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64360

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	Energy
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 her Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	202707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Electricity and gas cost and consumption data for each month since June 2010, <br>for those buildings (excluding sponsored ALBs) where the Department is directly <br>invoiced for energy, is provided in the following table. Data for financial <br>year 2014/15 is not yet available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 14:20:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ202707 Energy data.xls title Electricity and gas consumption
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

64367

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	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times an escaped person has been categorised as a high harm person and the senior management team believe there is a high risk of reputational damage to the Home Office as set out in the Home Office Guidance on Escaped Detainees at immigration removal centres in the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	202824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not routinely categorise immigration detainees against a <br>scale of harm. They are instead subject to individual risk assessment linked <br>to their suitability for placement in an immigration removal centre (IRC) which is <br>based on a number of different factors. <br><br>Where an escape or attempted escape from an IRC takes place, Criminal and <br>Financial Investigation (CFI) immigration specialist teams will assist in the <br>investigation where the individual is assessed to be a ‘high harm' person, or <br>where the senior management team believe there is a high risk of reputational <br>damage to the Home Office.<br><br>In the last four years the CFI team has conducted two investigations relating <br>to escapes of individuals from escort who were assessed to fit the <br>investigation criteria. There have not been any cases of escapes from an IRC <br>which have warranted the involvement of the CFI.<br><br>This data is management information and does not form part of published <br>statistics and is not subject to the detailed checks that apply for National <br>Statistics publications. It is provisional and subject to change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/07/2014 13:05:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

64370

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	Immigration Removal Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the Gold Suite has been opened at each Immigration Removal Centre in England and Wales in the last year; and what the nature was of each incident that caused it to be opened.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	202820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office command suite structure for the management of serious <br />incidents is based on the model operated by the Prison Service. Silver Command <br />Suites are opened in the establishment where the incident occurred. <br /><br />A Gold Command Suite is opened in Prison Service Headquarters for incidents <br />where the Home Office requests mutual assistance from the Prison Service and is <br />attended by a Home Office senior manager.<br /><br />Any other serious incident, which does not require mutual assistance but <br />requires ongoing management, is dealt with by opening a Gold Command Suite at <br />Detention Operations headquarters.<br /><br />The number of times Silver Suites have been opened in the past year in <br />immigration removal centres is detailed in the table below for January 2013<br />to March 2014 and is provided in line with the data periods for published statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/07/2014 13:19:52 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Table of IRC Silver Suite Opening.doc title Table of IRC Silver Suite Opening
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

64371

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	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Immigration Removal Centre detainees have (a) escaped from detention, (b) escaped whilst being escorted and (c) attempted to escape each IRC in the last four years; and how many such people are still at large.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	202821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Escapes from immigration removal centres and while under escort are a subset of <br>published statistics. The following table shows absconds for the financial <br>years 2010/11-2013/14. <br><br>Information on attempted escapes is not held centrally and could only be <br>provided by examination of individual records at disproportionate cost. <br><br>Eleven of those individuals recorded as escaped 2010/11-2013/14 have not been <br>located. <br><br>The police are informed immediately when a detainee has escaped and the <br>individual's details are recorded on the Police National Computer should the <br>individual be apprehended at a later date.</p><p> </p><p><strong>People leaving detention by place of last detention, absconded 2010/11-2013/14 (financial year) </strong><strong>(1)(2)</strong><strong>. </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Absconded</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010/2011</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from centre</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from escorts</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/2012</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from centre</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from escorts</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/2013</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from centre</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from escorts</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/2014</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from centre</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absconded from escorts</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(1) Data from 2011/12 onwards are provisional.</p><p> </p><p>(2) Total detainees are those detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers and exclude those in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/07/2014 13:02:49 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

64372

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	Immigration Removal Centres
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) Red incidents and (b) Amber incidents have occurred at each Immigration Removal Centre in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	202822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Incidents in the detention estate are reported in accordance with Detention <br>Services Order (DSO) 12/2008. Incidents are classified according to their <br>seriousness as red, amber or green. <br><br>Examples of the types of red or amber incidents are given in the DSO. Red <br>incidents are generally those relating to serious disturbances and/or fires <br>within a centre. Amber incidents may be those involving threats to the centre, <br>external demonstrations, or co-ordinated food or fluid refusal. <br><br>This data has been collected by different business areas in the Home Office <br>over the data period requested and has not been collated centrally. <br><br>Management information is only available for the period 01 July 2013 - 9 March <br>2014 in the following table and is in line with the data period for published <br>statistics.<br><br>This data is management information collected and collated from Immigration <br>Removal Centre suppliers. This information does not form part of published <br>statistics and is not subject to the detailed checks that apply for National <br>Statistics publications. It is provisional and subject to change.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table showing incidents in immigration removal centres for the period 01 July 2013 – 9 March 2014 by status.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>IRC</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Red Incidents</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amber Incidents</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total of Incidents</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Brook House</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p><strong>61</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Campsfield</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Colnbrook</strong></p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>109</p></td><td><p><strong>113</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dover</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p><strong>40</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dungavel</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Harmondsworth</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p><strong>145</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Haslar</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Morton Hall</strong></p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p><strong>35</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Tinsley House</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Yarlswood</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>109</p></td><td><p><strong>110</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>528</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>541</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/07/2014 13:04:21 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

63924

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	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, how many contract or temporary employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence; and what proportion of the overall staff of such bodies were contract or temporary employees.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 350 temporary staff <br>during the summer 2011. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of how many <br>contract/ temporary employees were employed for each year that CRD was in <br>existence. <br><br>The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) <br>staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. It is not <br>possible to break this down by how many were contract/temporary employees or <br>employed full time. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the <br>proportion of full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of <br>an equivalent full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 15:14:25 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63925

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	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, how many full-time employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 1300 caseworkers in <br>40 regional teams during its existence. It is not possible to provide a <br>breakdown by each year that CRD was in existence. <br><br>The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) <br>staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. FTE means that <br>part time employees are counted by the proportion of full time hours they work, <br>so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full time colleague would <br>count as 0.5 FTE.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 15:09:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63926

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	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, what the cost was of renaming (a) the Case Resolution Directorate in 2011 and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>It is not possible to answer the question, as information is not held in the <br>appropriate format and to extract the data would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 16:04:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63932

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	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, what the cost was of running (a) the Case Resolution Directorate, (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit and (c) the Older Live Cases Unit in each year of those bodies' operations.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The operational costs of running the Case Resolution Directorate (excluding <br>enforcement costs, detention and removal escort costs or asylum and immigration <br>tribunal costs) was approximately £32 million per year. The costs are inclusive <br>of an outsourced administrative function in 2009-2011. Support costs for <br>applicants were accounted for separately for this period. <br><br>The total running costs of the Case Assurance and Audit Unit was £27.4 million <br>(2011/ 2012) and £19. 5million (2012/ 2013). The total running costs of the Older Live <br>Cases Unit was £7.8 million (2013/ 2014). The Older Live Cases Unit budget spend to <br>date for 2014/ 2015 is £1.87 million. Since setting up the Case Resolution Directorate, <br>operational running costs have decreased year on year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 07/07/2014 14:35:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63933

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	UK Visas and Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contract or temporary employees are employed in the Older Live Cases Unit; and what proportion of the overall staff count are contract or temporary employees.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There were 208 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) temporary agency workers employed on <br>OLCU casework at the end of Q1 2014, this was equal to 62.7% of the overall <br>staff at the time. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the <br>proportion of full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of <br>an equivalent full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 15:08:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan