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  • Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Kane on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Eritrea are currently held in immigration detention centres in the UK.

    James Brokenshire

    As at 31 December 2015, there were 20 Eritrean nationals in detention in the UK. The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons removed or departed voluntarily from the UK within Immigration Statistics. Information on those in detention by nationality is available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: October to December 2015, table dt_13_q from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

  • Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Kane on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many adults from Eritrea who previously applied for asylum as unaccompanied children were served with removal directions in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.

    James Brokenshire

    Our records indicate that fewer than a total of 5 adults from Eritrea who previously applied for asylum as unaccompanied children were served with removal directions from 2013 to 2015.

  • Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Kane on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) translation services and (b) other specialist provisions the Government provides to unaccompanied asylum seeking children from Eritrea.

    James Brokenshire

    All unaccompanied asylum seeking children, including those from Eritrea, are provided with an interpreter where necessary, access to legal advice, and are referred to the Refugee Council children’s panel.

    Unaccompanied asylum seeking children are placed in the care of local authority children’s services and have access to the same support as all other looked after children.

  • Cheryl Gillan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Cheryl Gillan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cheryl Gillan on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people carrying passports from other EU member states were refused entry to the UK in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

    James Brokenshire

    I refer my Rt. hon. Friend to the answer given to Question 31328.

  • Keir Starmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keir Starmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keir Starmer on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long the Semaphore system was subject to a national power outage between 12 and 17 June 2015.

    James Brokenshire

    For reasons of national security we do not comment on operational issues relating to border security systems.

  • Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35786, to which countries mutual legal assistance requests were made in the period from 2009-10 to 2015-16.

    James Brokenshire

    The countries and territories to which outgoing mutual legal assistance requests were transmitted via the Home Office in the period from 2009-10 to 2015-16 were:

    Albania

    Egypt

    Luxembourg

    Seychelles

    Andorra

    France

    Malaysia

    Singapore

    Australia

    Germany

    Malta

    South Africa

    Bahamas

    Ghana

    Mauritius

    Spain

    Bahrain

    Gibraltar

    Mexico

    Switzerland

    Bangladesh

    Greece

    Moldova

    Tanzania

    Barbados

    Grenada

    Monaco

    Thailand

    Belgium

    Guernsey

    Morocco

    The Netherlands Antilles

    Belize

    Hong Kong

    Netherlands

    Trinidad and Tobago

    Bermuda

    India

    New Zealand

    Tunisia

    Brazil

    Indonesia

    Nigeria

    Turkey

    British Virgin Islands

    Ireland

    Pakistan

    Uganda

    Bulgaria

    Isle of Man

    Panama

    Ukraine

    Canada

    Israel

    Philippines

    United Arab Emirates

    Cape Verde

    Italy

    Portugal

    United States

    Cayman Islands

    Jamaica

    Romania

    Venezuela

    China

    Japan

    Russia

    Vietnam

    Colombia

    Jersey

    Rwanda

    Costa Rica

    Kenya

    Saint Kitts and Nevis

    Cyprus

    Liechtenstein

    Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

    Please note that this data is taken from local management information, and as such, should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.

  • Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2016 to Question 35126, on deportation, how many removals were cancelled after an assessment by a medical escorting officer in 2015.

    James Brokenshire

    The data requested is not available centrally and is not routinely collected. It could be provided only by examining individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.

  • Keir Starmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keir Starmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keir Starmer on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on the Warnings Index her Department knows to have entered the UK since 6 May 2010.

    James Brokenshire

    It is longstanding policy not to disclose details of records which may be held in relation to individuals’ arrival in the United Kingdom as to do so would not be in the interests of national security.

  • Anne Main – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Anne Main – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne Main on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2016 to Question 36490, for what reason information on the number of (a) EU and (b) non-EU nationals refused entry to the UK in each year prior to 2004 is not available.

    James Brokenshire

    Data on passengers initially refused entry to the UK were not collected by the Home Office prior to 2004.

  • Keir Starmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keir Starmer – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keir Starmer on 2016-05-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the Semaphore eBorders system has been affected by a national power outage since 6 May 2010; and when each of those power outages (a) started and (b) ended.

    James Brokenshire

    For reasons of national security we do not comment on operational issues relating to border security systems.