Rupert Lowe

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Systems: Islam

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to close all Sharia courts in the UK.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Systems: Islam

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of Sharia Courts there are in the UK.

14 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Ritual Slaughter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to commission a study into the potential impact of Halal meat on animal welfare.

13 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time is for grooming-gang offences to proceed through the judicial system from initial report to final decision.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a comparative review of grooming-gang offences with other countries to learn best practice.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department (a) collects and (b) analyses the (i) demographic, (ii) ethnic and (iii) religious backgrounds of people convicted of grooming gang offences.

13 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a review of sentencing guidelines for people convicted of grooming-gang offences.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training programmes there are for (a) law enforcement and (b) judicial officers to (i) identify and (ii) tackle grooming gang activities.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been returned to their country of origin by the Third Country Unit in the last five years.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 18440 on Visas: Families, whether her Department collects data on the immigration status of sponsors for family visa applications.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of known irregular migrants the Department has lost track of in each of the last five years.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation to lower the threshold at which the Department has a legal duty to deport foreign national offenders.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Bail: Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on bail for immigration cases have public authorities lost track of in each of the last five years.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many travel warrants have been issued to irregular migrants in each of the last five years; and what the total cost to the public purse of these were.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of conducting a review of the number of irregular migrants resident in the UK.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people scheduled for deportation have absconded in each of the last five years.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average award to each individual was under the Voluntary Returns Scheme; and what the total cost was to the public purse of the Voluntary Returns Scheme in each of the last five years.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of illegal migrants have been deported following an immigration raid in each of the last five years.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the nationalities were of illegal migrants removed since 2018.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removals of illegal migrants were (a) voluntary and (b) enforced since 2018.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many chartered flights for the deportation of illegal migrants there were in each of the last five years; and how many such migrants there were on each such flight.

10 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Pakistani counterpart on returning people from that country convicted for involvement in grooming gangs.

10 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Elections: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that the Norfolk County Council elections take place on 1 May 2025.

9 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on how many (a) police officers, (b) officials of local authorities and (c) social workers who were found to have had knowledge at the time of grooming by Pakista

9 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Elections: Norfolk County Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when a final decision on elections to Norfolk County Council will be made.

9 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Elections: Norfolk County Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what impact the Devolution Priority Programme will have on elections to Norfolk County Council.

9 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Discounts

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of encouraging council tax discounts for residents in authorities without elections on 1 May 2025 due to participation in t

9 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Councillors: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing an alternative title for county councillors who remain in office after 1 May 2025 due to their authority’s par

7 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a system to provide appropriate redress for people who were (a) officially reprimanded, (b) prosecuted and (c) faced other punitive action for

7 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the Minister will make an assessment of the potential merits of immediately releasing of all court transcripts related to the Pakistani heritage grooming gangs.