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416331

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Applications
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 report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, published on 11 December 2014, what additional checks on British citizenship applications have been introduced as a result of the findings of that report; and how much time those checks have added to the time taken to consider cases.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>The additional checks introduced as a result of the findings of the report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration are as follows:</p><p>• Financial checks</p><p>• Further verification of referee details</p><p>• Relevant information held by other government departments</p><p>• Full review of an applicant’s immigration compliance since arrival in the UK</p><p>Additional checks are carried out on cases assessed as having a medium or high likelihood of failing to satisfy the good character requirement, and the checks conducted depend on the specific circumstances of an individual case and any further investigation deemed necessary when the results of checks are received. No information is aggregated in national reporting systems to enable reporting on the time additional checks have added to the time taken to consider cases.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:06:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416400

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have had with their EU counterparts on the use of the Dublin Convention to remove asylum seekers to the country in which they were first encountered; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	9083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of international 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 these 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> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/09/2015 11:24:03 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

416405

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nurses: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 visa applications made in 2015 were from nurses outside the EU; and how many such visas have been granted.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	8760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Acquiring this information would involve examining each individual case record held by UKVI for the category. To do so would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/09/2015 15:27:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

416421

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Calais
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on additional security at Calais in each month since July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	8660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Border Force has funded additional security measures for Calais at £9.46 million since July 2014 as below:</p><p><strong>2014</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>December</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£167,000</p></td><td><p>£109,000</p></td><td><p>£167,000</p></td><td><p>£114,000</p></td><td><p>£701,000</p></td><td><p>£351,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>2015</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>January</p><p>2015</p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>August</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£193,000</p></td><td><p>£98,000</p></td><td><p>£6.673 million</p></td><td><p>£168,000</p></td><td><p>£105,000</p></td><td><p>£102,000</p></td><td><p>£184,000</p></td><td><p>£328,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note - In March 2015 bills for work undertaken to that point were accounted for at the end of the financial year including a substantial amount for the juxtaposed ports’ grant to the value of £4.893 million. The figures for 2015 do not include all anticipated spend.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/09/2015 15:31:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

416423

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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, how many illegal migrants have been apprehended by the Border Force (a) on the English side of the French border at Calais and (b) in Kent in each month of 2015.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	8662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government does not comment on port specific statistics.</p><p>At the regional juxtaposed ports in Northern France, around 40,000 attempts to cross the Channel illegally in 2014/15 have been prevented by Border Force and its contractors and the French authorities.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:00:08 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

416424

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Fixed Penalties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil penalties levied by the Border Force for the carrying of illegal migrants have been (a) issued and (b) paid by (i) UK citizens and (ii) foreign nationals in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	8663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>The number of civil penalties levied by Border Force for the carrying of clandestine illegal entrants in each of the last three years has been :</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Penalty Notices issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Penalties imposed on British drivers and hauliers</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Penalties imposed on non- UK drivers and hauliers </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/12-31/03/2013</p></td><td><p>1690</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>1568</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/13-03/03/2014</p></td><td><p>1324</p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>1230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/14-31/03/2015</p></td><td><p>3321</p></td><td><p>233</p></td><td><p>3088</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures do not relate to the number of penalty notices issued/ imposed for incidents/cases which occurred during these three years. This information is from internal management reports.</p><p>The civil penalties paid by UK citizens and foreign nationals in the same period as a whole is information that is not held in an immediately retrievable format and would have to be recovered manually, incurring disproportionate cost. The total amount of penalties without nationality specified is held. This information is from management information reports. Penalty payments made may not necessarily be for the same year that they were imposed. For example if a penalty was imposed in 2014 and then subject to appeal it might not be paid until much later.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Penalties imposed</p></td><td><p>Penalties received</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/12 - 31/03/13</p></td><td><p>£890,544</p></td><td><p>£ 484,922</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/13 – 31/03/14</p></td><td><p>£4,070,471</p></td><td><p>£ 2,293,699</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/14 – 31/0315</p></td><td><p>£ 6,490,232</p></td><td><p>£ 4,050,139</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:05:10 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

416425

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: France
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 additional (a) security staff and (b) sniffer dogs deployed at Calais since 1 June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	8664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>The costs of additional security staff and sniffer dogs in June, July and August 2015 were:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><del class="ministerial"> </del></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>June</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>July</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>August</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Security staff</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£57,000</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£94,000</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£121,000</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Sniffer dogs</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£45,000</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£90,000</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£207,000</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>TOTAL</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>£342,000</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>£272,000</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>£614,000</strong></del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>June</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>July</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>August</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Total</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Security staff</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">£57,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">£94,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">£121,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>£272,000</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Sniffer dogs</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">£45,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">£90,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">£207,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>£342,000</strong></ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 18/09/2015 09:43:43 question first ministerially corrected 23/09/2015 10:49:20 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 22134 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

416426

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Port of Calais
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Ministers in her Department have visited the port of Calais since June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	8665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of international 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 these 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> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 13:52:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

416452

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision is made for genuine overseas students who enrol at a private higher education college that subsequently has its licence revoked to enable them to retain their visa and continue their studies.
tabling member constituency	Spelthorne
tabling member printed	Kwasi Kwarteng
uin	8469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>We will continue to clamp down on immigration abuse in order to deliver an effective immigration system which works in the national interest, and is fair to British taxpayers and genuine students.</p><p>Where the Tier 4 licence of a private college is revoked, the Home Office will write to the Tier 4 students enrolled at the college and curtail their existing leave to 60 calendar days from the date of the letter. These Tier 4 students are not permitted to retain their visa or continue studying with the college that has had its licence revoked. During this 60 day period however, the students may find a new sponsor with a valid Tier 4 licence and make a visa application for further leave to remain if they wish to continue their studies in the UK. If they do not make such an application before their leave expires, they will have to leave the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/09/2015 14:15:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng

416460

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
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 10 August 2015 to Question 4785 on education institutions: licensing, how many staff were working on applications for a Tier 4 sponsor licence in each year since 2008; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	8836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>Home Office staff consider Tier 2, 4 and 5 sponsor licence applications. The number of staff working on applications for a Tier 4 sponsor licence varies according to level of demand and resource requirements. We do not record the number of staff working on Tier 4 casework, specifically.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:01:38 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon