’ statistical release.The latest data is available here Police powers and procedures: Roads policing, to December 2023 - GOV.UK and covers the calendar year ending December 2023.However, offences cannot be linked and data on how many drivers undertook a second driver retraining course is not held centrally.
How many cases are under consideration for potential prosecution in relation to travellers in Northern Ireland not having a valid electronic travel authorisation between 1 January and 1 June 2025.
Journeys from Ireland to the UK are within the Common Travel Area (CTA). As part of the CTA arrangements, the UK does not operate routine immigration controls of individuals arriving in the UK by air or sea from within the CTA, and no immigration checks are undertaken at the land border with Ireland.
Whether Operation Gull is continuing to operate in Northern Ireland.
Operation Gull is informed by intelligence and is carried out in keeping with this principle.
Whether she plans to purchase (a) tower blocks and (b) former student accommodation to house asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.
Only individuals claiming asylum in Northern Ireland are accommodated there, and as such there are no plans to acquire additional dispersal accommodation to house a wider cohort of UK asylum seekers there. The Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders and consider a range of options to fulfil its statutory obligations, and deliver our commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of hotels by the end of this Parliament.
Pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57987 on Immigration: Northern Ireland, if she will make an estimate of the number of people from (a) Europe and (b) Africa who travelled to the Irish Republic and then made onward journeys to Northern Ireland in the last three years.
Journeys from Ireland to the UK are within the Common Travel Area (CTA). As part of the CTA arrangements, the UK does not operate routine immigration controls of individuals arriving in the UK by air or sea from within the CTA, and no immigration checks are undertaken at the land border with Ireland.
Pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57213 on Electronic Travel Authorisations: Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of the Electronic Travel Authorisations issued up until the end of 2024 were issued to travellers entering Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic.
Journeys from Ireland to the UK are within the Common Travel Area (CTA). As part of the CTA arrangements, the UK does not operate routine immigration controls of individuals arriving in the UK by air or sea from within the CTA, and no immigration checks are undertaken at the land border with Ireland.
Pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2025 to Question 44921 on Electronic Travel Authorisations: Northern Ireland, if she will make an estimate of the number of people travelling between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since January 2025 that should have had a valid Electronic Travel Authorisation but did not.
The UK does not operate routine immigration controls on journeys made within the common travel area, including from Ireland into Northern Ireland, and holds no data on total journeys made.The Home Office makes data relating to electronic travel authorisations (ETAs) available as part of its quarterly release of immigration system statistics.
What estimate she has made of the number of migrants coming into Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic in (a) 2022 and (b) 2024.
Journeys from Ireland to the UK are within the Common Travel Area (CTA). As part of the CTA arrangements, the UK does not operate routine immigration controls of individuals arriving in the UK by air or sea from within the CTA, and no immigration checks are undertaken at the land border with Ireland.
How many motorists have taken speed awareness courses after being charged with speeding offences in (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024.
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of speed limit offences that resulted in ‘driver retraining’, as part of its annual ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Roads policing’ statistical release. The latest data is available here Police powers and procedures: Roads policing, to December 2023 - GOV.UK and covers the calendar year ending December 2023.In 2022, there were 1,355,293 speed limit offences that resulted in driver retraining. In 2023, there were 1,495,462 speed limit offences that resulted in driver retraining.Data for 2024 is due to be published in late 2025.
How many (a) charges have been brought, (b) prosecutions there have been and (c) convictions there have been for unlawful abortions in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.
All women in England and Wales should have access to safe, regulated abortions on the NHS under our current laws. It is for Parliament to decide the circumstances under which abortions should take place, allowing members to vote according to their moral, ethical or religious beliefs. Decisions to bring a prosecution about abortion are for the independent Crown Prosecution Service.The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of notifiable offences, including the number of procuring illegal abortion offences, and intentional destruction of a viable unborn child offences, recorded by the police in England and Wales. This information is published as official statistics each quarter. The latest information, to the year ending December 2024, can be accessed here:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/police-recorded-crime-and-outcomes-open-data-tablesThe Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions and convictions under the Infant Life (Preservation) Act at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics
What assessment her Department has made of the potential impact the implementation of the Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme on inbound international tourists arriving in Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic.
Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETAs) have been introduced to enhance our ability to screen travellers upstream and stop those who pose a threat from travelling to the UK. Individuals arriving in the UK, including those crossing the land border into Northern Ireland, will need to continue to enter in line with the UK’s immigration framework, including the requirement to obtain an ETA, where applicable. We are working with a wide range of partners to promote the ETA scheme, ensuring it is communicated effectively to visitors to Northern Ireland. The application is quick and light-touch, and many applications are decided within minutes. Since the scheme’s introduction until the end of 2024, over 1.1 million ETAs have been granted. The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration system under regular review, in consultation with a wide range of experts and stakeholders.
How many cases have been initiated against people found to not be in possession of a valid Electronic Travel Authorisation in Northern Ireland between January and March 2025.
Electronic travel authorisations were introduced in October 2023 to enhance our ability to screen travellers upstream and stop those who pose a threat from travelling to the United Kingdom. They were more recently expanded to eligible non-European nationals (in November 2024) and Europeans (on 5 March this year). Further details of how the ETA requirement is being enforced will be published in due course.
Pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2025 to Question 51305 on Asylum: Housing, what proportion of alternative accommodation was (a) another hotel, (b) domestic properties and (c) other dispersed accommodation in 2024.
Available data, published quarterly, on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation can be found within the Asy_D11 tab for our most recent statistics release. The data can be broken down by accommodation type. Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.