Chris Philp MP: written questions
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Police: Mental Health ServicesHome OfficeTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the status is of the rollout of the Right Care, Right Person policy in each police force.
Answer: It is a matter for each chief constable to determine how much of the Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) approach they wish to adopt and timing is ultimately an operational matter for each chief constable.It is recognised best practice for the police to work ...
Answered 26 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: Mental Health ServicesHome OfficeTabled 12 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 113194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the officer hours saved each year as a result of the rollout of the Right Care Right Person policy.
Answer: The Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care published a joint evaluation on the implementation of the Right Care, Right Person in December 2024, which showed that RCRP has led to a reduction in calls and deployments to RCRP-related incid...
Answered 24 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Cameron BarracksHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108007More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of providing recreational activities and health services to asylum seekers at the Cameron barracks.
Answer: Consideration of this site is ongoing and any final decision to utilise any site for the intended purposes will be made once the relevant factors have been properly considered.The Home Office continues to engage regularly with representatives from the loc...
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Cameron BarracksHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers at the Cameron barracks will have access to publicly-funded therapists.
Answer: Consideration of this site is ongoing and any final decision to utilise any site for the intended purposes will be made once the relevant factors have been properly considered.The Home Office continues to engage regularly with representatives from the loc...
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Cameron BarracksHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to engage with local communities in Inverness, in light of the decision to use the Cameron barracks as asylum accommodation.
Answer: Consideration of this site is ongoing and any final decision to utilise any site for the intended purposes will be made once the relevant factors have been properly considered.The Home Office continues to engage regularly with representatives from the loc...
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Cameron BarracksHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108004More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on the welfare of military families living in accommodation next to the Cameron Barracks, in light of the site now being used as asylum accommodati
Answer: Consideration of this site is ongoing and any final decision to utilise any site for the intended purposes will be made once the relevant factors have been properly considered.The Home Office continues to engage regularly with representatives from the loc...
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Cameron BarracksHome OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what formal process has been followed regarding the change of use of the Cameron Barracks.
Answer: Consideration of this site is ongoing and any final decision to utilise any site for the intended purposes will be made once the relevant factors have been properly considered.The Home Office continues to engage regularly with representatives from the loc...
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAlaa Abh El-FattahForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102822More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many times have Ministers, officials or Cairo Embassy staff raise the topic of Alaa Abh El-Fattah with the Government of Egypt since 5 July 2025.
Answer: The Rt Hon Member appears to be under the false impression that the campaign for Mr El-Fattah's release began just six months ago.In fact, the FCDO first raised Mr El-Fattah's case following his initial conviction in June 2014, a full eleven years before ...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAlaa Abd El-FattahForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102821More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many meetings Ministers have had on the topic of Alaa Abh El-Fattah since 5 July 2025.
Answer: The Rt Hon Member appears to be under the false impression that the campaign for Mr El-Fattah's release began just six months ago.In fact, the FCDO first raised Mr El-Fattah's case following his initial conviction in June 2014, a full eleven years before ...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has received any legal notices, pre-action correspondence and letters before action from Wealden District Council on the proposed use of the Crowborough Training Camp.
Answer: The Home Office has received a Planning Contravention Notice from Wealden District Council regarding Crowborough. We have not received any pre-action protocol letters or letters before action from Wealden District Council.
Answered 30 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when asylum seekers are expected to be accommodated at the Crowborough Training Camp.
Answer: We are continuing to assess the feasibility of the Crowborough site. No final decision has been made, and as such no arrival date for service users has been confirmed.
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the minutes of meetings between her Department and Wealden District Council on the proposed use of the Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: The Home Office engages regularly with Wealden District Council regarding Crowborough Training Camp. The department does not routinely publish minutes of such meetings.
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of whether an Environmental Impact Assessment is required for the use of the Crowborough Training Camp site to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish all assessments made by her Department on the adequacy of the Crowborough Training Camp site for accommodating asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90281More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assurances she has received from statutory service providers that they could meet the needs arising from the use of the Crowborough Training Camp site to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what factors her Department has had regard to in making its assessment as to the suitability of the Crowborough Training Camp site to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: As potential sites are identified and progressed for alternative asylum accommodation, a Stage Gate process, which builds on the lessons learned from the delivery of previous sites, is followed to ensure that any decisions made are informed by a comprehen...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a community impact assessment and an Equalities Impact Assessment of the potential use of Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89504More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when (a) Wealden District Council and (b) local communities will be informed of the decision on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89503More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how local residents will be formally consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consult (a) Wealden District Council, (b) other affected local councils and (c) statutory service providers prior to a decision being taken on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to a
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Crowborough Training CampHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the decision on whether to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers will be taken; by whom the decision will be taken; and what is is the mechanism for taking that decision.
Answer: It remains our intention to use Crowborough Training Camp to accommodateasylum seekers, subject to the outcome of feasibility assessments. We areconfident that the level of due diligence carried out on alternativeaccommodation sites has improved, and we e...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the security services on the monitoring of foreign offenders who may be crossing the Channel to avoid justice for crimes they have committed in other European coun
Answer: We have launched the Border Security Command (BSC) whose work is imperative not only to stop criminals from entering the UK via small boats in the first place but to stop anyone from making these dangerous journeys. This is why the BSC is working with par...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: OldhamHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Oldham Council on the potential starting date for its inquiry into grooming gangs operating in Oldham.
Answer: In June this year, Baroness Casey published her independent audit into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse, and the Government accepted every recommendation it made, including establishing a new national inquiry. The national inquiry, equipped...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InquiriesHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will re-open the application window for the role of Chair of the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Answer: Chairs of national inquiries established under the Inquiries Act 2005, are appointed directly by Ministers. Under section 3 of the Act, the Minister who sets up the inquiry has the power to appoint the Chair and any other panel members.As has long been co...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InquiriesHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for the role of Chair of the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Answer: Chairs of national inquiries established under the Inquiries Act 2005, are appointed directly by Ministers. Under section 3 of the Act, the Minister who sets up the inquiry has the power to appoint the Chair and any other panel members.As has long been co...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
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