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.
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.
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:
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Albania |
Egypt |
Luxembourg |
Seychelles |
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Andorra |
France |
Malaysia |
Singapore |
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Australia |
Germany |
Malta |
South Africa |
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Bahamas |
Ghana |
Mauritius |
Spain |
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Bahrain |
Gibraltar |
Mexico |
Switzerland |
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Bangladesh |
Greece |
Moldova |
Tanzania |
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Barbados |
Grenada |
Monaco |
Thailand |
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Belgium |
Guernsey |
Morocco |
The Netherlands Antilles |
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Belize |
Hong Kong |
Netherlands |
Trinidad and Tobago |
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Bermuda |
India |
New Zealand |
Tunisia |
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Brazil |
Indonesia |
Nigeria |
Turkey |
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British Virgin Islands |
Ireland |
Pakistan |
Uganda |
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Bulgaria |
Isle of Man |
Panama |
Ukraine |
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Canada |
Israel |
Philippines |
United Arab Emirates |
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Cape Verde |
Italy |
Portugal |
United States |
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Cayman Islands |
Jamaica |
Romania |
Venezuela |
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China |
Japan |
Russia |
Vietnam |
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Colombia |
Jersey |
Rwanda |
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Costa Rica |
Kenya |
Saint Kitts and Nevis |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Kane on 2016-05-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the findings of the Government’s Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015, published on 21 April 2016, on her Department’s country guidance on people from Eritrea seeking asylum in the UK.
James Brokenshire
We are currently updating our September 2015 country information and guidance on handling asylum claims made by Eritrean nationals.
The revised guidance will be based on an assessment of a range of sources including the Foreign Office’s Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015 as well as recent publications by Amnesty International and the findings of a Home Office fact finding mission to Eritrea undertaken in February 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-05-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many traffic police officers were employed in each police force area in each of the last five years.
Mike Penning
The number of full time equivalent police officers employed in traffic policing roles as at 31 March in each of the last 5 years is provided in the tables. Officers with multiple responsibilities are recorded under their primary function or role. Data for 31 March 2015 (the latest period for which figures are available) can also be found in the supplementary tables of the July 2015 police workforce statistics publication:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/444537/police-workforce-supptabs-mar15.ods
Reclassification of roles within a force can lead to fluctuations in the number of officers in a particular role.
As HMIC has made clear, there is no simple link between police numbers and crime levels, between numbers and the visibility of police in the community, or between numbers and the quality of service provided.
Decisions on the size and composition of the police workforce are operational matters for Chief Officers working with their Police and Crime Commissioners and taking into account local priorities. What matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them there are.