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1087052

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
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 steps he is taking to ensure that people arriving in the UK on a refugee family reunion visa receive a Biometric Residence Permit that contains their National Insurance number.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	231516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office and the Department for Work and Pensions are currently developing plans for all migrants who are eligible for a National Insurance number, including those on a refugee family reunion visa, to have this printed on their Biometric Residence Permit as a matter of course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2019 17:05:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1087116

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the proportion of migrant detainees who were trafficked to the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	231363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office record the number of all individuals referred to the Na-tional Referral Mechanism (NRM) and this information is published Quarterly by the National Crime Agency. This information does not distinguish between those detained under immigration powers and those living in the community. The reason for this is two-fold, firstly because the NRM referral is not an immigration route by which individuals should regularise their stay in the United Kingdom and, secondly, because a person’s status in immigration detention is not permanent and can change.</p><p>Data taken from the NRM would not accurately reflect the numbers of those who had been trafficked into the UK, as a number only get exploited once they have arrived, and their journey to the UK can be entirely unconnected to the trafficking. Further a number may be victims of trafficking, but it relates to events in a third country and is not necessarily connected to their reasons for coming to the UK.</p><p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2019 17:09:54 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1087159

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department has spent on tackling knife crime in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	231470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not keep disaggregated records of funding specifically dedicated to tackling knife crime and it is not possible to differentiate out funding on knife crime from funding allocated to police forces.</p><p>The Government’s Serious Violence Strategy, published in April 2018, set out a very significant programme of work with an ambitious programme including the following:</p><p>• An Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22 million<br>• £1.5 million for the anti-knife crime Community Fund<br>• £3.6 million we have provided for the establishment of the new <br> National County Lines Coordination Centre<br>• £1.4 million to support a new national police capability to tackle gang <br> related activity on social media <br>• Support to the #knifefree national knife crime media campaign<br>• The Offensive Weapons Bill currently passing through Parliament</p><p>In addition, we are allocating £200 million to a Youth Endowment Fund over the next 10 years, supporting police forces to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre, are soon to launch a consultation on anew legal duty to underpin a ‘public health’ approach to tackling serious violence, and have announced an Independent Review of Drug Misuse, to be conducted by Dame Carol Black.</p><p>On 13 March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Spring Statement that there will be £100 million additional funding in 2019/20 to tackle serious violence, including £80m of new funding from the Treasury. The majority of the investment will largely go towards supporting police forces, especially where violent crime is impacting the most. The funding will also support multi-agency Violence Reduction Units in violent crime hotspot areas, and elsewhere. We will prioritise investment in targeted police capacity to tackle serious violence and support for Violence Reduction Units in our Spending Review discussions.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/03/2019 16:58:47 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1087188

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress his Department has made in negotiations with Apple Inc. on the scanning of documents and passports on Apple mobile devices for non-UK EU citizens seeking to apply to remain in the UK after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	231355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>We have engaged with Apple on this issue at Ministerial and Official level, and we are confident that Apple are taking this issue seriously. We will continue to engage with Apple at senior levels to ensure that this issue stays on their priority list and seek further opportunities to work with them on a technical level to ensure that they understand our specific use case.</p><p><br>At present, applicants can attend any of our 13 Chip Checker locations to have their ID document scanned, if they choose to do so. Once the scheme is fully open by 30 March, the app will be optional. There will be over 50 locations across the UK where applicants can have their identity document scanned. Applicants will also be able to post identity documents to the Home Office to be checked and returned quickly.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2019 16:58:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1087259

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Transgender People
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 who have described themselves as transgender when seeking asylum in the UK have been refused asylum since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	231447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation</p><p>On 29 November 2018, the Home Office published experimental statistics on Asylum claims made on the basis of sexual orientation, covering the pe-riod 2015 to 2017. <br>These experimental statistics provide data on asylum claims from 2015-2017, by year of application, initial decision, appeal receipt, or appeal decision</p><p>Data on the number of asylum seekers refused asylum on the basis of sexual orientation can be found in tabs SOC_00 in the experimental statis-tics in the link provided below: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018-data-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 231449 question first answered 19/03/2019 16:54:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1087261

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) gay, lesbian or bisexual and (b) transgender asylum seekers have been deported from the UK since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	231448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold central records of how many (a) gay, lesbian or bisexual and (b) transgender asylum seekers have been deported from the UK since 2015.</p><p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2019 16:52:48 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1087262

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
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 who described themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual when seeking asylum in the UK have been refused asylum on the grounds that there is not enough evidence to prove that they are gay, lesbian or bisexual since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	231449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation</p><p>On 29 November 2018, the Home Office published experimental statistics on Asylum claims made on the basis of sexual orientation, covering the pe-riod 2015 to 2017. <br>These experimental statistics provide data on asylum claims from 2015-2017, by year of application, initial decision, appeal receipt, or appeal decision</p><p>Data on the number of asylum seekers refused asylum on the basis of sexual orientation can be found in tabs SOC_00 in the experimental statis-tics in the link provided below: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018-data-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 231447 question first answered 19/03/2019 16:54:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1087272

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
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 has taken to reduce illegal immigration since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	231564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing illegal immigration. Since 2010 we have completely reformed the immigration system, cutting abuse whilst focusing on attracting the brightest and the best.</p><p>We are tackling illegal immigration by making it harder for those who do not qualify under the Immigration Rules to live here illegally, including through measures introduced in the Immigration Acts 2014 and 2016. We have taken action against over 1,000 colleges to prevent the admission of non-genuine students into the country. We continue to take enforcement action against employers who employ illegal workers; applying civil penalties, intervening with licensing authorities to withdraw licences, and closing their business premises where necessary.</p><p>In addition, we have pursued an ambitious programme of reform at the border, included investment in new technology in the United Kingdom and at our juxtaposed controls to keep this country safe, with Border Force transforming its working practices, command and control and leadership. These reforms are working and border security has been enhanced.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2019 16:56:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1087273

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library all impact assessments his Department has made of changes to the immigration system since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	231565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Impact Assessments associated with legislation or rules changes are publicly available on gov.uk.</p><p>We keep all immigration policies under regular review including the impact that they are having on net migration.</p><p>The introduction of major immigration policies are accompanied by published impact assessments where appropriate, and the Government also commissions the Migration Advisory Committee to advise on immigration policy. Recent changes proposed in the Immigration White Paper, ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system,’ were accompanied by an analytical assessment which was published as part of the paper. <br></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 231566 231567 question first answered 19/03/2019 17:08:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1087275

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the changes to the immigration system that increased immigration since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	231566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Impact Assessments associated with legislation or rules changes are publicly available on gov.uk.</p><p>We keep all immigration policies under regular review including the impact that they are having on net migration.</p><p>The introduction of major immigration policies are accompanied by published impact assessments where appropriate, and the Government also commissions the Migration Advisory Committee to advise on immigration policy. Recent changes proposed in the Immigration White Paper, ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system,’ were accompanied by an analytical assessment which was published as part of the paper. <br></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 231565 231567 question first answered 19/03/2019 17:08:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien