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44783

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2014, Official Report, column 604W, on EU Justice and Home Affairs, with which countries the EU as a legal personality has concluded co-operation agreements in the field of justice and home affairs.
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	uin	193408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the response given by the Minister for Europe (Mr David Lidington) on 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 70W. In addition, JHA agreements have also been concluded with Brazil, Ukraine and Moldova during the course of this Government which build on the borders and immigration aspects of the Schengen system, in which the UK does not participate.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 2687 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

58226

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what performance indicators for the renewal of existing passports have been met by each passport office administrative centre.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	198798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Straightforward passport applications from applicants in the UK have a published expected turnaround of three weeks. For the financial year 2013-14, <br>99.58 percent of customers received their passports within that period. <br><br>Achievement of turnaround times is a national objective and specific targets are not focused on individual offices. This approach allows HM Passport Office <br>to channel resources and distribute applications to meet capacity.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/06/2014 15:54:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 78 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

90164

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Training
	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 the cyber skills of police forces; and what steps she is taking to improve those skills.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	207635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Tackling cyber crime is one of the key objectives of the UK’s Cyber Security Strategy. The Government has supported this with £860m of investment over five years through the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP). We have so far committed £70m of NCSP funding in improving law enforcement agencies’ ability to respond to this threat, including setting up the National Cyber Crime Unit in the National Crime Agency, and cyber teams in each of the Regional Organised Crime Units. We are also supporting the training of police officers and investigators in local forces in England and Wales, through the development of new online and classroom-based training packages by the College of Policing for 5,000 officers.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/09/2014 15:24:35 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 18038 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

89750

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Raytheon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what legal costs have been incurred by her Department for costs associated with the recent Raytheon e-borders arbitration tribunal.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	207485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Home Office incurred £23.3m (not including internal and witness costs) in the period April 2010 to March 2014 on legal costs associated with preparing and presenting its case in respect of the Raytheon arbitration. This amount includes costs incurred with lawyers, counsel and experts.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/09/2014 14:51:50 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 17843 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

227586

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2015
	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, how many and what proportion of people resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme were principal applicants.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	227678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As of 31 December 2014, 143 people were relocated to the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme, 34 of whom were principal applicants (i.e. head of family) and 109 their dependents. <br><br>This is the latest publicly available figure, as numbers are released as part of the Home Office official statistics each quarter. The number of arrivals under the scheme up to the end of March 2015 will be published on 21 May.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 23/03/2015 15:57:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 51459 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

60436

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many German nationals have been extradited to the UK under a European Arrest Warrant in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	uin	199523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Due to the way data was recorded prior to 2009, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of surrenders of German nationals for the years prior to 2009/2010. <br><br>According to information obtained from the National Crime Agency, between the 2009/2010 and 2013/2014 business years, two German nationals were extradited to the UK under a European Arrest Warrant from Germany.<br><br>The individuals were Frank Schaper and Michael Luck.</p><p /> <p>Schaper was wanted for the fraudulent evasion of excise duty after entering the UK driving a lorry containing 8,435,200 cigarettes. No duty had been paid on the cigarettes, and the duty evaded totalled £1,242,080. After failing to attend court in the UK, Schaper was arrested in Germany in September 2009 and extradited back to the UK on 18 September 2009. <br><br>Luck was involved in a collision which resulted in the death of another lorry driver in the UK. He failed to appear at a police station as instructed, and <br>was thought to have fled to Germany. When Luck was eventually located in Germany, he was found to be serving a sentence for another offence. The German authorities subsequently agreed to his temporary surrender and he was returned to the UK on 17 June 2011 to stand trial. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. He was transferred back to Germany on 17 October 2011 to serve both his remaining German sentence, and his UK sentence.<br><br>Figures for 2013 indicate that the main ground for refusal of extradition by Germany to all EU countries, not just the UK, was under Article 4(6) of the <br>European Arrest Warrant Framework Decision. This provides that where the person has been requested to serve a sentence, the executing state may refuse to extradite its nationals and residents, and instead enforce the sentence in that state</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/09/2014 11:59:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 605 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

58344

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest time is for which a passport application has been waiting to be processed from receipt at the passport office to delivery to applicant for (a) new applications and (b) applications for renewal of passport in the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 May 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	199391
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>In the period to which you refer, the longest waiting time for completion of (a) a new application and (b) for a renewal was both 135 days. In the case of <br>the new application, the applicant failed to provide the required supporting documentation with their application. Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO)<br>made five separate requests, over the next three months for the documentationto be supplied. The applicant finally supplied the documents over four months after the date of the application. HMPO issued the passport eight days afterreceipt of the documentation. In the case of the renewal, an application was made to renew a child’s passport with a change of name. HMPO wrote to the parent on seven occasions seeking additional information concerning parental responsibility and agreement to the change of name. A court order confirmingthe change of name was forwarded by the applicant over four months afterthe date of application. The passport was issued seven days after receipt of the court order.</p><p /> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 12/09/2014 09:25:39 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 343 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

90339

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Iraq
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has refused asylum to any Iraqis who have fled from persecution by the Islamic State in Iraq.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	207859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>It is not possible to provide information on the number of Iraqi nationals who have raised a claim for asylum on the basis that they are at risk from persecution of the Islamic State in Iraq and who have been refused asylum.The basis of an individual's claim for asylum is not information that the Home Office centrally records.<br><br>Whilst it is not possible to provide the information requested, information on the total number of asylum applications made by Iraqi nationals and the outcome of initial decisions on their claims over the last ten years can be found in asylum data tables immigration statistics January to March 2014 volume 1, tab as_01 which can be accessed at the following address: <br><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tables-for-immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2014/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tables-for-immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2014/</a></p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/09/2014 15:38:46 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 18282 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

90333

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Journalism: Telephone Tapping
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions in the last year powers under the Regulation of Investigators Powers Act 2000 have been used to access telephone records of journalists.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
	uin	207910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Law enforcement agencies do not routinely record the professions of individuals who have had their communications data accessed under the Regulation of Investigators Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), as there is no operational reason to do so. Furthermore, at the time that communications data is requested, the police may not be aware of the professions of those individuals that the requested data will relate to.<br><br>Communications data can only be accessed under RIPA when it is necessary for one of the statutory purposes, for example for the prevention and detection of crime and proportionate to what is sought to be achieved. As well as having to be necessary and proportionate, there are additional safeguards provided by the statutory Acquisition of Communications Data Code of Practice 2007 and independent oversight provided by the independent Interception of Communications Commissioner. We are currently updating the statutory Code, including on whether additional consideration should be given to privileged information, such as from journalists or lawyers.</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/09/2014 16:44:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 18286 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

90332

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	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 have been referred to the Channel strand of the Prevent programme in each of the last five years; how many people completed the programme to which they were referred in each of those years; how many of those people were referred to the Channel programme because they were feared to have been radicalised abroad or taken part in terrorist-related activity abroad; what the (a) gender and (b) age was of those referred to the Channel programme; and how many people from each region were so referred.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	207905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Since Channel was rolled out nationally in 2012, over 2,000 people have been referred to the programme and hundreds of people have been offered support. The Home Office intends to publish further data on the Channel programme later this year. Before this happens, the Hon. Member may find it useful to visit the website of National Counter Terrorism Policing (NCTP - formally ACPO TAM), which has published its own data on Channel at the following URL: <br><br><a href="http://www.acpo.police.uk/ACPOBusinessAreas/PREVENT/NationalChannelReferralFigures.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.acpo.police.uk/ACPOBusinessAreas/PREVENT/NationalChannelReferralFigures.aspx</a></p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/09/2014 11:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 18289 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson