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511844

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
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 Keen of Elie on 12 April (HL7328), whether they are on track to fulfil their pledge to accept 20,000 refugees to the UK before the end of the present Parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL7604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>We are continuing to work productively with local authorities and International Partners to deliver the Government’s target to settle 20,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this Parliament.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The last set of statistics, published on 25 February 2016 showed that in 2015, 1,194 Syrians were relocated to the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme, including 1,085 who arrived in the last quarter of 2015.</p><p>These numbers will be updated each quarter. The next set of figures will be in the quarterly release on 26 May 2016 and will cover the period January – March 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/04/2016 10:57:48 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

511845

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied children who were asylum seekers were deported from the UK on reaching the age of 18 in each year since 2007.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL7605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Our records indicate that the total number of asylum seeking children who were removed from the United Kingdom after reaching the age of 18 from 2007 to 2015 is 6,797. A breakdown of these returns is provided in the table below.</p><p>Removal of former unaccompanied asylum seeking children will only take place after their asylum claim has been finally determined, including any appeal hearing, and it has been established that there is no risk of persecution, or of a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, upon return to their Home Country.</p><p>After a former unaccompanied asylum seeking child is over eighteen years of age, and found not to be at risk upon return to their home country, their removal will be managed in line with our usual arrangements for the safe and secure return of failed asylum seekers who do not leave the UK voluntarily.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Asylum Seeking Children Returned after Turning 18 - HL7605</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Year of Return</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Number of Individuals Removed</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>1,338</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>760</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>807</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>559</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>566</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>402</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>333</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 6,797 </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Table Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p>1. This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p>2.This data is based on the returns of individuals who have made asylum applications as main applicants who were minors at the date of application. The applicants were not necessarily unaccompanied.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p>3. The figures include voluntary and enforced removals from January 2007.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p>4. The table shows only the first removal of any individual since January 2007. The figures for 2010 and 2014 therefore differ from those in the answer to HL2297 which showed the first removal in the two years 2010 and 2014 only.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/05/2016 13:18:36 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

511851

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: EU Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what would be the residency status of UK expatriates currently living permanently in EU member states in the event that the UK votes to leave the EU.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL7611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>As set out in the Government’s White Paper: ‘The process for withdrawing from the European Union’, published on 29 February, the withdrawal process is unprecedented. No country has ever used Article 50 and this will be an area of discussion with EU member states in such a scenario.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 28/04/2016 16:20:06 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

511309

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire Services: Recruitment
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 adequacy of the level of transparency in the recruitment process for Chief Fire Officers.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	33488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2016 answer text <p>Matters of recruitment are for individual fire and rescue authorities as employers. However, Ministers have been clear that payments for senior fire officers who return to employment immediately after retirement are an unacceptable use of taxpayers’ money, especially when fire authorities need to be making sensible savings.</p><p>That is why this Government has issued explicit guidance on the re-employment of senior staff who have previously been in receipt of a redundancy or severance payment, or who are in receipt of a local government or fire service pension. Fire and rescue authorities have the ability to deal with this problem and should do so. The public have a right to know when, and on what basis, these decisions have been made, and we have made provision for this.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/04/2016 13:16:30 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

511418

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Government minister will be responsible for distributing the £80 million Violence Against Women and Girls Transformation Fund.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	33579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is providing £80 million of dedicated funding up to 2020 to tackle violence against women and girls. This funding will provide core support for refuges and other accommodation-based services, a network of rape support centres and national helplines, and from April 2017 will also include a new Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Service Transformation Fund.</p><p>The VAWG Service Transformation fund will support local programmes which encourage new approaches that incorporate early intervention, establish and embed the best ways to help victims and their families, and prevent perpetrators from re-offending. Criteria for applications to the fund will support these aims. Full details of the how the fund will be administered and the criteria for applications will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33560 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:07:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

511419

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Khtame Nabuwwat
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the activities of the organisation Khtame Nabuwwat for the purposes of possible proscription under the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	33666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>We keep the list of proscribed groups under regular review. We do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 18/04/2016 11:08:50 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

511420

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which regions of the UK the £80 million Violence Against Women and Girls Service Transformation Fund will be spent.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	33560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is providing £80 million of dedicated funding up to 2020 to tackle violence against women and girls. This funding will provide core support for refuges and other accommodation-based services, a network of rape support centres and national helplines, and from April 2017 will also include a new Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Service Transformation Fund.</p><p>The VAWG Service Transformation fund will support local programmes which encourage new approaches that incorporate early intervention, establish and embed the best ways to help victims and their families, and prevent perpetrators from re-offending. Criteria for applications to the fund will support these aims. Full details of the how the fund will be administered and the criteria for applications will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33579 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:07:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

511421

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees
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 it her policy to extend the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme to (a) Iraqi victims of Daesh and (b) members of the Yazidi community.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	33628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Only UNHCR registered Syrian refugees are eligible under the Syrian Resettlement Scheme, which has been expanded to resettle up to 20,000 during this Parliament. We work closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to identify cases that they deem in need of resettlement according to seven agreed vulnerability criteria for the Syrian Resettlement Scheme.</p><p>There are no current plans to widen the Syrian Resettlement Scheme but it is operated in addition to our global resettlement schemes: Gateway and Mandate, which are not nationality specific.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 18/04/2016 13:09:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

511515

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Calais
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they have taken in the light of the report by Help Refugees in March that 129 unaccompanied children are unaccounted for in the Calais refugee camp.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL7557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with the French Government to ensure that unaccompanied children in Calais and Dunkirk quickly receive the support and protection they need.</p><p>The UK-France Joint Declaration of 20 August 2015 committed the two governments to establishing a permanent official contact group focused on ensuring that the provisions of the Dublin III Regulation are used efficiently and effectively, including the provisions on family unity.</p><p>As a result a Home Office official has recently been seconded to the Interior Ministry’s Dublin Unit in Paris in part to assist with the identification of potential requests for the UK to take charge of asylum seeking children in France and to bring them into the Dublin Regulation procedure without delay.</p><p>In order to receive the proper support they need and to be eligible under Dublin, children must first make an asylum for application in France.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/04/2016 12:29:27 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

511516

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the correction by Lord Bates on 24 March to his Written Answer on 19 October 2015 (HL2297), why they gave incorrect figures for the number of young asylum seekers deported on reaching their 18th birthday in their initial answer, and why it took them five months to correct those figures.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL7558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The incorrect figures given in the original response to Question HL2297 resulted from the use of an incorrect definition which excluded former Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children who now had linked dependants and cases made prior to October 2006. This error was identified following the correction of PQ 13206 in February 2016, which prompted a review of other related answers resulting in correction of this and five related House of Commons answers.</p><p>Such mistakes are rare and when they occur they are taken very seriously. It is regrettable that human error caused the original response to be incorrect. Improvements have been put in place to ensure that such mistakes will not be made in future. The appropriate definition has been reviewed, confirmed and made clear to the officials involved.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/04/2016 12:30:09 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno