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Ruth Jones:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Naturewatch Foundation's report entitled Policing Wildlife Crime: Make Wildlife Count, published on 9 September 2025, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of wildlife crimes which result in no further action. \p Sarah Jones: The Home Office is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) to deliver their ‘Rural and Wildlife Crime strategy 2025-2029’. This is published by the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), accessed here:

https://www.nwcu.police.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/NPCC-Wildlife-Rural-Crime-Strategy-2022-2025.pdf

The Home Office, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, directly funds the NWCU. The NWCU assists police forces and other law enforcement agencies in investigating wildlife crime.

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of wildlife crime offences, and their investigative outcomes, recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis. The latest information, to the year ending March 2025, is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/police-recorded-crime-and-outcomes-open-data-tables

Information to the year ending June 2025 will be published on 23 October.
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Siân Berry:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled New Taser approved for UK police forces to protect public, published on 2 October 2025 and the SACMILL statement on the medical implications of the Taser 10 conducted energy device system, published on 2 October 2025, what discussions she has had with the College of Policing’s on the inclusion of the findings of the Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons on (a) discharge causing subjects to stop breathing and faint, (b) the risk of CED-induced cardiac capture, (c) flammability risk, (d) increased risk of serious injury, (e) increased risk to children and (f) the danger of increased officer errors due to the complexity of the specific Conducted Energy Device in its new guidance and training for use of Taser 10. \p Sarah Jones: Taser provides police officers with an important tactical option to protect the public and save lives. As with any use of force, Taser must only be used when it is reasonable, proportionate and necessary in the circumstances. The decision to approve Taser 10 has been taken on consideration of stringent testing and assessments.

In common with other conducted energy devices approved for use in policing, the operational performance of Taser 10 will be closely monitored, with officers required to complete a bespoke form after each use. Data from these forms will provide insights into the safety and efficacy of the system as well as any emerging trends. The National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) and respective forces will be able to review these forms nationally and locally to identify any patterns and factors for review such as any emerging technical issues with the device. The Home Office has regular discussions with the NPCC and other policing stakeholders to keep this under review. to keep this under review.

The College of Policing Authorised Professional Practice refers to the Statement of Medical Implications for Taser 10 by the Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less Lethal Weapons (SACMILL) and learning is incorporated into CED training and guidance as well as post Taser healthcare procedures. All officers who are selected to use CEDs must have an appreciation of the physical and psychological effects of the device. This includes training officers to factor in the potential vulnerability of a person, and factors such as age and stature when assessing each situation.

A Child Rights Impact Assessment was conducted to inform the decision to approve Taser 10.
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Sir Gavin Williamson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the Freedom of Information request dated 13 August 2025 submitted by the Hon. Member for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge. \p Sarah Jones: The FOI referred to was answered on 19 September 2025.
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Lee Anderson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether their Department has run any (a) recruitment and (b) internship schemes aimed to increase the number of people from underrepresented groups in the workforce in the last year. \p Sarah Jones: All Civil Service departments work within the Recruitment Principles, as regulated by the Civil Service Commission, to recruit using a fair and open process and appoint on merit.

As set out in the Civil Service People Plan 2024 - 2027, we are committed to ensuring we attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds, to create a modern Civil Service, now and for the future.

The Home Office have run Internship schemes aimed at increasing representation of underrepresented groups within the Home Office workforce in the last year:

The Home Office also support Government Employment Programs that utilse an exception within the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. This allows departments to appoint individuals temporarily for up to two years, providing fixed-term Civil Service roles for those whose circumstances and previous life chances make it difficult to compete for appointments on merit, and on the basis of fair and open competition, without further work experience and/or training opportunities. The programs the Home Office have employed over the last 12 months are:
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Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she next plans to update her guidance entitled Guide on firearms licensing law, last updated in November 2022. \p Sarah Jones: The Home Office publishes data on the number of firearms held, including shotguns, by the type of firearms certificate held. This data does not provide a specific breakdown on the type of shotgun. The latest data can be found in the table 13 via the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/684aa6f1a3c112ee2996ff1e/firearm-shotgun-certificates-2024-2025-tables.ods

The Firearms Act 1968 enables a Registered Firearms Dealer (RFD) to purchase and sell firearms provided that accurate records are maintained, and all firearms are properly accounted for, including those which have been transferred to the dealer by certificate holders. Private sales can also be arranged through an RFD by the owner if he or she wishes. However, the issue of private sales is an important one. The Government keeps all controls on firearms under constant review to safeguard the public against the misuse of licensed firearms.

The non-statutory Guide on Firearms Licensing Law, last issued in November 2022, is currently in the process of being updated and a revised version will be issued in due course. However, a new version of the Statutory Guidance on firearms licensing to Chief Officers of Police was issued on 5 August 2025, and this sets out the criteria that must be applied when police forces are considering firearms applications and is intended to strengthen the assessment of those who hold, or who apply for, both shotgun and firearms licences. The Statutory Guidance is helping to ensure consistency in decision making across all police forces.

The Home Office has regular discussions with the Scottish Government and Police Scotland on firearms licensing matters through the Firearms Licensing Enforcement Board (FLEB) which is chaired by the Home Office. Sharing of firearms licensing data for operational reasons, and where there is a lawful basis for doing so, can already take place between forces in England and Wales and Police Scotland.
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Blake Stephenson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the number of visas which have expired without (a) renewal, (b) transfer to another visa type and (c) acquiring indefinite leave to remain in each of the past five years. \p Mike Tapp: The Home Office publishes immigration statistics on a quarterly basis in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The relevant data for this request could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
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Blake Stephenson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visa holders her Department holds a UK residential address for. \p Mike Tapp: The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

People applying for UK visas may provide a UK residential address on their application but large proportions of visa holders coming to the UK on a short-term basis such as a visitor will not be resident in the UK.
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Blake Stephenson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas have been issued to people studying at each university in the 2025-26 academic year. \p Mike Tapp: The Home Office does not publish information on how many student visas have been issued to people studying at each university.

The Home Office does publish data on sponsored study visas by course level in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visas issued are published in table ‘Edu_D02’ of the ‘sponsored study visas by course level dataset’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data is from January 2018 up to the end of March 2025. Please note the data does not show the academic year the visa was granted for, or whether the visa was issued to study at a university.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
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Blake Stephenson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 73359 on Visas: Migrant Workers, on how many occasions her Department received such a notification by visa type since 4 July 2024; and how many and what proportion of those notifications resulted in a migrant (a) leaving the UK, (b) transferring to a new visa type and (c) being subsequently sponsored by a new employer. \p Mike Tapp: The information requested is not available from published statistics and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
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Nick Timothy:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for visas broken down by (a) each visa route and (b) month since July 2024. \p Mike Tapp: UKVI have been processing applications on all of its routes where a customer service standard is operated within their published customer service standards during the requested time period. On 1 September the Secretary of State for the Home Department announced a temporary suspension of new applications under the Refugee Family Reunion route and this remains in place. Visa processing times are published on the UKVI website at Visa processing times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK and Visa processing times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK.

It may take longer to process an application if:
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Zarah Sultana:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of her Department's policies on (a) all people seeking asylum and (b) people seeking asylum whose age is disputed who arrived in the UK by irregular means. \p Alex Norris: The impact of our policies on vulnerable individuals and equalities considerations are at the front and centre of our work. As required through the Public Sector Equality Duty, we consider equality impacts throughout the asylum policy development process, and that includes our policy on age assessment.

The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration system under regular review, in consultation with a wide range of experts and stakeholders. All policy development is carried out with regard to section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 and in line with our international obligations.
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Mr Angus MacDonald:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of safeguards to the right to peaceful protest. \p Sarah Jones: Public order legislation has been developed in line with the UK’s human rights obligations, including those under the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Home Secretary announced on 5 October that she has asked for review of public order legislation.
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Ruth Jones:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to give wildlife crime notifiable status. \p Sarah Jones: Wildlife crime can have devastating consequences for our natural environments and countryside communities. This Government is committed to reducing crime in rural areas and anyone exploiting or deliberately harming British wildlife should face the full force of the law.

There are no plans currently to make all wildlife crimes notifiable. Any non-notifiable wildlife crime reported to police can be investigated as Chief Constables have operational independence to tackle the crimes that matter most to their communities.
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Sarah Dyke:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of making wildlife crimes notifiable offences; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of doing so on (a) data collection and (b) the monitoring of wildlife crime trends. \p Sarah Jones: Wildlife crime can have devastating consequences for our natural environments and countryside communities. This Government is committed to reducing crime in rural areas and anyone exploiting or deliberately harming British wildlife should face the full force of the law.

There are no plans currently to make all wildlife crimes notifiable. Any non-notifiable wildlife crime reported to police can be investigated as Chief Constables have operational independence to tackle the crimes that matter most to their communities.

The National Wildlife Crime Unit provides intelligence, analysis and investigative assistance to forces and other law enforcement agencies across the UK to support them in investigating wildlife crime including gathering intelligence from a number of organisations to determine the wildlife crime priorities.
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Rupert Lowe:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with her French counterpart on (a) distributing leaflets and (b) creating information campaigns for potential irregular migrants to the UK on the consequences of illegal migration to the UK. \p Alex Norris: The Home Secretary regularly meets with her French counterparts to discuss our joint efforts to prevent dangerous small boat crossings. She remains committed to our joint mission and will continue this close working with the new Minister of Interior, Laurent Nuñez, who was appointed on 12 October.

The UK and French Governments have been running joint information campaigns in France since August about the consequences of illegal migration to the UK, including distributing leaflets to potential irregular migrants.
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Clive Lewis:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of mandatory digital ID in tackling illegal immigration. \p Alex Norris: The Digital ID programme is part of a broader strategy to tackle illegal immigration. By making it harder for people without the right to work to gain employment, the government plans to reduce incentives for unlawful entry.   Mandating digital ID for right to work checks will strengthen our current approach by:

o Acting as a deterrent to would-be migrants hoping to work in the UK illegally.

o Ensuring consistency and simplifying the checks that employers must carry out, making it easier for UK citizens and legal residents to demonstrate they have the right to work.

o Removing the reliance on physical documents in the UK, making it harder for forged documents to be used as proof of right to work.

The Government will start a public consultation on the new digital ID by the end of the year, and has begun engaging with several key stakeholders already.
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Blake Stephenson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of newly arrived illegal migrants that will be deported to France in 2025/26. \p Alex Norris: Returns to France under the UK-France returns agreement commenced on 18 September 2025.

This is a pilot that we want to expand and therefore the numbers will vary. We will not go into the operational details as this would provide criminal smuggling gangs with information that they may use to continue to their vile trade.
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Steve Barclay:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of all the instances between 4 July 2024 and 14 October 2025 when 100 or more migrants have crossed the Channel in a single small boat, including (a) the date of the crossing, (b) the number of migrants on board and (c) the approximate dimensions of the boat. \p Alex Norris: There have been 5 occasions over this period where over 100 migrants have crossed the Channel in a single small boat. These are listed below.

Date

Number of persons onboard

13/08/2025

106

19/09/2025

102

19/09/2025

106

27/09/2025

125

08/10/2025

101

Information about the dimensions of boats is operationally sensitive, and its release could prejudice the interests of law enforcement.
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Sir John Hayes:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with (a) local authorities and (b) communities in Lincolnshire on relocation plans for asylum seekers. \p Alex Norris: The Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders including in Lincolnshire, to fulfil our statutory obligation to support and accommodate destitute asylum seekers.

We are also working to deliver our commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of hotels, by the end of this Parliament. To achieve this, we will look at a range of more appropriate sites like disused accommodation, industrial and ex-military sites so that we can reduce the impact on communities across the UK.

Home Office officials are working closely with local authorities, property partners and across-government so that we can accelerate delivery. Decisions on the use of alternative asylum accommodation sites will be made on a site-by-site basis, and we will continue to work closely with local authorities and in compliance with published policy.
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Freddie van Mierlo:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that automated systems used by public bodies do not misclassify Irish citizens as requiring EU settled status documentation. \p Alex Norris: The automated systems used by public bodies are the responsibility of the relevant organisation. Where a public body carries out automated checks with the Home Office, such checks will generally confirm whether the person holds a valid immigration status. The Home Office does not provide information or advice on what immigration status or documentation a person is required to hold as part of those checks. Irish citizens are treated as settled in the UK and are not required to hold an immigration status.
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James Wild:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders have (a) been deported more than once and (b) returned to the UK since being deported in each year since 2019. \p Alex Norris: The Home Office publishes data on FNO returns in the quarterly Immigration System Statistics release. Quarterly data on enforced, voluntary and port FNO returns (of which ‘deportations’ are a legal subset) are published in table Ret_D03 of the Returns detailed datasets accompanying the release.

Information on FNOs who have been deported more than once, or who have returned to the UK after deportation, is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

A deportation order requires a person to leave the UK and prohibits them from lawfully entering the UK while it remains in force. Entering in breach of a deportation order is a criminal offence under section 24(1)(a) of the 1971 Act, with a maximum sentence of five years under section 40 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
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Ben Obese-Jecty:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the transparency data entitled 29 September 2024: Asylum Transformation Programme Accounting Officer Assessment summary, published on 5 June 2025, what her definition is of an outcome focussed customer journey. \p Alex Norris: Outcome focussed customer journey’ is terminology used within the Asylum Transformation Programme’s strategic objectives. The objective describes the programmes intent to streamline the end-to-end journey of claimants by delivering a number of interventions to enhance and improve the current system. Examples of these interventions have included AI tooling to assist decision makers with processing asylum claims, automation of the system for booking asylum interviews, and the introduction of a new online portal for Legal Representatives to share key case information with the Home Office.
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Pippa Heylings:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that female asylum seekers who are victims of gender-based violence have access to (a) mental health support and (b) trauma-informed care. \p Alex Norris: This Government has set out our ambition to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, using every tool available to target perpetrators and address the root causes of violence.

Recognising the mental health challenges faced by people seeking asylum the Home Office has a strategic team focussing on asylum seeker mental health working closely with accommodation providers, NGOs, health partners and lived experience groups to formulate a preventative approach.

This approach consists of mental health and wellbeing grant funding that is disseminated across the UK through Strategic Migration Partnerships and the rollout of a trauma-informed practice programme.

For further information on initiatives please see Asylum mental health: workstreams, tools and case studies (GOV.UK)
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Ben Obese-Jecty:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the news story entitled Live Facial Recognition technology to catch high-harm offenders, published on 13 August 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using live facial recognition vans to identify people involved with hare-coursing. \p Sarah Jones: The Government is committed to equipping police forces with the tools they need to tackle serious crimes, locate offenders and bring them to justice.

As part of this commitment, the Home Office has funded the roll-out of ten live facial recognition (LFR) vans to seven host police forces, with access available to all forces across the country.

Hare coursing is a serious criminal offence that causes harm to rural communities. Police forces across the UK have launched Operation Galileo, a national initiative aimed at tackling hare coursing through increased patrols, surveillance and tougher legal penalties. The Government takes this issue very seriously and will continue to support police efforts to tackle it.

While LFR technology has proven effective in locating individuals wanted for high harm offences, the government has made no formal assessment regarding its potential use in addressing hare coursing. LFR deployment decisions rest with individual police forces, and any future consideration of its use must be intelligence-led and compliant with the legal framework.
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Mr Louie French:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make establish a National Police Trust funded from money seized from the proceeds of crime. \p Sarah Jones: The allocation of criminal funds recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) is governed by the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). The Scheme is designed to incentivise all agencies involved in asset recovery, including the police, to pursue criminal proceeds with the overarching aim of reducing crime and delivering justice.

Under ARIS, a proportion of the assets recovered using POCA powers is redistributed to the agencies involved in the recovery, based on their relative contributions. Currently, up to 50% of ARIS receipts are returned to operational partners depending on their contribution. The Scheme also supports the development of regional and national asset recovery capabilities through the ARIS Top Slice Fund, which ringfences £13.9 million annually for this purpose.

In line with the spirit of the Scheme, the Government encourages agencies to invest their ARIS funds to enhance asset recovery and, where appropriate, to fund local crime fighting priorities that benefit communities. The use of ARIS allocations is at the discretion of each agency, ensuring they retain flexibility to direct funds in line with local priorities and operational needs. As such, these funds may be eligible for donation to support a National Police Trust, should agencies choose to do so.

More detail on the breakdown of ARIS funding can be found in the Asset Recovery Statistical Bulletin (ASB) at section 7: Asset recovery statistical bulletin: financial years ending 2020 to 2025.
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Mr Louie French:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has met the Police Federation since her appointment. \p Sarah Jones: Home Office Ministers have regular meetings as part of the process of policy development and delivery.

As part of Government transparency information about meetings is published on a quarterly basis on gov.uk

The Police Act 1996 establishes the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) as the representative body for police officers in the federated ranks in England and Wales.
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Sarah Bool:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents relating to deer management required an armed response from police officers in the year 2023-24. \p Sarah Jones: The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of incidents related to deer management reported by police forces, or how many required an armed police response.

While the Home Office does collect and publish annual statistics on the number of police firearms operations, the data excludes operations involving discharges for animal destruction and does not include any details of the nature of the incidents.

The latest available data for the year ending 31 March 2025 can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025
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Sir John Hayes:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the effectiveness of neighbourhood policing in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire. \p Sarah Jones: Neighbourhood policing is the bedrock of the British policing model. Every community deserves visible, pro-active and accessible neighbourhood policing with officers tackling the issues that matter to them.

As part of the neighbourhood policing guarantee, every neighbourhood across England and Wales now has named, contactable officers dedicated to addressing the issues facing their communities, including in Lincolnshire. Police forces also must make sure that neighbourhood policing teams spend the majority of their time providing visible patrols and engaging with local people and businesses.

£200 million has also been made available in 2025/26 to help forces kickstart the growth in neighbourhood policing personnel towards 13,000 by the end of this Parliament. Of this, £1,663,470 has been allocated to support neighbourhood policing in Lincolnshire.
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Martin Wrigley:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot of 19 August 2025 with case reference MW09759. \p Sarah Jones: The Minister for Policing and Crime has replied on 15 October.
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Sarah Olney:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department had with the Mayor of London on the planned closure of front counters in police stations in London. \p Sarah Jones: Decisions regarding the management of local police resourcing and estates, including police stations, is a matter for Chief Constables and directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners (or equivalents).

They are best placed to make these decisions based on their knowledge of local need and their experience.
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Liz Jarvis:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is monitoring the (a) importation and (b) online sale of imitation firearms; and whether she plans to make an assessment of whether the online sale of imitation firearms contravene (i) product safety and (ii) trading standards legislation. \p Sarah Jones: The Government works closely with the National Crime Agency and the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) to address any potential risks to public safety posed by the sale and possession of imitation firearms. The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 makes it an offence to manufacture, import or sell a realistic imitation firearm. It is also a requirement that imitation firearms are safe for their intended and foreseeable use before they are placed on the market.

The Government, the National Crime Agency and the NPCC, together with Border Force, have taken, and continue to take, action to prevent the import and sale, including online sales, of certain types of blank firing firearms, which are viewed as readily convertible, to prevent these getting into the hands of criminals. Such imitation firearms are contrary to existing legislation, and to remove these particular types of imitation firearms from circulation, a four-week amnesty was run by the NPCC in February this year saw around 3,000 such firearms being handed in to police forces, and further action is being planned to remove further makes of blank firing imitation firearms from circulation as they have been found to be readily convertible.
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Manuela Perteghella:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to use (a) secondary and (b) primary legislation to establish a National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism. \p Dan Jarvis: This Government is committed to supporting victims and survivors of terrorism and understands that recognition is an important part of their recovery.

That is why, from 19 March 2025 to 11 June, the Government held a public consultation on a National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism to explore how the country could honour those whose lives have been lost or forever changed by terrorism.

The consultation has considered the ways a National Day could be implemented and any consequences that may result from the proposals.

We are now reviewing all responses and will publicly update on the consultation’s outcomes and our next steps in due course.
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Helen Maguire:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of misinformation spread by Russia on democracy in the UK. \p Dan Jarvis: The Government's Defending Democracy Taskforce, chaired by the Security Minister, is focused on safeguarding our democracy from the full range of threats including foreign interference.

MI5’s National Protective Security Authority has recently launched new guidance to protect the UK’s democratic institutions from foreign interference. It notes that the UK is a target of long-term strategic foreign interference and provides advice for at-risk individuals to take to protect themselves, their teams and the integrity of our democratic processes.

Protecting the UK’s democratic processes continues to be a priority for this Government and we have a number of mechanisms to tackle foreign interference and misinformation:

The Online Safety Act 2023 introduced measures which strengthen our ability to tackle information threats, especially in relation to electoral processes.
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Dr Rupa Huq:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what cross-Government work is being undertaken to help tackle identity fraud when no financial loss is incurred. \p Dan Jarvis: The Home Office is working across Government to consider whether to include initiatives to prevent the misuse of stolen identities and to strengthen protections for the public through the Government’s upcoming Fraud Strategy.

We recognise the evolving nature and increasing prevalence of identity fraud and are taking additional proactive steps to address it. That is why the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences will consider whether a specific offence for identity theft is needed.

We have likewise announced a mandatory digital ID system which will enable people to prove their identity securely, without physical documents.

It is also important to empower the public to protect themselves and keep their identities safe. That is why we have introduced a checklist, providing advice and steps on how to prevent the misuse of identities: Identity fraud victims' checklist.
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Ben Obese-Jecty:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 26 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, what her planned timetable is for implementing the recommendations of the Independent Reviewer of State Threat Legislation. \p Dan Jarvis: As the previous Home Secretary set out in her oral statement on 19 May 2025, the Government is committed to taking forward legislation to implement all of the recommendations made by Jonathan Hall KC, Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation, in his review of legislation to address state-based security threats to the UK.

One of the recommendations made by Jonathan Hall KC, was to create a State Threats Proscription-Style Tool which will more appropriately tackle threats from state-linked entities, and which will provide operational partners with enhanced capabilities to disrupt the activities of the most egregious organisations. We will bring forward legislation as soon as Parliamentary time allows.
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Luke Akehurst:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to create a new power of proscription to cover state threats. \p Dan Jarvis: As the previous Home Secretary set out in her oral statement on 19 May 2025, the Government is committed to taking forward legislation to implement all of the recommendations made by Jonathan Hall KC, Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation, in his review of legislation to address state-based security threats to the UK.

One of the recommendations made by Jonathan Hall KC, was to create a State Threats Proscription-Style Tool which will more appropriately tackle threats from state-linked entities, and which will provide operational partners with enhanced capabilities to disrupt the activities of the most egregious organisations. We will bring forward legislation as soon as Parliamentary time allows.
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Damian Hinds:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the role of SIM farms in facilitating authorised push payment fraud; and what steps her Department is taking to help tackle their misuse. \p Dan Jarvis: The Home Office recognises the serious role SIM farms play in enabling authorised push payment (APP) fraud, allowing criminals to send mass scam messages and impersonate trusted organisations.

Following extensive consultation, the Government is introducing a new offence in the Crime and Policing Bill to ban the possession and supply of SIM farms without a legitimate reason. This will disrupt fraud operations and protect the public, while safeguarding lawful uses such as broadcasting and network maintenance.

This measure is aimed at reducing fraud and strengthening enforcement against those who exploit technology to target victims.
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Ben Obese-Jecty:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 25 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, how much funding was provided to the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26. \p Dan Jarvis: The Counter-Terrorism Operations Centre (CTOC) is the flagship of the UK's CT capability, bringing together expertise and resource across police, the intelligence agencies and the criminal justice system, enabling us to better identify and disrupt emerging threats from terrorism.

We do not publish a breakdown of funding for national security reasons.
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Laura Kyrke-Smith:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will consider taking steps to protect religious communities that don't have a designated place of worship. \p Dan Jarvis: The government and police regularly work closely together to review threats and strengthen protection for communities against terrorism and hate crime.

Work is currently underway to develop a new Faith Security Training scheme to raise awareness amongst faith communities of how to improve their safety and security, and to help them prepare to mitigate any threats they may face.

There are extensive resources available to venues and public spaces for free, to help them better protect the public in those locations. These include the ProtectUK platform, which offers free guidance, advice and training for staff. Training resources available include the Action Counter Terrorism (ACT) and See, Check and Notify (SCaN) training and e-learning, which are free resources developed by Counter Terrorism Police and available to the public.
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Lee Anderson:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have had their claims rejected were in receipt of Home Office accommodation support on 10 October 2025. \p Alex Norris: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum seekers in receipt of support, by support type, is published in table Asy_D11 of the ‘Asylum support detailed datasets’.

Individuals receiving Section 4 support have had their asylum claim refused but they are destitute and there are reasons that temporarily prevent them from leaving the UK. Please note that Section 95 support data includes some failed asylum seekers who had children in their household when their appeal rights were exhausted.

The latest data relates to as at 30 June 2025. Data for as at 30 September 2025 will be published on 27 November 2025. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.
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Nick Timothy:To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on whether to undertake a (a) consultation and (b) safeguarding assessment in the context of the application of vehicle plate-exemption powers. \p Lilian Greenwood: The best practice guidance issued by the Department to taxi and private hire vehicle licensing authorities in England advises that private hire vehicles should only exempt the display of a licence plate by a private hire vehicle in exceptional circumstances. This might include vehicles used for ‘executive hire’ services which are services licensed as private hire vehicles and licensing authorities should assure themselves that there is sufficient justification to exempt these vehicles from a requirement to display a plate or disc and that there is an effective means to prevent the vehicle being used for ‘normal’ private hire work.

In relation to the requirement to consult, the guidance sets out that licensing authorities should consult on proposed changes in licensing rules that may have significant impacts on passengers and/or the trade. Such consultation should include not only all taxi and private hire vehicle licensees but also groups likely to be the trades’ customers.
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Daisy Cooper:To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her department has instructed Thameslink to recruit more train drivers since 4 July 2024. \p Simon Lightwood: Since July 2024, the Department has continued to press Govia Thameslink Railway to deliver its on-going train driver recruitment programme which will increase Thameslink drivers by nearly 100 (circa 8 per cent). Training new drivers typically takes around 18 months. There are over 30 new drivers set to qualify this year.
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Tim Farron:To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has taken recent steps to implement a passing loop on the Lakes Line. \p Simon Lightwood: On 8 July, the Secretary of State announced the road and rail schemes which have been prioritised over the next four years following the Spending Review. The Lakes Line scheme has not been progressed at this time. We remain committed to working with Westmorland & Furness Council, should the business case be further developed locally.