Written questions by Lowe.

Pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22427 on Offences against Children, whether this information is held by her Department.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22417 on Offences against Children: Girls, whether the information requested is held by her Department.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22427 on Offences against Children, whether her Department holds information on how many deportations to Pakistan for convictions related to child grooming failed.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22431 on Visas: Pakistan, whether her Department holds information on the number of visa applications from people with Pakistani nationality rejected because of criminal records in each of the last five years.

The requested data is not centrally held in easily accessible format and could only be collated for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Whether her Department records an ideological breakdown of people in the Desistance and Disengagement Programme.

The Home Office does collect information relating to the ideology of participants of the Desistance and Disengagement programme. However, this information is considered to be protected information which we are unable publish as this constitutes personal data as defined in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).The Desistance and Disengagement Programme is an important tool used to keep the public safe from people who have been involved in terrorist related activity.Providing further granular detail around ideology could lead to the identification or presumed identification, of its participants which could have serious security implications and fundamentally undermine the effectiveness of the programme as a counter terrorism tool.

Pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 24000 on Offences against Children, when the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce will publish the information.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 22424 on Offences Against Children: Prosecutions, whether her Department holds information on whether family members (a) had knowledge of or (b) facilitated the crimes of people prosecuted for their involvement in Pakistani heritage grooming gangs.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 22429 on Offences against Children, whether her Department holds information on the number of (a) police officers, (b) officials of local authorities and (c) social workers that (i) lost their jobs, (ii) faced legal proceedings and (iii) suffered other punitive measures due to having knowledge of Pakistani heritage grooming gangs and not taking action.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to question 22421 on Offences Against Children, whether this information is held by her Department.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to question 22422 on Offences Against Children, whether this information is held by her Department.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 21 January to question 22418 on Offences against Children, whether this information is held by her Department.

The information requested by the Hon Member is not currently held by the Department but we are committed to improving the collection and publication of data in this area, as confirmed by the Home Secretary in her statements to Parliament on the 6th and 16th January. That important work is in train and further details will be confirmed in due course.

Pursuant to the Answer of 20 January to Question 23582 on Undocumented Migrants, what information her Department holds on the number of irregular migrants defined as absconders.

The requested data is not readily accessible from published statistics, and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at a disproportionate cost.Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data.

How many citizenships were granted to refugees in each of the last ten years.

The publicly available immigration statistics for the last 10 years include statistics for naturalisation as a British citizen for all relevant routes of entry. Migration transparency data - GOV.UK

What the total cost to the public purse was of penalty payments to people who faced delays in the processing of their immigration case in each of the last five years.

Immigration Enforcement, UK Visas & Immigration and Border Force occasionally make ex-gratia payments to customers, beyond any legal or statutory requirements, as redress for maladministration. These payments are made at the discretion of the Home Office and depend on the individual circumstances of each complaint.Details of these payments are not routinely published and could only be collated for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23578 on Undocumented Migrants, if she will make an estimate of the number of irregular migrants in the UK.

I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave on 15 January to Question UIN 22990.

Pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2024 to Question 23051 on Offences against Children, whether this information is held by her Department.

The information previously requested by the Rt Hon Member is not held by the Department. The Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce currently holds the best data available on police-recorded child sexual abuse and exploitation crimes, including group-based offending. And the Government has committed to improving our understanding of this offending, including on the data collected and published.The £10million funding announced by the Home Secretary in her 16 January statement to Parliament will contribute to taking forward our strengthened response to child sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as driving change at a local level. We are providing stronger national support for local inquiries, by providing £5million of funding to help local councils set up their own reviews. Funding will be made available to support Oldham and four other areas to pilot new approaches and conduct their own reviews. £2.5m will enable the increase of investigations, including through the Child Sexual Abuse Police Taskforce, and £2.5m will contribute to the implementation of the Home Secretary's other announcements, including the new Victims and Survivor Panel, and the Baroness Casey audit.We will continue to work at pace to prioritise protecting more children, finding more criminals, and getting justice for more victims and survivors.

How many British citizenships were removed; what other citizenships were held by people impacted; and what the reason was for removal in each of the last five years.

Detail on the numbers of conducive deprivation orders made under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, are published in the Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Eight reports have been published to date providing the number of deprivations of citizenship orders made up until the end of 2023 and can be found at the below links:2015 - HM government transparency report 2015: disruptive and investigatory powers2017 - Disruptive and investigatory powers: HM government transparency report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)2018 - Disruptive and investigatory powers: transparency report 2018 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)2018/19 - Transparency report: disruptive powers 2018 to 2019 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)2020 - Disruptive powers 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)2021 - Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report 2021 - GOV.UK2022 - Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)2023 - Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)More recent data will be published in future publications in relation to deprivation of British citizenship 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981.The published data as referenced above does not include information on other citizenships held by those impacted or on the specific reasons for deprivation. To obtain that information would involve a manual interrogation of case files at a disproportionate cost.

With reference to her oral statement on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of 16 January 2024, Official Report, column 560, how the £10 million will be spent.

The information previously requested by the Rt Hon Member is not held by the Department. The Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce currently holds the best data available on police-recorded child sexual abuse and exploitation crimes, including group-based offending. And the Government has committed to improving our understanding of this offending, including on the data collected and published.The £10million funding announced by the Home Secretary in her 16 January statement to Parliament will contribute to taking forward our strengthened response to child sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as driving change at a local level. We are providing stronger national support for local inquiries, by providing £5million of funding to help local councils set up their own reviews. Funding will be made available to support Oldham and four other areas to pilot new approaches and conduct their own reviews. £2.5m will enable the increase of investigations, including through the Child Sexual Abuse Police Taskforce, and £2.5m will contribute to the implementation of the Home Secretary's other announcements, including the new Victims and Survivor Panel, and the Baroness Casey audit.We will continue to work at pace to prioritise protecting more children, finding more criminals, and getting justice for more victims and survivors.

What the is value is of (a) Bitcoin and (b) other cryptocurrency held by the Government.

The Government does not hold any cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin.The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) contains powers to deprive criminals of their money, or other property connected to criminal activity, and recover the proceeds of crime, including cryptocurrencies. As with all assets, action to seize, recover and manage cryptoassets is for independent law enforcement bodies and the courts to consider.We do not routinely publish the amount recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 by asset type. We publish annual statistics on the amount of proceeds of crime confiscated and recovered as detailed on GOV.UK Asset recovery statistics: financial years ending 2019 to 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What data her Department collects on child grooming activities online.

The Home Office has access to a variety of data sources on child sexual abuse, which covers grooming both offline and online.ONS publishes information on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis, which can be accessed here: Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables - Office for National Statistics.Police recorded crime covers a range of offences that are classed as child sexual abuse and exploitation. Child grooming offences could be recorded against several offence codes such as grooming; abuse of children through sexual exploitation; and obscene publications offences which include indecent images of children offences.