Home Office civil servants question migrant crime data amid silence from Jess Phillips, leaked messages reveal

One civil servant wrote: “When comparing with other countries, the UK appears to be quite weak in its ability to monitor crime rates comparison [sic] with other factors such as migration.”

“Do you think that the monitoring of the nationality of perpetrators in the UK as well as of victims could confirm or refute whether the UK is experiencing the same issues as, for example, Sweden who have discovered that immigrants are two times more likely to commit crimes in comparison to those born in Sweden?”

“It has also been noted that this increase in crime includes severe crimes against women and girls with the majority of convicted perpetrators being born outside Europe.”

The question received 31 likes from other Home Office officials, however, the department’s permanent secretary Matthew Rycroft, who was chairing the discussion with Phillips, refused to select the question and put it to the minister.

Another question asked by a civil servant, seen by GB News, was: “What is your view on the ability of the UK to deport criminals?”

GB News understands this question was also ignored by Rycroft.

Connor Tomlinson, a commentator from the Lotus Eaters podcast, told GB News: “Matthew Rycroft and Jess Phillips have overseen a Home Office in disarray and must be honest with the British public about migrant crime.”

“At a time where we have over 10,000 foreign nationals in our prisons, and violent offenders are being released early to make space, it is absurd that the Home Office and other government bodies refuse to publish data on which nations' expats commit the most crimes.”

He continued: “We know from Denmark that non-Western migrants and their descendants commit crimes 2.5 times the rate of native Danes.”

“If the civil service cared about the safety of the British public, they would provide the government with the data to tailor immigration policy accordingly.”

“But instead, bodies like RICU [Research, Information and Communications Unit] are more obsessed with managing public perception in the aftermath of avoidable atrocities, than being transparent about who is causing them, and ensuring they never happen again.”

Last year the Home Office revealed that they do not collect data on the nationality of people arrested in Britain.

However, a new report from the Centre from Migration Control revealed on Saturday that migrants are 34% more likely to be arrested than British people.

The report was based on Freedom of Information Requests to 26 police forces in England and Wales that collect data on the nationalities of those arrested.

Robert Bates, founder of the Centre for Migration Control, said: “Mass migration inevitably comes with consequences; A surge in crime being one such accompanying feature.”

“On this issue we should compare the mature, data-driven approach of other European nations with the Home Office’s blind naivety. It is enough to make you want to weep.”

“The whole country can see that mass migration is the key driver behind certain crimes such as drug smuggling and violence against women and girls.”

“Yet our politicians and civil service lack both the empathy and the common sense to seek to address this issue,” he said.

“It is encouraging to see some civil servants speaking out, but I fear they are in a tiny minority.”

“The fact we have ten thousand foreign nationals in British prisons, and thousands more who have served their sentence but not been deported, is a perfect totem of the systemic contempt in which the political establishment holds the British public and their safety.”

A Home Office spokesperson said: “We are fully committed to ensuring our borders are secure and our streets are safe.”

“The government has begun delivering a major surge in immigration enforcement and returns activity to remove people with no right to be in the UK and ensure the rules are respected and enforced.”