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date	18/05/2016
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, whether data gathered from border exit checks will enable her Department to distinguish between short and longer-term overstaying of visas.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	37514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37509 37510 37511 37512 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

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date	18/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been reunited with their families in the UK in (a) the last five years and (b) the last year under (i) the EU Dublin III Regulation; (ii) part 11 of the UK immigration rules, (iii) any other parts of the UK immigration rules and (iv) under exceptional circumstances.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	37351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>There are several routes for children to be reunited safely with their families in the UK. Applications for family reunion for individuals under the age of 18 years of age can be received both in country and out of country and are processed by a number of casework units within the Home Office including International Operations, Settlement, Complex Casework and Asylum Operations. Unfortunately the way these applications are processed and the method used to store the data on the main immigration database means that not all of the data is recorded in a format that can be reported on automatically and would therefore require a manual investigation of thousands of case records. As a result this data could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Since 2010 we have granted more than 21,000 family reunion visas and 175 visas for exceptional circumstances though we are not able to distinguish from the data how many of these applicants were under the age of 18. Internal Management information concerning applications from people under 18 processed by International Operations and Complex Casework are listed in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Complex Casework</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>77</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>International Operations</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2950</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3088</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13950</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/06/2016 12:01:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald