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  • Richard Burden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Richard Burden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking on the decision to allow the sale and consumption of alcohol in a motorway service area.

    Norman Baker

    The Licensing Act 2003 bans the sale of alcohol at certain motorway service areas but this ban does not extend to all of them. At motorway service areas which are not covered by the Act, the grant of premise licences for the sale of alcohol in any particular case is at present a matter for the local licensing authority.

    The Government included motorway service areas as part of the public consultation on the Alcohol Strategy in 2012/13. The Government’s response to this consultation was published in July 2013 and stated that this issue would be considered further, and it is under active consideration.

  • Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children there were in the UK in each of the last 10 years.

    James Brokenshire

    Figures for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASCs) placed in Local Authority care are not available from published statistics.

    In 2012 and 2013 there were 1,125 and 1,174 applications received from UASCs, excluding dependants.

    Figures on a comparable basis are not available for previous years.

    The Home Office publishes statistics on asylum applications from UASCs in tables as_08 and as_08_q (Asylum data tables Volume 2) of the release Immigration Statistics available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2013

    This release is available from the Library of the House.

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  • Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were placed in local authority care in each of the last 10 years.

    James Brokenshire

    Figures for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASCs) placed in Local Authority care are not available from published statistics.

    In 2012 and 2013 there were 1,125 and 1,174 applications received from UASCs, excluding dependants.

    Figures on a comparable basis are not available for previous years.

    The Home Office publishes statistics on asylum applications from UASCs in tables as_08 and as_08_q (Asylum data tables Volume 2) of the release Immigration Statistics available from:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2013

    This release is available from the Library of the House.

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  • Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with representatives of the retail sector about measures that could be taken by shops selling alcohol to reduce the incidence of binge-drinking.

    Norman Baker

    Home Office Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of international
    partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private
    sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of
    these meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are
    subsequently published on the Gov.uk website:
    http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office

  • Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Hanson on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serious misconduct complaints related to the use of control and restraint during enforced removal were referred to the Professional Standards Unit in each year since 2010.

    James Brokenshire

    Complaints made by, or on behalf of, detainees are managed in accordance with
    Detention Services Order 3/2011. All allegations of serious misconduct are
    referred to the Home Office Professional Standards Unit (PSU) for
    investigation. These include allegations made against staff who work in the
    detention estate or who are engaged in escorting work.

    Data on the number of complaints referred to the PSU is not recorded. Only data
    of those complaints where PSU have agreed to investigate are recorded. The
    number investigated relating to the use of control and restraint during
    enforced removal is detailed below.

    2010 – 42
    2011 – 30
    2012 – 39
    2013 – 19

    These figures are based on management information, which is subject to change,
    and does not form part of our publicised statistics.

  • Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Hanson on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests were made for immigration offences as a result of information received from the public in each week in 2013; and how many resulted in (a) prosecution and (b) deportation.

    James Brokenshire

    The following table outlines the number of arrests made for immigration offences as a result of allegations received from the public in each week in 2013 and how many resulted in (a) prosecution and (b) removal.

    In order to align this answer with the method used for collating the data- "Information received from the public" has been interpreted as allegations and "deportation" has been referred to as removals.

    Week

    Arrests

    Prosecutions

    Removals

    Week 01

    15

    –

    10

    Week 02

    75

    –

    30

    Week 03

    35

    –

    15

    Week 04

    65

    –

    20

    Week 05

    60

    –

    20

    Week 06

    55

    –

    20

    Week 07

    75

    –

    30

    Week 08

    65

    –

    20

    Week 09

    60

    –

    25

    Week 10

    60

    –

    25

    Week 11

    75

    –

    25

    Week 12

    75

    –

    30

    Week 13

    45

    –

    20

    Week 14

    55

    *

    30

    Week 15

    55

    –

    30

    Week 16

    80

    –

    40

    Week 17

    90

    –

    55

    Week 18

    120

    *

    55

    Week 19

    145

    75

    Week 20

    95

    –

    50

    Week 21

    80

    *

    40

    Week 22

    85

    *

    35

    Week 23

    85

    5

    40

    Week 24

    90

    –

    45

    Week 25

    115

    –

    50

    Week 26

    215

    5

    95

    Week 27

    120

    –

    50

    Week 28

    155

    *

    65

    Week 29

    145

    –

    60

    Week 30

    100

    –

    35

    Week 31

    120

    *

    30

    Week 32

    80

    –

    20

    Week 33

    125

    –

    40

    Week 34

    85

    –

    25

    Week 35

    80

    –

    25

    Week 36

    90

    –

    25

    Week 37

    75

    –

    20

    Week 38

    75

    –

    20

    Week 39

    90

    –

    30

    Week 40

    75

    –

    20

    Week 41

    95

    –

    35

    Week 42

    80

    –

    15

    Week 43

    105

    –

    35

    Week 44

    55

    –

    20

    Week 45

    125

    –

    30

    Week 46

    120

    –

    20

    Week 47

    100

    –

    20

    Week 48

    95

    –

    5

    Week 49

    75

    –

    5

    Week 50

    95

    –

    5

    Week 51

    85

    –

    *

    Week 52

    20

    –

    –

    Week 53

    10

    –

    –

    Grand Total

    4,535

    15

    1,585

    The number of prosecutions and removals refers directly to the allegations received in that week, but may not have taken place within that timeframe.

  • Ms Diane Abbott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Ms Diane Abbott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ms Diane Abbott on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report by the Refugee Council, When Maternity Doesn’t Matter, what steps her Department has taken to reform the dispersal policy of the former UK Border Agency.

    James Brokenshire

    The report covers procedures for accommodating pregnant asylum seekers who are destitute. The Home Office has been consulting about changes to these procedures and is considering some detailed suggestions by the Refugee Council and Maternity Action. Once that is completed we will move towards finalising and publishing revised guidance on the procedures.

  • Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Hanson on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time was between a deportation order being made on a foreign national offender and their deportation in each year since 2010.

    James Brokenshire

    The average length of time between a deportation order being made on a foreign
    national offender and their deportation in each year since 2010 is as follows:
    143 days in 2010, 148 days in 2011, 174 days in 2012 and 187 days in 2013.

    The increase in average time taken is driven mainly by serving more deportation
    orders earlier in the process, sometimes up to 27 months before sentence end
    date, to enable removal to take place as early as possible within the Early
    Removal Scheme (ERS) period. The by-product of starting the deportation process
    earlier is that we have to wait longer to enforce a person’s removal, which
    artificially inflates the view on the average time taken to deport.

  • Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mr David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Hanson on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed removals of foreign national offenders there were in each year since 2010.

    James Brokenshire

    I will write to the Rt. hon. Member.

  • Mr Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the House of Commons Commission

    Mr Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the House of Commons Commission

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Frank Field on 2014-03-24.

    To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how many fire alarms have sounded in Portcullis House in the last 12 months; on how many of these occasions the London Fire Brigade arrived to attend a fire; and on how many of these occasions the London Fire Brigade discovered a fire.

    John Thurso

    There have been three fire alarms resulting in evacuations from Portcullis House in the last 12 months. One of these alarms, on 24th March 2014, led to the attendance of the London Fire Brigade. On this occasion the alarm was triggered by a heat detector following the overheating of a grill in the Lower Ground Kitchens as well as the triggering of a manual call point. No fire was discovered.