Tag: Sarah Teather

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-04-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons she will no longer fund the detention element of the Choices service from 1 April 2014; whether an alternative assisted voluntary returns programme will be made available to immigration detainees; and what assessment she has made of the potential effects of this decision on the number of (a) assisted voluntary returns and (b) enforced removals.

James Brokenshire

An assessment of the impact of this change is in train and the range of
possible alternatives is complex. A full written response on the issue will be
provided to the Member in due course, and the letter placed in the House
Library.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-04-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration detainees left the UK through the assisted voluntary returns programmes in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

For the last five years, the numbers of detainees who have left the UK annually
through AVR programmes are as follows:

Year	Detainees departing through AVR
2009	585
2010	824
2011	848
2012	1150
2013	2081

The figures provided are sourced from a Home Office management information
system which is not quality assured under National Statistics protocols and is
subject to change due to internal data quality checking. Figures provided from
this source do not constitute part of National Statistics and should be treated
as provisional.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-04-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which prisons are holding individuals solely under immigration powers.

James Brokenshire

The prisons detailed below are currently holding individuals in England and Wales solely under immigration powers:

Ashfield	Glen Parva	Parc
Bedford	Guys Marsh	Pentonville
Belmarsh	Haverigg	Peterborough
Birmingham	Hewell	Ranby
Brinsford	High Down	Risley
Bristol	Highpoint	Rye Hall
Brixton	Holloway	Stafford
Bronzefield	Holme House	Stoke Heath
Bullingdon	Huntercombe	Styal
Bullwood Hall	Isis	Swansea
Bure	Leeds	Swinfen Hall
Cardiff	Lewes	Thameside
Chelmsford	Lincoln	Usk
Dartmoor	Littlehey	Wakefield
Doncastor	Liverpool	Wandsworth
Durham	Maidstone	Wayland
Elmley	Manchester	Whatton
Erlestoke	Moorland	Woodhill
Exeter	Mount	Wormwood Scrubs
Featherstone	New Hall	Wymott
Feltham	Norwich	Verne
Forest Bank	Nottingham
Garth	Oakwood

The prisons detailed below are currently holding individuals in Scotland under immigration powers:

Barlinnie, Edinburgh, Cornton Vale, Dumfries

1. All details quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

2. The details have been extracted from NOMS and Home Office reports which are taken from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording
system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

3. Data generated on 31 March 2014.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-04-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how much each local authority returned to his Department in unused discretionary housing payment funding in 2013-14.

Steve Webb

Local authorities are required to submit their claims for funding for Discretionary Housing Payments by 30 April following the end of the financial year.

Until the returns have been received from each authority, we are not in a position to say how much of this funding has been unused.

At the end of the 2012/13 year, of the £67,906,916 made available by central Government towards Discretionary Housing Payments, £12,453,471 (18.34%) was unspent.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-03-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on legal fees in immigration cases when she has been (a) the defendant and (b) the appellant, in each of the last five years for which records are available.

James Brokenshire

The Home Office cannot report separately on expenditure on legal fees in
immigration cases where the Secretary of State has been either defendant or
appellant because it does not record data in the format required for such an
analysis. The only way to answer this question would be to review all payments
of litigation expenditure manually which would incur disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-04-08.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had on the regeneration of the Brent Cross area with (a) Brent Council and (b) resident groups in Brent.

Danny Alexander

The Government has committed to working with the London Borough of Barnet to look at their proposals for the regeneration of Brent Cross. It is a matter for Barnet Council to discuss their plans with relevant stakeholders including Brent Council.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number of individuals held at HM Prison The Verne solely for immigration purposes as part of the quarterly immigration statistics.

James Brokenshire

Published figures on people detained in the United Kingdom solely under
Immigration Act powers include those held in short term holding facilities, pre
departure accommodation and immigration removal centres. However, figures
exclude those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term
holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those
recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their
dependants.

The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of
people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within
Immigration Statistics: October – December 2013, from the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-stati
stics-quarterly-release.

The provisional date for HMP The Verne to become an
Immigration Removal Centre is September 2014 and following that change specific
figures for the Verne would be regularly published alongside those for other
Immigration Removal Centres.