Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Offenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of deported foreign national offenders that have illegally re-entered the UK in the last 12 months.
Answer: A deportation order requires a person to leave the UK and prohibits them from lawfully entering the UK while it remains in force. The Home Office does not hold the requested data given that – by definition – anyone we know to be trying to enter the UK ill...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of Foreign National Offenders are eligible for deportation.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer given on 6 March to Question UIN 34052.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the current backlog of deportation cases; and what estimate she has made of how long the average case takes.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer given on 6 March to Question UIN 34052.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Foreign criminals to be deported quicker, published on 3 March 2025, how frequently her Department will report to Parliament on the (a) progress and (b) o
Answer: The period 05 July 2024 to 31 January 2025 saw the removal of 2,925 foreign national prisoners serving sentences in prison or in the community. That is 21% more than during the equivalent period 12 months previously, under the previous Government. 1,557 o...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration and Prisons: Information SharingHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure timely information sharing between prison authorities and immigration enforcement agencies.
Answer: The sharing of information between the Home Office and HMPPS is essential to carry out the effective operation of the immigration and justice systems.Foreign national offenders (FNOs) are referred to the Home Office for deportation immediately following s...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Foreign criminals to be deported quicker, published on 3 March 2025, what steps she plans to take to mitigate potential challenges in deportin
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. In the event that a foreign national is found guilty of a crime, we will take strong action against them in the interests of public safety and protection....
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Foreign criminals to be deported quicker, published on 3 March 2025, what estimate she has made of the long-term financial savings from this initiative.
Answer: The period 05 July 2024 to 31 January 2025 saw the removal of 2,925 foreign national prisoners serving sentences in prison or in the community. That is 21% more than during the equivalent period 12 months previously, under the previous Government. 1,557 o...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35049More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Foreign criminals to be deported quicker, published on 3 March 2025, if her Department will provide a breakdown of the £5 million investment, by allocatio
Answer: The period 05 July 2024 to 31 January 2025 saw the removal of 2,925 foreign national prisoners serving sentences in prison or in the community. That is 21% more than during the equivalent period 12 months previously, under the previous Government. 1,557 o...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35048More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Foreign criminals to be deported quicker, published on 3 March 2025, how many specialist front line staff have been hired and deployed to prisons as part
Answer: The period 05 July 2024 to 31 January 2025 saw the removal of 2,925 foreign national prisoners serving sentences in prison or in the community. That is 21% more than during the equivalent period 12 months previously, under the previous Government. 1,557 o...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of deportations did not take place due to the individual renouncing non-UK citizenship in each of the last five years.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the answer he was given on 28 January to question UIN 25838.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of deportations for involvement in grooming gangs did not take place due to the individual renouncing non-UK citizenship.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer he was given on 28 January to Question UIN 25838.
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Iraqi nationals have been returned to Iraq in each year since the signing of the Agreement between the UK and Iraq on the transfer of sentenced persons of October 2015.
Answer: Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Since July 2024, 2,925 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been removed which...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Indian nationals have been returned to India in each year since the signing of the Agreement between the UK and India on the transfer of sentenced persons, published on 12 May 2006.
Answer: Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Since July 2024, 2,925 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been removed which...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Jamaican nationals have been returned to Jamaica in each year since the signing of the Compulsory Transfer Agreement with Jamaica in September 2015.
Answer: Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Since July 2024, 2,925 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been removed which...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will consider appealing the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruling on the UK's sovereignty of the Chagos Islands.
Answer: We understand this question refers to the 2021 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea case between Mauritius and the Maldives, which concerned a maritime boundary dispute between those two States. The UK was not a party to that case.
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: AviationTreasuryTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34705More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) air miles and (b) flights she has completed since 5 July 2024.
Answer: All overseas ministerial travel, including flight details is regularly published in transparency returns. These figures are scheduled to be published in due course.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: AviationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) air miles and (b) flights she has completed since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Data on minister’s overseas travel and on senior civil servant’s business expenses is published on a quarterly basis. The latest available quarterly publications can be found here: MHCLG: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, July to Septem...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister: AviationCabinet OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34703More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) air miles and (b) flights the Prime Minister has completed since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Data on ministers’ travel is published on a quarterly basis. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-overseas-travel-and-meetings-july-to-september-2024.
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: AviationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34702More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many (a) air miles and (b) flights he has completed since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Data on ministers’ travel is published on a quarterly basis. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/desnz-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: CostsHome OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34701More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost of the public purse of all illegal migrants per migrant per year, excluding asylum seekers.
Answer: Relevant data concerning Home Office expenditure on tackling illegal immigration is published on a routine basis in the Department's annual reports.
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: FinesHome OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34700More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of raising the illegal working civil penalties to employers found to be hiring illegal migrants.
Answer: The civil penalties were recently raised in February 2024 to £45,000 per illegal worker for a first breach from £15,000, and up to £60,000 for repeat breaches from £20,000.
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the UK/Albania: Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons agreed in October 2021, how many Albanian nationals have been returned to Albania since the signing of that Agreement.
Answer: Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Since July 2024, 2,925 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been removed which...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory: MauritiusForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2025 to Question 24737 on British Indian Ocean Territory: Mauritius, what estimate he has made of the number of rounds of negotiations th
Answer: As we and Mauritius have repeatedly said, including in joint statements on 20 December 2024 and on 13 January, both sides remain committed to concluding a deal on the future of the Chagos Archipelago. Once the Treaty is signed it will be laid before both ...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAlbania: PrisonsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34697More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total cost to the public purse was of supporting the modernisation of the Albanian prison system.
Answer: In addition to work to disrupt Organised Immigration Crime and address the long-term drivers of migration, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Home Office and the Ministry of Justice work together to enable the return of eligible Albanian fo...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34696More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the 200 Albanian nationals were returned under the agreement made with Albania on 24 May 2023.
Answer: Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and the Ministry of Justice will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation. Since July 2024, 2,925 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been removed which...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
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