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173431

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Northern Ireland
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 not holding UK passports of what (a) nationality and (b) age entered Northern Ireland through the land border with the Republic of Ireland in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	220569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>Routine immigration controls are not conducted on the land border between the UK and Republic of Ireland. The Home Office does not hold the information requested</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 20/01/2015 16:39:38 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

173437

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to encourage local authorities to participate in the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	220662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>After launching the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme last January, the Home Secretary wrote to the Chairman of the Local Government Association on 11 February 2014 encouraging local authority participation and <br>this letter has been cascaded across local authorities. As the scheme has progressed, we have continued to engage closely with local authorities who have expressed an interest in participation. Following the United Nations<br>High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) pledging conference in Genevaon 9 December 2014, a number of additional local authorities have also expressed an interest, and we are in discussions with them. We are grateful to <br>the local authorities who are supporting the scheme, and we remain confidentthat we can continue to meet the needs of arrivals in the UK under the scheme as planned. We expect the scheme to help several hundred Syrians over three <br>years, and we welcome further offers of support from local authorities as the scheme progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/01/2015 14:14:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 38790 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

173528

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Baroness Northover on 13 January, whether they will list by country how many Syrian refugees have been accepted by each of the European Union member states.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>The resettlement pledges for all countries including those from European Union member states is listed on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) website. The direct link to this page is as follows: <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/52b2febafc5.html" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/52b2febafc5.html</a></p><p>Ninety people were relocated to the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme between the first group of arrivals on 25 March and the end of September 2014. This is the latest publicly available figure, as numbers are released as part of the publication of Home Office official statistics each quarter; the number of arrivals under the scheme up to December 2014 will be published on 26 February.</p><p>Potential beneficiaries of the scheme are identified and referred to us by UNHCR. Given the serious vulnerability of the beneficiaries, our priority is to ensure that the support and accommodation they need is in place before they arrive in the UK. We are working closely with UNHCR, the International Organisation for Migration and local authorities to achieve this as soon as practically possible as the circumstances of each particular case allow. In these circumstances it is not possible to provide information on the number of individuals in any part of the resettlement process at any given time.</p><p>Beneficiaries of the scheme are granted five years’ Humanitarian Protection with all the rights and benefits that go with that status, including access to public funds, access to the labour market and the possibility of family reunion.</p><p>As the scheme is based on vulnerability - including women and children at risk, people with medical needs and survivors of torture and violence - it would not</p><p>be appropriate for us to release specific details of where individuals are being placed, as this risks undermining their privacy and recovery.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL4111 question first answered 21/01/2015 14:30:01 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

173529

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Baroness Northover on 13 January, how many Syrian refugees have been accepted in the United Kingdom; over what period they have arrived here; how many have been settled or are in the process of being settled; what settlement rights have been conferred on them; and in what areas of the United Kingdom they are living.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>The resettlement pledges for all countries including those from European Union member states is listed on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) website. The direct link to this page is as follows: <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/52b2febafc5.html" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/52b2febafc5.html</a></p><p>Ninety people were relocated to the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme between the first group of arrivals on 25 March and the end of September 2014. This is the latest publicly available figure, as numbers are released as part of the publication of Home Office official statistics each quarter; the number of arrivals under the scheme up to December 2014 will be published on 26 February.</p><p>Potential beneficiaries of the scheme are identified and referred to us by UNHCR. Given the serious vulnerability of the beneficiaries, our priority is to ensure that the support and accommodation they need is in place before they arrive in the UK. We are working closely with UNHCR, the International Organisation for Migration and local authorities to achieve this as soon as practically possible as the circumstances of each particular case allow. In these circumstances it is not possible to provide information on the number of individuals in any part of the resettlement process at any given time.</p><p>Beneficiaries of the scheme are granted five years’ Humanitarian Protection with all the rights and benefits that go with that status, including access to public funds, access to the labour market and the possibility of family reunion.</p><p>As the scheme is based on vulnerability - including women and children at risk, people with medical needs and survivors of torture and violence - it would not</p><p>be appropriate for us to release specific details of where individuals are being placed, as this risks undermining their privacy and recovery.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL4110 question first answered 21/01/2015 14:30:01 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

173535

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether it is current practice to stamp passports of British and foreign nationals on departure and arrival at airports; and, if not, whether that practice will be re-introduced as part of the proposed changes to the monitoring of migration.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL4117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>All passengers arriving in the UK are subject to border checks. Those who require to be given leave to enter have their passports stamped with the appropriate conditions of stay. Passports are not stamped on departure. There are no plans to change these practices.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/01/2015 14:30:32 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird