The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what dates the Violence Against Women and Girls Inter-Ministerial Group has met since 1 February 2013.
Norman Baker
The Violence Against Women and Girls Inter-Ministerial Group has met on the following dates since 1 February 2013:
6 February 2013
4 June 2013
11 December 2013
11 February 2014
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) amount her Department spent and (b) fee income it has received in connection with (i) the asylum system, (ii) immigration control at home and abroad and (iii) enforcement in each of the last 10 years.
James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not have this information broken down on the financial
system in line with the question. The published accounts for the former UK
Border Agency break down relevant income and expenditure information since 2009
and also in the Home Office Report and Accounts for 2012-13. These can be found
at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?official_document_status=command_and_
act_papers
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings of the Overseas Domestic Workers Steering Group have been held since 2010.
Karen Bradley
The Overseas Domestic Worker Steering Group no longer meets, therefore there is
no current membership. The last meeting was on 19 November 2010.
The Home Office is carefully considering all the recommendations of the
Pre-Legislative Scrutiny Committee’s report on the Modern Slavery Bill.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current membership is of the Overseas Domestic Workers Steering Group.
Karen Bradley
The Overseas Domestic Worker Steering Group no longer meets, therefore there is
no current membership. The last meeting was on 19 November 2010.
The Home Office is carefully considering all the recommendations of the
Pre-Legislative Scrutiny Committee’s report on the Modern Slavery Bill.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the last meeting of the Overseas Domestic Workers Steering Group was held.
Karen Bradley
The Overseas Domestic Worker Steering Group no longer meets, therefore there is
no current membership. The last meeting was on 19 November 2010.
The Home Office is carefully considering all the recommendations of the
Pre-Legislative Scrutiny Committee’s report on the Modern Slavery Bill.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost is of keeping a foreign national offender classified by her Department as individual non-compliant in detention for one day.
James Brokenshire
The estimated average direct daily cost of holding a person in our immigration
detention facilities is £100. It should be noted that this is an average and it
will vary marginally depending upon the mix of facilities in use at a given
point.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlie Elphicke on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants are estimated to have entered the UK from Calais in each year since 1999.
James Brokenshire
To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government
cannot comment on port specific statistics.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Miss Anne McIntosh on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set targets for the reduction of rural crime.
Norman Baker
The Coalition Government has abolished all central policing targets and
mandatory indicators to enable the police to discourage perverse incentives
and to allow them to focus on their clear objective, to cut crime. This applies equally
to crime in rural areas as it does to crime in our towns and cities and we have
no plans to create new central targets for reducing crime in rural areas. It is now the responsibility of directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners to ensure the police deal with the issues that really matter to the communities they serve, and the public will
hold them to account for this.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlie Elphicke on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-UK citizens attempting to enter the UK illegally or clandestinely were apprehended by UK border control agencies at the ports of (a) Dover and (b) Calais in each year between 1999 and 2014.
James Brokenshire
To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government
cannot comment on port specific statistics.
Under Information Commissioner Guidelines statistics for UK port activity may
only be released at a regional level.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Paisley on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations her Department has received from (a) police and crime commissioners and (b) the UK Border Force on the potential effect of the introduction of plain packaging of tobacco products on combating the trade in illicit tobacco.
James Brokenshire
To date our records show no representations have been made by Border Force and
Police and Crime Commissioners.