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453303

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 22830, whether the Warnings Index Checks system has been affected by high-priority incidents in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	27424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>All Border Force systems and services, including the Warnings Index system, are constantly monitored and closely managed so any arising incidents can be quickly and effectively resolved. Whilst there have been a small number of high priority incidents during the period in question with the Warnings Index system, like other Home Office technology services, it has layers of resilience built into it along with supporting continuity arrangements. This resilience and operational arrangements has enabled controls at the border to be maintained with no suspension of checks at any port since November 2011. The migration in the autumn of 2014 of the core Warning Index services to modern data-centres has significantly improved its reliability and stability.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/03/2016 16:25:46 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

451896

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vessels (a) completed and (b) failed to complete the C1331 customs declaration form in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	26831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The table below outlines the number of completed C1331 customs declaration forms received by Border Force in each of the last 5 years. This data has been drawn from basic IT systems used for management information which are not subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of completed C1331 Forms received by Border Force</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>408</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>331</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>399</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>391</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>319</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>There are no records held that could adequately answer the question of how many vessels failed to complete the C1331 form.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/02/2016 16:13:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

452045

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Aviation: Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many alerts were issued by the National Border Targeting Centre to the regional offices of Border Force relating to flights of potential interest in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	26832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The National Border Targeting Centre issue alerts to both police and Border Force officials at the UK border. The figures provided record those alerts raised for Immigration or Customs reasons at the Border, and do not include any police alerts.</p><p>In 2013 Border Force implemented a quality assurance procedure of Border Force alerts which were being disseminated to the frontline. You will see that in 2012, alerts steadily dropped. Alert ratios reduced due to a more stringent alert framework being adopted by the agency. Alerts were of a higher quality and specifically directed to manage the threat to the Border depending on the priorities of the Border Control Strategy and threat assessment.</p><p>Year Alert count</p><p>2011 16,694</p><p>2012 15,864</p><p>2013 11,076</p><p>2014 10,516</p><p>2015 10,167</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 23/02/2016 17:26:30 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

452056

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
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 undeclared passengers were identified by the Border Force in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	26729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>For the purpose of this question Border Force have assumed that ‘undeclared passenger’ means any passenger travelling in any mode of transport whose movement has not been notified in the prescribed manner.</p><p>Border Force does not collate records of ‘undeclared passengers’. But it works closely with aircraft operators, pilots and others to maximise the provision of Advance Passenger Information in all modes.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/02/2016 16:11:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

452057

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Aviation: Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights were attended by the Border Force beyond the primary control points in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	26730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>Border Force does not have the requested data prior to 2012/13. Since then we have made improvements to our command and control of general aviation, including our national statistical reporting, and are able to provide full details from 2013 onwards.</p><p>During 2013/14 Border Force a) attended 27,299 flights and remotely cleared 18,885 flights</p><p>During 2014/15 Border Force a) attended 27,033 flights and remotely cleared 32,042</p><p>The figures quoted are management information, subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 26731 question first answered 24/02/2016 16:39:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

452058

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Aviation: Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many general aviation flights were (a) attended and (b) cleared remotely by the Border Force in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	26731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>Border Force does not have the requested data prior to 2012/13. Since then we have made improvements to our command and control of general aviation, including our national statistical reporting, and are able to provide full details from 2013 onwards.</p><p>During 2013/14 Border Force a) attended 27,299 flights and remotely cleared 18,885 flights</p><p>During 2014/15 Border Force a) attended 27,033 flights and remotely cleared 32,042</p><p>The figures quoted are management information, subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 26730 question first answered 24/02/2016 16:39:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

449877

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2016 to Question 22835, in what months the biometric passport chip reading facilities were deactivated in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	25315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>For the period for which figures are available, biometric chip reading facilities were deactivated 7 times in 2013 and these occurred during the months of February, March, May &amp; June. In 2014 chip reading facilities were deactivated 3 times and these occurred during the months of September, October and December. In 2015, chip reading facilities were deactivated 3 times and occurred during the months of February, April, and June.</p><p>These figures should be considered against the background of the overall volume of transactions which are currently running at over 100 million per year and each of the instances has been thoroughly investigated and we are satisfied that there has been no risk to the border as a result.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 25329 question first answered 11/02/2016 14:46:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

449883

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2016 to Question 22835, in what months the biometric passport chip reading facilities were deactivated in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	25329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>For the period for which figures are available, biometric chip reading facilities were deactivated 7 times in 2013 and these occurred during the months of February, March, May &amp; June. In 2014 chip reading facilities were deactivated 3 times and these occurred during the months of September, October and December. In 2015, chip reading facilities were deactivated 3 times and occurred during the months of February, April, and June.</p><p>These figures should be considered against the background of the overall volume of transactions which are currently running at over 100 million per year and each of the instances has been thoroughly investigated and we are satisfied that there has been no risk to the border as a result.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 25315 question first answered 11/02/2016 14:46:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

445564

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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, how many times Warnings Index checks have been suspended (a) in the UK, (b) at each port, (c) at each airport and (d) nationally in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	22830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>In November 2011, the then Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration found that the then UKBA had carried out a number of suspensions of Warnings Index Checks without due ministerial authority. Since then, Border Force has operated to a Ministerially-approved mandate that requires it to undertake Warnings Index Checks against all passengers arriving into the UK on scheduled, commercial routes; and Secure ID Checks against passengers that require a visa to enter the UK. These checks have not been suspended at any port since November 2011.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 22836 22837 question first answered 04/02/2016 15:59:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

445566

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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, how many times the biometric passport chip reading facilities have been deactivated (a) in the UK, (b) at each port and (c) at each airport in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	22835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>For the period for which figures are available, biometric chip reading facilities were deactivated 7 times in 2013, 3 times in 2014 and 3 times in 2015.</p><p>These figures should be considered against the background of the overall volume of transactions which are currently running at over 100 million per year.</p><p>Deactivation of the chip reading function by Border Force staff is routinely monitored. The occasions reported above have been thoroughly investigated and none has given rise to concerns about officer integrity. We are also satisfied that there has been no risk to the border as a result. An investigation is ongoing with the system supplier to ascertain whether a technical issue may have caused these incidents.</p><p>A further breakdown of locations cannot be given for border and national security reasons.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/02/2016 17:51:07 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson