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865116

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
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 13 March 2018 to Question 131298 on Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre; of the 98 reports made by a medical practitioner under Rule 35 in Yarl's Wood during Q3 of 2017, how many caseworker reviews of the appropriateness of continued detention led to a detainee's release from detention.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	132983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001 sets out the process by which doctors in immigration removal centres must report to the Home Office cases in which they have concerns that:</p><ul><li>a detainee’s health is likely to be injuriously affected by detention (35(1));</li><li>a detainee is suspected of having suicidal intentions (35(2)); or</li><li>a detainee may have been the victim of torture (35(3)).</li></ul><p>On receipt of a Rule 35 report, the Home Office caseworker must review the appropriateness of the detainee’s continued detention in conjunction with consideration of the adults at risk in immigration detention policy.</p><p>The total number of releases from all Immigration Removal Centres (IRC) because of Rule 35 during Q3 2017 is 102 and is published as part of the Transparency publication under the category ‘Reports made by a medical practitioner under Rule 35 by place of detention’. This can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p><p>Management information indicates that of the 102 total releases in Q3 2017, 26 of these were from Yarl’s Wood IRC. This information has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics and as internal management information is subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/03/2018 13:00:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

865117

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2018 to Question 131300, how many of the 148 arrivals into the UK from Greece under the Dublin Regulation in Q4 of 2017 were children.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	132984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims.</p><p>The Home Office published comprehensive data on the number of transfers into the UK from other Dublin states as part of the most recent quarterly Immigration Statistics release on 22/02/2018. The relevant statistics can be found at as_22_q, asylum volume 5 at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a></p><p>The published statistics are broken down by each article of the Regulation and it is Article 8 which outlines the criteria for the Member State responsible for examining the asylum claims for unaccompanied minors.</p><p>It is important to note that the full data set includes children transferred as dependent family members under other articles of the Regulation, however a breakdown of these families by age is not published.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/03/2018 13:04:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

865227

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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, whether the Government supports objective 13(g) of the UN's draft Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to end the practice of child detention in the context of international migration.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	133094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government broadly supports the principle of ending child detention for immigration purposes. The routine detention of children for immigration purposes in the UK ended in 2010. Under current policy, children may only be detained in a limited number of exceptional circumstances, and for the shortest period necessary.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/03/2018 13:02:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

864315

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Naturalisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications have been received from (a) Irish citizens and (b) citizens of other EU countries for British citizenship under the naturalisation rules in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
uin	132799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The available published information on the total number of applications made for British citizenship by the applicant’s country of nationality, including both naturalisation and registration, is in the Home Office’s <em>Immigration Statistics, October to December 201</em>7, Citizenship table cz_01_q_a available from</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/list-of-tables#citizenship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/list-of-tables#citizenship</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 12:19:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

864326

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees
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 refugees residing in the UK who have been separated from their family due to not being eligible for family reunification.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	132810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK Immigration Rules have a comprehensive framework for refugees and their families to be safely reunited in the UK. Our family reunion policy allows immediate family members of those granted protection here to reunite with them. The Immigration Rules also provide for relatives with protection in the UK to sponsor children in serious and compelling circumstances. The Mandate resettlement scheme also allows those recognised by the UNCHR as refugees to join close family members here in the UK.</p><p>In addition, there is provision in the policy to grant visas outside the Rules in exceptional circumstances, which caters for extended family members who otherwise do not qualify under the Rules.</p><p>We do not believe there are unnecessary barriers to family reunion for refugees. Over the last five years there have been 24,700 family reunion visas issued –and this is in addition to the numbers granted asylum here or resettled here under our resettlement schemes.</p><p>We are listening carefully to concerns raised on this issue by Non-Governmental Organisations and others, we are currently reviewing our approach to family reunion as part of the Government’s wider asylum and resettlement policy.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 12:22:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

862130

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the Answer of 13 March 2018 to Question 131300, how many requests for transfer into the UK under the Dublin Regulation in 2017 were refused; and for what reasons those requests were refused.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	132549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing EU mechanism to determine Member States’ responsibilities for examining asylum claims.</p><p>Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes data on transfers under the Dublin Regulation which includes data on formal request refusals . The 2017 data publication is expected to be published shortly. The latest publication can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application</a></p><p>The Dublin III Regulation clearly sets out the acceptance criteria for requests and where these are not met the request will be refused.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2018 13:01:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

862134

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the Answer of 12 March 2018 to Question 131303, of the 55 pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate in 2017, how many were subsequently (a) released back into the community and (b) granted refugee or humanitarian protection status.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	132553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>As my earlier answer of 12 March 2018 to the honourable member stated, it may not always be appropriate for healthcare professionals to disclose confidential medical information that the patient has asked not to be disclosed.</p><p>Subject to these limitations, Home Office management information indicates that 53 pregnant women were detained in the immigration detention estate in 2017, of which 43 were granted temporary admission and released into the community. Of those pregnant women released, 3 sought refugee or humanitarian protection status following release and 2 applications were then granted. These statistics have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2018 13:07:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

862151

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Right of Abode: Veterans
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 April 2017 to Question 69321, on Right of Abode: Veterans, what the timetable is for the decision to be made on whether to grant the right of abode to former British-Hong Kong servicemen.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	132570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>We have received a number of representations on this matter, all of which are being carefully considered.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2018 13:05:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

861043

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the loss of specialist teams for unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors on their (a) physical health, (b) mental health and (c) learning and development.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	132192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>All asylum claims lodged in the UK are carefully considered on their individual merits against a background of relevant case law and up to date country information.</p><p> </p><p>All Decision Makers who process asylum claims from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children must complete all three Tiers of Keeping Children Safe training before interviewing or deciding claims from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to delivering an asylum process that is efficient but also sensitive to the needs of all claimants so that sufficient information can be obtained to facilitate fair and sustainable decisions on their respective asylum claims. Where decision makers have concerns about the welfare of individual claimants then we have clear processes to raise these with the relevant bodies.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:38:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861052

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) any policy has been changed and (b) guidance has been implemented to reduce the number of Tier 5 (Temporary Worker - Charity Worker) visa applications granted in the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	132201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has implemented no changes to policy or guidance to reduce the number of Tier 5 (Temporary Worker) Charity Worker visa applications granted in the last 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:39:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock