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Written questions by Lam.

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

Department:All (89)Treasury (12)Church Commissioners (11)Department of Health and Social Care (8)Home Office (7)Department for Business and Trade (6)Cabinet Office (5)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (5)Ministry of Defence (4)Department for Work and Pensions (4)Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (4)Department for Education (4)Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (4)

Showing 17 of 7 · Home Office

10 Oct 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

Whether she has made an assessment of the potential link between (a) organised crime groups facilitating illegal migration across the Channel, (b) organised crime groups engaged in the UK's illegal drug trade, and (c) organised crime groups engaged in the UK’s illicit tobacco trade.

Reply

Organised Immigration Crime differs from other forms of organised crime as we often see loose affiliations of criminal networks, sometimes working together when it suits, enabling various stages of people’s journeys.The National Crime Agency’s (NCA) 2025 National Strategic Assessment does note that a core characteristic of Serious Organised Crime (SOC) in 2024 was the continued diversification of criminal activity beyond previous understandings of the SOC threat. This is the result of the emergence of new groups of offenders with a broader range of motivations, diversification of methodologies, and more crossovers between different SOC threats.A key trend in 2024 was for offenders to broaden their criminal activity across multiple threat areas, enabled by online connectivity, use of new technology, and reliance on the specialist services offered by ‘crime as a service’ providers. It is becoming increasingly easier for SOC offenders to connect with other offenders or to enter new criminal marketplaces.The NCA continues to lead the UK law enforcement system to tackle the harms posed by serious and organised crime and protect the public.

1 Sept 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

How many and what proportion of her Department’s (a) ICT (b) stationery and (c) office furniture suppliers are (i) supplied by UK businesses and (ii) manufactured in the UK.

Reply

The Home Office does not collect data at this level of granularity and the information would only be available at disproportionate cost.

1 Sept 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

From which countries her Department has sourced (a) pulp and (b) finished paper for (i) official stationery and (ii) other printed materials.

Reply

The Home Office does not collect data at this level of granularity and the information would only be available at disproportionate cost.

1 Sept 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

What steps her Department is taking to encourage the procurement of British-made office products and stationery by (a) the Department and (b) its arms-length bodies.

Reply

Office stationery products are primarily purchased through HO catalogue contract with Banner, a UK based stockist and distributor. The contract focuses on security of supply, catalogue/stock management and reducing the environmental impact of the goods and services whilst maintaining the best value for money. Other ancillary stationary products are purchased through Unite, category specific contracts or sourced low level below threshold purchases.

30 May 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

Whether her Department has provided guidance to police forces on tackling antisemitic (a) chants and (b) slogans at universities.

Reply

i refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 15 May 2025 to Question UIN 51023.

22 May 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

Whether her Department holds data on the number of people who have illegally arrived in the UK via small boat crossings having previously been deported.

Reply

I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 7 March to Question 35056.

5 Feb 2025·Home Office·Answered
Asked

Whether her Department holds (a) demographic and (b) ethnicity data on the investigation of sex crimes.

Reply

The Home Office holds information on all notifiable crimes, including sexual offences, recorded by the police in England and Wales and their investigative outcomes. The extent of the data held in each case will depend on what information has been collected by the police as part of their investigation.Statistics on the outcomes of cases are routinely published by the Ministry of Justice, and contain breakdowns of convicted offenders by age, gender, ethnicity, police force area and type of offence. This can be assessed via their outcomes by offence data tool available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2024

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