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519158

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that Syrian children given asylum in the UK will be able to enter in time for the start of the school year in September.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	37475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Syrian resettlement scheme has already provided safe haven to more than 1,000 vulnerable Syrians since the scheme was expanded in September 2015. More than half of these were children and we expect children to make up a significant proportion of the 20,000 resettlement places we are providing under the scheme.</p><p>In addition, we have committed to resettling up to 3,000 individuals from the Middle East and North Africa over the lifetime of this Parliament through the resettlement scheme announced on 21 April for children at risk and their family members. As announced by the Prime Minister on 4 May and now reflected in the Immigration Act 2016, we will also work to admit unaccompanied refugee children to the UK from elsewhere in the EU, where this is considered to be in the child’s best interests. Work has begun on how best to implement the legislation and we are committed to act as quickly as we can, while ensuring that we have the necessary services in place to care for these children alongside those who are already in the UK and have claimed asylum here.</p><p>We also continue to work closely with France and other EU Member States to ensure that arrangements for transferring asylum cases under the Dublin Regulation are operating as effectively as possible. A senior UK official was seconded to the French Dublin Unit to assist with the identification and transfer of cases and since February more than 20 children have been transferred to the UK from France and there are many other cases in train.</p><p>All Syrian and other children brought to the UK will be given the care, support and education they require.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/06/2016 16:19:28 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 69 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

519272

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed in the Higher Education Audit Team; and what plans she has to change that number.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	37513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>There are currently five staff working in the Higher Education Assurance Team (HEAT). The team is part of the Home Office's wider Sponsor Compliance Network which is currently under review. Until that review is complete it is not possible to confirm the team's eventual size and structure but its role and responsibilities will continue to be delivered within the Compliance Network's operating structure.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 26/05/2016 15:37:30 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519273

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Greece
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many take charge requests under the family unity provision of the Dublin III Regulation the UK has received for transfer from Greece in the last six months; how many such requests were accepted; and how many people so accepted have arrived in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	37451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>Data on cases progressed under the Dublin III Regulation is recorded on the main immigration database. However, this data is not held in a way that allows it to be reported on automatically and is therefore not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/05/2016 14:26:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

519274

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: EU Law
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 her Department's Written Statement of 21 April 2016, HCWS687, on refugees and resettlement, what (a) additional steps she has taken and (b) further steps she plans to take to implement and streamline the Dublin III Regulation process and to quickly identify children who qualify for family reunion across Europe.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	37499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>We continue to work with a number of EU Member States and the European Asylum Sup-port Office (EASO) to ensure Dublin works effectively. We are in ongoing discussions with France, Italy and Greece, as well as the UNHCR, to ensure that we continue to have the right processes in place and the resources to make them work effectively.</p><p>We have recently deployed two UK experts to the Greek Dublin Unit. We are currently providing bilateral support to the Italian Dublin Unit through a long term secondment. We are also due to deploy an additional UK expert to the Italian Dublin Unit shortly.</p><p>Our work with France including the permanent official contact group and a recently sec-onded senior UK official to the French Dublin Unit to assist with the identification and transfer of cases has shown results of our collaborative efforts.</p><p>The Home Office has a unit processing Dublin III asylum transfer requests from and to the United Kingdom. This unit comprises 78.34 full time equivalent managers, caseworkers and support staff. Staffing levels will remain in line with anticipated volumes.</p><p>As announced on 4 May we are now looking to transfer children who were already present in Europe before the EU-Turkey deal came into force on 20 March, where it is in their best interests. It is important that we ensure we fulfil our obligations to children who are already in UK, as well ensuring we have the right support for those who may be brought to the UK from Europe. We are working with the relevant Member States, the UNHCR and other Non-Governmental Organisations and local authorities to establish the best way to implement the provisions of the Immigration Act 2016 for the transfer of unaccompanied refugee children from Europe to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37247 37248 37249 37250 question first answered 26/05/2016 16:44:47 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

519275

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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, whether data gathered from border exit checks will enable her Department to distinguish between short and longer-term overstaying of visas.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	37514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37509 37510 37511 37512 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519276

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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, what plans she has to use data from border exit checks to estimate emigration from the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	37511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37509 37510 37512 37514 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519277

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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, what analysis she plans to undertake of the data gathered from border exit checks; and whether those checks will provide accurate data on emigration disaggregated by route.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	37512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37509 37510 37511 37514 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519278

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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, when she plans to publish data gathered from border exit checks.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	37509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37510 37511 37512 37514 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519279

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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 her Department plans to publish data gathered from border exit checks.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	37510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37509 37511 37512 37514 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519280

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cross Border Cooperation: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK would lose access to the Prüm Convention in the event of a vote to leave the EU.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	37455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>As set out in the Government’s White Paper on the process for withdrawing from the European Union, published on 29 February 2016, the rules for exiting the EU are set out in Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union. The process that would be followed is unprecedented – no country has ever used Article 50. It would be a complex negotiation involving all 27 remaining EU Member States and the Commission.</p><p>Should the UK leave the EU, future collaboration in relation to the relevant EU Prüm measures would depend on the outcome of the negotiation. Two non-EU countries (Norway and Iceland) have concluded an agreement to access Prüm, although both are part of the border-free Schengen area. The agreements were concluded in 2010, but neither agreement has yet entered into force.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/05/2016 14:27:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma