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57882

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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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department has given to local authorities about churches and same sex marriage.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	198732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Guidance on how to certify a building for religious worship and register for <br>the solemnization of marriages was issued on 18 February 2014 by the General <br>Register Office and is available at: <br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/281332<br>/D0550_F78L.pdf<br><br>The guidance sets out the different options that are available for places of <br>worship and registration for the solemnisation of marriage. Registration of <br>individual places of worship takes place through local registration services <br>attached to local authorities and they are expected to adhere to the guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/06/2014 11:29:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

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

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