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662077

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many children under 16 years of age were, in 2015, removed from premises where they were being exploited as modern slaves or had been victims of people trafficking.
	tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Hindhead
	uin	HL4245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>Modern slavery including the trafficking of children is an abhorrent crime and this Government is committed to tackling it. The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the UK’s approach to identifying and supporting all victims of modern slavery.</p><p>In 2015 there were a total of 365 children under the age of 16 who were identified as potentially trafficked via an NRM referral.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/01/2017 15:01:30 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4542 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Hindhead

663138

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the independence of the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration of the Home Secretary deciding when to publish his reports.
	tabling member printed	Lord Paddick
	uin	HL4353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICI) reports are laid before Parliament in compliance with the UK Borders Act 2007.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/01/2017 15:42:49 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4288 label Biography information for Lord Paddick

662088

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri has been given permission to enter the United Kingdom; and what assessment they have made of the reported decision by the government of Pakistan to ban him from preaching in Pakistan.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/01/2017 17:33:48 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

669032

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Eritrea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons Eritrean minors have been excluded from her Department's guidance for enacting the Dubs amendment in France.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
	uin	58749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>In 2016, we welcomed over 900 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to the UK, including more than 750 from France as part of the UK’s support for the Calais camp clearance - almost half of the unaccompanied children who were in the camp at the time of the clearance. Approximately 200 of these children met the criteria for section 67 of the Immigration Act</p><p>In France, we considered those aged 12 and under of any nationality, children referred to us by the French authorities as being at a high risk of sexual exploitation of any nationality, and those nationalities most likely to qualify for refugee status in the UK, aged 15 and below.</p><p>The nationality criteria were based on the reasonable likelihood of the children qualifying for refugee status and achieving long-term stability. Eritrean children over the age of 15 do not qualify because the nationality criterion is based on nationalities with a first instance asylum grant rate of 75 per cent or higher in the year to June 2016. Those nationalities are Syrian and Sudanese.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 58748 question first answered 12/01/2017 17:35:04 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

670280

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) wholetime and (b) retained firefighters were employed by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	59057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>These figures are collected from fire and rescue services (FRSs) annually, through the Home Office’s Operational Statistics data collection. Published figures for all FRSs in England are available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/01/2017 17:50:23 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

670284

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU citizens applying for permanent residency in the UK have had their applications (a) accepted and (b) refused in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	59097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>Statistics on decisions on applications for Documents Certifying Permanent Residence issued to EEA nationals are published quarterly in table ee_02_q of Immigration Statistics. These include data for granted (hence accepted), and refused applications. The most recent edition (European Economic Area data tables Immigration Statistics July to September 2016) is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572387/eea-q3-2016-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572387/eea-q3-2016-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/01/2017 07:41:49 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

670831

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU nationals who have been rejected for UK citizenship have since been asked to leave the UK in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	59342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>No EU Nationals are asked to leave the UK as a direct consequence of having their British citizenship application refused. This is not part of the process.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/01/2017 17:45:34 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

669046

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who arrived in the UK claiming to be under the age of 18 and who were subsequently assessed as being over the age of 18 have since been deported in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	58822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publish the number of age dispute cases raised and resolved for asylum claimants in the Immigration Statistics release each quarter, in table 10 q:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572377/asylum3-q3-2016-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572377/asylum3-q3-2016-tables.ods</a></p><p>In addition, the number of individuals who were returned in each quarter who had previously lodged an asylum claim is published in table rt 02 q:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572379/returns1-q3-2016-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572379/returns1-q3-2016-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/01/2017 17:44:50 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

669028

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child refugees have been accepted for transfer to the UK under the (a) Dublin III Regulations and (b) Dubs amendment.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
	uin	58748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>In 2016, we welcomed over 900 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to the UK, including more than 750 from France as part of the UK’s support for the Calais camp clearance - almost half of the unaccompanied children who were in the camp at the time of the clearance. Approximately 200 of these children met the criteria for section 67 of the Immigration Act</p><p>In France, we considered those aged 12 and under of any nationality, children referred to us by the French authorities as being at a high risk of sexual exploitation of any nationality, and those nationalities most likely to qualify for refugee status in the UK, aged 15 and below.</p><p>The nationality criteria were based on the reasonable likelihood of the children qualifying for refugee status and achieving long-term stability. Eritrean children over the age of 15 do not qualify because the nationality criterion is based on nationalities with a first instance asylum grant rate of 75 per cent or higher in the year to June 2016. Those nationalities are Syrian and Sudanese.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 58749 question first answered 12/01/2017 17:35:04 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

670843

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Human Trafficking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many claims for asylum on the basis of having been trafficked or being at risk of re-trafficking have been submitted since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
	uin	59280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>Each asylum case is considered on its individual merits in accordance with our international obligations and protection is granted where it is needed. Information regarding the reasons that an individual has claimed asylum is not centrally recorded, and could only be obtained through a manual search of individual case files. This would only be achievable at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/01/2017 17:40:56 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart