Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Refugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 8 (South West), procurement reference CF-0334500D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is,
Answer: It is important that we support refugees to find work so that they can financially support themselves and their families. This programme was designed and implemented under the previous administration.Onboarding ended in December 2024 and the programme is ...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30482More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 6 (East of England), procurement reference CF-0334100D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users
Answer: It is important that we support refugees to find work so that they can financially support themselves and their families. This programme was designed and implemented under the previous administration.Onboarding ended in December 2024 and the programme is ...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30481More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 5 (East Midlands), procurement reference CF-0334000D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users i
Answer: It is important that we support refugees to find work so that they can financially support themselves and their families. This programme was designed and implemented under the previous administration.Onboarding ended in December 2024 and the programme is ...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30480More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 2 (North East), procurement reference CF-0333500D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is,
Answer: It is important that we support refugees to find work so that they can financially support themselves and their families. This programme was designed and implemented under the previous administration.Onboarding ended in December 2024 and the programme is ...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30479More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme, procurement reference CF-0276700D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is, broken down by nation
Answer: It is important that we support refugees to find work so that they can financially support themselves and their families. This programme was designed and implemented under the previous administration.Onboarding ended in December 2024 and the programme is ...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: Ministers of ReligionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30475More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the (a) total amount of people who are exempted from paying council tax for religious reasons and (b) estimated total value of council ta
Answer: It is not true to say that individuals can be exempt from council tax for religious reasons. A dwelling may be exempt from council tax where it is unoccupied but is held for the purposes of being occupied by a minister, of any religious denomination, in o...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommonwealth Scholarships ProgrammeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 27480 on Commonwealth Scholarships Programme, if she will list the (a) subject areas and (b) courses undertaken by thos
Answer: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK publishes its Annual Reports, which provide information on the subject areas and courses undertaken by scholarship recipients. The most recent report was laid before Parliament on 17 December 2024 and is a...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: RefugeesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost of Universal Credit benefits accessed by refugees was in 2024.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. The Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Cr...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: VisasHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of low skilled immigration worker visa grants on job opportunities for low skilled domestic workers.
Answer: The Government publishes economic assessments of policy measures implemented. Analysis undertaken to support changes to the immigration system are published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-analysis-at-the-home-office.This Governm...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29987More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of detained illegal migrants were deported in 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on returns and detention in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on numbers of people leaving detention due to being returned are published in table Det_D03 of the ‘Detention detailed datasets’. Inform...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29986More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the section entitled Roles and responsibilities on the About Us webpage for Immigration Enforcement, what options are presented to illegal migrants during face-to-face meaningful con
Answer: Those conversations might be, for example, including informing migrants subject to immigration bail of options for fulfilling the Home Office reporting requirements, and consequences of failing to do so.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: PublicationsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure parents have (a) access to upcoming internally-prepared educational materials and (b) a mechanism to oppose the use of internally-prepared materials they do not want their chi
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth to the answer of 13 November 2024 to Question 12852.
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: PublicationsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure parents have (a) access to upcoming educational materials from outside providers and (b) a mechanism to oppose the use of materials they do not want their children to be expos
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth to the answer of 13 November 2024 to Question 12852.
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration EnforcementHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dedicated immigration enforcement teams there are.
Answer: The total number of people employed by The Home office is routinely published within the annual Home Office annual reports and accounts, available at: Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Enforcement: EqualityHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many diversity, equality or inclusions officers work in immigration enforcement.
Answer: None.
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Enforcement: PayHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average salary is of immigration enforcement officers.
Answer: The total number of people employed by The Home office is routinely published within the annual Home Office annual reports and accounts, available at: Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Enforcement: StaffHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many trained immigration enforcement officers there are.
Answer: The total number of people employed by The Home office is routinely published within the annual Home Office annual reports and accounts, available at: Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: EnforcementHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of people (a) detained, (b) prosecuted and (c) deported per immigration enforcement visit was in 2024.
Answer: Information about the average outcomes of Enforcement Visits is not available in our published data. Our published national data on enforcement is available at the following link: Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2024 - GOV.UK
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: EnforcementHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a breakdown of immigration enforcement visits by local authorities in 2024.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Answer I gave him on the 10 February to Question 27935.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: CostsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average daily cost is of electronic tagging.
Answer: The average cost for an individual subject to electronic monitoring (EM) is approximately c.£9 per day.It is important to note the above figure does not include the average cost of a probation or police officer supervising an individual with EM. For infor...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total amount of deportations to Pakistan is under the UK-Pakistan Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
Answer: The removal of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) is an important priority of this Government and we refer all FNOs in receipt of custodial sentences to the Home Office to be considered for deportation.Ten Pakistani nationals have been repatriated to Pakis...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost of each deportation is, broken down by expense.
Answer: The requested information is not centrally held, and could only be collated and verified at disproportionate cost.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Aid: Parliamentary ScrutinyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to ensure that every line of foreign aid spending must be approved by Parliament.
Answer: All government spending is approved by Parliament in the Budget. There are no plans to introduce new legislation for ODA spending.To support effective programme delivery, the publicly available FCDO Programme Operating Framework sets out the mandatory rul...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Anti-social BehaviourDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the powers of train conductors to tackle avoidable disruptive behaviour on trains.
Answer: Train Operating Companies are already able to seek additional powers for their staff, to tackle incidents such as anti-social behaviour, via the Rail Safety Accreditation Scheme operated by the British Transport Police. The Department does not have any pl...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29270More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of revenue lost to train companies from fare avoidance in 2024.
Answer: The Rail Delivery Group estimated in 2014 that, £240 million a year is lost due to fare evasion on Great Britain’s railways. The Department is working with its industry partners to provide an updated figure and recognises the importance of reducing fraud.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
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