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760673

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ensure that EU nationals applying for a place on a UK university course will not face additional migration barriers throughout any transitional period after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	105074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s policy paper (Cm 9464), which was laid before Parliament on 26 June, states that in order to help provide certainty for EU students starting courses as we implement the UK’s exit, current EU students and those starting courses at a university or FE institution in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years, will have a right to remain in the UK to complete their course.</p><p> </p><p>We are considering the options for our future immigration system very carefully. As part of that, it is important that we understand the impacts of different options on different sectors of the economy, including universities, and on specific groups such as students. We will be outlining further details of the new future immigration system in due course.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:59:09 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

760710

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Act of Parliament enables Border Force officers to access social media of people presenting at the UK border.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	105164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>Border Force officers do not require a specific power to access information that is published and available in the public domain. That includes social media websites. Border Force does not access private social media accounts that are not in the public domain.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:12:53 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

760711

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU nationals living in the UK were incorrectly sent notifications after 26 June 2017 that they would be deported; what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of reimbursing costs incurred by those people in response to such letters; and whether there is an upper limit for compensation claims for people affected by those notifications.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	105241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>106 letters were sent in error between 11 and 16 August 2017. I wrote, personally, to all those affected to apologise.</p><p> </p><p>The error made was an incorrect interpretation of the consequences of an EEA national’s unsuccessful application for a Registration Certificate</p><p> </p><p>We have agreed to meet any reasonable associated costs incurred as a result of this error. We should be able to quantify the total cost in due course.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 105048 question first answered 12/10/2017 09:31:41 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

760713

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) visa refusal decisions, (b) visa curtailment decisions and (c) removals have been made in respect of overseas students whose Test of English for International Communication certificates were cancelled by Educational Training Services since February 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	105152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>UKVI transparency data provides details of refusal, curtailments and removal decisions in response to the abuse of secure English language testing.</p><p> </p><p>A link to the most recent available data is provided here;</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-february-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-february-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>The table in SELT_01 and SELT_02 is the closest match to the information requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The data was last published in February 2017 and only contains data to the last quarter (December 2016). ETS data is no longer published after this date.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:08:27 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

760714

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Arts and Sports Competitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Tier 5 (Temporary Worker - Creative and Sporting) visas were granted to applicants of each nationality in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	105102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>Information on the total number of Tier 5 (Creative and Sporting) and Visitor visa applications and grants is published quarterly.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent information can be found in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, April – June 2017’. A breakdown of Tier 5 – Creative and Sporting visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 2, table vi_06_q_w and Visitor visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 3, table vi_06_q_o , available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas</a>.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 105101 105103 105106 question first answered 10/10/2017 09:22:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

760715

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visitor visas were granted to applicants of each nationality in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	105103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>Information on the total number of Tier 5 (Creative and Sporting) and Visitor visa applications and grants is published quarterly.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent information can be found in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, April – June 2017’. A breakdown of Tier 5 – Creative and Sporting visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 2, table vi_06_q_w and Visitor visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 3, table vi_06_q_o , available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas</a>.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 105101 105102 105106 question first answered 10/10/2017 09:22:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

760716

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the cost to her Department of the legal action arising from (a) visa curtailments and (b) removals of overseas students whose Test of English for International Communication certificates have been cancelled by the Educational Testing Services since February 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	105154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>This information is unavailable because Home Office data systems are unable to disaggregate legal costs in line with the categories in the question.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:03:14 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

760717

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the powers available to take action against illegal encampments; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	105130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. member to the answer I gave on 20 July 2017, UIN 5075.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/10/2017 09:14:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

760718

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visitor visas were granted to applicants of each country in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	105101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>Information on the total number of Tier 5 (Creative and Sporting) and Visitor visa applications and grants is published quarterly.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent information can be found in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, April – June 2017’. A breakdown of Tier 5 – Creative and Sporting visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 2, table vi_06_q_w and Visitor visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 3, table vi_06_q_o , available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas</a>.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 105102 105103 105106 question first answered 10/10/2017 09:22:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

760719

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
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 re-testing overseas students whose certificates for the Test of English for International Communication were cancelled by Educational Testing Services since February 2014; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	105153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office is not able to answer this question. The cost to re-sit a secure English language test was met by the individual and not the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2017 09:01:59 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms