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418953

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Naturalisation: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has received from naturalisation fees in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	10294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not separately record naturalisation income. These figures cannot be obtained, except at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 12:55:06 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

419132

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Internet
	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 take steps to make the register of deaths of UK residents available online.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	10509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Under present legislation, the register of deaths in England and Wales contains details of all deaths which have taken place there, regardless of whether the deceased was a UK resident. Similar arrangements are in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Civil registration is a devolved matter.</p><p>In England and Wales, information from the register of deaths is made available in the form of a certificate, on payment of the appropriate fee. Currently, there are no plans to change this process.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 14:09:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

419134

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many transit visas her Department has issued to Syrian refugees since May 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	10516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>In Q2 2015 (April to June – the latest period for which figures are available) no transit visas have been issued to Syrian refugees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 14:04:10 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

419137

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	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, whether refugees offered a home in Britain will be vetted before entry.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The operation of the UK’s resettlement schemes, including the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Scheme, involves the UNHCR submitting potential cases for our consideration. The cases are then screened and considered by the Home Office for suitability for entry to the UK: we retain the right to reject individuals on security, war crimes or other grounds.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 13:56:57 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

419139

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 8 September 2015 to Question 47 by the Minister of Immigration to the Home Affairs Committee, how many Syrian refugees will be accommodated in order to meet the UNHCR requirement for 130,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees by 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
	uin	10473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister announced on 7 September, the Government will expand existing resettlement schemes to resettle 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament. This is in addition to the thousands who receive protection in the UK under normal asylum procedures and through the refugee family reunion route. The UK is making a serious and substantial contribution to resettling vulnerable Syrian refugees. We will continue to work with the UNHCR and play our full part in helping these vulnerable people.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 15:10:26 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes

419552

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	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 an assessment of the contribution of refugees to the UK economy.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
	uin	10644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>There are no current plans to undertake an assessment of the contribution of refugees to the UK economy. In September 2014, the Home Office published a report on the labour market characteristics of UK residents born abroad, which highlighted that the employment rate at that time was lowest among those who came originally as a refugee (47% for non-EEA).</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 16:43:16 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

419573

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Females: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to eradicate violence against women and girls.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	10595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has some of the strongest protections in the world to safeguard women and girls and the Government is wholly committed to protecting women and girls from violence and supporting victims and survivors. Over the course of the previous Parliament our achievements included:</p><p>• making domestic abuse an offence to capture controlling and coercive behaviour;</p><p>• rolling out Domestic Violence Protection Orders and the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme nationally;</p><p>• criminalising forced marriage;</p><p>• introducing new stalking laws;</p><p>• criminalisation of realistic depictions of rape and revenge pornography;</p><p>• strengthening the law on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), including mandatory reporting; and</p><p>• introducing new civil orders to manage sex offenders and FGM protection orders.</p><p>This Government will build on those achievements by doing more to intervene earlier in the abuse cycle including doing more to deter and rehabilitate perpetrators, as well as to continue to improve protection for victims and to bring offenders to justice. We recognise the importance of specialist services and will work with local authorities, the NHS and Police and Crime Commissioners to ensure a secure future for specialist Female Genital Mutilation and forced marriage units, refuges and rape support centres. The work will be set out in a refreshed version of the previous Government’s strategy, A Call to End Violence against Women and Girls, which will be published later this year.</p><p>The previous Government ring-fenced £40 million (£10 million per year) for services and helplines supporting women and girls who have suffered abuse. This Government has committed to continuing that funding to April 2016 and has provided an additional funding for this period: £10 million for refuges, a £3 million fund to boost the provision of domestic violence services including refuges and an uplift of £7 million for victims of sexual violence and child sexual abuse.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 14:25:24 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

420422

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	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 extend the scope of the refugee family reunion rules in response to the current crisis.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	901504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Our refugee family reunion policy is intended to allow immediate family members, that is, spouse or partner and children under the age of 18, who formed part of the family unit at the time their sponsor fled, to rebuild their lives in the UK. We have no plans to widen the family reunion criteria. But under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme we are working closely with the UNHCR to resettle close family groups where at least one member qualifies under the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 16:06:23 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

419128

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Middle East
	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 plans to have with Ministers of the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive when assessing which refugees from the Middle East will be settled in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	10405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister and First Minister of Scotland have exchanged correspondence on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. We are working closely with the Scottish administration on the arrangements for resettling refugees, with a Home Office official attending the Scottish refugee taskforce. Discussions have taken place with representatives of the administrations of Wales and Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 14/10/2015 15:43:52 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

420610

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with local authorities on their capacity to house refugees.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
	uin	11272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with the Local Government Association and local authorities already supporting the expanded resettlement scheme to help identify and promote the range of housing options that can be used by local housing authorities to house vulnerable Syrian refugees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 20/10/2015 16:54:56 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier