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Anne-Marie Trevelyan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne-Marie Trevelyan on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2016 to Question 31313, on immigration controls: EU nationals, what monitoring is in place to prevent people refused entry from entering the UK.

James Brokenshire

The UK operates a secure border which involves carrying out 100% checks on arriving passengers from Continental Europe in order to identify people of concern seeking to enter the country. All passengers are checked against police, security and immigration watchlists and where we are aware of individuals who pose a risk, Border Force officers can – and do – refuse them entry. Checks are also carried out against the vast majority of passengers before they arrive in the UK and, where we can, we stop them from travelling in the first place.

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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost to the public purse was of processing a UK visitor visa through centres in China in the last 12 months.

James Brokenshire

These costs are not broken down to show costs by location.

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Gareth Johnson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many harassment warning notices were issued by police forces in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many people who received such notices were subsequently prosecuted for harassment offences.

Mike Penning

The information requested is not collected centrally. The issuance of Police Information Notices (PINs) is an operational matter for police forces. Responsibility for the publication of information relating to PINs rests with Chief Constables.

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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK visitor visas were issued in China in (a) 2012, (b) 2013, (c) 2014 and (d) 2015.

James Brokenshire

The available information relates to Chinese nationals and is provided in the table below.

UK Entry clearance visitor visas granted: Chinese nationals
(including dependants)

2012: 210,344
2013: 291,826
2014: 327,349
2015: 397,764

Notes

The figures above represent entry clearance visitor visas issued worldwide to Chinese nationals, not visas issued in China.

Source: Table vi_06_q_o, Immigration Statistics, October to December 2015

The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visitor visas granted are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, October-December 2015’, Visas volume 3 table vi_06_q_o available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015/list-of-tables#visas

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Gareth Johnson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the quantity of cannabis recovered from cannabis factories in the UK in each of the last 10 years.

Karen Bradley

The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the quantity of cannabis recovered specifically from cannabis factories in the UK. However, the Home Office does hold data on the total quantity of cannabis seized in England and Wales.

The statistical release ‘Drug Seizures in England and Wales, 2014/15’ covers the number and quantity of drug seizures made by both police forces and Border Force in England and Wales from 2006/07 to 2014/15.

The publication contains the number and quantity of seizures of herbal cannabis, resin cannabis, and cannabis plants for England and Wales only. The Home Office does not hold information centrally on the number of drug seizures in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

The publication can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-2015

Data specifically on the quantity of cannabis seizures, made by police forces and Border Force in England and Wales, can be found in Summary Table 2 of the data tables.

Border Force publishes the number and quantity of seizures of drugs at the UK border on Gov.UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-february-2016

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Stuart C. McDonald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stuart C. McDonald on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on reconsidering the cases of people who had their leave to remain wrongly cancelled, or who were wrongly detained or removed, on the basis of allegations of fraud in English language tests made by ETS in response to the Upper Tribunal ruling in Qadir v Secretary of State, 23 March 2016.

James Brokenshire

We received the determination in the case of Qadir and SM from Upper Tribunal on 8 April which provides the full reasons for the decision which were not included in the summary handed down on 23 March. Although the Upper Tribunal found that the Home Office did discharge the evidential burden on it in establishing fraud at ETS test centres and that each appellant would need to establish an innocent explanation, it went on to allow the appeals. We are disappointed by the decision and we are currently reviewing it with a view to challenging before the Court Of Appeal. Given this there are no current plans to reconsider earlier decisions.

01/01/2023
Dawn Butler – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dawn Butler on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of language analysis testing of asylum applicants; and if she will carry out a review of her Department’s policy on such testing.

James Brokenshire

The Government has no current plans to revise the existing Equality Act exemptions relating to language analysis testing.

No further nationalities have been added to the Equality Act exemption authorisation since it was introduced in 2013.

A review on language analysis use was undertaken in 2011 and published in 2012.

(https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/257177/language-analysis.pdf).

No further such review is presently planned. However, we do monitor the use of language analysis regularly to ensure it is used as effectively as possible and to identify new trends in nationality swapping.

01/01/2023
Ian Blackford – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Blackford on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will grant the Brain family residing in Dingwell, Scotland leave to appeal the decision to deport them from the UK whilst remaining domiciled in the UK; and if she will take steps to permit members of that family to maintain their employment until that appeal has been decided.

James Brokenshire

We do not routinely comment publicly on individual immigration cases and have written to the Honourable Member on 12 April 2016.

01/01/2023

Meg Hillier – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Meg Hillier on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces take longest to process applications from the Disclosure and Barring Service; and what the average processing time for such application is for each police force in England.

Karen Bradley

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) processes applications in date order and is reliant on the police completing their checks in a timely manner. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.

The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.

Force Name	Average Days Taken By Force
Avon And Somerset	7.4
Bedfordshire	3.5
Cambridgeshire	10.9
Cheshire	10.7
City of London	9.0
Cleveland	8.6
Cumbria	13.8
Derbyshire	14.8
Devon And Cornwall	4.7
Dorset	76.6
Durham	15.3
Essex	16.2
Gloucester	11.1
Greater Manchester	12.8
Hampshire	11.4
Hertfordshire	10.5
Humberside	9.8
Kent	18.5
Lancashire	5.0
Leicestershire	7.7
Lincolnshire	9.2
Merseyside	8.2
Metropolitan	85.2
Norfolk	1.6
North Yorkshire	17.9
Northamptonshire	17.1
Northumbria	13.9
Nottinghamshire	10.9
South Yorkshire	21.7
Staffordshire	10.7
Suffolk	8.8
Surrey	13.1
Sussex	17.5
Thames Valley	60.3
Warwickshire	7.2
West Mercia	9.3
West Midlands	21.2
West Yorkshire	12.3
Wiltshire	4.8

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Meg Hillier – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Meg Hillier on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on priority categories in Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

Karen Bradley

The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.

Force Name	Average Days Taken By Force
Avon And Somerset	7.4
Bedfordshire	3.5
Cambridgeshire	10.9
Cheshire	10.7
City of London	9.0
Cleveland	8.6
Cumbria	13.8
Derbyshire	14.8
Devon And Cornwall	4.7
Dorset	76.6
Durham	15.3
Essex	16.2
Gloucester	11.1
Greater Manchester	12.8
Hampshire	11.4
Hertfordshire	10.5
Humberside	9.8
Kent	18.5
Lancashire	5.0
Leicestershire	7.7
Lincolnshire	9.2
Merseyside	8.2
Metropolitan	85.2
Norfolk	1.6
North Yorkshire	17.9
Northamptonshire	17.1
Northumbria	13.9
Nottinghamshire	10.9
South Yorkshire	21.7
Staffordshire	10.7
Suffolk	8.8
Surrey	13.1
Sussex	17.5
Thames Valley	60.3
Warwickshire	7.2
West Mercia	9.3
West Midlands	21.2
West Yorkshire	12.3
Wiltshire	4.8

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