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760713

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
	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) visa refusal decisions, (b) visa curtailment decisions and (c) removals have been made in respect of overseas students whose Test of English for International Communication certificates were cancelled by Educational Training Services since February 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	105152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>UKVI transparency data provides details of refusal, curtailments and removal decisions in response to the abuse of secure English language testing.</p><p> </p><p>A link to the most recent available data is provided here;</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-february-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-february-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>The table in SELT_01 and SELT_02 is the closest match to the information requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The data was last published in February 2017 and only contains data to the last quarter (December 2016). ETS data is no longer published after this date.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:08:27 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

712480

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Acids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many acid attacks there were in (a) the UK, (b) Greater London and (c) the London Borough of Newham in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	68535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of acid attacks. Acid or other corrosive attacks would be recorded though under different offence types, usually assault occasioning actual bodily harm or grievous bodily harm depending on the severity of the injuries inflicted. We are currently working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead to gather data through police forces to better understand the extent and scale of crimes involving acid and other corrosive substances.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/03/2017 17:22:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

748239

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the reasons the Government is yet to achieve its target of reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	2706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK will remain an open and tolerant country; one that recognises the valuable contribution migrants make to our society and welcomes those with the skills and expertise to make our nation better. We will control immigration so that our system serves the national interest.</p><p> </p><p>As we conduct the negotiations to leave the European Union, it must be a priority to regain more control of the numbers of people who come here from Europe. It will take time to achieve that because until we leave the European Union we will still be affected by free movement rules.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will not solely rely on the Brexit negotiation to deliver the net migration target. We are clear that employers must move away from an unsustainable reliance on migrant workers. We have closed Tier 1 routes which allowed non-EEA migrants to come to the UK to look for work. We have reformed the employer-led Tier 2 route following expert advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee. Through the introduction of the Immigration Skills Charge, we are encouraging employers to invest in training and up-skilling the resident workforce.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/07/2017 10:22:29 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

760719

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of re-testing overseas students whose certificates for the Test of English for International Communication were cancelled by Educational Testing Services since February 2014; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	105153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office is not able to answer this question. The cost to re-sit a secure English language test was met by the individual and not the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:01:59 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

760716

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the cost to her Department of the legal action arising from (a) visa curtailments and (b) removals of overseas students whose Test of English for International Communication certificates have been cancelled by the Educational Testing Services since February 2014.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	105154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>This information is unavailable because Home Office data systems are unable to disaggregate legal costs in line with the categories in the question.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:03:14 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

712474

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Acids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to reduce the number of acid attacks.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	68460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Attacks on people involving acids or other corrosives are a serious matter that can result in huge distress and life changing injuries. We are working with retailers to explore what action can be taken to control sales of products with a high acidic content, and we are also working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead to better understand the extent and scale of crimes involving acid to inform measures to prevent such attacks.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/03/2017 17:20:14 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

678092

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police officers (a) in total and (b) aged under 25 in (i) Greater London and (ii) the London Borough of Newham are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	61498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the ethnicity of the police workforce in each Police Force Area. Data are not collected at lower levels of geography, such as London Boroughs. These data are not broken down by age.</p><p>The latest available data are published in the “Police Workforce, England and Wales, 31 March 2016” statistical bulletin:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>The data shows that 12.6% of police officers in the Metropolitan Police Service were from Black and Minority ethnic backgrounds, as at 31 March 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The data can also be found on the police.uk website:</p><p><a href="http://www.police.uk/metropolitan/E05000614/performance/diversity/" target="_blank">www.police.uk/metropolitan/E05000614/performance/diversity/</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 27/01/2017 09:28:01 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

433839

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	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 applications were initially refused in each month in 2015 to date; and how many such applications were from individuals aged under 18.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	18567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications and decisions on a quarterly and annual basis.</p><p>Statistics on the number of refusals at initial decision for asylum main applicants, for quarter 1 (January to March) 2015 to Q3 (July to September) 2015, are given in the table.</p><p><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Asylum applications and initial refusals for main applicants, 2015 Q1 to 2015 Q3 (1)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p><strong>Total refusals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Of which: <br>applicant was aged under 18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 Q1</p></td><td><p>5744</p></td><td><p>123</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 Q2</p></td><td><p>3598</p></td><td><p>104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 Q3</p></td><td><p>3995</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) The information supplied on initially refused applications is based on initial decisions which do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period and exclude the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The latest release, Immigration Statistics July – September 2015, was published on 26 November 2015 and is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/12/2015 16:30:03 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

518273

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Greater London
	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 were resident in each London borough in 2015.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	36894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The table below gives the number of asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support in each local authority in London, as at the end of December 2015. The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of section 95 support, by local authority, are published quarterly by the Home Office in Table as_16_q of the Immigration Statistics release. The latest publication (Immigration Statistics, October to December 2015) is available on the GOV.UK website:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015/asylum</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support, London local authorities, as at end December 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total supported under Section 95, London local authorities</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,446</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham</p></td><td><p><strong>167</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnet</p></td><td><p><strong>71</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley</p></td><td><p><strong>30</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p><strong>85</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden</p></td><td><p><strong>25</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croydon</p></td><td><p><strong>141</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing</p></td><td><p><strong>135</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enfield</p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich</p></td><td><p><strong>84</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney</p></td><td><p><strong>36</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith and Fulham</p></td><td><p><strong>25</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p><strong>126</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow</p></td><td><p><strong>51</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havering</p></td><td><p><strong>57</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td><td><p><strong>149</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hounslow</p></td><td><p><strong>82</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington</p></td><td><p><strong>26</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td><td><p><strong>14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p><strong>35</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p><strong>41</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham</p></td><td><p><strong>83</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merton</p></td><td><p><strong>29</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham</p></td><td><p><strong>274</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge</p></td><td><p><strong>193</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td><td><p><strong>20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p><strong>59</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton</p></td><td><p><strong>11</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets</p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waltham Forest</p></td><td><p><strong>143</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth</p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster</p></td><td><p><strong>35</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>1. These figures are provisional and subject to revision.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>2. The data include dependants in receipt of support.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>3. The data excludes unaccompanied asylum seeking children supported by Local Authorities.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:52:38 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

514995

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation
	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 were removed from the UK by surface transport on grounds that they were not entitled to leave to remain but who were unable to fly on medical grounds in each of the last five years; and how many such people were removed to India.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	35138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The mode of transport for persons for persons subject to enforced removal from the UK is not published within official national migration statistics. To establish this figure over a 5 year period would require a manual examination of records within the Home Office Case Information Database (CID) which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 35127 question first answered 28/04/2016 12:21:42 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 57821 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms