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749242

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Chinook Helicopters
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many BAME (1) men, and (2) women, hold senior and chief officer positions in police constabularies in England and Wales; how many such positions there are; and what assessment they have made of the recruitment trends to such positions, in terms of improved access to, and diversity within, senior positions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins. The Home Office does not collect information on the number of posts available.</p><p>Detailed data on the number of officers in post, broken down by rank, gender and ethnicity are collected and published on an annual basis only. The requested data, representing the picture as at 31 March 2016, can be found in the attached Table_D1 accompanying the main release here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016</a></p><p>Data for previous years can be found in the Open Data Tables, available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539981/open-data-table-police-workforce-ethnicity.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539981/open-data-table-police-workforce-ethnicity.ods</a></p><p>The Government has made it easier than ever before for the public to hold their PCC and chief constable to account over how diverse their force is compared to the local population. Police.uk now gives access to diversity data for officers and police staff, and the profile of BME and female officers by police rank, in comparison to the local force area population. We are in regular discussion with the College of Policing, who are leading work with chief constables and others to improve senior police recruitment.</p><p>The Government’s direct entry schemes at Inspector and Superintendent ranks help to attract the most talented people into policing, bringing in fresh experience, diversity and perspectives. Of the 40 inspectors and superintendents who have started the scheme so far 43% have been women and 13% were from an ethnic minority background. Chief Constable appointments have also been opened up to those with equivalent experience from overseas.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 20/07/2017 14:40:49 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Table D1 - BME officers by police force.xlsx title Table D1
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

747981

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many EU nationals have been removed from the UK under Article 14(4)(b) of Directive 2004/38 because (1) they did not satisfy the work requirements, or (2) they were homeless.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>I am sorry but the data requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/07/2017 11:32:09 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

747446

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Iraqi refugees they have resettled since 2014 under (1) the Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme (VCRS), and (2) other global resettlement schemes such as Gateway and Mandate.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Southwark
	uin	HL410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <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 Government has committed to resettling to the UK up to 3,000 individuals under the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS). Data on the number of people who have been resettled under this scheme will be published in future releases of the Home Office’s immigration quarterly statistics. Latest statistics published on 25 May confirmed that a total of 360 Iraqis have been resettled to the UK under the Gateway scheme, and 18 under the Mandate scheme, during the period 1 January 2014 until 31 March 2017.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/07/2017 12:14:59 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4345 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Southwark

746651

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Nepalese students applied to undertake further education in the UK in the last two years for which figures are available, and how many were accepted.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
	uin	HL282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Information on total sponsored entry clearance visa applications to study by nationality, is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Sponsorship tables, (found here:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">//www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas</a>).</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/07/2017 14:38:52 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Table - C11-C13 - Immigration Stats Sponsorship Tables.xlsx title Table - C11-C13 Immigration Stats Sponsorship
	tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

749233

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Royal Birmingham Conservatoire: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Special Constables there are in each police force in England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of Special Constables in each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis.</p><p>The latest available data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales, 30 September 2016’ statistical bulletins.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/07/2017 13:09:12 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name ePQ6917 Lord Kennedy Table2.xls title Table - HL569
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

731014

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Suspicious Activity Reports are outstanding on the Elmer Database.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
	uin	HL28
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>There are 2.11 million suspicious activity reports (SARs) on the Elmer database. These SARs remain on the system either as result of ongoing activity from a law enforcement agency, or because the SAR is within the six year period for which data can be held on Elmer, in line with the ECHR and Data Protection legislation. In 2015/16 the UKFIU received over 400,000 SARs. Each SAR may include detail of the activities of a number of persons, and it is therefore not possible to determine how many nominal subjects are within the database.</p><p> </p><p>Following the House of Lords European Union Committee Inquiry into Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism in July 2009, and the Information Commissioner’s review of the ELMER database in 2010, the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has implemented the Retention and Deletion policy for Suspicious Activity Reports. This sets the following criteria for the removal of SARs:</p><p> </p><p>o If definitive feedback is received from law enforcement end users that states a SAR is not connected with criminality, that SAR is deleted.</p><p>o Otherwise, the retention period for SARs is six years from the date of submission. After that time they are automatically deleted from the SARs database (ELMER) and other derivative systems, on a rolling daily deletion programme.</p><p>o When a SAR is deleted, an audit record showing the SAR Unique Reference Number (URN), date of creation and date of deletion is retained for all SARs. This record contains no personal data, but is used to confirm, if necessary, that a SAR has been submitted.</p><p>o There are occasions when, after six years, a SAR still forms part of an on-going case, investigation or appeal and is entirely the responsibility of the end user to ensure that copies of the required SARs are transferred to the investigating agency’s ‘case record’. The data control responsibility for those records is then transferred from the NCA to that agency.</p><p> </p><p>The UKFIU has access to the entire Elmer database, which includes ‘sensitive’ SARs such as those submitted on terrorism, integrity and some politically exposed persons.</p><p> </p><p>SARs are only directly available to agencies with officers with powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act, or under the Terrorism Act (for terrorist finance), and only with officers who have an accreditation enabling them to see SARs. All such access is governed by user agreements at both an agency and individual level. For other organisations to qualify for access to the non-sensitive version of ELMER, they must accept the terms of ‘The Organisation Agreement for Direct Access to Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)’ which sets the objectives, responsibilities and conditions within which both the NCA and the end user must comply.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL29 HL30 question first answered 05/07/2017 14:53:31 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

750568

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers are currently in custody awaiting final decisions on their settlement applications.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes figures on the number of asylum claims and decisions made as part of its Immigration Statistics release. The latest version can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">Immigration statistics, January to March 2017: data tables - GOV.UK</a> and in the attached table.</p><p>The table below shows the total number of claims and decisions made in each of the last two years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Claims</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Decisions Made</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>32,733</p></td><td><p>28,622</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>30,603</p></td><td><p>24,984</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/07/2017 13:33:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Table - PQ HL700.docx title Table - HL700
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

731079

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers were admitted into the UK in each month from June 2015 to March 2017.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL87
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes the number of asylum applications received at ports each quarter by nationality in table as_01_q of the <em>Immigration Statistics</em> release. The latest figures are attached and are available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615150/asylum1-jan-mar-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615150/asylum1-jan-mar-2017-tables</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Table as_01_q: Asylum applications from main applicants received at ports, Q1 2015 to Q1 2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total applications</p></td><td><p>Applications received at ports</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 Q1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,027</strong></p></td><td><p>579</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 Q2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,279</strong></p></td><td><p>507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 Q3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,231</strong></p></td><td><p>792</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 Q4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,196</strong></p></td><td><p>1,040</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 Q1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,228</strong></p></td><td><p>924</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 Q2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,810</strong></p></td><td><p>781</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 Q3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,146</strong></p></td><td><p>1,021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 Q4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,419</strong></p></td><td><p>1,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 Q1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,516</strong></p></td><td><p>884</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Table Notes:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Table as_01_q, <em>Immigration Statistics</em> Janurary to March 2017, Home Office</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) These data are provisional and subject to update.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 30/06/2017 12:06:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Table - as_01-q - asylum applications at ports - Jan - Mar 2017.xls title Table as 01-q : Immigration Stats Jan-March 2017
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

731082

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers were deported on reaching the age of 18 in (1) 2014, (2) 2015, and (3) 2016.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL90
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The number of enforced returns by age is published in table rt_03 (returns data tables) in <em>‘Immigration Statistics, January - March 2017’</em>, (attached) and is also available from the Home Office website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615158/returns2-jan-mar-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615158/returns2-jan-mar-2017-tables.ods</a></p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legal definition of a specific set of returns. Deportations are a specific subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. The deportation order prohibits the person returning to the UK until such time as it may be revoked. Published information on those deported is not separately available. As such, the question has been interpreted as referring to enforced returns. In an enforced return, it has been established that a person has breached UK immigration laws and / or has no valid leave to remain in the UK. They have declined to leave voluntarily and the Home Office enforces their departure from the UK.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total enforced removals</strong></p></td><td><p>Under <br> 14</p></td><td><p><br> 14-15</p></td><td><p><br> 16-17</p></td><td><p>18-20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>21,425</p></td><td><p>1,448</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>1,722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>20,808</p></td><td><p>1,361</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>278</p></td><td><p>1,643</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>19,372</p></td><td><p>1,049</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>1,365</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>17,770</p></td><td><p>786</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>1,041</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>17,239</p></td><td><p>684</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>1,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>15,252</p></td><td><p>584</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>1,013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>14,854</p></td><td><p>296</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>991</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>15,063</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>1,138</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>14,647</p></td><td><p>183</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>855</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>13,311</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>795</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>12,627</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>601</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>12,111</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>701</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>10,872</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>610</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Data from Q1 2015 are provisional figures.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data on returns are based on individual cases. Multiple returns of the same person within a year are counted as multiple returns.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p><em>Immigration Statistics January - March 2017</em>, Home Office, table rt_03.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 30/06/2017 12:08:35 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

753326

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many citizens of other countries have been given British citizenship in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
	uin	HL1014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>Information on the numbers of grants of British citizenship is published in Citizenship table cz_01 in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, January - March 2016’, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615149/citizenship-jan-mar-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615149/citizenship-jan-mar-2017-tables.ods</a></p><p> </p><p>The information is summarised is this table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>British citizenship grants, 2007 to 2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Grant Decisions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>164,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>129,377</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>203,789</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>195,094</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>177,934</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>194,370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>208,095</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>125,754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>118,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>149,421</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/07/2017 14:16:39 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford