Diana Johnson
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 57 |
| Date of birth | July 25,1966 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Northwich |
| United Kingdom | |
| Party | Labour Party |
| Office | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Job | Politician |
| Books | Passport to Delicious and Simple Holiday Eating |
| Delicious Gluten Free Recipes | |
| High School @ Home: You Can Do It! | |
| When Home- schooling Gets Tough | |
| Flash Video Creativity | |
| Starting Point | |
| Official site | members.parliament.uk |
| Nationality | British |
| Position | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Previous position | Member of the London Assembly |
| Education | Queen Mary University of London |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 508562 |
Diana Johnson Life story
Dame Diana Ruth Johnson DBE PC is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull North since the 2005 general election. Johnson was elected as Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 15 December 2021, replacing Yvette Cooper.
Asylum seekers: Home Office says more than 17,000 are missing
... Committee chairwoman Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson said this response made it " quite hard to effectively scrutinise the flagship policy of the Home Office, and how much is being spent on it, when we re only getting the figures at the end of the year...
Official stop and search figures published with 'dodgy' warning
... " Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, who chairs Parliament s Home Affairs Select Committee, told us: " This highlights the difficulties in getting standardised data and it does worry me because the Home Office has got into bother before with its stats and data...
Scotland should pilot drug consumption rooms, say MPs
... Dame Diana Johnson, who chaired the Home Affairs Committee, called on the UK government to learn from the successes of local schemes...
UK immigration: No clear case for routinely accepting Albania asylum claims - MPs
... Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, the committee s chairwoman, said there had been a " substantial sudden increase in asylum claims from a seemingly peaceful country"...
No political pressure over Coronation protest arrests - Met officer
... Mr Twist was asked by committee chairwoman Diana Johnson whether he felt any political pressure to make arrests during the Coronation...
Just Stop Oil protesters disrupt hearing into Met's coronation policing
... " Committee chairwoman, Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, said it was important that Parliament is open to members of the public, but " we also take very seriously that we should not be disrupted from our job of scrutinising, particularly what happened in this case"...
Coronation protests: MPs to consider inquiry over policing
... Labour s Diana Johnson, who chairs the cross-party Home Affairs Select Committee, will call for an inquiry on Wednesday to look at whether any lessons could be learned...
Chris Mason: New protest law collides with Coronation
... Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson hopes to persuade colleagues on the cross-party committee that it should invite the police, the campaign group Republic and lawyers to Parliament to examine what happened on Saturday - and what might need to change...
Asylum seekers: Home Office says more than 17,000 are missing
By Callum May & Suzanne LeighBBC News
Home Office officials have admitted they do not know the whereabouts of More Than 17,000 asylum seekers whose claims have been discontinued.
The Number emerged as MPs discussed Rishi Sunak 's target to eliminate The Asylum backlog by The End of the year.
The Home Office has withdrawn thousands of asylum applications after claimants failed to respond.
A senior official told the Home Affairs select committee: " I don't think we know where all these people are. "
Asked whether Some People had returned to their home countries, Simon Ridley, a senior civil servant in the Home Office , said he did not know.
Officials told The Committee that claims are withdrawn if asylum seekers fail to respond to two successive case worker interview requests or questionnaires.
Since December Last Year this has happened 17,316 times. In 2021, 2,141 applications were refused or withdrawn, although 24,403 were refused or withdrawn in 2004.
When an application is withdrawn it means it is no longer being considered and if the claimant remains in the UK they are here illegally and can be removed.
Figures published last week put The Number of cases in the so-called " legacy backlog" at 39,668 as of The End of September. This relates to asylum claims made before June 2022.
The Home Office 's most senior civil servant, Sir Matthew Rycroft , said the government had always been confident it would reach The Target set by the Prime Minister , and had hired more case workers to assess claims.
But Conservative MP Tim Loughton , who is on the select committee, said: " Is it strange, that conveniently, when faced with a very stiff target, there has been a three-fold increase for the undetermined reasons of people magically not going forward with their claims? "
Officials are Under Pressure to reduce the backlog as the government continues with plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Sir Matthew told MPs that officials were in the capital Kigali to put " finishing touches" to The Talks after the Supreme Court ruled The Plan was unlawful.
The Court said there was a risk asylum seekers sent there could be returned to their Home Country , which would break UK and international Human Rights laws.
The Home Office is negotiating a treaty which Rishi Sunak says will satisfy the Supreme Court 's concerns about Rwanda being a safe third country.
The government says The Police would deter people from using small boats to cross the English Channel . As of 13 November, 27,284 people had crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2023.
There are questions about how much the government has already paid Rwanda, after MPs were told it would be months before they would learn whether it was More Than the £140m previously disclosed.
Sir Matthew hinted more could be paid, but would not say if any additional payments had since been made, instead saying ministers had decided not to reveal that information until the summer.
Committee chairwoman Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson said this response made it " quite hard to effectively scrutinise the flagship policy of the Home Office , and how much is being spent on it, when we're only getting the figures at The End of the year. "
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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