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849963

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons were for the December 2017 increase to the minimum points threshold for Tier 2 certificates of sponsorship; what the annual quota for such certificates is; and what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of provision of such certificates for private sector employers wising to hire non-EU staff.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	129531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>Tier 2, our main immigration route for non-EEA workers, operates an annual cap of 20,700 places per year. The cap, which was set on advice from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), ensures that the Government can control migration and encourages employers to look first to the domestic workforce before recruiting from overseas.</p><p>Restricted Certificates of Sponsorship – which are places within the cap – are allocated by points scores. When demand exceeds available places, priority, and the highest number of points, is awarded to occupations in national shortage first. The higher minimum points score in December 2017 was due to a rise in demand.</p><p>We keep all of our immigration routes under review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/03/2018 13:06:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

850060

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Accommodation Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum accommodation centres UKVI (a) inspected and (b) found to be falling short of the required standards of safe, habitable and fit for purpose accommodation that complies with decent homes standard and other relevant housing standards in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	129628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>All asylum accommodation is inspected on a regular basis by the provider and the Home Office in accordance with the performance standards defined in the contract. Performance is monitored via the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) regime, details of which are set out in the contracts and cover the provision of the whole service. The property inspection process forms part of the Home Office’s rigorous contract compliance regime which ensures that the required performance standards expected of all providers are met.</p><p>Where inspected property does not meet the required standards there are strict time limits on resolving property defects; failure to meet those time limits can result in service credits being applied through financial deduction from monthly invoices. These are monitored formally, on a monthly basis, at Contract Management meetings between the providers and representatives of UK Visas and Immigration.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish data on accommodation inspections or the value of service credit that have been accrued on the contracts.</p><p>In line with government transparency commitments details of the standards required are already in the public domain. The particular document that details the standards is titled ‘COMPASS Project Schedule 2 - Statement of Requirements’ and is available on the Contracts Finder Archive on the Data.Gov.UK Website at:https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/487962/</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 129629 question first answered 02/03/2018 13:11:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

850061

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Accommodation Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2018 to Question 128378, on how many occasions UKVI has taken steps to hold suppliers to account for providing unsuitable, unfit for purpose and uninhabitable accommodation in asylum accommodation centres in each of the last five years; and what procedures UKVI has in place to hold such suppliers to account.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	129629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>All asylum accommodation is inspected on a regular basis by the provider and the Home Office in accordance with the performance standards defined in the contract. Performance is monitored via the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) regime, details of which are set out in the contracts and cover the provision of the whole service. The property inspection process forms part of the Home Office’s rigorous contract compliance regime which ensures that the required performance standards expected of all providers are met.</p><p>Where inspected property does not meet the required standards there are strict time limits on resolving property defects; failure to meet those time limits can result in service credits being applied through financial deduction from monthly invoices. These are monitored formally, on a monthly basis, at Contract Management meetings between the providers and representatives of UK Visas and Immigration.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish data on accommodation inspections or the value of service credit that have been accrued on the contracts.</p><p>In line with government transparency commitments details of the standards required are already in the public domain. The particular document that details the standards is titled ‘COMPASS Project Schedule 2 - Statement of Requirements’ and is available on the Contracts Finder Archive on the Data.Gov.UK Website at:https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/487962/</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 129628 question first answered 02/03/2018 13:11:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

850078

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Middle East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Christians from Syria and Iraq have been resettled in the UK to date.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	129646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>Our resettlement schemes prioritise the most vulnerable refugees regardless of race, religion or ethnicity – we do not discriminate in favour of, or against, any particular group. This is why we work closely with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees which has well-established procedures and criteria for identifying and resettling the most vulnerable refugees.</p><p>The refugees that we are bringing to the United Kingdom are very vulnerable people. Our primary concern is their safety and protection as they arrive here. We believe that one way to protect their privacy and enable their recovery and integration is to limit the amount of information about them that we make publicly available. We therefore do not plan to publish a breakdown of resettled refugees’ religious affiliations.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/03/2018 12:58:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

850124

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
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 whether there is a need to review current immigration policy on extended family reunification applications which are rejected because they do not meet financial or accommodation thresholds.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	129692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>There are no financial or accommodation requirements for family reunion applications to join immediate family members who are refugees in the UK. You can find guidance on Family Reunion for refugees on GOV.UK.<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/541818/Family_reunion_guidance_v2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/541818/Family_reunion_guidance_v2.pdf</a></p><p>Extended family members can also sponsor refugee children to join them in the UK under the Immigration Rules. Those applying must show that they can provide adequate maintenance and accommodation that is suitable for the child’s care. This is set out in the Immigration Directorate Instructions on GOV.UK:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/452964/IDI_Adequate_Maintenance_and_Accommodation_Part_8_Annex_F.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/452964/IDI_Adequate_Maintenance_and_Accommodation_Part_8_Annex_F.pdf</a></p><p>Where an application fails under the Immigration Rules, including where an applicant is unable to meet financial or accommodation thresholds, our policy requires caseworker to consider whether there are any exceptional circumstances for granting a visa outside the Rules.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/03/2018 13:28:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

850134

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
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 effect of family reunification on (a) the wellbeing and (b) integration of child refugees living in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	129702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>Family reunion for refugees in the UK is a very important issue and one which we must approach with sensitivity and compassion. The Government’s policy objective is to support the principle of family unity by bringing together pre-flight families separated by conflict or oppression.</p><p>We are currently discussing our approach to family reunion with non-governmental organisations, and as part of that we are reviewing existing research on the wellbeing and integration of refugees living in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/03/2018 15:19:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

850146

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that medical practices comply with published guidance on the medical requirements for obtaining a firearms license.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	129714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The arrangements for providing medical information as part of the firearms licensing process, introduced in 2016, are voluntary and we know that there is significant variation in how GPs respond to the police request for this information.</p><p>We have been in discussions with the police, the relevant medical bodies, and representatives of shooting organisations about how greater consistency can be achieved across England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 02/03/2018 13:30:55 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

850175

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cannabis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to introduce the use of all forms of medicinal cannabis.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	129743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government sympathises deeply with the situation faced by Alfie Dingley and his family. The Policing and Fire Minister met Alfie Dingley’s family on 26 February. Both the Home Secretary and Mr. Hurd want to explore every option within the current regulatory framework.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 15/03/2018 19:23:40 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

850219

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Inquiries: Rules of Procedure
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 number of restriction (a) notices and (b) orders her Department has issued to restrict inquiries under (i) section 19(1)(a) and (ii) section 19(1)(b) of the Inquiries Act 2005 since 2016 (A) in total and (B) for the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	129787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Since 2016, the Secretary of State for the Home Department has not used the power to impose a restriction notice under section 19(2)(a) of the Inquiries Act 2005.</p><p>Under Section 19(2)(b) of the Inquiries Act 2005, a restriction order may be imposed by the Chairman during the course of an Inquiry. The publication of a restriction order is a matter for the issuing Inquiry; independent from Government.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/03/2018 18:05:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

850226

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering
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 number of requests for mutual legal assistance that have been made to foreign jurisdictions to recover criminal assets laundered abroad since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	129794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of outgoing mutual legal assistance requests for money laundering offences transmitted via the Home Office was 83 in 2016 and 58 in the first half of 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The data does not include requests transmitted directly under the EU’s Council Framework Decisions 2003/577/JHA (Freezing Orders) and 2006/783/JHA (Confiscation Orders). Outgoing requests for restraint or confiscation made under the 2003 and 2006 EU Framework decisions are sent by the CPS directly to the relevant EU Member State.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that these figures are taken from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/05/2018 10:44:49 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq