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Steph Dennis

@steffd62

Sep 6

So pleased for you and have confidence in you.

@UKLabour
@Keir_Starmer
@DavidLammy
@angelaeagle

Please announce weekly Press releases of Immigration and Asylum Statistics
Crossings, Arrests of illegal migrants, Deportations of FNO,Deportations of Criminals, and When Hotels Close and keep people posted of new accommodation proposals.

@UKLabour needs to do Daily Press Briefings to let the UK know of achievements,laws past ,and to correct misinformation like USA.

The more information you produce it will help to counter the protests peaceful and violent.

WHY IS THE MEDIA NOT REPORTING STATS TO CALM DOWN THOSE BEING FED LIES BY @reformparty_uk
and Far Right wing deliberately stoking violence and fear.

There's an awful incident waiting to happen and potential mass casualties.

I've done an article for stats up to March 2025 from July 2024.

✅️DAILY CROSSINGS NEED TO BE ANNOUNCED EVERY 7 DAYS.

✅️ONLY 2 BOATS HAVE CROSSED THE CHANNEL IN 10 DAYS. THE PUBLIC NEED TO KNOW THIS.

✅️LOWEST ASYLUM SEEKERS CROSSING CHANNEL IN AUGUST SINCE 2021

✅️LOWEST NUMBER OF BOATS IN AUGUST SINCE 2019

✅️ANYONE CROSSING CHANNEL WILL BE REFUSED ASYLUM AND DEPORTED TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN BECAUSE OF 23 RETURNS AGREEMENTS OR TO FRANCE

✅️Migrants who arrive in the UK via small boat crossings to be detained and returned to France.

✅️In exchange for each person returned, France will facilitate the transfer of an equal number of people to the UK.

✅️Those allowed to transfer to the UK must meet strict criteria, including having appropriate documentation and passing security checks.

✅️Providing Legal Paths:
By offering a new legal route to the UK, the scheme aims to provide a safer alternative for people seeking refuge.

✅️How the Treaty Works:
1. Detection & Detention:
French authorities increase patrols and interception efforts on the French coast to detect and prevent boats from leaving.

2. Return to France:
If a boat reaches the UK, the individuals are detained, and the UK makes a referral to France within three days

3. Legal Transfer to UK:
France processes the case and, if eligible, facilitates the transfer of a corresponding number of individuals to the UK through the new legal routes.

✅️Returns to other countries and immigration enforcement work will continue alongside the treaty.

✅️In its first year in office, this government returned more than 35,000 people with no right to be in the UK – a 28% increase in returns of failed asylum seekers and a 13% increase in overall returns compared to the previous year.

✅️The government also ram cracked down against illegal working, with over 9,000 raids since July 2024, resulting in 6,410 arrests – up 48% and 51% on the previous year.

✅️The UK has formal and informal returns agreements with at least 24 countries, a number that has been increasing since 2021
These agreements, which take various forms, commit countries to take back their citizens who lack the legal right to remain in the UK, such as failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals.
Examples of Countries with Returns Agreements
France, Afghanistan
Albania, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Iraq, Nigeria, Georgia, Somalia/Somaliland, Bangladesh, Serbia, and Algeria.

✅️Enforced returns of other prominent nationalities, however, have increased, with numbers of Romanians up 28% (1,696), Brazilians up 90% (861) and Indians having more than doubled (615) over the same period. There has also been a substantial rise in the latest year of returns of Polish, Malaysian, and Pakistani nationals.

⬛FOREIGN NATIONAL OFFENDERS
There were 5,265 FNO returns in the year ending June 2025, an increase of 16% compared to the previous year. FNO returns are almost evenly split between EU (48%) and Non-EU (52%) nationals.

✅️The UK-Albania Joint Communique signed in December 2022 strengthened data sharing between the UK and Albania and has supported the removal of Albanian national offenders.
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✅️Foreign criminals will be deported immediately

✅️Sex offenders denied Asylum and deported

✅️Sex offenders will be stripped of Refugee status who live in UK

✅️Foreign criminals deported to their country of origin before appeals process in UK. Appeals to take place from their country of origin.

✅️The UK government is challenging the application of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, which protects the right to family life, by seeking to tighten rules and reduce the reliance on "exceptional circumstances" for family immigration cases. The government argues the current system has become too complex and court-driven, leading to an "overly high proportion" of cases being decided on exceptional grounds rather than parliamentary rules. This involves reviewing policies, including financial requirements for family visas, and potentially introducing a new framework for exceptional cases to restore greater government control and confidence.

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✅️Asylum seekers crossing the Channel will be detained refused asylum and returned to France or country of Origin. UK has 24 Returns deals with other Countries.

✅️FROM AUGUST 2025
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Anyone who arrives by small boat and is returned to France will not be eligible for the legal route to the UK, while anyone who tries to re-enter the UK having already been returned to France once will be returned again as a matter of priority.

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✅️Immigrants who arrived in the UK on a small boat have been detained under the UK-France treaty, which is now operational.

✅️A new ‘Compagnie de Marche’ of specialist enforcement officers, supported by increased local policing, has been put in place; a specialist intelligence and judicial police unit has been established in Dunkirk to speed up the arrest and prosecution of people-smugglers; and a review of the French maritime approach has been undertaken to allow greater interception of boats in shallow waters.

✅️For migrants in France wanting to come to the UK legally, they will be able to submit an Expression of Interest application for the new legal route online and the Home Office will make a decision. They will need to satisfactorily establish their identity and nationality and will be subject to strict security and eligibility checks.

✅️Detentions began for those who arrived in the UK on a small boat yesterday lunchtime (August 6). They will be held in immigration removal centres pending their removal. The UK will make referrals to France within 3 days, and the French authorities will be expected to respond within 14 days. Those detained will be briefed on the procedure through which their return to France will take place, and the next operational phase of preparing each individual for removal will be activated.

✅️ (August 7) the reciprocal process to allow migrants to submit an expression of interest to come the UK has also begun. Applicants must satisfy the eligibility and suitability criteria, including uploading a passport or other identity documents as well as a recent photograph. For those selected, they will have to pass further stringent security checks and biometric controls, meaning that only those individuals that the UK Government has approved for entry will be allowed through the new route.

✅️Home Office hires 200 staff to clear huge backlog of UK modern slavery cases
More than 23,000 files were left open by the last government, says minister, with delays of up to four years in assigning victim status

✅️There are an estimated 130,000 victims of modern slavery in the UK, trapped in sectors including agriculture, prostitution and care. Most have suffered traumatic sexual, physical and economic abuse but face long delays in having their status confirmed through the National Referral Mechanism (NRM).

✅️The Refugee Council said the government’s decision to scrap the plan to deport people to Rwanda and accelerate claims meant the asylum backlog was forecast to be 118,063 at the start of 2025 – 59,000 cases lower than if the government had continued with the policy.

Figures show that there were 118,882 people in the backlog by the end of June 2024.

✅️@_Government_UK
has chartered a deportation flight to Nigeria and Ghana which is due to take off on Thursday – the first of its kind for more than two years. Thirteen Nigerians were removed to Lagos on 30 June 2022. That flight then carried on to Ghana, where eight Ghanaians were returned

✅️Many supply chains have been broken through Cooperation with Border Security Command was has resulted in Seizures of boats,motors and other supplies. This has reduced the number of boats,and quality so more people are getting into boats which is getting more dangerous.

✅️The head of the National Crime Agency, Graeme Biggar, has previously warned there are “more people being put on to smaller and flimsier boats”

✅️More people on board
The number of people on each boat has increased, with an average of 60 passengers per boat in July 2024. This is up from an average of 40 people in 2023 and 30 in 2022.

✅️Poor quality boats
The boats are often poor quality dinghies that are less than two meters wide and eight meters long.

✅️Smugglers taking risks
Smugglers are taking greater risks with people's lives to evade detection.

✅️This is why so many are sinking and more dying which may become a deterrent

✅️UNDER TORIES

There was no official monthly statistic for UK asylum applications specifically for June 2024, but the yearly data for the year ending June 2024 shows 108,100 asylum applicants, a historic high

✅️UNDER LABOUR

At the end of June 2025 there were 71,000 cases awaiting an initial decision, relating to 91,000 people, 18% fewer than at the end of June 2024
the number of cases awaiting an initial decision is 47% lower than the peak at the end of June 2023 (134,000 cases)

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✅️The number of Asylum seekers living in hotels has dropped from a peak of almost 60,000 to 32,000 under Labour.

✅️In addition to Asylum seekers, there has also been an increase in people coming to the UK legally - the most recent figures saw net migration rise by 606,000.

✅️UK's asylum hotel bill down 30%, government says

✅️The government spent nearly a third less on hotels to house asylum seekers between April 2024 and March 2025, according to newly published figures.

✅️The Home Office's annual accounts, external show £2.1bn was spent on hotel accommodation - an average of about £5.77m per day, down from £3bn or £8.3m per day, the previous year.

✅️Data obtained by BBC Verify shows the saving has been driven by a reduction in the average nightly cost per person housed, after a government move to use cheaper forms of accommodation and room sharing.

✅️The Home Office accounts suggest 273 hotels were in use in March 2024 but that number has now fallen by 71.

✅️The average nightly cost per person fell from £162.16 in March 2023 to £118.87 by March 2025, according to BBC Verify's analysis of official data obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

✅️Cost of hotels down by £1bn last year
The government reduced spending on asylum seeker hotels from £3.1bn in 2023/4 to £2.1bn in 2024/5.

✅️The smaller bill is a result of multiple factors, most notably the reduction in the asylum backlog.

✅️The average daily cost for housing each asylum seeker in a hotel has gone down from £176 to £170 per person. This still remains higher than previous years.

✅️The government has also made efforts to reduce the proportion of asylum seekers housed in hotels, moving them towards other types of accommodation

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Steph Dennis

@steffd62

Aug 31

The worse of Tories from 2019 inc Rishi Sunack as Chancellor
Johnson
Failed to attend 5 Cobra meetings at the start of the Covid pandemic
Johnson’s Mustique holiday ‘was worth double the amount declared’
Jennifer Acuri affair.
Owen Patterson support, cover up and U turn.
Write off of 11BILLION in furlough fraud.
Lebedev to the House of Lords despite Security warnings of KGB links.
Excesses of Downing Street decor at £850 a roll
Contracts awarded to friends of the Tories that failed to deliver usable equipment
wasting public funds and bypassing genuine reputable British businesses
"Let the bodies pile high"
Rwanda immigration
Lying regularly in Parliament to mislead the public.
Responsible for 1500 deaths of frontline staff due to inadequate PPE due to dodgy PPE contracts
25,000 elderly sent to Care homes from hospital without Covid test,causing 1000s of deaths.
Lied about the protective ring around Care homes
Northern Ireland and Article 16 Lied about Brexit
Mislead Parliament and lied throughout Covid, Brexit and Partygate
Lied to the Queen
Failure of the Afghanistan Evacuation and a damming report released against the government!
Johnson called gay men 'tank-topped bumboys' and black people 'piccaninnies' with 'watermelon smiles' Asian women as letter boxes
Wages worse since 2008 due to
Inflation40 year high
Cash for questions, and Peerage and Russian dirty money

37.BTest and trace
£11Bn wasted on dodgy PPE
£5B lost to fraud during furlough
lied about £350K a week to the nhs
Mismanagement of the pandemic leading to this country having one of the highest death rates per capita
Dominic Cummings
Triple lock on pensions removed
Lied about new hospitals
Oven ready deal on Brexit LIE
Union Jack on a plane costing 18M
Royal yacht £300m
Incompetence,Racist, homophobicsexist, misogynistic, egocentric narcissists
Trip to Tuscany when Foreign Secretary leaving his Government advisors
Debriefed by the KGB after the Chemical Attack in Salisbury having attended NATO debriefing sessions.
This Act alone could be regarded as that of a Traitor.
As covid came accross Europe instead of shutting borders Johnson allowed Cheltenham Races Stereo phonics and the UEFA leg between Liverpool and Athletico in March 2020
Covid is like flu and unfortunately old people and vulnerable will die. Shook hands with covid patients, wash your hands and sing happy birthday..." Johnsons advice and ignored Scientific advice and Medical Experts and THE World Health organisation
Cash for Honours
Illegal Lobbying
Lying to protecting sexual preditor MPs
Bounceback Scheme17 B
MOD waste 13B
Defective PPE 10B
Sunak fraud 4.3 B
Irregular spending

1.3 B
Eat Out Fail

850 M
Ferry contracts

50M
Nightingale Hospitals

552 M
Wasted PPE

447M
Unused covid vaccination

250M
Starter home Scheme

900,000 M
Covid legal fees

600,000
Downing Street Flat

50k
Photograper

100k
Serco

50M Press room

2.6M Telsa

1.2M a week
Private polling

580k
Transporting files in chauffeur cars

£14.7B of public money on wasteful” projects, crony contracts and duff deals

£3.6bn in public contracts to firms linked to individuals in Conservative Party

£11.1bn had been spent wastefully or funded government excess

Stocking the Westminster wine cellar
73k

£30M Covid test vials contract to a firm run by the landlord of Matt Hancock’s local pub without a proper tendering process

£122m deal for medical gowns that failed safety standards. The £14.7bn could have paid the combined salaries of 60,000 nurses, 65,000 teachers and 77,000 police over the two and a half years sinceJohnson took charge.
£100,000 decorating No.10 with works of art bought through the Government Art Collection fund.
£500,000 Whitehall in chauffeur-driven cars.

600,000 in legal fees defending its decision to award a Covid-19 opinion polling contract to Public First run by associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings worth £840,000 and was not put out to competitive tender. The same goes for a further £580,000 of political polling by Hanbury Strategy - also run by associates of Mr Cummings.

£2.1m school technology deal in October 2020 went to Specialist Computer Centres which is owned by the Rigby Group that has donated a total of £105,000 to Conservative coffers since 2017
Meller Designs co-owned by a party donor £160m deals to provide PPE without competitive tender referred to the ‘VIP lane’ for contracts by Gove, to whom firm boss David Meller had donated cash.
Highest taxes in 40+ years, frozen personal tax allowances until 2028
Hidden WhatsApp messages
NHS waiting lists no dentistry, non existent long term plan on social care or energy, Windrush, strikes
30 p Lee? Non dom taxes Infosys Russia
Greg Hands Patel BRAVERMAN
Mone
Crumbling schools Crumbling NHS Crumbling Justice system

Strikes

Crumbling Railways

Simple decency

PARTY GATE, and all the other multiple times they flouted their own lockdown rules endangering others, Unlike those who were risking their own lives trying to save lives Never forget never forgive.
Energy subsidy rather than A windfall tax £12
HS2
the four years to last year, £48 million was spent on HS2 staff that earn more than £150,000 a year. Last year that included 43 employees.
Cleverly spends £1million travelling globe on private jet like pop star
James Cleverly racked up a bill of almost a million pounds by using private jets for two overseas trips in his job as Foreign Secretary earlier this year
James Cleverly’s use of £10,000 an hour jet for
America tour
Tories have now wasted nearly £100bn during the pandemic
£345,000 of taxpayer money on food and alcohol

£7 million a day in hotels for Asylum seekers

£150 million of purchases in a single year Lavish Spending' On Government Credit Cards

1.8 billion for a Barge to house just 50 immigrants

£5 billion taken out of the Welsh transport budget for HS2.

The average Tory MP expense claim per year is £250,000 (Approx £90 million between 360 Tory MPs per year).
That equates to around 4 million tents for homeless
Rishi Sunak oversaw wasteful government spending and departmental losses that cost the taxpayer up to £26.8 billion “extensive waste” under Mr Sunak during his time as Chancellor and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2021-22 and 2019-20.28 Feb 2023
Rishi Sunak ‘wasted £11bn by paying too much interest’ on UK debt
Labour accuses chancellor of wastefulness for failing to insure against interest rate rises
Tory ministers are using hugely expensive taxpayer-funded private jets instead of trains an average of over once a week, officials admit. Rishi Sunak and his cabinet colleagues have taken 74 flights on the plush new aircraft since June last year.
Sunak took £500,000 worth of private jet trips in less than a fortnight
Lib Dems criticise ‘shocking waste of taxpayers’ money’ as Cabinet Office document reveals PM’s flight costs
Liz Truss £2m private jet bill
LIZ TRUSSTanked Economy and dumped her own Mini Budget UK in a mont
Liz Truss has been using private jets like an Uber service
Tories are facing mounting pressure to return donations received from Lycamobile after its French entities were convicted of fraud in a Paris court, reported the Financial Times.
The UK-based global mobile network operator had gifted £2.15 million to the Tories between 2011 and 2016, as per records from the Electoral Commission
In a ruling by the Paris criminal court on October 26, Lycamobile’s French corporate divisions were found guilty of committing VAT fraud and money laundering. This conviction resulted in a £8.7 million fine, with appeals from Lycamobile France against the convictions.
Tory battle bus investigation enters new phase

There are allegations that Tories broke spending limits at the 2015 general election
Major Tory donor investigated over fraud and money laundering allegations
Indian rice tycoon Karan Chanana, who gave the Conservatives more than £220,000, is under scrutiny by India’s finance ministry
Former MPs Used Parliament Access Passes Over 3,000 times
Ex-MP
lobby for nuclear, gambling and energy industries visiting Parliament but Jacob Rees Mogg had all the data destroyed

Peter Geoghegan
28 September 2023
Tory donor charged in Puerto Rico bribery scheme
candidate in May's local elections in Lancashire has been charged with electoral fraud.
Mohammed Afzal, 39, of Whalley Road, Accrington, has been charged with two counts of corrupt practice.
failed to learn from his predecessors’ mistakes over scrutiny
Sunak has struggled to break free of Truss’s damaging economic legacy
a major unforced error, Mr Sunak became only the second PM - after Boris Johnson - to be fined by police while in office after releasing a promotional video where he appeared to not be wearing a seatbelt.
He is also being investigated by Parliament's standards watchdogs for failing to tell MPs his wife owned shares in a childcare firm that benefitted from the Budget.
He gave incorrect figures to the Commons about the asylum backlog.
Net zero backtrack ‘would be Sunak’s greatest mistake as PM’
Backlash over PM's plans to water down green policies, with warning it could cost the Conservatives votes
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Rishi Sunak’s instincts seem off — if this culture war is welcome it is among a minority. His views look old fashioned
Pist Off Greeks
Cleverly pist off The North
Levelling up What levelling up?
Highest Tax burden and GDP for decades
National Debt 2.8 T
Sunak plunges waste strategy into chaos as he ‘scraps’ local collections plan
7 bins. !!
Meat Tax !!
"COVID INQUIRY" and Sunacks Eat Out to help out Covid Buffet
100 new Fossil Fuel License
Indy100.com/politics/rishi…
extensive waste” under Mr Sunak during his time as Chancellor and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2021-22 and 2019-20.28 Feb 2023
Rishi Sunak ‘wasted £11bn by paying too much interest’ on UK debt
Labour accuses chancellor of wastefulness for failing to insure against interest rate rises
Tory ministers are using hugely expensive taxpayer-funded private jets instead of trains an average of over once a week, officials admit. Rishi Sunak and his cabinet colleagues have taken 74 flights on the plush new aircraft since June last year.
Sunak took £500,000 worth of private jet trips in less than a fortnight
Liz Truss £2m private jet bill
Boris Johnson resigned after more than 50 members of his government resigned, due to Johnson appointing Chris Pincher as Deputy Chief Whip, despite knowing he was facing allegations of being a sexual predator. inews.co.uk/news/politics/… He had previously remained in post following Sue Gray's report.
Johnson’s meeting with Cambridge Analytica the Minutes of which haven’t been published because they will be detrimental to the relationship with the US
£290M GIVEN TO RWANDA AND NO FLIGHTS

BJ & RS accepted FPNs for breaking their own Covid rules. Also, we have to pay BJs legal fees, yet he can afford £3.8m cash for a house. (Money laundering checks??)
Plus both of their govt issue mobile phones "losing" WhatsApp messages, very convenient!!

56 Tory MP's have sexual allegations against them this is the most disgusting party in British History EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rishi Sunak’s new pensions minister has systematically breached parliamentary expenses rules by using taxpayers’ money for political purposes, @thetimes reveals bit.ly/3TQMoKe Since election in 2010, Paul Maynard has spent £106,000 on printing etc — more than any Tory M

Tory Pensions Minister Paul Maynard under investigation for spending £106,000 taxpayers cash on local Tory Party printing costs!
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Steph Dennis

@steffd62

Aug 30

Keir Starmer said he would save people £300 a year on their energy bills by 2030
However, compared to the start of 2023, this is £625 (26.3%) lower than Under Tories...

Price cap up 2% which is £35 extra a year.

From 1 October to 31 December 2025 the price for energy for a typical household who use electricity and gas and pay by Direct Debit will go up by 2% to £1,755 per year.

For a typical household, their energy bills will increase by £2.93 a month or £35.14 per year.

This is 2.2% per year higher than the price cap set for the same period last year, from 1 October to 31 December 2024 (£1,717).

But when adjusted for inflation, it is 0.9% lower than the same period in 2024.

Based on the current inflation rate, a typical household will pay £102 from October to December instead of £100 per month.

DONT LET MEDIA USE THIS LABOUR GOVERNMENT

TIME TO SWITCH TO A SET TARRIF. MINE IS LOWER THAN LAST YEAR WITH ECOTRICITY.

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moneysavingexpert.com/energy/

Ecotricity

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2025-2026

ENERGY CAP rise to £1,755 in Great Britain from October but a lot lower in 2023.

2023

Ofgem's energy price cap decreased significantly, moving from a high of £3,280 in April-June to £2,074 in July-September, and further to £1,834 in October-December, after wholesale energy prices began to fall. The cap is a limit on unit prices for standard variable tariffs, with a £2,500Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) initially in place from April to June 2023 before the price cap fell below it.

Key Price Cap Levels in 2024
January 1 - March 31, 2024: The cap was £1,928 per year, an increase from the previous quarter due to higher wholesale costs, according to Ofgem.
April 1 - June 30, 2024: The cap decreased to £1,690 per year.
July 1 - September 30, 2024: The cap fell again to £1,568 per year.

October 1 - December 31, 2024: The cap rose to £1,717 per year, influenced by rising unit prices for gas and electricity, notes Uswitch.

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We need to counter the Media usual scaremongering and Political opponents lies. Please share to show there has always been support for Pensioners who have under 10 k savings and it continues this year. This year there's more support via Household Support Fund FREE school dinners for low income families and an extra £150 cost of living payments

1. PENSION CREDIT

Since July, nearly 50,000 more pensioners have started receiving Pension Credit, following a surge in applications. This increase is due to a government announcement that winter fuel payments would only be given to pensioners claiming Pension Credit or other means-tested benefits, prompting the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to launch a campaign to raise awareness and process applications. The DWP website says that this surge in claims means more pensioners are accessing the financial support available through Pension Credit, which can be a lifeline for those on low incomes, according to Money Wellness.

2
HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND 2025/2026
STARTED IN 2021

The UK Government's Household Support Fund has been extended for another year, running from April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026. This fund aims to help those struggling with the rising cost of living, particularly with essentials like food, energy bills, and other basic needs. Local councils in England administer the fund and decide how to allocate it to support households most in need

3. COST OF LIVING PAYMENTS 2025/2026

Households can apply for £200 cost of living payments in WEEKS as vital scheme reopens

4. Warm Home Discount

Warm Home Discount to six million households-one in five families-and that is £150 off their bills next winter."

£150 Discount off Energy bill from supplier for those under 16k income

The Warm Home Discount Scheme is a one-off £150 discount off your electricity bill.

If you’re eligible, your electricity supplier will apply the discount to your bill. The money is not paid to you.

You’ll usually get the discount automatically if you’re eligible. You only need to apply if you’re on a low income in Scotland - contact your energy supplier to apply.

You may be able to get the discount on your gas bill instead if your supplier provides you with both gas and electricity and you’re eligible. Contact your supplier

Eligibility
There are different ways to qualify for the Warm Home Discount Scheme depending on where you live.

If you live in England and Wales
You qualify if you either:

get the Guarantee Credit element of Pension Credit
are on a low income and have high energy costs

5. Cost of living payment 2025

Keir Starmer has outlined plans for six million households to receive cost of living assistance later this year. The £150 Warm Home Discount, previously only available to low-income pensioners and certain other households with high energy costs, is being extended this year to provide vital support with energy bills.

6. FREE SCHOOL MEALS

Major change to free school meal rules unveiled - saving parents up to £500
Keir Starmer unveiled plans to extend free school meals to all kids in families who get Universal Credit, in a move that could save parents up to £500 a year

From September 2026, all children in UC households will be able to get a free, nutritious hot meal.

MY advice is to switch Energy supplier now onto a fixed tarrif. I'm with Ecotricity ,I can't recommend them enough. I fixed with them in July which is less than last year

Please share to show there has always been support for Pensioners who have under 10 k savings and it continues this year and those who are on a low income.

So many have been left out as Media do not share any helpful advise.

2025-26

This year there's more support via Household Support Fund, FREE school dinners for low income families and an extra £150 cost of living payments

ofgem.gov.uk/news/changes-e…

This year there's more support via Household Support Fund, FREE school dinners for low income families and an extra £150 cost of living payments

ofgem.gov.uk/news/changes-e…

Millions more families to get £150 off energy bills this winter

The Warm Home Discount will be expanded meaning 6 million households will receive £150 off their energy bills this winter.

Over half a million more children will benefit from a free nutritious meal every school day, as the government puts £500 back into parents’ pockets every year by expanding eligibility for free school meals.

From the start of the 2026 school year, every pupil whose household is on Universal Credit will have a new entitlement to free school meals. This will make life easier and more affordable for parents who struggle the most, delivering on the government’s Plan for Change to break down barriers to opportunity and give children the best start in life.

The unprecedented expansion will lift 100,000 children across England completely out of poverty. Giving children access to a nutritious meal during the school day also leads to higher attainment, improved behaviour and better outcomes – meaning they get the best possible education and chance to succeed in work and life.

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Steph Dennis

@steffd62

Aug 27

THE POLICIES IMPLEMENTED BY
@UKLabour
@YvetteCooperMP
@angelaeagle

@GBNEWS

Asylum seekers will be denied the right to stay in the UK if they have been convicted of sexual offences, the government has announced

Any offender sentenced to more than a year in prison, as well as terrorists and war criminals, can currently be refused asylum and deported under the Refugee Convention

Anyone convicted of a crime that would see them put on the sex offenders register in the UK, regardless of the length of their sentence.

@YvetteCooperMP Cooper said this would "ensure these appalling crimes are taken seriously".

@Conservatives didn't bother

The government is currently reviewing how the right to a family life contained in Article 8 in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is applied in immigration cases, with an update expected in the coming weeks.

Article 8 has been used by some migrants and asylum seekers to successfully appeal deportation.

Asked about the issue on Radio 4's Today Programme, Cooper she had "concerns about some of the individual cases" where the government "disagreed" with decisions made in the courts.

"Respect for family life is supposed to be balanced against other issues, including against the public interest, including against the ability for a government to set its own policies, for Parliament to set policies, and for respect for border security and control," she added.

It is not clear how many cases the change could affect.

The planned crackdown would apply to those committing an offence that places them on the sex offenders register in the UK.

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FARAGE IMMIGRATION ANNOUNMENT

QUESTIONS HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?

WHERES THE BREAKDOWN IN COST?

HOW WILL IT BE PAID FOR?

Farage: I will deport 600,000 migrants in my first term

Where did he get that figure from?
NOTICE HE DIDNT SAY ILLEGAL MIGRANTS?

There is no definitive figure for the number of undocumented people in the UK. The most significant region of origin for the UK’s undocumented population is Asia (52%) followed by Sub-Saharan Africa (20%), the Americas and non-EU Europe (16%) and the Middle East / North Africa (11%).

The UK’s undocumented communities are more settled than those in Europe, with over half having lived here for more than five years. Many came to the UK as children: just over a quarter of undocumented people (215,000) are children, half of whom were born in the UK.
As a result, most undocumented people have family in the UK, often their only source of support. They are often part of mixed-status families, in which everybody suffers and lives under constant threat of a loved one being deported from the country.

The UK has the largest unauthorised resident population in Europe. The figure of those who have entered the UK through irregular routes is separate from the total number of people living without permission.

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@UKLabour are already implementing what @reformparty_uk are proposing.

Around 34,000 returns (both voluntary and enforced) occurred in 2024, with enforced returns making up about 8,200 of that total. While the term "deported" is often used, the official figures differentiate between enforced removals and voluntary returns, the latter being more common.

Breakdown of Returns in 2024

Total Returns:

Approximately 34,000 people were returned from the UK in 2024.

Enforced Returns:

Around 8,200 of these were enforced returns, where the government takes action to remove someone.

Voluntary Returns:

The majority, around 76% (approximately 25,800 people), were voluntary returns.

Government-Facilitated vs. Independent:

Of the voluntary returns, about 11,900 were facilitated or monitored by the government, while 14,100 were independent returns.
Returns increased by 25% in 2024 compared to 2023, reaching the highest level since 2017

Voluntary returns because they are generally less expensive

Migrants housed in old military bases before they were deported - Reform says these sites would hold 24,000 people within 18 months at a cost of £2.5 billion

...Proof of this amount?

Where is breakdown of costs?

Food,Energy Costs,Medical costs,clothing,Utilities,
Funeral costs Laundry,bedding,Education for Children ,Administrative costs ,Security, Support for vulnerable and disabled,

WEATHERFIELD EX RAF BASE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS

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Updated 30 July 2025

What is the purpose of the Wethersfield site?
The government has a statutory obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation, but in recent years, the costs of doing so have reached unsustainable levels.

The government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly, and fairly; and ensures the rules are properly enforced. We are seeking to reduce the backlog of claims and appeals, end the use of hotels, and cut the cost of other asylum accommodation as soon as possible.

The asylum accommodation site at Wethersfield is based on the former MOD site located in Braintree, Essex. It was identified by the Home Office under the former government as a surplus military site that was suitable to accommodate asylum seekers. Wethersfield provides safe accommodation for asylum seekers and is designed to be as self-sufficient as possible.

Weatherfield costs" can refer to the significant costs associated with the former RAF Wethersfield base being used for asylum seeker accommodation, which has increased to £49 million, and the broader asylum system, which reached £5.4 billion in 2023/24. Alternatively, it could be a reference to the fictional town of Weatherfield from the TV show Coronation Street, where the cost of living has impacted businesses like Roy's Rolls cafe.

Costs related to the Wethersfield base:
Increased Expenditure:
The cost to prepare the former RAF Wethersfield base for asylum seeker accommodation has escalated to approximately £49 million, which is a significant increase from the initial estimate.

Ongoing Costs:

The total cost of operating the camp was projected to be over £500 million by 2027, with an estimated £150 per day from taxpayer money for housing asylum seekers.

Initial set-up costs for Wethersfield were initially estimated at about £5million, but have since increased to £49million.

Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge - were accommodating just 576 people by the end of January, far lower than the 1,445 initially planned.

The NAO said it now appears “inevitable” these two sites, as well as a centre at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire which has not yet opened, will cost more than using hotels.

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BIBBY STOCKHOLM

Estimated at £14.5 million, with further running costs of £20.3 million expected over two years. The cost per migrant was around £6,000 per month as of May 2024, though the total cost per head was higher than hotels while under-capacity.

Breakdown of Costs
Initial Costs:

The Home Office spent over £22 million on the vessel for the period of its usage up to December 2023.

Running Costs:
The initial National Audit Office (NAO) report estimated £20.3 million in running costs over two years
.
Per-Person Cost:
Analysis from May 2024 indicated that the barge cost taxpayers £6,000 per migrant per month, which was more than renting a house in Sandbanks.

Contractual Costs:
A report by the National Audit Office estimated £14.5 million for site acquisition, lease, and set-up, along with £20.3 million in running and other expenses over the two-year period.

Other Costs Associated with the Barge

Dorset Police: £520,000 was paid to Dorset Police.

Empty Periods: Around £2.2 million was spent on the vessel during periods when it was empty.

Vessel Services: The cost of the vessel itself amounted to over £22 million.

Dorset Council: Dorset Council received £3.5 million

The costs for the site acquisition, lease and set up expenses of the Bibby Stockholm were estimated at £14.5 million, the running costs and other expenses expected to be £20.3 million over two years, 2023-25.

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VOLUNTARY RETURNS /ASSISTED RETURNS

The UK has paid migrants £53 million over the past four years to leave the country under a voluntary return scheme, offering up to £3,000 and paid flights to those returning to their home countries.

Migrants in the UK can receive assistance for voluntary returns through the Home Office's Voluntary Returns Service (VRS), which can include help with travel documents and a financial payment of up to £3,000 to support reintegration in their home country. This financial aid is intended for costs like finding housing, a job, or starting a business. You can apply for the VRS online, by telephone, or by contacting a caseworker.

How the Voluntary Returns Service (VRS) Works
1. Eligibility and Application:
You can find out if you are eligible for support by contacting the Voluntary Returns Service directly or through a caseworker.
2. Support Provided:
Travel Documents: The VRS can help arrange the necessary travel documents to return to your home country.
Travel Costs: If you cannot afford it, the service can pay for your flights.
Financial Assistance: You may receive a payment of up to £3,000 to help with costs after you arrive back in your home country, such as finding a place to live or starting a business.
3. Re-entry Ban:
Be aware that leaving the UK under this scheme may result in a re-entry ban, which could prevent you from returning to the UK for a certain period.
4. Seeking Advice:
It's recommended to get advice from an immigration adviser before making a decision to return, to fully understand any implications, such as the potential re-entry ban.

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The worse of Tories from 2019

Failed to attend 5 Cobra meetings at the start of the Covid pandemic

Johnson’s Mustique holiday ‘was worth double the amount declared’

Jennifer Acuri affair

Owen Patterson support, cover up and U turn

Write off of 11BILLION in furlough fraud

Lebedev to the House of Lords despite Security warnings of KGB links

Excesses of Downing Street decor at £850 a roll
Contracts awarded to friends of the Tories that failed to deliver usable equipment
wasting public funds and bypassing genuine reputable British businesses

"Let the bodies pile high"
Rwanda immigration

Lying in Parliament to mislead the public

1500 deaths of frontline staff due to inadequate PPE due to dodgy PPE contracts

25,000 elderly sent to Care homes from hospital without Covid test,causing 1000s of deaths.

Lied about the protective ring around Care

Northern Ireland and Article 16 Lied about Brexit

Mislead Parliament

Lied to the Queen

Failure of the Afghanistan Evacuation

Johnson called gay men 'tank-topped bumboys' and black people 'piccaninnies' with 'watermelon smiles' Asian women as letter boxes

Wages worse since 2008 due to
Inflation 40 year high

Cash for questions and Peerage and Russian dirty money

37.B
Test and trace

£5B lost to fraud during furlough

£350K a week to the nhs
Mismanagement of the pandemic leading to this country having one of the highest death rates per capita

Dominic Cummings

Triple lock on pensions removed

Lied about new hospitals

Oven ready deal Brexit

Union Jack on a plane costing 18M

Royal yacht £300m

Trip to Tuscany when Foreign Secretary leaving his Government advisors
Debriefed by the KGB after the Chemical Attack in Salisbury having attended NATO debriefing sessions
This Act alone could be regarded as that of a Traitor

Cheltenham Races Stereo phonics and the UEFA leg between Liverpool and Athletico in March 2020

Covid is like flu!
Boasted
Shook hands with
wash your hands and sing happy birthday
ignored Scientific advice and Medical Experts and THE World Health organisation

Cash for Honours
Illegal Lobbying
Lying to protecting sexual preditor MPs

Bounceback Scheme 17 B

MOD waste 13B

Defective PPE 10B

Sunak fraud 4.3 B
Irregular spending

1.3 B
Eat Out Fail

850 M
Ferry contracts

50M
Nightingale Hospitals

552 M
Wasted PPE Destroyed

447M
Unused covid vaccination

250M
Starter home Scheme

900,000 M
Covid legal fees

600,000
Downing Street Flat

50k
Photograper

100k
Serco

50M Press room

2.6M Telsa

1.2M a week
Private polling

580k
Transporting files in chauffeur cars

£14.7B of public money on wasteful” projects, crony contracts and duff deals

£3.6bn in public contracts to firms linked to individuals in Conservative Party

£11.1bn had been spent wastefully or funded government excess

Stocking the Westminster wine cellar
73k

£30M Covid test vials contract to a firm run by the landlord of Matt Hancock’s local pub

£122m deal for medical gowns that failed safety standards. The £14.7bn could have paid the combined salaries of 60,000 nurses, 65,000 teachers and 77,000 police over the two and a half years sinceJohnson took charge

£100,000 decorating No.10 with works of art bought through the Government Art Collection fund

£500,000 Whitehall in chauffeur-driven cars

£600,000 in legal fees defending its decision to award a Covid-19 opinion polling contract to Public First run by associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings worth £840,000 and was not put out to competitive tender

£580,000 of political polling by Hanbury Strategy - also run by associates of Mr Cummings.

£2.1m school technology deal in October 2020 went to Specialist Computer Centres which is owned by the Rigby Group that has donated a total of £105,000 to Conservative coffers since 2017

3.6bn in public contracts to firms linked to individuals in Conservative Party

£11.1bn had been spent wastefully or funded government excess

Stocking the Westminster wine cellar
73k

£30M Covid test vials contract to a firm run by the landlord of Matt Hancock’s local pub without a proper tendering process

£122m deal for medical gowns that failed safety standards. The £14.7bn could have paid the combined salaries of 60,000 nurses, 65,000 teachers and 77,000 police over the two and a half years sinceJohnson took charge.
£100,000 decorating No.10 with works of art bought through the Government Art Collection fund.
£500,000 Whitehall in chauffeur-driven cars.
£600,000 in legal fees defending its decision to award a Covid-19 opinion polling contract to Public First run by associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings worth £840,000 and was not put out to competitive tender. The same goes for a further £580,000 of political polling by Hanbury Strategy - also run by associates of Mr Cummings.

£2.1m school technology deal in October 2020 went to Specialist Computer Centres which is owned by the Rigby Group that has donated a total of £105,000 to Conservative coffers since 2017
Meller Designs co-owned by a party donor £160m deals to provide PPE without competitive tender referred to the ‘VIP lane’ for contracts by Gove, to whom firm boss David Meller had donated cash.
Highest taxes in 40+ years, frozen personal tax allowances until 2028
Hidden WhatsApp messages
NHS waiting lists no dentistry, non existent long term plan on social care or energy, Windrush, strikes
30 p Lee? Non dom taxes Infosys Russia
Greg Hands Patel BRAVERMAN
Mone
Crumbling schools Crumbling NHS Crumbling Justice system

Strikes

Crumbling Railways

Simple decency

PARTY GATE, and all the other multiple times they flouted their own lockdown rules endangering others, Unlike those who were risking their own lives trying to save lives Never forget never forgive.
Energy subsidy rather than A windfall tax £12
HS2
the four years to last year, £48 million was spent on HS2 staff that earn more than £150,000 a year. Last year that included 43 employees.
Cleverly spends £1million travelling globe on private jet like pop star
James Cleverly racked up a bill of almost a million pounds by using private jets for two overseas trips in his job as Foreign Secretary earlier this year
James Cleverly’s use of £10,000 an hour jet for
America tour
Tories have now wasted nearly £100bn during the pandemic
£345,000 of taxpayer money on food and alcohol

£7 million a day in hotels for Asylum seekers

£150 million of purchases in a single year Lavish Spending' On Government Credit Cards

1.8 billion for a Barge to house just 50 immigrants

£5 billion taken out of the Welsh transport budget for HS2.

The average Tory MP expense claim per year is £250,000 (Approx £90 million between 360 Tory MPs per year).
That equates to around 4 million tents for homeless
Rishi Sunak oversaw wasteful government spending and departmental losses that cost the taxpayer up to £26.8 billion “extensive waste” under Mr Sunak during his time as Chancellor and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2021-22 and 2019-20.28 Feb 2023
Rishi Sunak ‘wasted £11bn by paying too much interest’ on UK debt
Labour accuses chancellor of wastefulness for failing to insure against interest rate rises
Tory ministers are using hugely expensive taxpayer-funded private jets instead of trains an average of over once a week, officials admit. Rishi Sunak and his cabinet colleagues have taken 74 flights on the plush new aircraft since June last year.
Sunak took £500,000 worth of private jet trips in less than a fortnight
Lib Dems criticise ‘shocking waste of taxpayers’ money’ as Cabinet Office document reveals PM’s flight costs
Liz Truss £2m private jet bill
LIZ TRUSSTanked Economy and dumped her own Mini Budget UK in a mont
Liz Truss has been using private jets like an Uber service

Tories are facing mounting pressure to return donations received from Lycamobile after its French entities were convicted of fraud in a Paris court, reported the Financial Times.
The UK-based global mobile network operator had gifted £2.15 million to the Tories between 2011 and 2016, as per records from the Electoral Commission
In a ruling by the Paris criminal court on October 26, Lycamobile’s French corporate divisions were found guilty of committing VAT fraud and money laundering. This conviction resulted in a £8.7 million fine, with appeals from Lycamobile France against the convictions.
Tory battle bus investigation enters new phase
There are allegations that Tories broke spending limits at the 2015 general election
Major Tory donor investigated over fraud and money laundering allegations
Indian rice tycoon Karan Chanana, who gave the Conservatives more than £220,000, is under scrutiny by India’s finance ministry
Former MPs Used Parliament Access Passes Over 3,000 times
Ex-MP
lobby for nuclear, gambling and energy industries visiting Parliament but Jacob Rees Mogg had all the data destroyed

Peter Geoghegan
28 September 2023
Tory donor charged in Puerto Rico bribery scheme
candidate in May's local elections in Lancashire has been charged with electoral fraud.
Mohammed Afzal, 39, of Whalley Road, Accrington, has been charged with two counts of corrupt practice.
failed to learn from his predecessors’ mistakes over scrutiny
Sunak has struggled to break free of Truss’s damaging economic legacy
a major unforced error, Mr Sunak became only the second PM - after Boris Johnson - to be fined by police while in office after releasing a promotional video where he appeared to not be wearing a seatbelt.
He is also being investigated by Parliament's standards watchdogs for failing to tell MPs his wife owned shares in a childcare firm that benefitted from the Budget.
He gave incorrect figures to the Commons about the asylum backlog.
Net zero backtrack ‘would be Sunak’s greatest mistake as PM’
Backlash over PM's plans to water down green policies, with warning it could cost the Conservatives votes
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Rishi Sunak’s instincts seem off — if this culture war is welcome it is among a minority. His views look old fashioned
Pist Off Greeks
Cleverly pist off The North
Levelling up What levelling up?
Highest Tax burden and GDP for decades
National Debt 2.8 T
Sunak plunges waste strategy into chaos as he ‘scraps’ local collections plan
7 bins. !!
Meat Tax !!
"COVID INQUIRY" and Sunacks Eat Out to help out Covid Buffet
100 new Fossil Fuel License
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extensive waste” under Mr Sunak during his time as Chancellor and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2021-22 and 2019-20.28 Feb 2023
Rishi Sunak ‘wasted £11bn by paying too much interest’ on UK debt
Labour accuses chancellor of wastefulness for failing to insure against interest rate rises
Tory ministers are using hugely expensive taxpayer-funded private jets instead of trains an average of over once a week, officials admit. Rishi Sunak and his cabinet colleagues have taken 74 flights on the plush new aircraft since June last year.
Sunak took £500,000 worth of private jet trips in less than a fortnight
Liz Truss £2m private jet bill
Boris Johnson resigned after more than 50 members of his government resigned, due to Johnson appointing Chris Pincher as Deputy Chief Whip, despite knowing he was facing allegations of being a sexual predator. inews.co.uk/news/politics/… He had previously remained in post following Sue Gray's report.
Johnson’s meeting with Cambridge Analytica the Minutes of which haven’t been published because they will be detrimental to the relationship with the US
£290M GIVEN TO RWANDA AND NO FLIGHTS

BJ & RS accepted FPNs for breaking their own Covid rules. Also, we have to pay BJs legal fees, yet he can afford £3.8m cash for a house. (Money laundering checks??)
Govt issue mobile phones "losing" WhatsApp messages

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THAT AMENDMENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BILL WITH COVERED ALL CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

WHAT WHAT ABOUT WHITE GROOMING GANGS AND PEDOPHILES, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, DOMESTIC CHILD ABUSE VICTIMS?

Victims will be given more power to have their cases re-examined, the Home Secretary has announced today, as she unveils a £10 million action plan to tackle grooming gangs and child sexual abuse.

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As part of this government’s mission to halve violence against women and girls, deliver justice for victims and ensure more perpetrators of this crime end up behind bars, today the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has set out new measures to finally deliver change and action for survivors of grooming gang crimes to get justice.

Survivors and victims will be able to ask for their closed cases to be reviewed by an independent criminal justice review panel where their previous investigations were not taken forward to prosecution by the police or Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
The Home Secretary is writing to the National Police Chiefs’ Council requesting officers look again at these unsolved and closed grooming gangs cases, backed by £2.5m in funding for stronger investigations.
Since taking office, the government has been engaging with victims to implement the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). This work provides further momentum to deliver change for victims. Today the Home Secretary has pledged that by Easter 2025 the government will lay out a clear timetable for taking forward the recommendations in the final IICSA report.

We will also provide new national backing for locally-led inquiries, backed by £5 million of funding.

Working in partnership with Tom Crowther KC, the chair of the impactful Telford Inquiry into grooming gangs, the Home Office will develop a new effective framework for victim-centred, locally-led inquiries, and work with Oldham Council and four other pilot areas to implement it.

It will also develop new ways for councils to work locally with victims. Further work is underway as part of the forthcoming Hillsborough Law and the duty of candour to boost the accountability mechanisms that support and follow up on local inquiries, ensuring that public servants that fail victims are properly held to account.

At the same time, the Home Secretary has unveiled a rapid national audit to uncover the scale and profile of group-based offending in the UK today, including ethnicity.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has commissioned this audit led by Baroness Louise Casey to examine existing data and evidence to draw a comprehensive picture of the nature, scale and profile of group-based child sexual abuse offending identified by police and agencies, and equip law enforcement with the information and understanding they need to combat these crimes. This rapid analysis of data and evidence will allow us to deliver quicker change on the recommendations in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report (IICSA).

Baroness Casey has a strong track record of carrying out successful and complicated pieces of work across the public sector, including cross-government reviews and the culture in the Metropolitan Police. She is well placed to conduct this audit, given her no holds barred 2015 report following the Jay inquiry into child sexual exploitation committed by Pakistani-heritage gangs in Rotherham.

The audit will begin soon and last three months. It will be supported by an expert advisory board and draw on the views of victims and survivors. This work, including the new Victims and Survivors Panel and work with Mr Crowther KC, will be backed by £2.5 million in funding.

In an oral statement in the House this afternoon (16 January 2025), Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said:

Nothing matters more than the safety of our children. Yet for too long, this horrific abuse was allowed to continue. The victims were ignored. The perpetrators were left unpunished. Too many people looked the other way.

And even when these shocking crimes were brought to light, and national inquiries were commissioned to get to the truth, the resulting reports were too often left on the shelf as their recommendations gathered dust.

Under this government, that has changed. We are taking action not just on those recommendations, but on the additional work we need protect victims, put perpetrators behind bars and to uncover the truth wherever things have gone wrong.

This is about the protection of children, the protection of young girls, and the radical and ambitious mission we have set for this government to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.

We have already announced we will introduce a mandatory reporting duty for those working with children to report sexual abuse as part of the Crime and Policing Bill and legislate to make grooming an aggravating factor when sentencing child sexual offences – so punishments properly fit the crime.

We will ensure police learn lessons from the past and make all 43 forces improve data collection on child sexual abuse – including ethnicity.

Of the 115,000 child sexual exploitation and abuse offences recorded in 2023 by police, over 4,000 of them were group-based offending. Of those, around 1,100 involved abuse within the family, and over 300 involved abuse in institutions, whilst over 700 of them were group-based grooming gang offences.

But the vast majority of child sexual exploitation and abuse goes unidentified and unreported and so we expect this to be a significant underestimate.

Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips, said:

Child sexual abuse and exploitation is one of the most harrowing crimes anyone could face. I have dedicated many years of my life to tackling it, both before I was a government minister, and now I have never been more steadfast in my resolve to protect more children and arrest more appalling perpetrators.

But change is about deeds, not words. That’s why we are working quickly to empower more victims to get justice by giving more the right to request their cases are re-examined, and making sure survivors are a core part of the rapid audit of existing evidence in these heartbreaking cases.

Our work does not stop here. We are also urging police forces to look again at closed and unsolved cases on their files, to ensure they pursue criminals and put them behind bars so they cannot hurt anyone else.

In a joint statement, National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigation, Assistant Chief Constable Rebecca Riggs, and Director of the Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Taskforce, Richard Fewkes, said:

We welcome the investment in the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce and are encouraged by the ongoing commitment to protect children and address this critical issue.

The ambitions set out will not be easy, it requires resource when demand on policing is high however, this new investment equips us with additional tools and resources to increase our impact in supporting victims and survivors. It enables us to strengthen collaboration with our partners and stakeholders to ensure we deliver the best possible outcomes for those who need it.

Since its establishment, the taskforce has made significant strides in improving policing efforts to enhance our response to CSE to ensure further meaningful action is taken to empower victims and survivors to come forward but there is more to do working closely with our partners, coordinating the national response, and maintaining continuous collaboration to ensure we meet the needs of victims and survivors with the utmost care and urgency.

Arooj Shah, leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, said:

This government intervention today will transform the next steps for Oldham.

These new measures will empower the victims to achieve the justice they deserve and support police in their vital work.

The government is also working to tackle online predators of child sexual abuse, through our £11 million investment in an undercover online network of police officers and £5 million investment in the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID).

Investment continues to be made in a range of other work to strengthen law enforcement capacity and capability to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation, including providing £6.5 million this year for the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme (TOEX), which brings together local, regional and national data to ensure police can effectively uncover and prosecute exploitation.

What local and national inquiries into grooming gangs have there been?

What inquiries and reviews into grooming gangs have taken place so far?
There have been several local inquiries into grooming gangs as well as a long national inquiry that produced a report specifically about these organised networks.

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TELFORD INQUIRY IS BEING USED AS A PRECEDENT

Two Year Review Report, published on 16 July 2024

Review Report – click here

Chair’s statement for the publication of the Two Year review Report (written)

Chair’s statement for the publication of the Two Year review Report (recorded)

Chair’s Final Report of the Independent Inquiry into Telford Child Sexual Exploitation, published on 12 July 2022

Final Report - Volume One of Four

Final Report - Volume Two of Four

Final Report - Volume Three of Four

Final Report - Volume Four of Four

Chair’s Publication Day Statement (written)

Chair’s Publication Day Statement (recorded)

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