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90498

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last discussed with the head of the UK Border Force the effectiveness of exit and entry checks in disrupting flows of those who are believed to be travelling to or returning from committing acts of terrorism overseas.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	208027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Home Office Ministers have regular discussions with Ministerial colleagues, officials and others. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/09/2014 15:27:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

90501

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Cardiff
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 support given to the Cardiff Prevent priority area by the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	208017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Since the revised Prevent Strategy was published in June 2011, the Home Office has worked closely with local authorities in Prevent priority areas, and <br>therefore has an ongoing understanding of the effectiveness of programmes in a given area. A monitoring framework to assess the performance of local authority Prevent priority areas has been established giving a systematic overview of all funded posts and projects. This performance monitoring data informs the Government’s report on its counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, which is published annually.</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/09/2014 16:56:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

90502

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last discussed steps to tackle extremism with Ministers in the Welsh Government; and when the next such meeting is planned.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	208018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Home Office Ministers and officials 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. <br><br>Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations and individuals are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Cabinet Office website which is available here:<br><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministers-meetings-with-external-organisations-jul-sep-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministers-meetings-with-external-organisations-jul-sep-2013</a></p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/09/2014 10:49:45 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

90503

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of (a) the All Wales Prevent Board and (b) the Wales CONTEST Board.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	208019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The All Wales Prevent Board and the Wales CONTEST Board are institutions wholly owned and operated by the Welsh Government. Responsibility for their oversight and effectiveness falls to the Welsh Government. The Home Office is committed to working with the Welsh Government on the <br>delivery of the CONTEST Strategy in Wales. The Home Office provides the secretariat for the Wales CONTEST Board and senior Home Office officials are members. A range of Home Office officials from relevant areas also regularly attend the All Wales Prevent Board.</p><p /> <p>The Welsh Government’s Director General for Local Government &amp; Communities, who chairs the Wales CONTEST Board, is also a standing member of the UK’s CONTEST Board. This process is supplemented by day-to-day working-level contacts between officials in both administrations.</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/09/2014 17:04:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

90505

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had UK passports issued to them or renewed less than six months before they are known to have travelled to commit terrorist offences abroad in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	208045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty's Passport Office does not record the travel history of people to whom UK passports are issued.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 23/09/2014 14:17:53 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

90510

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
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 number of British citizens who have travelled to (a) Syria and (b) Iraq and returned to the UK since January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	208100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As the Prime Minister said in his statement in the House on 1 September 2014, we now believe that more than 500 people have travelled from the UK to become involved in the conflict in the region. A significant subset of those are believed to have returned.</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/09/2014 10:57:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

90513

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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 people who absconded after apprehension by UK Border Force staff at ports of entry in each of the last three years were subsequently captured.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	208121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Table one below shows how many people were detained at border points of entry in the last 3 years. ‘Detained’ has been taken to mean those issued an IS81 at a border point of entry, which means that the person has been stopped subject to further examination.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 1</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>27,945</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>25,284</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>30,531</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>To establish the reason why the person was detained at the border would incur a disproportionate cost, as this would involve the examination of individual records. <br><br>Since this government split Border Force from the flawed UK Border Agency and introduced a Ministerially approved Operating Mandate, Border Force’s performance has improved across the board. The number of people who have absconded from a port of entry having been stopped by a Border Force officer has significantly decreased since 2012.<br><br>The number of people who absconded from ports of entry after being stopped by Border Force officers in each of the last three years is shown in table two:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 2</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people absconded</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>2</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><br>This compares with 28 people in 2007/2008, 24 people in 2008/2009 and 11 people in 2009/10. <br><br>The number of people who have been stopped by a Border Force Officer that have been recovered having absconded from a port of entry is shown in table three:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 3</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of absconders who subsequently recovered</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of people detained at border ports of entry in each of the last three years who were granted temporary admission is shown in table four:<br>This is management information, which is subject to internal quality checks, and may be subject to change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 4</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81 who were granted temporary admission</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>5,702</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>4,130</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>6,720</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 208119 208120 208122 question first answered 22/10/2014 15:51:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name 208119 - Table.xls title Table - PQ 208119
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

90514

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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 people detained at border ports of entry in each of the last three years were granted temporary admission.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	208122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Table one below shows how many people were detained at border points of entry in the last 3 years. ‘Detained’ has been taken to mean those issued an IS81 at a border point of entry, which means that the person has been stopped subject to further examination.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 1</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>27,945</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>25,284</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>30,531</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>To establish the reason why the person was detained at the border would incur a disproportionate cost, as this would involve the examination of individual records. <br><br>Since this government split Border Force from the flawed UK Border Agency and introduced a Ministerially approved Operating Mandate, Border Force’s performance has improved across the board. The number of people who have absconded from a port of entry having been stopped by a Border Force officer has significantly decreased since 2012.<br><br>The number of people who absconded from ports of entry after being stopped by Border Force officers in each of the last three years is shown in table two:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 2</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people absconded</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>2</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><br>This compares with 28 people in 2007/2008, 24 people in 2008/2009 and 11 people in 2009/10. <br><br>The number of people who have been stopped by a Border Force Officer that have been recovered having absconded from a port of entry is shown in table three:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 3</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of absconders who subsequently recovered</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of people detained at border ports of entry in each of the last three years who were granted temporary admission is shown in table four:<br>This is management information, which is subject to internal quality checks, and may be subject to change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 4</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81 who were granted temporary admission</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>5,702</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>4,130</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>6,720</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 208119 208120 208121 question first answered 22/10/2014 15:51:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name 208119 - Table.xls title Table - PQ 208119
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

90515

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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 people were detained at border points of entry for (a) having a false passport, (b) having incorrect visa authorisation and (c) any other reason in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	208119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Table one below shows how many people were detained at border points of entry in the last 3 years. ‘Detained’ has been taken to mean those issued an IS81 at a border point of entry, which means that the person has been stopped subject to further examination.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 1</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>27,945</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>25,284</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>30,531</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>To establish the reason why the person was detained at the border would incur a disproportionate cost, as this would involve the examination of individual records. <br><br>Since this government split Border Force from the flawed UK Border Agency and introduced a Ministerially approved Operating Mandate, Border Force’s performance has improved across the board. The number of people who have absconded from a port of entry having been stopped by a Border Force officer has significantly decreased since 2012.<br><br>The number of people who absconded from ports of entry after being stopped by Border Force officers in each of the last three years is shown in table two:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 2</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people absconded</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>2</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><br>This compares with 28 people in 2007/2008, 24 people in 2008/2009 and 11 people in 2009/10. <br><br>The number of people who have been stopped by a Border Force Officer that have been recovered having absconded from a port of entry is shown in table three:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 3</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of absconders who subsequently recovered</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of people detained at border ports of entry in each of the last three years who were granted temporary admission is shown in table four:<br>This is management information, which is subject to internal quality checks, and may be subject to change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 4</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81 who were granted temporary admission</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>5,702</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>4,130</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>6,720</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 208120 208121 208122 question first answered 22/10/2014 15:51:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name 208119 - Table.xls title Table - PQ 208119
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

90516

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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 people absconded from ports of entry after being stopped by UK Border Force staff in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	208120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Table one below shows how many people were detained at border points of entry in the last 3 years. ‘Detained’ has been taken to mean those issued an IS81 at a border point of entry, which means that the person has been stopped subject to further examination.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 1</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>27,945</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>25,284</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>30,531</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>To establish the reason why the person was detained at the border would incur a disproportionate cost, as this would involve the examination of individual records. <br><br>Since this government split Border Force from the flawed UK Border Agency and introduced a Ministerially approved Operating Mandate, Border Force’s performance has improved across the board. The number of people who have absconded from a port of entry having been stopped by a Border Force officer has significantly decreased since 2012.<br><br>The number of people who absconded from ports of entry after being stopped by Border Force officers in each of the last three years is shown in table two:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 2</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people absconded</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>2</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><br>This compares with 28 people in 2007/2008, 24 people in 2008/2009 and 11 people in 2009/10. <br><br>The number of people who have been stopped by a Border Force Officer that have been recovered having absconded from a port of entry is shown in table three:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 3</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of absconders who subsequently recovered</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of people detained at border ports of entry in each of the last three years who were granted temporary admission is shown in table four:<br>This is management information, which is subject to internal quality checks, and may be subject to change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 4</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81 who were granted temporary admission</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>5,702</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>4,130</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>6,720</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 208119 208121 208122 question first answered 22/10/2014 15:51:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name 208119 - Table.xls title Table - PQ 208119
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson