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170483

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with campaigning charities and organisations about the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and covert surveillance.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Simon Hart
uin	218740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers and officials have discussions and meetings with a wide variety of partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of Ministerial meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website:http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office</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 17/12/2014 17:38:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart

169867

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average and (b) target time taken between the completion of an immigration tribunal and the implementation of that tribunal's decision is.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	218322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested in part (a) covers a broad range of casetypes and is not held centrally for in country cases. It could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. For international appeals the average time for allowed appeals to be implemented from January 2014 to September 2014 was 45 calendar days. <br><br>The Home Office has 14 days to consider whether to appeal an allowed First-tier or Upper Tribunal decision (although this can be longer in some Upper Tribunal decisions where the last avenue to appeal is direct to the Court of Appeal). <br><br>The relevant unit responsible for implementation will be notified once a decision has been made not to appeal. There are currently no set targets in place governing implementation of appeals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:57:29 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

169872

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres and Prisons: Film
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests from broadcasters her Department has received to film (a) prisons and (b) immigration removal centres in the last five years; and how many such requests have been granted.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	218363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not have responsibility for prisons so requests for filming would be made to the Ministry of Justice.We do not have a central record of how many times broadcasters have requested to film immigration removal centres or how many times those requests have been granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:40:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

169874

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times she or Ministers in her Department have met their counterparts in the (a) Welsh Government, (b) Scottish Government and (c) Northern Ireland Executive to discuss the provisions of the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	218352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill is an urgently-needed response to the increased terrorist threat. It therefore relates to the matters of counter-terrorism and national security, which are reserved, non-devolved or excepted matters.<br><br>The Home Office is having ongoing discussions, at both Ministerial and official level, with the Devolved Administrations on the measures within the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill. I have spoken and written to Ministers in the Welsh Assembly Government, Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive. On Monday 15 December, the Prime Minister chaired the Joint Ministerial Committee, attended by the First Ministers of each Devolved Administration, at which the Bill was discussed.<br><br>Consultation with colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continues, particularly in relation to the measures in Part 5 of the Bill (‘Risk of being drawn into terrorism’).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:47:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 33967 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

170003

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
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 paragraph 4 of page 1 of her Department's publication, Changes to Family Migration Rules Impact Assessment, published on 12 June 2012, if she will ensure that the Government's review of family migration rules planned for April 2015 takes into account the recommendations of the APPG on Migration's inquiry into family migration.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	218487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>New Family Migration Rules were implemented on 9 July 2012 to prevent burdens on the taxpayer, promote integration and tackle abuse. We have kept those rules under regular review and have made a number of adjustments to them in light of feedback on their operation and impact, including from Parliamentarians, the public, legal representatives and Home Office staff.</p><p>We studied the report of the APPG on Migration’s inquiry into family migration when this was published in June 2013. This ongoing review process will continue in April 2015 and will also take into account the findings of the courts on the new policies. This includes the July 2014 judgment of the Court of Appeal in MM and Others, which upheld the lawfulness of the minimum income threshold under the new Family Migration Rules and found that it strikes a fair balance between the interests of those affected and the community in general.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:53:09 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 33965 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

168940

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Torture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the prevention of the admission of alleged and proven torturers to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	217947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The UK is party to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and the optional protocol to that Convention. Torture is illegal in the UK and under international law. Those who have committed crimes abroad that fall under the ICC Statute, including genocide and crimes against humanity, can be tried in the UK if they come here. The Home Secretary may exclude an individual from the UK if their presence here is not conducive to the public good or our national security.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 17:43:34 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

155969

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Libya
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role her Department had in formulating the walking out policy covering Libyan recruits being trained at Bassingbourn barracks; and what role (a) her Department and (b) the police had in monitoring that policy.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	214678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>As an incentive to promote good behaviour and thereby improve the effectiveness of the training programme the Army proposed to allow the trainees some very limited unsupervised access to the local amenities. These proposals were discussed across Government (including the Home Office) prior to implementation. <br><br>The Home Office requested that the Army liaise closely with Cambridgeshire Police on the monitoring of such visits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/12/2014 18:13:48 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon