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	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport (a) applications and (b) renewal applications were received by the Passport Office in each (i) month and (ii) year of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	199406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The following table provides the requested information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/06/2014 16:15:43 question first ministerially corrected 02/09/2014 15:04:09 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ-199406 Katy Clark table[1].doc title Applications for passports and renewals V2 previous answer version 6842 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ-199406 Katy Clark table.doc title Applications for passports and renewals
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

61397

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) new passports and (b) passport renewals there have been in the last year; and what the annual change in such figures has been.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	200217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During the period between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office <br />received <del class="ministerial">1,446,983</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,425,885</ins> first time passport applications and <del class="ministerial">4,528,751</del> <ins class="ministerial">4,461,343</ins> passport <br />renewal applications.<br /><br />This compares with 1,346,246 first time applications and 4,036,267 passport <br />renewal applications during the period between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:03:02 question first ministerially corrected 02/09/2014 14:35:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 8681 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

61350

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 17 March 2014, Official Report, column 364W, on entry clearances, what options the policy and operational teams in her Department are considering to best accommodate a clearance programme once the appeal against the judgment of Mr Justice Blake on 5 July 2013 on the Government's visa income threshold is published.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	200282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>We will study the Court of Appeal judgment in MM and Others closely when this is handed down. We will then decide and announce how we will deal with those applications placed on hold pending the conclusion of the litigation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/06/2014 12:26:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 1319 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

78761

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2014, Official Report, column 200W, on passports, when she expects to publish a reliable estimate of the additional costs arising from staff temporarily working away from their normal workplace and from overtime to deal with delays at the Passport Office.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	206495
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>We will provide the actual costs incurred in redeploying staff to meet the exceptional levels of passport demand this year when that redeployment ends. Redeployed staff will continue to support Her Majesty's Passport Office frontline services until further notice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/07/2014 13:28:56 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 11958 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

93308

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been deprived of their British Citizenship under subsection (2) of section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 in the last six months; how many such cases fell within subsection (4A) of that section; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	210461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981, the Secretary of State is empowered to deprive, by order, any person of any form of British <br>nationality, subject to satisfying the relevant criteria. The Secretary of State may deprive somebody of their British citizenship if satisfied that such deprivation is conducive to the public good or the individual obtained British citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact. Since April 2014, seven people have been deprived of their citizenship on the grounds that it was either conducive to the public good to do so, or that the individual concerned obtained their British citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact. No cases have been deprived under subsection (4A) of that section.<br><br>Please note: this information has been provided from local management information and is not a national statistic. As such, it should be treated as <br>provisional and therefore subject to change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/10/2014 16:42:56 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 22517 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

92642

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many immigration or asylum cases during the last 12 months where a person has claimed to be under the age of 18, that person has been treated as an adult on the basis that their appearance or demeanour strongly suggests they are significantly over the age of 18.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	210006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>This information is not currently published or readily available and could be obtained only through the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.<br><br>The Home Office is looking into ways to improve the statistical recording of age dispute information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/10/2014 15:07:29 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 21950 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

62331

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the volume of overseas applications for passports has been in each month since her Department assumed responsibility for such applications.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	201025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of overseas passport applications received by Her Majesty's Passport Office each month since it assumed responsibility for such applications.<br><br><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of overseas applications received*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2012</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2013</p></td><td><p>1014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2013</p></td><td><p>2401</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2013</p></td><td><p>2767</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013</p></td><td><p>3543</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2013</p></td><td><p>4662</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>5862</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2013</p></td><td><p>7053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2013</p></td><td><p>7216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>11035</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013</p></td><td><p>13832</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>10881</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2013</p></td><td><p>12324</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2014</p></td><td><p>26897</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2014</p></td><td><p>43327</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>40935</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Note: HMPO took responsibility for overseas passports applications in April 2011, commenced the repatriation of the printing of overseas passports in summer 2011, but only commenced repatriating application processing in December 2012 with that repatriation completed in February 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 02/09/2014 14:48:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 4328 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

78069

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	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 who used the Assisted Voluntary Returns scheme (a) submitted their first asylum claim after being detained in an immigration removal and (b) had their asylum case decided within the Detained Fast Track in each of the last five years for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	205783
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols, as such it should be treated as provisional and subject to change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 04/08/2014 15:26:55 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name 205873 - Data Table (2).doc title PQ205783 Table previous answer version 11263 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

92657

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what average length of time it currently takes for documentation necessary to return home to be issued to an illegal immigrant found in the UK without such documentation who is from (a) India, (b) Bangladesh, (c) Pakistan, (d) Nigeria and (e) China.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	209992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The information below sets out the average number of days taken from application to agreement for each country. The information relates to emergency travel documents agreed by the countries concerned in financial year 2013/14. <br><br>Applications for travel documents are usually processed more quickly when an individual provides accurate supporting evidence of their identity and nationality. <br><br>In some cases the process may take a lot longer where identity or nationality is disputed. <br><br>Average days<br>Bangladesh 129<br>China 44<br>India 131<br>Nigeria 101<br>Pakistan 83<br><br>Internal Home Office management information has been used to provide a response to this question. These figures are not quality assured under National Statistics protocols and are subject to change due to internal data quality checking. Figures provided from this source do not constitute part of National Statistics and should be treated as provisional.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/10/2014 16:40:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 21957 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

65734

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public purse was of overtime worked in HM Passport Office in June 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	203942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The following table provides the level of overtime paid for the period between <br>May 2011 to December 2012. The level of overtime paid for June 2014 was <br>£1,212,006.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/07/2014 14:18:47 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ203941.overtimetable[1].doc title HMPO Overtime Payments previous answer version 8937 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn