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64799

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the main nationalities were of the student immigrants who were found to have either invalid or questionable English language test results by the Government's recent review of the test provider Educational Testing Services.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	203036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>As I stated in my oral statement to Parliament on 24 June, analysis is being provided by the American arm of Educational Testing Service (ETS) on those with invalid or questionable results. <br>Analysis is on-going and it is not possible to provide data on nationality at present. As I stated to the House on 24 June, the Home Office will provide regular updates to the House on progress with work to remove these students and on further information we receive from ETS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/07/2014 14:16:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 7818 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

64800

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, at which main institutions the student immigrants who were found to have either invalid or questionable English language test results by the Government's recent review of the test provider Educational Testing Services intended to extend their studies.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	203035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Following the review of English language test results provided by Educational <br>Testing Service test centres, on 24 June the Home Office took action against 60 <br>institutions that sponsored students with invalid or questionable test results. <br>The list of sponsors against whom action was taken was placed in the Library of <br>the House on that day and was also published on the Gov.uk website as part of a <br>‘Home office immigration action against education institutions: factsheet': <br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/323106<br>/sponsor-suspensions.pdf</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/07/2014 14:19:05 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 7817 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

64364

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Agency
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 by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, Investigation into the Establishment of the Performance and Compliance Unit, published in May 2013, what steps have been taken in response to recommendation 1 of that report.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	202743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Following the reorganisations which flowed from the decision to bring the <br>functions of the UK Border Agency back into direct ministerial control, the <br>Performance and Compliance Unit no longer exists.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/07/2014 10:42:43 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

64365

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
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 by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, Inspection into the Handling of Asylum Applications made by Unaccompanied Children, published in October 2013, what steps have been taken in response to recommendations 1, 3, 4 and 8 of that report.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	202744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In response to recommendation 1, a clear and consistent approach has been <br>adopted. A pilot was run shortly after the inspection that led to the adoption <br>of a new screening process for unaccompanied children; this has led to <br>increased consistency between the Home Office and local authorities. All <br>initial screenings take place within five days of initial claim. Local <br>Authorities are clearly responsible for facilitating the access to legal advice <br>and responsible adults prior to the screening interview.<br><br>In response to recommendation 3, this guidance and policy has been reinforced <br>locally. The Asylum Casework Directorate has implemented new structures that <br>offer better technical support for promoting and monitoring family tracing. <br>This guidance has been reinforced locally in all teams through the creation of <br>specialised family and minors teams in each regional location. Work is <br>ongoing with the Foreign Office on new family tracing arrangements for volume <br>UASC nationalities (Albanian and Afghan) that should help to expedite the <br>tracing process in these countries. The practicality of specialised teams <br>will be reviewed once all decision units are fully staffed. <br><br>In response to recommendation 4, the move to a single national directorate has <br>led to greater consistency and control of asylum case work. This has helped to <br>address the consistency of operations and outcomes in each of the seven <br>casework locations. Customer service standards have been reviewed with the <br>expectation that straightforward claims can expect to receive their decision <br>within six months. Unaccompanied children should receive their decisions <br>quicker than that. <br><br>In response to recommendation 8, as part of the ongoing continuous improvement <br>programme decision letters have been reviewed and changed. Templates are now <br>clearer, more concise and customer friendly. This new approach to producing <br>more concise grant letters and minutes has been implemented whilst a pilot <br>regarding refusal letters is underway.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/07/2014 10:41:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

63923

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ebola
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps UK Visas and Immigration can take to prevent no cases of Ebola reaching the UK.
tabling member constituency	Watford
tabling member printed	Richard Harrington
uin	202298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The UK does not specifically screen pre or at entry for Ebola.<br><br>Public Health England has assessed the risk of importation of Ebola in the UK <br>as very low. It is extremely unlikely that an outbreak of Ebola would occur in <br>the UK even if there was to be an imported case, as there are factors operating <br>in West Africa which would not be seen in the UK. The outbreak in West Africa <br>is driven by person to person spread in the absence of any infection control <br>precautions. Human cases of Ebola virus disease have never yet been exported <br>from an outbreak zone to a European country.<br><br>All UK ports have systems and plans for dealing with issues of public health <br>concern. However, they all require that the public health system is firstly <br>notified of the arrival of someone with a suspected disease of concern. Crew <br>are trained to do this by their respective companies and an example of the type <br>of guidance that they work towards can be found on the International Air <br>Transport Association (the international airline trade body) website at: <br><br><br>https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/safety/health/Documents/health-guidelines-cabin-cr<br>ew-2011.pdf . <br><br>At all UK ports, there is a system for routing reports, produced by the <br>commander of a craft, to a local health protection team who are available on a <br>24/7 basis throughout the year. Health protection teams have generic <br>responsibility for managing incidents of public health concern in all settings <br>including our ports. They will then take the lead in managing the incident from <br>a public health perspective with the NHS being responsible for the provision of <br>healthcare.<br><br>The International Health Regulations (IHR), which entered into force on 15 June <br>2007, require countries to report certain disease outbreaks and public health <br>events to WHO, including Ebola.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/07/2014 15:09:20 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford

63927

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
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 statement of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 206, on student visas, on what date her Department first became aware of the systematic cheating taking place in the tests of the Educational Testing Service.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	202332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Since the last election, the Government has taken action to reduce and control <br>immigration and to crack down on the abuse of the system which the previous <br>government failed to address. We have kept the main immigration routes to <br>Britain under review and remain vigilant against abuse of the student visa <br>system. Around 750 education sponsors have been removed from the register of <br>those entitled to bring overseas students to the UK. We now know that almost <br>400 of these were linked to the sponsorship of people who obtained invalid ETS <br>certificates. Abuse of the student visa route has been the subject of various <br>lines of inquiry for some time, but Immigration Enforcement officers, together <br>with officials from UK Visas and Immigration and with the support of the <br>National Crime Agency, began conducting a detailed and wide-ranging <br>investigation into actions by organised criminals to falsify English language <br>tests provided by ETS at the start of February.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/07/2014 12:19:26 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

63929

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
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 statement of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 206, on student visas, how many students wrongly awarded language certificates (a) remain in the UK, (b) have an address known to her Department and (c) have been deported.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	202331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>As I stated on 24 June in my statement to Parliament, the Home Office will provide regular updates to the House on progress with work to remove these students and on further information we receive from ETS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/07/2014 12:30:20 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

63930

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
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 statement of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 206, on student visas, what due diligence tests her Department undertook on the Educational Testing Service prior to awarding the company a contract for delivering language tests for visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	202330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The licence with Secure English Language Testing providers is clear that <br>providers must put measures in place to combat abuse and any concerns regarding <br>fraud or abuse should be reported to the Home Office. All third-party service <br>providers, whether they are employers, education establishments or test <br>providers, must take their obligations seriously or face the removal of their <br>licence to work with us.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/07/2014 12:32:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

64065

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
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 Statement of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 209W, on student visas, what the projected cost in 2014-15 is of the student dedicated helpline; how many staff will be employed on that helpline; and what estimate she has made of the number of calls that helpline will receive.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	202487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The number of calls the student helpline will receive will be dependent on the <br>demand from individual students.<br><br>Ten members of staff can currently be deployed on the student helpline, <br>depending on the demand, and additional trained staff are ready for <br>redeployment should the volume of calls increase.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/07/2014 12:35:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

64066

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Surveillance: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring section 67(9) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 into force.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Sanders
uin	202493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have no plans to bring section 67 (9) of the Regulation of Investigatory <br>Powers Act 2000 into force as provisions to which it relates in sections 65(c) <br>and (d) of RIPA are themselves not in force.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/07/2014 12:16:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	237 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Sanders