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164410

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seasonal staff in the Border Force are employed on zero hour contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	215702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>No seasonal staff in Border Force are employed on zero hours contracts.<br><br>The deployment of seasonal workers has bolstered Border Force capability during forecasted busy periods by assisting the processing of passengers within service level agreement times, and has released permanent staff from the Primary Control Point to carry out important customs activities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 215704 question first answered 05/12/2014 16:56:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

164411

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of changes in the number of seasonal staff in the Border Force on (a) queuing times and (b) customs activities.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	215704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>No seasonal staff in Border Force are employed on zero hours contracts.<br><br>The deployment of seasonal workers has bolstered Border Force capability during forecasted busy periods by assisting the processing of passengers within service level agreement times, and has released permanent staff from the Primary Control Point to carry out important customs activities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 215702 question first answered 05/12/2014 16:56:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

155991

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Travel Restrictions: Malawi
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Malawi nationals are on the UK travel ban list.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	214520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>There are no Malawi nationals on the UN and EU travel bans that are implemented by the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2014 16:29:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 28887 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

155993

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Travel Restrictions: Ethiopia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ethiopian nationals are on the UK travel ban list.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	214519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>There are no Ethiopian nationals on the UN and EU travel bans that are implemented by the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2014 16:28:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 28886 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

167108

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on working with internet companies to restrict access to terrorist material which is hosted overseas but is illegal under UK law.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	216571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>We have made considerable progress in restricting online access to terrorist related material, the majority of which is hosted overseas. Since February 2010, the police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) has secured the removal of more than 65,000 pieces of unlawful terrorist-related content, with over 46,000 of these removed since the start of this year.</p><p>Where the police cannot remove terrorist content, we are working with Internet Service Providers to further restrict access to this material and identify other legal but harmful extremist content to be included in family-friendly filters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2014 17:14:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

164424

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sham Marriage
	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 has taken to reduce the number of sham marriages in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	215733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Sham marriages are an abuse of our marriage laws by those seeking to circumvent immigration controls. We have significantly increased our enforcement activity against sham marriages, with 1,335 interventions in 2013-14, resulting in 840 arrests and 294 removals.</p><p>From 2 March 2015, Part 4 of the Immigration Act 2014 will provide important new powers to tackle sham marriages and civil partnerships. Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary secondary legislation, this will include a new referral and investigation scheme for proposed marriages and civil partnerships across the UK involving a non-European Economic Area national who could benefit in immigration terms.</p><p><br>This will give the Home Office more time and scope to identify and investigate suspected sham marriages and civil partnerships and to take effective enforcement or casework action. Further information is contained in my Written Statement on 24 November 2014, Columns 21-22WS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2014 16:50:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

167109

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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, what progress her Department has made with the internet industry on improving the process for members of the public to report extremist content online.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	216572
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>There is a clear role for the internet industry to ensure there are simple and easy flagging mechanisms for the public to report terrorist and extremist content. Some companies have these already, but we are encouraging other platforms to reach the standards of the best. We have also improved the process for public reporting of terrorist and extremist content to the police.</p><p><br>Members of the public can report content of concern to the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) via an online tool on the Gov.uk website which was updated in March 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2014 17:18:10 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

166776

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime: East of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value was of assets (a) seized and (b) frozen under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each police force area in the East of England in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
	uin	216374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The amount recovered by each police force under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the previous asset recovery legislation is provided in Table A. There is no provision for police forces to freeze assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act; however we are able to provide force-by-force breakdowns of the amount of cash seized and value of property subjected to a restraint order during a criminal investigation or proceeding. A proportion of this may be deemed by the courts to be subject to forfeiture or confiscation. Table B provides figures for the amounts seized or restrained.<br><br>More assets have been recovered since 2010 than ever before, although prosecutors face greater difficulties in obtaining restraint orders following the impact of the Court of Appeal decision in Windsor &amp; Ors v Crown Prosecution Service [2011] EWCA Crim 143. The Government has taken steps to address this by bringing forward provisions in the Serious Crime Bill, which is currently before Parliament, to lower the legal test for restraint in order to make it easier to obtain restraint orders earlier in investigations.We are working with operational partners to ensure that the use of restraint orders is considered at the outset of all appropriate investigations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 216374 - Table A.docx title Table A - Assets recovered 2 file name PQ 216374 - Table B.doc title Table B - Cash seized & assets restrained question first answered 05/12/2014 16:27:31 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

167110

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police and crime commissioners are accountable to the public.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	216627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are held accountable by the most effective check on any politician: the ballot box. This democratic power did not exist before 2012, when we replaced invisible, unaccountable police <br>authorities with directly elected PCCs. Under the old system, the public had no say in who served as a police authority chairman or member and more than 5.8 million votes have been cast for PCCs since their introduction.<br><br>The rules on the dismissal of a PCC are stronger than those for similar directly elected roles, such as MPs. Police and Crime Panels hold the power to suspend a PCC charged with an offence which carries a maximum sentence above <br>two years imprisonment. Any PCC found guilty of an imprisonable offence (whether or not a custodial sentence is handed down) is immediately disqualified from holding office.<br><br>The Home Secretary has said that there is a debate to be had on the issue of PCC recall, and the Government will listen carefully to the views of the Home Affairs Select Committee, of Parliament, and of the public more generally, and <br>will reflect upon these views.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 05/12/2014 14:10:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

167106

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Heathrow Airport
	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 since 1 July 2014 border gates at Heathrow Terminals 1 to 5, other than e gates, have been closed to EU passport holders.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	216625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Border Force Heathrow does not record desk occupancy as they operate a flexible approach in resourcing the immigration control. Fixed resources are deployed at each terminal between the non-EEA control and the EEA/EU control and, if required, flexible teams from across the estate are deployed to support the fixed terminal staff in times of increased passenger flow.</p><p>This is done in advance by Border Force's central resourcing team, matching resource levels to expected demand and on the day through proactive management by duty managers with the aim of operating within agreed service level agreements with the airport authority (95% of the time within 25 minutes for EEA/EU and 95% of the time within 45 minutes for non-EEA/EU). Since 1 July 2014 Border Force has consistently been meeting these service standards for the EEA control at each of the Heathrow terminals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2014 17:24:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson