Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the costs and benefits of introducing a unique application number for asylum applicants.

8 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to make the (a) place based visibility tool, (b) discontinuation prediction pool and (c)the data underpinning them publicly available.

8 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Housing: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much grant funding has been awarded to each local authority for the housing of asylum seekers, broken down by local authority, in each of the last five financial years.

8 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken is from initial engagement with a local authority to final approval of asylum accommodation placements in that authority’s area, broken down by local authority.

8 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will publish the value for money assessments and Accounting Officer assessments undertaken for existing and proposed large asylum accommodation sites.

8 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many military sites are currently under consideration by her Department for use as asylum accommodation.

8 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential asylum accommodation sites are under consideration by her Department.

5 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Judges: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the total annual cost of (a) salaried judges and (b) fee-paid judges in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in each of the last 10 financial years.

5 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Home Office: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants comprise the asylum group and what estimate she has made of their total annual salary cost.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish any (a) project initiation documents, (b) minutes of meetings and (c) equality impact assessments relating to the development and implementation of Youth Diversion Orders under the

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which cohorts of young people are in scope for Youth Diversion Orders; and what the planned timetable is for the national rollout of the scheme following Royal Assent of the Crime and Policing Act 202

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance has been issued to Counter Terrorism Policing and Youth Courts on the implementation of Youth Diversion Orders; and whether participation in a Youth Diversion Order is mandatory for an i

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Youth Diversion Orders under Part 15 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 confer powers or impose restrictions comparable to those under Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures for perso

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the youngest age is at which a Youth Diversion Order (YDO) can be imposed on a child; and whether she has considered applying YDOs to children of 10.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that the College of Policing Anti-Racism Training and the Police Race Action Plan lead to equal treatment of individuals or groups in terms of ethnicity or race in o

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library copies of any equality impact assessments held by her Department in relation to the Police Race Action Plan and the College of Policing Anti-Racism Training Package.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total cost to police forces in England and Wales of delivering the College of Policing Anti-Racism Training and related race-equity programmes since 2022; and how thi

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Police Anti-Racism Commitment, published in March 2025, and the Police Race Action Plan include provisions for police forces to treat individuals or communities differently on the basis of

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) the College of Policing’s Anti-Racism Training Package, published in March 2026, is mandatory and (b) police forces are required to deliver that training to officers and staff.

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Crime: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consistency of police responses in incidents where allegations of racism were recorded contemporaneously as a factor in officers’ operational decision-making; and w

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Crime: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to review police incidents over the past 10 years where allegations of racism were cited as a factor in the identification, treatment, and handling of suspects and victims.

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Crime: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on police incidents over the past 10 years in which allegations of racism were recorded as a factor in the identification, treatment or handling of suspects and victims;

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of whether officers attending the incident in which Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed complied with national first-aid, triage and casualty-care guidance for police at

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has reviewed whether attending officers complied with national first-aid and casualty-care protocols in the incident in which Henry Nowak died.

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance and training are provided to police officers on recognising and responding appropriately when a person reports having been stabbed or otherwise seriously injured.

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has reviewed national police training and guidance on avoiding the misidentification of victims as suspects in serious-violence incidents, in light of the death of Henry Nowak.

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will commit to making public all police communications, decision records, reporting logs and related documentation in connection with the death of Henry Nowak, including those generated on

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that families of victims in cases such as the fatal stabbing of Henry Nowak receive full disclosure of (a) body-worn video, (b) radio traffic and (c) decision logs r

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance exists on the weight officers should give to allegations of racist language when determining who to treat as a suspect or victim at a serious-violence scene, and whether she has reviewed

2 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Independent Office for Police Conduct has been asked to investigate (a) the arrest decision, (b) the use of handcuffs, (c) the medical response and (d) the suspect-identification process i

Source: official written-questions record.