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453669

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Care Homes: Electrical Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of mandatory electrical safety checks in care homes.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	27590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>Fire safety in care homes is the responsibility of the operator who is required under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 to assess the risk from fire to residents and employees and to implement appropriate fire precautions to prevent fires and mitigate the risk that, should a fire break out, lives are not put at risk. This would include mitigating the risk of and from electrical fires.</p><p>The Government’s fire safety risk assessment guidance for residential care premises provides detailed advice on ensuring electrical equipment is safe, and is inspected regularly by a competent electrical engineer in accordance with the Electricity at Work Regulations.</p><p>It is for local fire and rescue authorities to determine whether the specific fire precautions and management and maintenance arrangements in place in any particular residential care premises are sufficient to comply with the provisions of the Order.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 27591 question first answered 26/02/2016 14:08:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

453670

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Care Homes: Electrical Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has undertaken of the electrical safety and adequacy of measures to prevent electrical fires in care homes in England.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	27591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>Fire safety in care homes is the responsibility of the operator who is required under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 to assess the risk from fire to residents and employees and to implement appropriate fire precautions to prevent fires and mitigate the risk that, should a fire break out, lives are not put at risk. This would include mitigating the risk of and from electrical fires.</p><p>The Government’s fire safety risk assessment guidance for residential care premises provides detailed advice on ensuring electrical equipment is safe, and is inspected regularly by a competent electrical engineer in accordance with the Electricity at Work Regulations.</p><p>It is for local fire and rescue authorities to determine whether the specific fire precautions and management and maintenance arrangements in place in any particular residential care premises are sufficient to comply with the provisions of the Order.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 27590 question first answered 26/02/2016 14:08:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

453755

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the implications for her policies on harm caused by alcohol are of the finding in the Balance report, The second hand harm of alcohol in the North East, published on 17 February 2016, on the proportion of people in the North East who have suffered harm at least once due to the drinking of others in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	27794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Balance report ‘The second hand harm of alcohol in the North East’ highlights a range of harms caused by other people’s drinking. The Government acknowledges that the costs of alcohol-related harm are too high. Alcohol-related harm is estimated to cost society over £21 billion per year, including £11 billion costs of alcohol-related crime, £3.5 billion costs to the NHS and £7.3 billion costs in lost productivity based on 2009-10 data. The Government will soon be publishing a Modern Crime Prevention Strategy which will set out new action to reduce alcohol-fuelled crime and violence.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/03/2016 16:53:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

453786

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average waiting time is for an application for leave to remain.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	27592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The average waiting time for a postal leave to remain application during the period of 05 October 2014 to 27 February 2015 was 82 calendar days. These dates have been selected to sit alongside published data and are based on operational performance reporting. The average is based on the average waiting times between the date a postal application is submitted and the length of time taken to despatch the decision to the applicant for all leave to remain routes.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/03/2016 17:31:14 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

453787

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines her Department produces on the inclusion of non-conviction information or soft information on DBS forms.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	27587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Statutory guidance is issued under section 113B(4A) of the Police Act 1997 in order to assist chief officers of police in making decisions to provide relevant non-conviction information and other intelligence from local police records for inclusion in enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificates. The Home Office introduced the first edition of this guidance on 10 September 2012 and the most recent revision came into force on 10 August 2015.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 29/02/2016 16:57:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

453793

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with dependants who have been granted leave to remain in the UK had a no recourse to public funds condition attached to their leave in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	27729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Home Office systems cannot be interrogated in a way that will provide any meaningful response to the question. A manual review of all applications submitted within the stipulated timeframe would be needed in order to provide an accurate response and this would incur a disproportionate cost to the public purse.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/03/2016 17:35:32 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

453794

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under the age of 18 were dependants of adults who had been granted leave to remain in the UK and had also had a no recourse to public funds condition attached to their leave in the financial years (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	27730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Home Office Systems cannot be interrogated in a way that will provide any meaningful response to the question. A manual review of all applications submitted with dependants within the stipulated timeframe would be needed in order to provide an accurate response and this would incur a disproportionate cost to the public purse.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/03/2016 17:34:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

453795

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests were made to her Department for a change of conditions of leave lifting the condition of no recourse to public funds in financial years (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	27731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>The data requested is not available for each of the years requested and can only be provided from December 2014. The number of submitted applications for a change of conditions to allow recourse to public funds between December 2014 and 30 September 2015 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Applications</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>December 2014 – March 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>April 2015 – September 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>1660</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This response represents the closest reply that can be provided within the constraints of our data reporting system.</p><p>The data provided is considered Management Information and is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/03/2016 17:14:32 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

453796

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests were made to her Department for a change of conditions of leave were approved in lifting the no recourse to public funds condition to the applicants conditions of leave in financial years (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	27732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>The data requested is not available for each of the years requested and can only be provided from December 2014. The number of granted applications for a change of conditions to allow recourse to public funds between December 2014 and 30 September 2015 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Granted Applications</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>December 2014 – March 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>April 2015 – September 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>680</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This response represents the closest reply that can be provided within the constraints of our data reporting system.</p><p>The data provided is considered Management Information and is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/03/2016 17:09:49 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

453797

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of asylum seekers who have been found to have fraudulently claimed to be under the age of 18 in each of the last years.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Asylum Claims by Year with a disputed age</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year of Claim</p></td><td><p>Totals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>318</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data is taken from published statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum</p><p>Whilst we do hold information on the results of these assessments and whether they were found to be under the age of 18 the way corresponding data is held means that to obtain the data could only be achieved at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/02/2016 15:50:32 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies