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638399

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/11/2016
	date	17/11/2016
	date tabled	17/11/2016
	ddp created	17/11/2016 21:02:55
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	17/11/2016 21:09:32 21/12/2016 16:44:03
	hansard heading	Freezing of Assets: Russia
	house id	1
	identifier	53636
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	21/12/2016 12:29:16
	question first ministerially corrected	21/12/2016 16:12:02
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has subjected (a) Dimitry Klyuev, (b) Pavel Karpov or (c) Andrey Pavlov to an (i) asset freeze or (ii) asset recovery in the last eight years.
	session	2016/17
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2016/17 53636
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	53636
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Home Office is responsible for the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. The powers in the Proceeds of Crime Act may be exercised by law enforcement agencies such as the NCA, SFO, constables and HMRC. <ins class="ministerial">It is Home Office policy not to comment on individual cases. </ins></p>
	creator	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

485698

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/04/2016
	date	23/03/2016
	date tabled	23/03/2016
	ddp created	24/03/2016 03:29:33
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	24/03/2016 03:43:35 19/04/2016 18:52:20
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	identifier	32410
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	11/04/2016 12:20:07
	question first ministerially corrected	19/04/2016 18:20:54
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of resettling refugees from Syria in each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement.
	session	2015/16
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2015/16 32410
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	32410
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The first 12 months of each refugee’s resettlement costs under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) Scheme will be funded using Official Development Assistance. At the Spending Review the Government committed £129 million to assist with local authority costs over years 2-5 of the scheme.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The total estimated cost of the scheme in each of the next five years is: £99 million in 2016-2017, £129 million in 2017-2018, £149 million in 2018-2019 and £83 million in 2020-2021.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">At the Spending Review, the Chancellor announced an estimated £460m over the spending review period to cover the first 12 months’ costs for each of the 20,000 refugees being resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">He also announced an estimated £129m to assist with local authority costs for years two to five of each refugee’s stay in the UK.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The cost of the scheme since inception is subject to audit by the National Audit Office as part of the finalisation of the 2015-16 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, which are expected to be published this summer.</ins></p>
	creator	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

168978

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/12/2014
	date	09/12/2014
	date tabled	09/12/2014
	ddp created	09/12/2014 21:32:07
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 15:26:34
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	identifier	217779
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/01/2015 11:40:14
	question first ministerially corrected	06/01/2015 11:32:10
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 217779
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217779
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Expenditure incurred by the Home Department and its agencies on consultants, <br />temporary staff and contingent labour in the last five years is published <br />annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which are <br />held in the House Library and available from these links.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014</a> <br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013</a> <br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012</a><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ho-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ho-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011</a><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-resource-accounts-2009-to-2010" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-resource-accounts-2009-to-2010</a><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247694/0193.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247694/0193.pdf</a><br /><br />The Department did not separately account for Agency Staff (Temporary Workers) <br />in these years as the costs associated with this category are included in the <br />overall Contingent Labour figures. <br /><br />Spend on contingent and consultancy labour has decreased significantly overall <br />since 09/10.<br /><br /></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>FY09/10 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY10/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY11/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY12/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY13/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Consultancy</strong></p></td><td><p>£227.470</p></td><td><p>£64.194</p></td><td><p>£33.301</p></td><td><p>£14.762</p></td><td><p>£18.014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Contingent Labour </strong></p></td><td><p>£134.000</p></td><td><p>£51.472</p></td><td><p>£37.772</p></td><td><p>£50.672</p></td><td><p>£72.430</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department engages Temporary Staff at AA, AO, EO, HEO and SEO equivalent <br />Grades, the vast majority at the AA to EO grades. Contractors are engaged in <br />grade equivalents EO to SCS PB1 with the vast majority at SEO and G6/7.<br /><br />The Department buys consultancy as a service and therefore does not engage <br />consultants individually.<br /><br />To provide details of contract durations and equivalent grades would require <br />analysis of individual contracts and disparate datasets, the time taken to <br />undertake this task would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

416723

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	08/09/2015
	date	04/09/2015
	date tabled	04/09/2015
	ddp created	04/09/2015 18:39:13
	ddp modified	05/10/2015 15:47:01
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Standards
	house id	1
	identifier	8920
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	18/09/2015 10:39:08
	question first ministerially corrected	21/09/2015 11:00:28
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the performance of the Disclosure and Barring Service.
	session	2015/16
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2015/16 8920
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	8920
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) provides the Home Office with monthly updates on performance. Latest figures (relating to July 2015) show that the average processing time for disclosure applications was 14.3 days. The DBS operates to a target to issue 95% of disclosure certificates within 56 days (8 weeks) and in July 95.2% were issued within this time.</p><p>DBS funding for police disclosure units in 2013-14 and 2014-15 is set out in the <del class="ministerial">attached table.</del> <ins class="ministerial">attached table.</ins> Decisions on the operational deployment of resources, including vacancy filling, are matters for Chief Constables in association with Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The DBS is working closely with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to help reduce the time taken to process disclosure checks for all applicants including taxi drivers in London. The MPS has established a Gold Group, which includes DBS representation, to develop and implement a plan to improve MPS disclosure turnaround times.</p><p> </p> attachment 1 file name PQ 8918 DBS funding to police forces 2013-14 20 14-15 07 09 15 (1).xlsx
	creator	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

452043

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/02/2016
	date	10/02/2016
	date tabled	10/02/2016
	ddp created	10/02/2016 23:13:58
	ddp modified	22/03/2016 12:13:39
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Closures
	house id	1
	identifier	26844
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	22/02/2016 16:46:01
	question first ministerially corrected	22/03/2016 11:41:48
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what public consultation there has been on the proposed closure of 15 HM Passport Office interview offices.
	session	2015/16
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2015/16 26844
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	26844
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Under the planned changes to HM Passport Offices <ins class="ministerial">the vast majority of passport application interviewees will see no change to their travel time. In a small number of cases passport application interviewees will have to travel further but this should not be more than 65 miles or one and a half hours from their previous closest office.</ins> <del class="ministerial">no customer will need to travel for more than either one and a half hours or 65 miles and the vast majority of passport application interviewees will see no change to their travel time.</del> The decision to deliver greater value for money by reducing surplus capacity for interviews was clear, therefore public consultation on the changes was not applicable.</p>
	creator	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

62098

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/06/2014
	date	16/06/2014
	date tabled	16/06/2014
	ddp created	16/06/2014 22:21:29
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 09:14:37
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	DNA: Databases
	house id	1
	identifier	200768
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	15/07/2014 16:04:09
	question first ministerially corrected	04/09/2014 13:52:48
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for information held on the National DNA Database were received by her Department from other countries in each of the last five years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 200768
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	200768
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The first category relates to searches carried out against the National DNA <br />Database (NDNAD) of DNA profiles from outstanding serious crimes or for the <br />identification of an unknown deceased person believed to be a UK national.<br />The below figures are for requested searches undertaken on the basis of a <br />direct request from the National Crime Agency (NCA) formerly Serious Organised<br />Crime Agency (SOCA), with the report as to the outcome of each profile<br />search being issued directly to the United Kingdom National Central Bureau <br />for Interpol (UK NCB).</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Number of searched profile responses provided to NCA/SOCA<sup>[1][2][3]</sup></strong></td></tr><tr><td>2009/10*</td><td>377[4]</td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>548</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>469</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>443</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>409<del class="ministerial">4</del></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">*Data are not available for the period Oct 2009 – Jan 2010.</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second category includes requests for the DNA profile held for a subject on <br />the NDNAD, where fingerprints have been provided to the country that the <br />individual currently resides in. Again this is information provided to NCA/ <br />SOCA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Number of requests for subject profiles release to NCA/SOCA<sup>123</sup></strong></td></tr><tr><td>2009/10</td><td>138<del class="ministerial">4</del></td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>85</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">[1] The data have been extracted from logs produced by NDNAD (validated as the only source of this information) by the application of the specified criteria (requests directly received from NCA/SOCA). The data were extracted by the manual filtering of Excel Spreadsheets.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">[2] The UK NCB is not currently able to provide data on the number of requests received from other countries so these data relate solely to information supplied by the National DNA Database Delivery Unit (NDU).</td></tr><tr><td>[3] The data were extracted on 17th June.</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>[4] These figures have been verified on a 1:1 comparison basis.</p><p>The third category relates to database management information. This provides <br />the number of subject and crime scene DNA profile records held on the database <br />and the number of match reports generated. Countries which do not have a DNA <br />database use this information to demonstrate the success of the UK Database to <br />support their case for legislation in their own country for a DNA database.</p><p>Requestors are directed to the most recent published statistics on the Home <br />Office NDNAD website, at: <br />https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-dna-database-statistics <br />thus no figures are kept for the numbers of such requests.</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

93083

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/10/2014
	date	14/10/2014
	date tabled	14/10/2014
	ddp created	14/10/2014 21:00:59
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 01:21:33
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking
	house id	1
	identifier	210496
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 16:18:51
	question first ministerially corrected	03/11/2014 17:22:06
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many confiscation orders were imposed by the CPS on individuals convicted of offences related to human trafficking in each of the last five years; what the size of these orders was; and how much has been recovered under such orders.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 210496
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210496
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is committed to fighting human trafficking. Over £5.5 million has been recovered from those convicted of human trafficking offences in the last five years. Full available details are shown in the following table. <br /><br />A human trafficker may, as an alternative, be charged and prosecuted for a different offence, such as prostitution or money laundering, which could incur a confiscation order. But this would not be recorded as a trafficking offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> attachment 1 file name 2014_10 HT PQ Thornberry table.docx
	creator	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

595887

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/10/2016
	date	07/10/2016
	date tabled	07/10/2016
	ddp created	07/10/2016 18:19:02
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	07/10/2016 18:35:03 14/10/2016 11:15:05
	hansard heading	Migrants: Employment
	house id	1
	identifier	47250
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	13/10/2016 14:03:54
	question first ministerially corrected	14/10/2016 10:43:41
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of employer enquiries to the Employer Checking Service resulted in a response confirming that the subject of the enquiry had the right to work in each of the last five years.
	session	2016/17
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2016/17 47250
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47250
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The proportion of checks to the Employer Checking Service resulting in a response confirming that the subject of the enquiry had the right to work, by calendar year are as below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2011 41.2%</p><p> </p><p>2012 43.8%</p><p> </p><p>2013 51.1%</p><p> </p><p>2014 <del class="ministerial">56.6%</del> <ins class="ministerial">56.0%</ins></p><p> </p><p>2015 <del class="ministerial">61.4%<del class="ministerial"></del></del> <ins class="ministerial">58.2%</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">2016 (to date) 67.3%</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn
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170475

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/12/2014
	date	15/12/2014
	date tabled	15/12/2014
	ddp created	16/12/2014 00:42:26
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 17:19:24
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force
	house id	1
	identifier	218616
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/01/2015 11:34:20
	question first ministerially corrected	08/01/2015 10:29:56
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many front-line staff are employed at the UK border; and what the annual cost to the public purse is of such staff.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 218616
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218616
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>There are approximately 7,900 Home Office staff employed by Border Force on the front line at the UK border. The annual cost of these staff is approximately £373 million.<br /><br />Please note these figures are part of the current year’s expenditure and so will be subject to audit. These are Home Office staff and do not include staff working for other agencies.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
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226039

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/03/2015
	date	09/03/2015
	date tabled	09/03/2015
	ddp created	09/03/2015 23:21:27
	ddp modified	01/04/2015 12:39:24
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agency Workers
	house id	1
	identifier	226758
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/03/2015 15:04:13
	question first ministerially corrected	26/03/2015 12:03:07
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many agency staff are employed in (a) her Department, (b) the Passport Office, (c) UK Visas Immigration and (d) the Border Force.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 226758
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	226758
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The number of agency workers employed by (a) the Home Department, (b) Her Majesty’s Passport Office, (c) UK Visas and Immigration and (d) Border Force is <br />provided in Table 1.<br /><br />The number of full-time equivalent staff employed and the projected staffing levels for March 2015 broken down by (a) the Home Department, (b) Her Majesty’s <br />Passport Office, (c) UK Visas and Immigration and (d) Border Force is provided in Table 2.<br /><br />The information provided for staff and agency workers in post is as at 31st January 2015.<br /><br />The Home Department is currently finalising projected staffing levels for 2015-16 as part of the annual planning round so projected levels beyond March 2015 are not yet available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 226758 Table 1 and 226759 Table 2 V2.xls
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	publisher	25259
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson