Every parliamentary written question tabled by Rupert Lowe this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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What the total cost of Universal Credit benefits accessed by refugees was in 2024.
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 Credit customers.
If she will publish (a) the contract entitled AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility, procurement reference CF-0229300D58000000L5A4EAK1, (b) any additional terms relating to that contract and (c) a breakdown of the services to be provided under that contract.
The Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility Service (AIRE) is a published contract-AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Elligibility - Contracts FinderThe contracts include robust mechanisms to ensure that providers deliver on the contractual requirements.The requirements for the services delivered to asylum seekers under the AIRE contract can be found in Schedule 2 (Statement of Requirements) within the contract documents linked above.
Pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28401 on Translation Services, what the spend was on interpretation for people contacting his Department excluding (a) British Sign Language and (b) all native languages in 2024.
The spend on interpretation for people contacting her department excluding (a) British Sign Language and (b) all native languages in 2024 was £6,345,260.60 For clarity and transparency of spend:Spoken Face to Face interpretation in 2024 = £393,690.08 For additional informationTotal British Sign Language Interpreting costs Face to Face = £1,505,061.80Total Additional costs for native UK language interpretation (e.g., Welsh or UK dialect) = £14.40
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 nationality; and how many service users gained employment through this programme.
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 due to close in June 2025. An evaluation will be published alongside recommendations for how we work in the future.
With reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 1 (North West), procurement reference CF-0319600D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is, broken down by nationality; and how many service users gained employment through this programme.
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 due to close in June 2025. An evaluation will be published alongside recommendations for how we work in the future.
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, broken down by nationality; and how many service users gained employment through this programme.
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 due to close in June 2025. An evaluation will be published alongside recommendations for how we work in the future.
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, broken down by nationality; and how many service users gained employment through this programme.
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 due to close in June 2025. An evaluation will be published alongside recommendations for how we work in the future.
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 is, broken down by nationality; and how many service users gained employment through this programme.
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 due to close in June 2025. An evaluation will be published alongside recommendations for how we work in the future.
With reference to her Department's contract entitled Contract for the provision of Language Analysis Services, procurement reference tender_297373/1427482, how many and what proportion of asylum claims have been analysed because the claim of origin was in doubt.
Language analysis reports are not used to determine a claimant’s place of origin as standalone evidence, but they provide expert additional evidence for caseworkers to be considered alongside other decision-making information.Link to the published policy guidance on language analysis can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/language-analysis-instruction.This guidance will be updated shortly to incorporate the new supplier.
How many diversity, equality or inclusions officers work in immigration enforcement.
None.
How many trained immigration enforcement officers there are.
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.
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 exposed to.
I refer the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth to the answer of 13 November 2024 to Question 12852.
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 conversations.
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.
What the average daily cost is of electronic tagging.
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 information relating to the additional supervision costs of managing an individual with EM please refer to the following: Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
What the average cost of each deportation is, broken down by expense.
The requested information is not centrally held, and could only be collated and verified at disproportionate cost.
What the total amount of deportations to Pakistan is under the UK-Pakistan Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
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 Pakistan under the bi-lateral Prison Transfer Agreement between August 2010 and October 2024.We repatriate longer sentenced prisoners via prisoner transfer agreements that the Government already has with over 110 foreign countries. The Government continues to negotiate new, mutually beneficial agreements with a range of others as part of efforts to return offenders to their home countries, to be rehabilitated and serve their sentences there.Prisoner Transfers are only one of the ways we remove FNOs from the country. Between 5 July 2024 and 4 January 2025 2,580 FNOs were removed (this includes removals from custody and the community post release), this is an increase of 23% compared to the same period last year.
What the average number of people (a) detained, (b) prosecuted and (c) deported per immigration enforcement visit was in 2024.
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
What the average salary is of immigration enforcement officers.
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.
How many and what proportion of detained illegal migrants were deported in 2024.
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’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to up to September 2024, with data up to December 2024 to be published on 27 February.
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 children to be exposed to.
I refer the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth to the answer of 13 November 2024 to Question 12852.