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431754

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Brittany Ferries: Game
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Brittany Ferries on the carriage of game birds on their ships.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	17252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of ministerial meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 26/11/2015 13:39:25 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

431395

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation
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 whose applications for asylum were rejected have been repatriated in 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	17137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>The table below provides the number of people removed or departing voluntarily from the UK who had sought asylum at some stage.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Asylum removals and voluntary departures from the United Kingdom, January to June 2015 (1,2,3)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p><strong>Asylum: Total Enforced</strong></p></td><td><p>Asylum: Home</p></td><td><p>Asylum: EU Member State (if different)</p></td><td><p>Asylum: Other and destination unknown</p></td><td><p><strong>Asylum: Total Voluntary Departures</strong></p></td><td><p>Asylum: Home</p></td><td><p>Asylum: EU Member State (if different)</p></td><td><p>Asylum: Other and destination unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January to <br>June 2015</p></td><td><p><strong>1,943</strong></p></td><td><p>1,585</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p><strong>904</strong></p></td><td><p>709</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>177</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(1) Removals are recorded on the system as at the dates on which the data extracts were taken.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(2) Recorded on the system as having claimed asylum at some point.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(3) These figures are provisional and may subsequently differ when the tables are revised, due to data cleansing and data matching exercises that take place after the extracts are taken.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It is not possible within these figures to say at what stage in the asylum process individuals have reached at the time of their removal, including whether their claim has failed at that point, as those departing voluntarily can do so at any stage without necessarily notifying the Home Office.</p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of removals and voluntary departures from the United Kingdom, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to removals and voluntary departures are available in tables rv_05 and rv_05_q in Immigration Statistics: April – June 2015 on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.</p><p>Figures for July to September 2015 will be available from the above website on Thursday 26 November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/11/2015 15:59:04 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

431431

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 9 November (HL3457), what specific steps they are taking to help Syrian refugees in the "Jungle" camp at Calais who wish to claim asylum in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL3782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Migrants in Calais in need of protection, including Syrians, should claim asylum in France. Other than in very limited circumstances under the Dublin Regulation, where a migrant who has lodged an asylum application in another Member State has close family ties to the UK, the UK has no responsibility to help refugees who are in other EU Member States to come here to claim asylum. Consequently, there is no provision in the Immigration Rules for them to do so. However, Border Force officers and representatives from the French Government carry out regular joint communications visits to the camps, informing all nationalities of migrants of their options to seek support, including claiming asylum, in France.</p><p>The UK Government is spending £1.1 billion in and around Syria on humanitarian aid, caring for refugees and helping the Governments of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey to cope with the huge numbers of refugees they have received. After the United States, Britain is the biggest donor country in the region. The Government has also expanded the Syrian Resettlement Scheme. This scheme is helping the most vulnerable people in the region by offering them protection in the UK. The Government intends to resettle 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2015 15:33:08 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

429411

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the process will be for the cancellation of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections due to take place in May 2016 for areas now to form part of the West Midlands Combined Authority.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	17081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>The West Midlands devolution agreement, published on 17 November 2015, stated that: ‘Proposals for an appropriate relationship between the functions of a Mayor and future role of the Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), including in relation to fire services, to be developed, subject to local consent and a business case developed jointly by the PCC and council leaders, and in consultation with the Fire and Rescue Authorities.’</p><p>At this stage, there has been no decision to transfer PCC functions to an elected Mayor for the West Midlands and there are no plans to cancel the 2016 PCC election in the West Midlands.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 24/11/2015 17:07:20 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

429413

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Abortion: Clinics
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 issue a response to Early Day Motion (a) 162, Closures of abortion clinics and (b) 172, Buffer zones around abortion centres.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	17014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to 5385 on 13 July 2015.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 24/11/2015 15:42:18 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

429483

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish the responses to their consultation on reforming support for failed asylum seekers and other illegal migrants.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hamwee
uin	HL3733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>We will not publish the individual responses to the consultation on reforming support for failed asylum seekers and other illegal migrants. This is consistent with the confidentiality statement on page 12 of the consultation document published on 4 August.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2015 15:23:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2652 label Biography information for Baroness Hamwee

429498

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	INTERPOL
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to Interpol about providing better safeguards before approving Red Notices, in particular by protecting its database, being transparent about the criteria for such notices, and identifying governments that abuse the system.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL3748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>A senior representative from the National Crime Agency sits on the Interpol Management Board and has raised this issue with the Interpol President and Secretary General, and a Working Group has been set up by Interpol to examine the matter.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2015 15:24:18 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

429522

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police National Computer
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why and when the Middlesbrough Borough Council was given access to the Police National Computer; whether it still has such access; and whether they will consider giving such access to other local authorities if requested to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL3772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Middlesbrough Borough Council does not have, and never have had, direct access to the Police National Computer. If an application is made by a Local Authority, and ACRO (the NPCC Criminal Records Office) is satisfied that they have a lawful and justifiable reason for needing access to PNC data, ACRO will conduct PNC enquiries on behalf of that authority.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2015 15:10:39 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

429094

registered interest
date	18/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
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 make an assessment of the effect of increased cyber-security funding on the numbers of (a) frontline police and (b) police community support officers.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	16769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>Cyber Security, including combating cyber crime, is a top priority threat to national security. That is why, through the National Cyber Security Programme, we have invested over £90 million under the last Parliament to bolster the law enforcement response, and we will continue to invest. As the Chancellor announced this week, this Government has committed to spending £1.9 billion on cyber security over the next five years, including for cyber crime.</p><p>To date, we have funded the development of National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) and of cyber teams within the Regional Organised Crime Unit network; and invested in Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. We are clear that front line policing also needs to adapt with the changing nature of the threat. In partnership with the College of Policing, we have rolled out cyber crime training so that it is available to all police officers and staff, with over 150,000 modules completed so far. We recognise that local policing capabilities in respect of the investigation of digital crime are a particular concern – that is why we are working with the National Policing Lead for Digital Investigations to define the capabilities required to conduct effective digital investigations. This Government has also made a commitment to expand the number of volunteer ‘Cyber Specials’ across policing. This will harness expertise from other sectors to further increase police capability at all levels, including within local forces.</p><p>This Government will continue investing at the national, regional and local levels to ensure we have the capacity to deal with the volume and sophistication of online crime. We will continue to boost the capabilities of the NCCU by increasing their ability to investigate the most serious cyber crime, both domestically and internationally. We will increase work with industry to stop cyber attacks reaching the UK, and we will work with industry and the public to help them better protect themselves.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/11/2015 18:11:32 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

429095

registered interest
date	18/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Association of Retired Police Officers
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 hold discussions with the National Association of Retired Police Officers on steps to support national security.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	16761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p><p>Policy engagement with external organisations is a matter for Chief Constables to take locally in conjunction with their democratically elected Police and Crime Commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 24/11/2015 17:05:34 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell