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57939

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Driving Offences: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of car insurance fraud have been reported in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	198880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Department.</p><p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 198879 199252 question first answered 12/06/2014 15:15:34 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

57940

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Driving Offences: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of car insurance fraud in Yorkshire and the Humber have been reported in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	198879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Department.</p><p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 198880 199252 question first answered 12/06/2014 15:15:33 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

57992

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases against her Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Mr Michael McCann
uin	198665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not keep a central record of which cases brought against <br>it are legally aided, or of the law firms that represent litigants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 198661 question first answered 09/06/2014 10:15:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3963 label Biography information for Mr Michael McCann

57993

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases funded by legal aid taken against her Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by her Department each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Mr Michael McCann
uin	198661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not keep a central record of which cases brought against <br>it are legally aided, or of the law firms that represent litigants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 198665 question first answered 09/06/2014 10:15:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3963 label Biography information for Mr Michael McCann

58054

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Marriage of Convenience
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriages were reported to the Home Office as suspicious or sham in each year since 2009.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	199064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Sections 24 and 24A of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 place a duty on <br>registration officers to submit a report to the Home Office where they have <br>reasonable grounds to suspect that a marriage or civil partnership is a sham <br>being entered into for immigration purposes. Table 1 shows the <br>number of section 24/24A reports received in each year since 2009. Same sex <br>marriages only came into effect this year there is therefore no data relating <br>to this period, or for civil partnerships before 2011.<br><br><br><br>The Home Office Intelligence Management System (IMS) records allegations from <br>the public regarding immigration-related offences. Since 30 September 2012 we <br>have recorded the following numbers of reports relating to sham marriage as set <br>out in Table 2. <br>These figures relate to reports identified by the public as possible sham <br>marriage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of section 24/24A reports </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Of which refer civil partnerships</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p>561</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>934</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>1,741</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>1,891</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>2135</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of reports relating to sham marriage recorded on IMS </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012 (from 30 September)</strong></p></td><td><p>984</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>6909</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/06/2014 15:56:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 79 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

58094

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sovereignty: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any UK citizens would involuntarily lose resident citizenship as a result of Scottish independence.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	Eric Joyce
uin	198712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In the event of a vote for independence, decisions about UK citizenship would <br>rest with the UK Government; the basis for entitlement to Scottish citizenship <br>would be for the government of an independent Scottish state to decide.<br><br>The UK has historically been tolerant of plural nationalities, and therefore it <br>is likely that it would be possible for an individual to hold both British and <br>Scottish citizenship. However, under current rules British citizens living <br>outside the UK cannot pass their British nationality on more than one <br>generation. So, the children of British citizens living in an independent <br>Scotland would be British citizens, but their children and subsequent <br>generations would not be.<br><br>The government of the continuing UK would also need to consider whether all <br>British citizens living in Scotland could retain their British citizenship upon <br>independence. This cannot be guaranteed and could be dependent on any residence <br>requirements or proof of affinity to the continuing UK. It is not possible to <br>predict now what the decision of a future government of the continuing UK might <br>be in this area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/06/2014 11:31:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	603 label Biography information for Eric Joyce

58100

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Private Investigators
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, 462W, on private investigation, whether she plans to consult upon the terms and conditions of licences for private investigators prior to their implementation under the new statutory licensing requirement.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Garnier
uin	198722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Security Industry Authority (SIA) - the regulator of the private security <br>industry - will engage with the private investigations sector on the development <br>of licensing criteria and conditions prior to the implementation of the new <br>licensing regime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/06/2014 10:16:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	337 label Biography information for Lord Garnier

58116

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the average waiting times at the UK border for the last three years at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Manchester, (e) Birmingham and (f) Luton airports.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	199026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The yearly average queue times for passengers arriving at the Primary Checkpoint to be admitted into the UK are set out in the table below. All meet service level agreement targets, which are below 25 minutes for European Economic Area (EEA) passengers and below 45 Minutes for non-EEA passengers.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><strong>Average Passenger Queue Times (hr:mm)</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><strong>2011</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>2012</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>2013</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Port</strong></td><td>EEA</td><td>NonEEA</td><td>EEA</td><td>NonEEA</td><td>EEA</td><td>NonEEA</td></tr><tr><td>Heathrow TN1</td><td>00:05</td><td>00:13</td><td>00:03</td><td>00:08</td><td>00:02</td><td>00:05</td></tr><tr><td>Heathrow TN3</td><td>00:06</td><td>00:19</td><td>00:03</td><td>00:11</td><td>00:02</td><td>00:09</td></tr><tr><td>Heathrow TN4</td><td>00:04</td><td>00:22</td><td>00:02</td><td>00:11</td><td>00:02</td><td>00:08</td></tr><tr><td>Heathrow TN5</td><td>00:06</td><td>00:21</td><td>00:04</td><td>00:13</td><td>00:04</td><td>00:09</td></tr><tr><td>Gatwick North</td><td>00:03</td><td>00:05</td><td>00:03</td><td>00:05</td><td>00:02</td><td>00:04</td></tr><tr><td>Gatwick South</td><td>00:04</td><td>00:07</td><td>00:03</td><td>00:05</td><td>00:02</td><td>00:03</td></tr><tr><td>Stansted</td><td>00:13</td><td>00:20</td><td>00:07</td><td>00:10</td><td>00:06</td><td>00:09</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester TN1</td><td>00:09</td><td>00:15</td><td>00:10</td><td>00:17</td><td>00:09</td><td>00:15</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester TN2</td><td>00:10</td><td>00:19</td><td>00:09</td><td>00:16</td><td>00:08</td><td>00:15</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester TN3</td><td>00:08</td><td>00:14</td><td>00:15</td><td>00:23</td><td>00:11</td><td>00:16</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham</td><td>00:07</td><td>00:11</td><td>00:06</td><td>00:09</td><td>00:05</td><td>00:09</td></tr><tr><td>Luton</td><td>00:09</td><td>00:09</td><td>00:08</td><td>00:08</td><td>00:07</td><td>00:09</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="7">The figures quoted above are management information subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 17/06/2014 13:59:53 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

58201

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of victims of human trafficking through the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Graham Evans
uin	198785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In 2013 the UK National Referral Mechanism (NRM) received 1,746 referrals of <br>potential victims of trafficking. However, trafficking is a covert crime and <br>victims are often hidden, making it difficult to establish the true scale of <br>the issue.<br><br>The National Crime Agency's UK Human Trafficking Centre publishes an annual <br>assessment of the number of victims of human trafficking. The most recent <br>assessment was published in August 2013 and can be found on the NCA website <br>(www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk).<br><br>The Government is determined to lead the global fight against human trafficking <br>(including modern slavery), and has introduced the Modern Slavery Bill. The <br>Bill will give law enforcement the tools to stamp out modern slavery, and <br>enhance protection for victims. To complement the Bill, the Government is also <br>ramping up non-legislative action to tackle this abhorrent crime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/06/2014 16:30:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 57 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530
tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow