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905526

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metals: Theft
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 tackle metal theft in (a) Tyne and Wear, (b) North East England and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	144822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 provides the legislative basis for tackling metal theft across England and Wales by making it more difficult for criminals to dispose of stolen metal through scrap metal yards.</p><p>Enforcement of the Act is a matter for individual local authorities and for chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners who must decide how best to deploy their resources to respond to the crimes affecting their local communities</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/05/2018 15:54:30 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

905607

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	DNA: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful matches there were between DNA profiles taken from crime scenes and profiles stored on the national DNA database in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	144873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>In 2014-15 there were 29,315 matches between DNA profiles taken from crime scenes and subject records stored on the National DNA Database.</p><p>In 2015-16 there were 29,935 matches between DNA profiles taken from crime scenes and subject records stored on the National DNA Database.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/05/2018 15:27:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

905610

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	DNA: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many DNA profiles were (a) held on the national DNA database and (b) added to the national DNA database in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	144874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>a) The number of sample profiles retained on NDNAD by year:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of subject sample profiles retained on NDNAD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of crime scene sample profiles retained on NDNAD</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>6,595,295</p></td><td><p>400,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>6,969,396</p></td><td><p>405,848</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>6,737,973</p></td><td><p>428,634</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>5,716,085</p></td><td><p>456,856</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>5,766,369</p></td><td><p>486,691</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p>5,860,642</p></td><td><p>519,678</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p>6,024,032</p></td><td><p>555,362</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p>6,196,278</p></td><td><p>590,404</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>b) The number of samples added to the NDNAD by year:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of subject profiles loaded</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of crime scene profiles loaded</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>474,437</p></td><td><p>39,995</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>398,861</p></td><td><p>38,871</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>362,419</p></td><td><p>33,190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>361,933</p></td><td><p>35,005</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>311,746</p></td><td><p>36,933</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>292,311</p></td><td><p>39,370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>269,489</p></td><td><p>40,829</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>259,099</p></td><td><p>40,067</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/05/2018 15:25:37 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

905614

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alternatives to Prosecution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many community resolutions there have been by offence in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	144876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables on a quarterly basis. The most recent publication covers recorded crime and outcomes data to the year ending December 2017.</p><p>Information on community resolutions for the last three years, broken down by offence type, can be found in the published open data tables released with the most recent police recorded crime and outcomes publication:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/05/2018 15:58:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

905683

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Automatic Number Plate Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) on which motorways and (b) at which locations on those motorways automatic number plate recognition cameras are in use; and what offences such cameras are being used to detect.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	144834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology is used to help detect vehicles suspected of being involved in a broad range of offences, including tackling travelling criminals, organised crime groups and terrorists, and disrupting criminality at a local, force, regional and national level.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold the information on which motorways – and at which locations on those motorways – automatic number plate recognition cameras are in use. This is an operational matter for individual Chief Constables</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/05/2018 14:48:35 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

905695

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money spent from the public purse on policing in (a) 1997, (b) 2007, (c) 2010 and (d) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	144958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The structure of policing and the way it is funded have changed significantly over the period in question. It is therefore not possible to provide a directly comparable set of figures for total police funding in the years requested.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/05/2018 15:55:57 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

904736

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his officials have raised concerns over potentially wrongful deportation of highly skilled migrants under section 322(5) of the Immigration Act in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	144295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Paragraph 322(5) of the Immigration Rules is a long-standing provision which provides that applications for leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain should normally be refused where it would be undesirable for a person to remain in the UK in light of their conduct, character or associations, or where they represent a threat to national security. Refusal of an application for leave or indefinite leave to remain does not automatically lead to removal or deportation.</p><p>It is important that the Government retains the ability to refuse an application where we have identified that migrants have given deliberately false information in order to extend their stay or obtain settlement in the UK. It is not the Government’s policy to refuse applications by highly skilled migrants solely due to minor tax errors. Where any discrepancies are identified, applicants are given a right to explain the discrepancy. All such cases are signed off by a manager before refusal grounds are applied.</p><p>The Tier 1 (General) category was intended for highly skilled workers applying to work in the UK without requiring a sponsoring employer. The route was closed in April 2011, partly due to evidence of abuse by migrants using the route. Applications for indefinite leave to remain remained open until April 2018, for those who were in the category at the time it closed.</p><p>We have refused Tier 1(General) applications under paragraph 322(5) where an applicant’s character and conduct call into question their desirability of remaining in the UK. In these cases, refusals have been given where there have been substantial differences – often tens of thousands of pounds – between the earnings used to claim points in an immigration application and an applicant’s HMRC records, without a credible explanation from the applicant. We take all available evidence into account before making a decision and each application is considered on its own merits.</p><p>As I confirmed to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 8 May, we will carry out a review of these cases to see how many showed clear evidence of deceit, and whether any were refused due to minor errors. So far there is insufficient evidence to suggest there is any systemic problem which may lead to wrongful removals for this group, but this is one area our review will check.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 144296 144297 question first answered 21/05/2018 16:22:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

904737

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department first became aware that some highly skilled migrants could potentially face wrongful deportation under section 322(5) of the Immigration Act.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	144296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Paragraph 322(5) of the Immigration Rules is a long-standing provision which provides that applications for leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain should normally be refused where it would be undesirable for a person to remain in the UK in light of their conduct, character or associations, or where they represent a threat to national security. Refusal of an application for leave or indefinite leave to remain does not automatically lead to removal or deportation.</p><p>It is important that the Government retains the ability to refuse an application where we have identified that migrants have given deliberately false information in order to extend their stay or obtain settlement in the UK. It is not the Government’s policy to refuse applications by highly skilled migrants solely due to minor tax errors. Where any discrepancies are identified, applicants are given a right to explain the discrepancy. All such cases are signed off by a manager before refusal grounds are applied.</p><p>The Tier 1 (General) category was intended for highly skilled workers applying to work in the UK without requiring a sponsoring employer. The route was closed in April 2011, partly due to evidence of abuse by migrants using the route. Applications for indefinite leave to remain remained open until April 2018, for those who were in the category at the time it closed.</p><p>We have refused Tier 1(General) applications under paragraph 322(5) where an applicant’s character and conduct call into question their desirability of remaining in the UK. In these cases, refusals have been given where there have been substantial differences – often tens of thousands of pounds – between the earnings used to claim points in an immigration application and an applicant’s HMRC records, without a credible explanation from the applicant. We take all available evidence into account before making a decision and each application is considered on its own merits.</p><p>As I confirmed to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 8 May, we will carry out a review of these cases to see how many showed clear evidence of deceit, and whether any were refused due to minor errors. So far there is insufficient evidence to suggest there is any systemic problem which may lead to wrongful removals for this group, but this is one area our review will check.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 144295 144297 question first answered 21/05/2018 16:22:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

904738

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his ministerial team were made aware of concerns over wrongful deportation of highly skilled migrants under section 322(5) of the Immigration Act on appointment.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	144297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Paragraph 322(5) of the Immigration Rules is a long-standing provision which provides that applications for leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain should normally be refused where it would be undesirable for a person to remain in the UK in light of their conduct, character or associations, or where they represent a threat to national security. Refusal of an application for leave or indefinite leave to remain does not automatically lead to removal or deportation.</p><p>It is important that the Government retains the ability to refuse an application where we have identified that migrants have given deliberately false information in order to extend their stay or obtain settlement in the UK. It is not the Government’s policy to refuse applications by highly skilled migrants solely due to minor tax errors. Where any discrepancies are identified, applicants are given a right to explain the discrepancy. All such cases are signed off by a manager before refusal grounds are applied.</p><p>The Tier 1 (General) category was intended for highly skilled workers applying to work in the UK without requiring a sponsoring employer. The route was closed in April 2011, partly due to evidence of abuse by migrants using the route. Applications for indefinite leave to remain remained open until April 2018, for those who were in the category at the time it closed.</p><p>We have refused Tier 1(General) applications under paragraph 322(5) where an applicant’s character and conduct call into question their desirability of remaining in the UK. In these cases, refusals have been given where there have been substantial differences – often tens of thousands of pounds – between the earnings used to claim points in an immigration application and an applicant’s HMRC records, without a credible explanation from the applicant. We take all available evidence into account before making a decision and each application is considered on its own merits.</p><p>As I confirmed to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 8 May, we will carry out a review of these cases to see how many showed clear evidence of deceit, and whether any were refused due to minor errors. So far there is insufficient evidence to suggest there is any systemic problem which may lead to wrongful removals for this group, but this is one area our review will check.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 144295 144296 question first answered 21/05/2018 16:22:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

904763

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Compensation
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 paid in compensation for (a) wrongful detentions and (b) wrongful deportations in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	144298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Part (a): For FY 2010/11 and 2011/12, the Home Office does not hold the information in the format requested. Our ledger will not allow us to provide this level of detail for that Financial Year</p><p>Taking “wrongful” to be equivalent to “unlawful”, compensation for unlawful detention claims for FYs 2012/13 onwards are included in the table below:</p><p>Unlawful Detention Claims Paid</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>These figures were provided under previous PQ UIN 121985.</p><p>Part (b): No data held</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/05/2018 14:29:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed