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39020

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 place in the Library a copy of the report entitled The medical implications of vehicle-mounted water cannon with special reference to the Ziegler Wasserwerfer 9000 (WaWe 9) system, published by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	188418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The report will be placed in the Library when the Home Secretary announces her <br>decision on whether to authorise water cannon for use by the police in England <br>and Wales.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

45103

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2014
	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, how many unaccompanied migrant children have been forcibly removed to another country in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	193591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>No unaccompanied child under the age of 18 can be forcibly removed from the UK <br>unless adequate care and reception arrangements are in place in their country <br>of origin. The difficulty of setting up suitable reception arrangements has <br>meant that, with the exception of transfers to other European Union countries <br>under the *Dublin Regulations, the Home Office does not routinely enforce the <br>return of unaccompanied children to any country. The majority of unaccompanied <br>children whose asylum claims are rejected are granted temporary leave which is <br>reviewed when they reach 17½ years of age. We believe that the vast majority of <br>enforced returns of unaccompanied children undertaken between 2006 and 2010 <br>were transfers under the Dublin Regulations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1:</strong><strong> Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children removals 2009 to 2013</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date of Removal</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>53</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>‘Migrant children' have been interpreted as unaccompanied asylum seeking <br>children (UASC) in answering this question.<br><br>* The Dublin Regulation EC No. 343/2003 is a binding measure of European <br>Community law to determine which State should be responsible for examining an <br>application for asylum made within the EU territory.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 3800 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

45104

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2014
	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, how many asylum applicants receiving support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 have been receiving support for more than (a) two years, (b) four years and (c) six years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	193593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>Data specific to your request can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Band Cases</p><p> </p><p>Up to two years 2008</p><p>More than two years 822</p><p>More than four years 473</p><p>More than six years 212</p><p> </p><p>Total 3515</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

45105

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2014
	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, when she will announce the asylum support rates for 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	193594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are no immediate plans to change the support rates provided to destitute asylum seekers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

45314

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2014
	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, how many people held in immigration removal centres and who refused food or fluids have been transferred to prisons since May 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	193784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p>No persons held in immigration removal centres have been transferred to prisons since May 2013 due to refusal of food or fluids.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

45586

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2014
	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, how much her Department has spent on legal fees in immigration cases when she has been (a) the defendant and (b) the appellant, in each of the last five years for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	194153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office cannot report separately on expenditure on legal fees in <br>immigration cases where the Secretary of State has been either defendant or <br>appellant because it does not record data in the format required for such an <br>analysis. The only way to answer this question would be to review all payments <br>of litigation expenditure manually which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

46311

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	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, which prisons are holding individuals solely under immigration powers.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	194691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p><br>The prisons detailed below are currently holding individuals in England and Wales solely under immigration powers:<br><br></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td>Ashfield</td><td>Glen Parva</td><td>Parc</td></tr><tr><td>Bedford</td><td>Guys Marsh</td><td>Pentonville</td></tr><tr><td>Belmarsh</td><td>Haverigg</td><td>Peterborough</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham</td><td>Hewell</td><td>Ranby</td></tr><tr><td>Brinsford</td><td>High Down</td><td>Risley</td></tr><tr><td>Bristol</td><td>Highpoint</td><td>Rye Hall</td></tr><tr><td>Brixton</td><td>Holloway</td><td>Stafford</td></tr><tr><td>Bronzefield</td><td>Holme House</td><td>Stoke Heath</td></tr><tr><td>Bullingdon</td><td>Huntercombe</td><td>Styal</td></tr><tr><td>Bullwood Hall</td><td>Isis</td><td>Swansea</td></tr><tr><td>Bure</td><td>Leeds</td><td>Swinfen Hall</td></tr><tr><td>Cardiff</td><td>Lewes</td><td>Thameside</td></tr><tr><td>Chelmsford</td><td>Lincoln</td><td>Usk</td></tr><tr><td>Dartmoor</td><td>Littlehey</td><td>Wakefield</td></tr><tr><td>Doncastor</td><td>Liverpool</td><td>Wandsworth</td></tr><tr><td>Durham</td><td>Maidstone</td><td>Wayland</td></tr><tr><td>Elmley</td><td>Manchester</td><td>Whatton</td></tr><tr><td>Erlestoke</td><td>Moorland</td><td>Woodhill</td></tr><tr><td>Exeter</td><td>Mount</td><td>Wormwood Scrubs</td></tr><tr><td>Featherstone</td><td>New Hall</td><td>Wymott</td></tr><tr><td>Feltham</td><td>Norwich</td><td>Verne</td></tr><tr><td>Forest Bank</td><td>Nottingham</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Garth</td><td>Oakwood</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><br>The prisons detailed below are currently holding individuals in Scotland under immigration powers:<br><br>Barlinnie, Edinburgh, Cornton Vale, Dumfries<br><br><br>1. All details quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.</p><p>2. The details have been extracted from NOMS and Home Office reports which are taken from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording <br>system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p><br>3. Data generated on 31 March 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

47288

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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, if she will publish the number of individuals held at HM Prison The Verne solely for immigration purposes as part of the quarterly immigration statistics.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	195428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Published figures on people detained in the United Kingdom solely under <br>Immigration Act powers include those held in short term holding facilities, pre <br>departure accommodation and immigration removal centres. However, figures <br>exclude those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term <br>holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those <br>recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their <br>dependants. <br><br>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of <br>people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within <br>Immigration Statistics: October - December 2013, from the GOV.UK website: <br>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-stati<br>stics-quarterly-release.</p><p> </p><p>The provisional date for HMP The Verne to become an <br>Immigration Removal Centre is September 2014 and following that change specific <br>figures for the Verne would be regularly published alongside those for other <br>Immigration Removal Centres.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 5668 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

46378

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how much each local authority returned to his Department in unused discretionary housing payment funding in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	194703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Local authorities are required to submit their claims for funding for Discretionary Housing Payments by 30 April following the end of the financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Until the returns have been received from each authority, we are not in a position to say how much of this funding has been unused.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>At the end of the 2012/13 year, of the £67,906,916 made available by central Government towards Discretionary Housing Payments, £12,453,471 (18.34%) was unspent.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

44812

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2013, Official Report, column 772W, on Judicial Review, what further assessment has been made of the reasons for the increase in the number of applications for judicial review.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	193293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>The use of judicial review more than tripled between 2000 and 2013, from around 4,300 applications to around 15,700. The increase has been driven mainly by immigration and asylum cases but civil judicial reviews have increased by around 27% over the same period, from 1,745 in 2000 to 2,210 in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012 only around 1,400 of 7,600 applications considered for permission, including at an oral renewal, were granted permission to proceed to a final hearing. Between 1 October 2012 and 31 December 2013 around 30% of judicial reviews which reached the permission stage or oral renewal were found to be totally without merit.</p><p> </p><p>The governemnt is determined to improve the judicial review process. The rationale for the Government's reforms is set out in ‘Judicial review: further proposals for reform – the Government response' (<a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/judicial-review" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/judicial-review</a>). The Government is determined to improve the judicial review process so that it is not open to abuse and arguable cases can proceed quickly to final resolution.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is clear that judicial review is, and will remain, an important means to ensure the actions of Government and other bodies are lawful.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather