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518267

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to encourage other countries to accept unaccompanied refugee children in Europe.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	36927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The government is at the forefront of assisting and protecting vulnerable children, wherever they are. Children in Europe are mostly already able to access support from countries that have similar legal obligations to our own.</p><p>The UK has been playing its full part in supporting European neighbours to provide support to those who have arrived. We have provided nearly £46 million of funding to the Europe wide response to help the most vulnerable, including children and infants.</p><p>In addition the £10 million the Department for International Development fund announced on 28 January will support UNHCR, Save the Children and International Rescue Committee to work with host authorities to care and assist unaccompanied or separated children.</p><p>This is in addition to resettling those from conflict regions through our Syrian Resettlement Programme and Children at Risk Resettlement Scheme. The UK is playing a leading role in the resettlement of the most vulnerable and supports other EU Member States in establishing and developing their resettlement schemes, through bilateral and multinational discussions.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:34:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

518268

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to place unaccompanied refugee children from European countries with foster families or in local authority care homes.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	36926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>As announced on 4 May we will be consulting closely with local authorities to find suitable places within the UK for these children.</p><p>Local authorities will be required to provide the right support, care and accommodation to meet the child’s specific needs. Statutory agencies at a local level are best placed to understand and meet the needs of all children and will continue to make decisions about the right accommodation and support services for those who are looked after.</p><p>Unaccompanied children will be eligible for foster care if it is considered that that this placement type will provide appropriate support and best meet their individual needs.</p><p>The UK has well-established and effective safeguarding procedures to ensure the safety of children who come to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:56:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

518272

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people who have had their application for asylum refused but cannot legally be returned to their country of origin.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The government expects those who have been refused asylum and who have no lawful basis to remain in the UK to leave at the earliest opportunity. If there is a genuine obstacle that prevents a failed asylum seeker's departure from the UK and they are destitute, they can apply for support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. As of 31 December 2015, a total of 3,821 failed asylum seekers and their dependants were supported under section 4.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:32:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

518274

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Pakistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications from Pakistan for applicants wishing to visit the UK were (a) made, (b) accepted and (c) refused in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014 and (iv) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	36870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The number of visitor visa applications received, granted and refused from Pakistani nationals for the years 2012 to 2015 is set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Entry clearance visitor visa applications and resolutions (grants, refusals, withdrawn or lapsed)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Pakistani nationals</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Applications</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Resolved</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>of which</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Granted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Refused</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Withdrawn or lapsed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>85,500</p></td><td><p>87,172</p></td><td><p>54,768</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td><td><p>32,115</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>289</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>85,749</p></td><td><p>88,901</p></td><td><p>61,578</p></td><td><p>69%</p></td><td><p>27,102</p></td><td><p>30%</p></td><td><p>221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>87,541</p></td><td><p>89,709</p></td><td><p>57,117</p></td><td><p>64%</p></td><td><p>32,332</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>90,066</p></td><td><p>90,414</p></td><td><p>44,989</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td><td><p>45,222</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td><td><p>203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Source:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Immigration Statistics October - December 2015, Home Office, tables vi_01_q, and corresponding datasets.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Notes.</strong> Some applications made in a particular year may be resolved (granted, refused, withdrawn or lapsed) in a subsequent year. For this reason the grant and refusal rates are calculated as proportions of the total resolved cases in each year, not the total applications.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:23:54 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

518279

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Eritrea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the findings of the Government's Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015, published on 21 April 2016, on her Department's country guidance on people from Eritrea seeking asylum in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	36796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>We are currently updating our September 2015 country information and guidance on handling asylum claims made by Eritrean nationals.</p><p>The revised guidance will be based on an assessment of a range of sources including the Foreign Office’s Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015 as well as recent publications by Amnesty International and the findings of a Home Office fact finding mission to Eritrea undertaken in February 2016.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:46:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

518280

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detainees: Eritrea
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 from Eritrea are currently held in immigration detention centres in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	36797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>As at 31 December 2015, there were 20 Eritrean nationals in detention in the UK. The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons removed or departed voluntarily from the UK within Immigration Statistics. Information on those in detention by nationality is available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: October to December 2015, table dt_13_q from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:38:16 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

518281

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Eritrea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many adults from Eritrea who previously applied for asylum as unaccompanied children were served with removal directions in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	36798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>Our records indicate that fewer than a total of 5 adults from Eritrea who previously applied for asylum as unaccompanied children were served with removal directions from 2013 to 2015.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:24:28 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

518282

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Eritrea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) translation services and (b) other specialist provisions the Government provides to unaccompanied asylum seeking children from Eritrea.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	36799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>All unaccompanied asylum seeking children, including those from Eritrea, are provided with an interpreter where necessary, access to legal advice, and are referred to the Refugee Council children’s panel.</p><p>Unaccompanied asylum seeking children are placed in the care of local authority children’s services and have access to the same support as all other looked after children.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:53:43 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

518284

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Borders: Personal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long the Semaphore system was subject to a national power outage between 12 and 17 June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Holborn and St Pancras
tabling member printed	Keir Starmer
uin	36845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>For reasons of national security we do not comment on operational issues relating to border security systems.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:22:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4514 label Biography information for Keir Starmer

518287

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
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, how many people on the Warnings Index her Department knows to have entered the UK since 6 May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Holborn and St Pancras
tabling member printed	Keir Starmer
uin	36871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>It is longstanding policy not to disclose details of records which may be held in relation to individuals’ arrival in the United Kingdom as to do so would not be in the interests of national security.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:32:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4514 label Biography information for Keir Starmer