Written questions
2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.
8 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Asylum and Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to prevent (a) repeat and (b) last-minute appeals from delaying the removal of (i) failed asylum seekers and (ii) illegal entrants.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many immigration tribunal cases have been adjourned more than once in the last year; and for what reasons.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of immigration appeals have been pending for more than 12 months.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the average waiting time for an immigration appeal to be heard.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the current backlog of outstanding cases before the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of immigration-related litigation on the capacity of the (a) family and (b) criminal courts.
8 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Deportation: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have absconded while awaiting deportation after lodging legal appeals in each of the last five years.
8 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people who have entered the UK illegally lodge multiple appeals against their deportation; and what the average number of appeals is per person.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many recipients of legal aid in immigration cases have been convicted of criminal offences.
8 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases involving (a) failed asylum seekers and (b) people who have overstayed have reached the (i) Court of Appeal and (ii) Supreme Court since 2020.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time taken is to conclude appeals brought by migrants who have entered the UK illegally against deportation orders.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court hours have been spent on immigration-related cases involving people with no legal right to remain in the UK in the last 12 months.
7 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were (a) removed, (b) reprimanded and (c) transferred after raising grooming-related failures between 1980 and 2010.
7 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct police forces to release redacted records to the hon. member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry upon request.
7 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Children: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure whistleblowers in child protection cases are protected.
7 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department provides (a) training and (b) guidance to police on handling politically sensitive grooming gang cases.
7 Apr 2025 · Cabinet Office
Inquiries
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department provides guidance to (a) Ministers and (b) officials on engagement with non-statutory inquiries.
7 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into grooming gangs will be given access to documentation relating to those gangs.
7 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) officials and (b) social workers who (i) raised concerns, (ii) resigned and (iii) whistle-blew will be (A) protected and (B) encouraged to testify to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's p
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide (a) evidence and (b) testimony on educational resources in schools on (i) exploitation, (ii) grooming and (iii) community sensitivity to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's priva
7 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Offences against Children: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will provide sentencing data by (a) ethnicity and (b) nationality to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's private inquiry into grooming gangs.
7 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will recommend the police appoint a liaison to support the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into rape gangs.
4 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct relevant Departmental officials to engage with the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into grooming gangs.
4 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct relevant Departmental officials to engage with the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into grooming gangs.
4 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ministers will (a) give evidence to and (b) participate in the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's private inquiry into grooming gangs.
3 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct relevant Departmental officials to engage with the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into grooming gangs.
3 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing anonymised (a) data and (b) reports to support the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into grooming gangs.
3 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will provide a liaison contact to assist with the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into grooming gangs.
3 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will meet with the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth to discuss his private inquiry into grooming gangs.
3 Apr 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children: Inquiries
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) mental health and (b) trauma support services are available to survivors of grooming gangs who participate in non-statutory inquiries.
Source: official written-questions record.