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439698

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Turkey: Refugees
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the £275 million offered by the Prime Minister to Turkey "to secure its southern border" will be spent; whether that funding is intended to stop refugees entering Turkey in advance of any general ceasefire or peace agreement; and how that expenditure will be verified.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL4774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2015 answer text <p>Turkey is a key partner in the response to the migration crisis and we should commend its generosity in hosting over 2.2m refugees from Syria and Iraq. Acknowledging this pressure, the EU has recently agreed an Action Plan with Turkey. Within this and building on the UK’s existing funding, our contribution of up to £275m (part of a wider European package of €3 billion) will be spent helping Turkey address the consequences of the Syria conflict. This funding will help control the flow of migrants to the EU from Turkey and improve education, health and labour rights for Syrian refugees in Turkey addressing potential push factors for further migration. Implementation of the funding will be jointly overseen by the European Commission and the Turkish government through the establishment of an EU-Turkey high-level working group on migration.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/12/2015 14:31:11 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

439679

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports: Interviews
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 8 December (HL4116), how many personal interviews with adults applying for a passport for the first time were conducted in each calendar year from 2007 to 2015 inclusive.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL4755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2016 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of interviews conducted in each calendar year since 2007. The lower figures for 2007 reflect the pilot and roll out of the new interview process for all first-time passport applicants and the figures for 2015 are up to week ending 20 December.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year <br></p></td><td><p>Number of Interviews</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>18,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>293,337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>261,593</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>296,434</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>269,587</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>273,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>283,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>253,156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>221,759</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/01/2016 15:44:39 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

439688

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offenders: Literacy
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the relationship between criminal offending and literacy levels.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL4764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2015 answer text <p>There is no single factor which explains crime. As the Home Secretary has said, the evidence suggests that there are six main drivers of crime: alcohol; drugs; the effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System; opportunity; profit; and character. Character, or an individual’s propensity to commit crime, appears to be influenced by a range of social and environmental influences as they grow up. However, the Home Office has made no specific assessment of the relationship between crime and literacy levels.</p><p>The most recent crime statistics published by the Office for National Statistics showed that overall crime fell by 8% in the year to June 2015, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Crime has now fallen by more than a quarter since June 2010, with just over 2.9 million fewer crimes a year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/12/2015 14:28:46 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

439702

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the Resolution of the House of Commons of 10 September calling on them to implement the recommendations of the report of the Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom, by the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Refugees and Migration.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL4778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2015 answer text <p>Detention plays a vital role in maintaining effective immigration control and there are safeguards in place to prevent unnecessary or arbitrary detention.</p><p>Turning to the principal recommendations of the APPG report, though a common misconception, we cannot detain indefinitely under immigration powers. There are significant, long standing and highly effective protections for individuals against indefinite detention in the current system. A statutory limit is therefore not necessary.</p><p>An arbitrary time limit would potentially allow criminals and non-compliant individuals to play the system knowing that if they refuse to cooperate with removal for long enough they will be released.</p><p>The Home Office is conducting detailed analysis of the use of immigration detention including looking at the checks and balances in the systems to ensure that there is a more efficient and more effective process so that people are removed more swiftly.</p><p>The Home Secretary commissioned an independent review of the policies and operating procedures that have an impact on detainee welfare earlier this year. Stephen Shaw CBE, former Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales, undertook the review and has recently submitted his report. The report will be published by laying it before Parliament, alongside the Government’s response to its recommendations, before the Lords Committee stage for the Immigration Bill.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/12/2015 14:36:37 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

439701

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Service: Migrant Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the recommendations of the independent reviewer of the overseas domestic worker visa will be implemented.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL4777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is considering carefully the recommendations of James Ewins and will announce its response in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/12/2015 14:32:51 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton