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810664

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	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 seeking family reunion with extended family members in the UK have (a) applied for and (b) been granted asylum in exceptional circumstances in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	121009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not record information in such a way to be able to report on the number of people seeking family reunion with extended family members in the UK and an individual cannot apply to be considered for family reunion under the exceptional circumstance arrangements. Instead, they would apply for Family Reunion under the Immigration Rules but, if they are refused under the Rules, the Home Office would then go on to consider whether there are exceptional circumstances.</p><p>As such, the figures for applications and visas issued under the Rules and under the exceptional circumstances arrangements are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total number of Family Reunion applications – age at the date of application -under 18</p></td><td><p>Total number of Family Reunion applications – age at date of application - over 18</p></td><td><p>Total number of Family Reunion visas issued (‘Family Other’ category)</p></td><td><p>Total number of Family Reunion visas issued under exceptional circumstances arrangements</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>4,980</p></td><td><p>3,220</p></td><td><p>4,887</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>4,811</p></td><td><p>3,701</p></td><td><p>6,098</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 (up to 30 September 2017)</p></td><td><p>2,625</p></td><td><p>2,821</p></td><td><p>3,801</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All those issued a family reunion visa are granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, not asylum. The family reunion application process does not require an assessment of the applicant’s international protection needs. It is the family member in the UK that is required to have been granted refugee status or Humanitarian Protection.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 08/01/2018 17:49:17 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

810663

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many parents have been (a) granted and (b) refused a visa to join their child with either refugee leave or humanitarian protection in the UK in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016 and (iii) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	121008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The specific information you have requested is not currently published.</p><p>Published statistics on visa applications in the Family category can be found online at the following address: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662518/entry-visas1-jul-sep-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662518/entry-visas1-jul-sep-2017-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 08/01/2018 17:42:00 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

810454

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Muslim Brotherhood
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Marlesford on 7 December (HL Deb, col 1270), whether a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mr Ibrahim Munir, is living in London; and whether they intend to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organisation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL4422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>In order to safeguard an individual’s personal information and comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, the Home Office is unable to provide information on an individual when a request is made by someone who is not the data subject or their legal representative. The Home Office is therefore unable to comment on [Mr Ibrahim Munir’s] particular case</p><p>Whilst we keep the list of proscribed groups under review, we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/01/2018 16:53:31 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

810424

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Burma
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many UK visas have been issued to persons living in Myanmar in each visa category since January 2016; and how many they estimate were to (1) Christians, and (2) Muslims.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Berridge
	uin	HL4392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 08/01/2018 17:53:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge

810733

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether immigration detention centres receive extra funding for their involvement in routine processing of asylum claims.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	121078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Asylum Intake &amp; Casework are responsible for considering asylum claims and are responsible for considering claims from those in detention through the Detained Asylum Casework (DAC) process. This is separate from the work of the Immigration Removal Centres. The Government believes that the process provides claimants with the necessary time and opportunity to enable their applications to be justly decided. The DAC unit is adequately resourced and funded to do this work and all DAC claimants are entitled to free legal representation through the Duty scheme operated by the Legal Aid Authority.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2018 17:22:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

810579

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU (a) Directives, (b) Regulations and (c) other legislation affecting her Department she is planning to propose (i) revocation and (ii) amendment after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>Government departments have been analysing the UK statute book and directly applicable EU law in their areas of responsibility to enable an assessment of the scale of the changes needed. This is likely to include the repeal, but also the amendment, of provisions in Acts but we are not in a position to give a sense of scale at this time.</p><p>In the Government White Paper on the Repeal Bill ‘Legislating for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union’, published on 30 March 2017, we estimated around 800 - 1,000 EU-exit related Statutory Instruments will be required.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2018 14:37:41 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

810645

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Free Movement of People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government plans to introduce primary legislation on Irish citizens and immigration law after EU freedom of movement rules cease to apply to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	120990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>Irish citizens enjoy a special status in the UK distinct from that enjoyed by virtue of EU citizenship, reflecting the close social and cultural ties between the UK and Ireland. These rights, enjoyed reciprocally by UK and Irish citizens in each state, are provided for by national legislation. The agreement reached in Brussels in December has confirmed that these rights are preserved after the UK has left the EU. <br>As announced in the Queens speech (27 June) an Immigration Bill will be introduced in the first session to allow for the repeal of EU law on immigration.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2018 14:38:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

810478

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Brexit
	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 (a) amount of time and (b) resources that her Department allocated to the production of impact assessments on the UK leaving the EU; and on what date work on those impact assessments started.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	120824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>Since the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, officials across the Home Office have been assessing the impact of the referendum on its policies and operations. As part of this, on 27 July, the Government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to gather evidence on patterns of EU migration and the role of migration in the wider economy, ahead of our exit from the EU. We have asked the MAC to report by September 2018 and flagged that interim reports throughout the period would be helpful as we develop future immigration arrangements that work for the whole of the UK.</p><p>The Department will produce regulatory impact assessments to accompany changes in Government legislation in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2018 14:36:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

810605

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Airguns: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the recently announced air weapons review in England and Wales, if he will seek the views of (a) Police Scotland, (b) Police Service of Northern Ireland, (c) the Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and (d) animal welfare officers in local councils in Northern Ireland on the effects of their respective air gun licensing legislation on reported incidents of air weapons attacks on people and pets.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	120950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has commenced a review of the regulation of air weapons in England and Wales, and we have asked for the views of interested parties on this. We have also asked that anybody who wishes to share their views on this issue with us do so by 6 February 2018.</p><p>The review will take account of the arrangements in Scotland and Northern Ireland where air weapons are subject to a licensing regime. We will therefore be seeking the views of both Police Scotland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland. We have not sought the views of the Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or animal welfare officers in local councils in Northern Ireland, although it is open to them to write to us about this review.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/01/2018 15:12:32 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

810558

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what processes her Department has put in place to (a) monitor, (b) collate cost information on, (c) review and (d) respond to requests to amend or revoke regulations introduced by her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>For the current Parliament, the Government is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections.</p><p>This will be monitored through the target that the Government is required to set under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. Decisions about whether to amend or revoke regulations are considered by Ministers as part of the normal policy making process.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/01/2018 16:16:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel