The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-03-14.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the change, if any, in the number of households in the UK with a (1) UK-born, and (2) non-UK-born, Household Reference Person between 2010 and 2015.
Lord Bridges of Headley
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-10-10.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Restricted Certificates of Sponsorship were (1) issued, and (2) subsequently taken up, by employers in each month since the permanent cap was introduced in April 2011.
Baroness Williams of Trafford
The data requested is routinely published on the Gov.uk website and can be found at the following address https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employer-sponsorship-restricted-certificate-allocations/allocations-of-restricted-certificates-of-sponsorship Please also find the information included in the link set out in the table below
|
Allocation Month |
Restricted Certificate of Sponsorship Available |
Restricted Certificate of Sponsorship Granted |
|
Apr-11 |
4200 |
1019 |
|
May-11 |
4666 |
781 |
|
Jun-11 |
5397 |
845 |
|
Jul-11 |
6064 |
859 |
|
Aug-11 |
6760 |
819 |
|
Sep-11 |
7719 |
673 |
|
Oct-11 |
8536 |
818 |
|
Nov-11 |
9559 |
766 |
|
Dec-11 |
10269 |
729 |
|
Jan-12 |
11023 |
706 |
|
Feb-12 |
11773 |
832 |
|
Mar-12 |
12429 |
1040 |
|
Apr-12 |
1725 |
1037 |
|
May-12 |
2415 |
913 |
|
Jun-12 |
3188 |
924 |
|
Jul-12 |
3950 |
1007 |
|
Aug-12 |
4648 |
776 |
|
Sep-12 |
5486 |
785 |
|
Oct-12 |
6418 |
715 |
|
Nov-12 |
7418 |
717 |
|
Dec-12 |
8408 |
753 |
|
Jan-13 |
9355 |
780 |
|
Feb-13 |
10269 |
955 |
|
Mar-13 |
11031 |
1044 |
|
Apr-13 |
1710 |
1247 |
|
May-13 |
2172 |
772 |
|
Jun-13 |
3120 |
1373 |
|
Jul-13 |
3416 |
1417 |
|
Aug-13 |
3680 |
1110 |
|
Sep-13 |
4189 |
1044 |
|
Oct-13 |
4863 |
973 |
|
Nov-13 |
5595 |
1024 |
|
Dec-13 |
6283 |
1275 |
|
Jan-14 |
6714 |
926 |
|
Feb-14 |
7427 |
1289 |
|
Mar-14 |
7825 |
1033 |
|
Apr-14 |
1724 |
1699 |
|
May-14 |
1728 |
1083 |
|
Jun-14 |
2350 |
1738 |
|
Jul-14 |
2308 |
1749 |
|
Aug-14 |
2213 |
1763 |
|
Sep-14 |
2050 |
1442 |
|
Oct-14 |
2277 |
1473 |
|
Nov-14 |
2511 |
1723 |
|
Dec-14 |
2481 |
1819 |
|
Jan-15 |
2416 |
1670 |
|
Feb-15 |
2392 |
2409 |
|
Mar-15 |
1690 |
1519 |
|
Apr-15 |
2528 |
1888 |
|
May-15 |
2285 |
2277 |
|
Jun-15 |
1609 |
1215 |
|
Jul-15 |
2040 |
1943 |
|
Aug-15 |
2347 |
2418 |
|
Sep-15 |
1544 |
1520 |
|
Oct-15 |
2111 |
1953 |
|
Nov-15 |
2011 |
2100 |
|
Dec-15 |
1898 |
1774 |
|
Jan-16 |
1926 |
1441 |
|
Feb-16 |
2439 |
1760 |
|
Mar-16 |
2661 |
1748 |
|
Apr-16 |
2175 |
1692 |
|
May-16 |
2464 |
1849 |
|
Jun-16 |
2575 |
1853 |
|
Jul-16 |
2701 |
2238 |
|
Aug-16 |
2695 |
1952 |
|
Sep-16 |
2879 |
1509 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-03-14.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the change, if any, in the number of households in London with a (1) UK-born, and (2) non-UK-born, Household Reference Person between 2000 and 2015.
Lord Bridges of Headley
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-10-18.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what preparations the international community has made for the protection of the human rights of women and minorities in Syria in a post-Assad regime.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
The UK is clear that Syria needs a political transition leading to a more accountable, inclusive, representative form of governance than the Asad regime. A fundamental element of transition needs to be a commitment to protect Syria’s minorities and to promote the role of women in the political process and beyond.
Within the International Syria Support Group and in our close work with the moderate opposition, we promote the inclusion and safeguarding of minorities and women as the political process progresses.
The international community is working with the Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee. At a launch hosted by the Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) in September, they set out a progressive and compelling vision for political transition in Syria, emphasising among other things their commitment to the protection of all components of Syrian society and to promoting women’s rights.
The Government has provided £7 million in direct support to gender related projects in Syria since the start of the crisis. For financial year 2016/17, we are due to spend a further £1.9m. Across the 2016 programme, all projects are gender sensitive, with action being taken to raise awareness of gender equality issues, promote the empowerment of women, and gather evidence and accountability for sexual and gender-based violence.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2015-12-17.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons were paying National Insurance contributions in the most recent period for which data are available, and how many of those were citizens of the EU10 countries at the time they first registered for a National Insurance number.
Lord O’Neill of Gatley
In 2012-13 it is estimated that 26.8m individuals are liable to National Insurance Contributions from earned income or self-employed profits across the different classes of National Insurance.
This is estimated using the latest available outturn from the Survey of Personal Income (SPI) for 2012-13. The SPI does not contain information on the nationality of individuals in the sample.
Calculating the number of individuals in 2012-13 who were paying National Insurance Contributions who were citizens of the EU when they first registered for a National Insurance number is complex and cannot be done quickly.However, HM Revenue and Customs are planning to produce more data early in 2016 on this issue.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-03-21.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will publish the net migration statistics for 2015.
Lord Bridges of Headley
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2015-12-17.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the EU directives on asylum into which they have opted, and what are those from which they have opted out.
Lord Bates
Between 1999 and 2005, several measures harmonising common minimum standards for asylum were adopted. The six measures were the Dublin II Regulation, the EURODAC Regulation, the Temporary Protection Directive, the Reception Conditions Directive, the Qualification Directive and the Asylum Procedures Directive. The UK opted into all of these Directives.
The Reception Conditions Directive, the Qualifications Directive and the Asylum Procedures Directives were later revised but the UK did not opt into the revised versions and remains bound by the original Directives.
The Dublin II Regulation and EURODAC Regulation were also revised and the UK opted into the revised versions.
The Temporary Protection Directive has not been revised and the UK remains bound by the original Directive.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-04-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of (1) the effect of immigration, and (2) the effect of immigration from the EU, on the UK’s GDP per head in the last 10 years.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
No such estimate has been made.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-01-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum applications have been made in each of the last five years by applicants who entered the UK on a student visa; what were the nationalities of each applicant; how many of those applications were refused, and how many unsuccessful applicants were subsequently removed.
Lord Bates
Over the last five years there have been 15,470 cases of individuals who have entered on a student visa and subsequently also went on to claim asylum. Details by year and nationality are below.
Unfortunately the way corresponding data is held on asylum outcome means that to obtain the numbers of cases that were granted, refused and removed could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.
|
Visa Nationality |
Asylum Year |
Grand Total |
||||
|
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
||
|
Afghanistan |
10 |
26 |
63 |
73 |
69 |
241 |
|
Albania |
2 |
6 |
3 |
5 |
16 |
|
|
Algeria |
7 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
17 |
|
|
Angola |
2 |
2 |
||||
|
Armenia |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Azerbaijan |
4 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
||
|
Bahrain |
6 |
5 |
1 |
12 |
||
|
Bangladesh |
12 |
31 |
167 |
318 |
264 |
792 |
|
Belarus |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Benin |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Bolivia |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Botswana |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
|
|
Bulgaria |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Burkina Faso |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Burma (Myanmar) |
166 |
98 |
42 |
14 |
13 |
333 |
|
Burundi |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|||
|
Cameroon |
4 |
3 |
9 |
33 |
52 |
101 |
|
Central African Republic |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
China |
16 |
25 |
95 |
162 |
160 |
458 |
|
Colombia |
2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
11 |
|
Congo |
3 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
||
|
Democratic Republic of Congo |
5 |
7 |
5 |
17 |
||
|
Egypt |
1 |
8 |
12 |
15 |
15 |
51 |
|
Equatorial Guinea |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Eritrea |
6 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
16 |
|
Ethiopia |
9 |
5 |
6 |
11 |
8 |
39 |
|
Gambia |
11 |
9 |
38 |
39 |
32 |
129 |
|
Georgia |
2 |
5 |
7 |
|||
|
Ghana |
3 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
||
|
Guinea |
3 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
6 |
17 |
|
HONG KONG |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
India |
10 |
26 |
244 |
320 |
294 |
894 |
|
Iran |
106 |
244 |
464 |
307 |
148 |
1269 |
|
Iraq |
6 |
3 |
15 |
17 |
54 |
95 |
|
Israel |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Ivory Coast |
1 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
|
Jamaica |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
||
|
Japan |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Jordan |
2 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
3 |
18 |
|
Kenya |
6 |
5 |
10 |
12 |
12 |
45 |
|
Kuwait |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Kyrgyzstan |
5 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
13 |
|
|
Lebanon |
1 |
2 |
6 |
5 |
14 |
|
|
Liberia |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Libya |
7 |
114 |
73 |
57 |
86 |
337 |
|
Malawi |
2 |
4 |
10 |
15 |
9 |
40 |
|
Malaysia |
1 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
||
|
Maldives |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Mali |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
|
Mauritius |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
10 |
|
|
MEXICO |
2 |
2 |
||||
|
Mongolia |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
|
|
Morocco |
3 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
18 |
|
|
Nepal |
4 |
3 |
33 |
37 |
25 |
102 |
|
Nigeria |
6 |
12 |
94 |
142 |
136 |
390 |
|
Oman |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|||
|
Pakistan |
52 |
385 |
1313 |
1471 |
1265 |
4486 |
|
Palestinian Authority |
18 |
24 |
30 |
25 |
30 |
127 |
|
Philippines |
1 |
8 |
12 |
11 |
32 |
|
|
Russian Federation |
2 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
|
|
Rwanda |
9 |
7 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
29 |
|
Saudi Arabia |
4 |
3 |
6 |
13 |
||
|
Senegal |
4 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
18 |
|
|
Sierra Leone |
1 |
4 |
9 |
2 |
16 |
|
|
SINGAPORE |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Somalia |
1 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
||
|
South Africa |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
||
|
SOUTH KOREA |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|||
|
SOUTH SUDAN |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Sri Lanka |
230 |
744 |
1137 |
1171 |
715 |
3997 |
|
St Lucia |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
St Vincent & the Grenadines |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Sudan |
6 |
11 |
23 |
11 |
9 |
60 |
|
Syria |
8 |
24 |
256 |
251 |
134 |
673 |
|
Tanzania |
10 |
8 |
15 |
17 |
11 |
61 |
|
Thailand |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Tunisia |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|||
|
Turkey |
6 |
8 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
32 |
|
Turkmenistan |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
|
Uganda |
7 |
11 |
42 |
33 |
41 |
134 |
|
Ukraine |
9 |
9 |
||||
|
Uzbekistan |
1 |
4 |
5 |
|||
|
Venezuela |
3 |
3 |
||||
|
Vietnam |
1 |
1 |
5 |
9 |
17 |
33 |
|
Yemen |
2 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
15 |
|
|
Yugoslavia |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Zambia |
1 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
12 |
|
|
Zimbabwe |
14 |
11 |
26 |
15 |
15 |
81 |
|
Grand Total |
781 |
1901 |
4350 |
4695 |
3743 |
15470 |
Note: The figures quoted have been derived from internal management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-04-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many illegal entrants were detected (1) on arrival at a UK ferry port, and (2) subsequent to having entered in a vehicle that had arrived at a UK ferry port, in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Our records currently indicate that the number of clandestine entrants detected at UK ferry ports was:
2013 756
2014 1,480
2015 1,305
As part of recent changes to the way data is recorded, management information from April 2011 has been refreshed and may differ from the data released in earlier responses.
Previous figures provided for PQ 21106 showed that, at that time, our records indicated that 678 detections had been made at seaports in 2013. Under the new improved recording and reporting system, this figure has been updated to 756.
Clandestine entrants detected in-country with a declared port of departure that is a ferry port:
2013 676
2014 1,343
2015 1,630
This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics. Because the source of this data is a live operational system, operational reports taking data from the system at different times will continue to reflect slightly different numbers.
As part of recent changes to the way data is recorded, management information from April 2011 has been refreshed and may differ from the data released in earlier responses.
Immigration controls operate at Calais, and as such detections at Dover are normally counted as in country. For the purposes of this question, detections at Dover are counted as "at a UK ferry port".
For part (2), data on the ferry port of departure has been used as a proxy for port of arrival, as the latter is not recorded.
Regarding part (2), it must be noted that data for port of departure is incomplete: over the three year period there are more than 15,000 clandestines detected in country with no port of departure recorded. The data for part (2) excludes clandestine entrants whose declared port of departure is Coquelles, as this is a rail port.