Written questions by Berry.

What steps her Department is taking to assess and improve the standards under which laboratory animals, including dogs, are bred and kept in extreme heat episodes.

Awaiting answer.

If she will consider the potential merits of piloting the use of decision-breaks and real-time supervision as a way of tackling racial profiling in the application of strip search powers.

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What steps she is taking to help tackle cases of police forces not routinely recording additional characteristics of vulnerability during child strip searches, including a) child in need status, b) looked after child status, c) SEND status, and d) medical vulnerabilities status.

Awaiting answer.

What steps she is taking to help tackle cases of police forces not making a safeguarding referral following the strip search of a child or a vulnerable adult.

Awaiting answer.

What assessment she has made of the a) arrest rate, b) no further action rate, and c) linked outcome rate for police use of strip search powers.

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Whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording of the ethnicity of individuals who are strip searched is based on their self-identification.

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Whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording requirements in PACE Code A covering stop and search are extended to strip searches.

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If she will consider the potential merits of publishing the search history for strip searches at the local force level disaggregated by age, gender, and ethnicity.

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What steps she is taking to help tackle police forces recording a) the location, b) whether a supervisor was consulted, and c) whether an appropriate adult was present during strip searches as ‘unknown’.

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What discussions she has had with His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services on plans to consider facial recognition as an assessment criteria for the PEEL legitimacy inspections.

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What assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's annual stop and search data release finding that the majority of strip searches were carried out on the suspicion of drug possession.

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What comparative assessment she has made of employment outcomes for refugees who were and were not in receipt of asylum support at the time of the decision on their asylum claim.

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What is the AI model that will conduct AI facial age assessments on children at the border; and what assessment she has made of the risk of error and bias in AI facial age assessment technology to conduct age assessments on children seeking asylum.

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With reference to her Department's news story entitled Asylum seekers will pay towards costs of accommodation, published on 30 June 2026, for what reason the flat charge is set at £10,000.

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With reference to the France No. 2 (2025) Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the French Republic on the Prevention of Dangerous Journeys, published in August 2025, what was the cost to the public purse of charter flights from the UK to France under that Agreement (a) in aggregate and (b) for each flight from August 2025 to the period for which the latest data is available.

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How many people have left asylum accommodation having been granted asylum in each month of (a) 2025 and (b) 2026 for which the latest data is available.

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What proportion of people granted refugee status were in receipt of asylum support at the time of the decision on their asylum claim in the last 12 months.

Awaiting answer.

Further to the answer to question UIN 92784, and in light of the publication of the Metropolitan Police Annual Report on the use of live facial recognition (LFR) in September 2025, if she will ask all

The Police Reform Bill will introduce a new legal framework to underpin law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies, and this will give due consideration to reporting and transparency.

If she will make an assessment of the cost for providing potential redress to people who were arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation whose proscription was reversed; and clarify whether her department or individual police forces would be expected to cover any such costs.

The investigation and prosecution of criminal offences, including determining whether an offence has been committed or not, is a matter for the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) who are operationally independent of government.Proscription decisions are not taken lightly. This Government will not shy away from taking decisions necessary to protect UK national security and keep the British public safe.

Pursuant to the answer of 3 March 2026 to question 115217, what timeline the Government is working to in considering the best way to measure the prevalence of VAWG among children and young people in the Freedom from Violence and Abuse Strategy.

As stated in response to your question on 3rd March, we recognise the importance of understanding the experiences of children and young people. As such the performance framework in the Freedom from Violence and Abuse Strategy includes a sub-metric on the prevalence of VAWG among children and young people and work is ongoing to determine the most robust and appropriate way to measure this. We will continue to develop this approach as the wider framework evolves.