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  • Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jon Trickett on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were being accommodated by Serco in the North West region on the latest date for which figures are available.

    James Brokenshire

    The Home Office publishes quarterly data on the number of asylum seekers in Section 95 dispersal accommodation, by local authority. In Q3 2015 there were 7,531 in dispersed accommodation in the North West region (Asylum Vol 4. Table 16q).

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum

  • Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jon Trickett on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were being accommodated by G4S in the (a) North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) Midlands and East of England regions on the latest date for which figures are available.

    James Brokenshire

    The Home Office publishes quarterly data on the number of asylum seekers in Section 95 dispersal accommodation, by local authority. In Q3 2015 there were 2,713 in dispersed accommodation in the North East; 3,736 in Yorkshire and the Humber; 4,351 in the West Midlands; 2,289 in East Midlands; 387 in East of England (Asylum Vol 4. Table 16q). https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum.

  • Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jon Trickett on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which providers are expected to provide accommodation for the estimated 20,000 Syrian nationals to be resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme by 2020.

    Richard Harrington

    The UK has been operating resettlement schemes for many years and we already have established and effective networks to accommodate and support resettled people.

    This is a voluntary scheme whereby local authorities sign up to accept refugees on a voluntary basis. It is up to each individual local authority to decide how best to manage the resettlement of refugees in their area, and they are therefore free to choose their own delivery partners.

  • John Mann – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    John Mann – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Mann on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children from each country of embarkation arrived at UK airports without being eligible for entry clearance in 2015.

    James Brokenshire

    This information is not held centrally.

    The UK Government takes child safeguarding extremely seriously. All Border Force officers have received training in keeping children safe and all operational processes involving children comply with requirements as set out in the Children and Young Persons Act.

  • Frank Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Frank Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to protect the public from fraudulent organisations presenting themselves as Disclosure and Barring Service umbrella body companies seeking personal data.

    Karen Bradley

    Registered/Umbrella Bodies are governed by a Code of Practice, set out in Part V of the Police Act 1997, which includes the handling of personal data. Failure to comply with the Code of Practice may result in the suspension or cancellation of the umbrella body’s registration. In addition the Disclosure and Barring Service undertakes robust checks to ensure that its authorised Registered/Umbrella Bodies have appropriate safeguards in place to protect the personal data of people they are representing.

  • Vicky Foxcroft – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Vicky Foxcroft – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Vicky Foxcroft on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards her Department has put in place to ensure that out-of-country entry clearance applications are rigorously checked and processed.

    James Brokenshire

    All out of country entry clearance applications are subject to an extensive range of mandatory and discretionary checks.

    These include, but are not limited to, identity, travel document verification, searches against national and international police records and against previous Immigration history. But biographic and biometric checks can also be made.

    Applications are then assessed against the Immigration Rules. Decision quality is assured both by local managers and as part of the overall Departmental audit and assurance framework. Further assurance is provided by regular third party inspections and audits.

  • Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of UK citizens previously granted refugee status who have been refused permission for family members to join them on account of the minimum income threshold in Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules.

    James Brokenshire

    The information requested is not available from centrally collated statistical databases, and could only be compiled at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.

  • Ruth Smeeth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Ruth Smeeth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Smeeth on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to issue a response to the Migration Advisory Committee review of Tier 2 visas.

    James Brokenshire

    The Government is carefully considering the Migration Advisory Committee’s recommendations and has not yet made its final decisions. We will announce our response in due course.

  • Rob Marris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Rob Marris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rob Marris on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West of 14 December 2015 on the International Sikh Youth Federation, case reference ZA2442.

    Mr John Hayes

    I wrote to the hon. Member on 17 February 2016.

  • John Mann – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    John Mann – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Mann on 2016-02-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what receipts were received by each police force from the proceeds of crime in 2015.

    Mr John Hayes

    More assets were taken off criminals in 2014/15 than ever before. £199 million was recovered, and hundreds of millions more was frozen and put beyond the reach of criminals. The table below shows the total receipts from cash forfeited by each police force, and receipts from confiscation orders in the financial year 1 April 2014-31 March 2015.

    The table includes data for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. However, the figures for the Police Service of Northern Ireland are for cash forfeitures only, as under the devolution settlement, all confiscation receipts are retained by Northern Ireland, and the Home Office holds no data.

    Police Force

    Total receipts from cash forfeiture orders and confiscation orders in the year 2014-15

    Avon & Somerset Constabulary

    £1,490,611.90

    Bedfordshire Police

    £1,094,410.68

    British Transport Police

    £556,348.90

    Cambridgeshire Constabulary

    £720,660.84

    Cheshire Constabulary

    £2,484,655.12

    City of London Police

    £2,555,229.61

    Cleveland Police

    £556,308.05

    Cumbria Constabulary

    £1,135,771.58

    Derbyshire Constabulary

    £676,892.51

    Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

    £1,398,001.79

    Dorset Police

    £275,603.19

    Durham Constabulary

    £739,926.17

    Dyfed-Powys Police

    £196,955.52

    Essex Police

    £1,636,232.98

    Gloucestershire Constabulary

    £1,321,446.18

    Greater Manchester Police

    £6,823,306.05

    Gwent Police

    £755,622.39

    Hampshire Constabulary

    £1,357,509.31

    Hertfordshire Constabulary

    £1,895,544.77

    Humberside Police

    £1,009,594.15

    Kent Police

    £1,710,364.42

    Lancashire Constabulary

    £2,125,492.14

    Leicestershire Constabulary

    £1,462,857.28

    Lincolnshire Police

    £440,109.19

    Merseyside Police

    £3,971,554.79

    Metropolitan Police Service

    £23,518,346.51

    Norfolk Constabulary

    £605,485.18

    North Wales Police

    £555,579.35

    North Yorkshire Police

    £395,279.48

    Northamptonshire Police

    £1,607,162.05

    Northumbria Police

    £827,194.86

    Nottinghamshire Police

    £924,929.87

    Police Service of Northern Ireland

    £521,050.22

    South Wales Police

    £1,313,813.78

    South Yorkshire Police

    £1,666,790.98

    Staffordshire Police

    £1,099,376.89

    Suffolk Constabulary

    £939,571.40

    Surrey Police

    £1,081,929.13

    Sussex Police

    £1,089,285.30

    Thames Valley Police

    £834,890.14

    Warwickshire Police

    £263,041.41

    West Mercia Constabulary

    £698,110.14

    West Midlands Police

    £4,689,385.89

    West Yorkshire Police

    £5,062,763.87

    Wiltshire Constabulary

    £430,894.47