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518267

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to encourage other countries to accept unaccompanied refugee children in Europe.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	36927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The government is at the forefront of assisting and protecting vulnerable children, wherever they are. Children in Europe are mostly already able to access support from countries that have similar legal obligations to our own.</p><p>The UK has been playing its full part in supporting European neighbours to provide support to those who have arrived. We have provided nearly £46 million of funding to the Europe wide response to help the most vulnerable, including children and infants.</p><p>In addition the £10 million the Department for International Development fund announced on 28 January will support UNHCR, Save the Children and International Rescue Committee to work with host authorities to care and assist unaccompanied or separated children.</p><p>This is in addition to resettling those from conflict regions through our Syrian Resettlement Programme and Children at Risk Resettlement Scheme. The UK is playing a leading role in the resettlement of the most vulnerable and supports other EU Member States in establishing and developing their resettlement schemes, through bilateral and multinational discussions.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:34:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

518268

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: 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 plans to place unaccompanied refugee children from European countries with foster families or in local authority care homes.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	36926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>As announced on 4 May we will be consulting closely with local authorities to find suitable places within the UK for these children.</p><p>Local authorities will be required to provide the right support, care and accommodation to meet the child’s specific needs. Statutory agencies at a local level are best placed to understand and meet the needs of all children and will continue to make decisions about the right accommodation and support services for those who are looked after.</p><p>Unaccompanied children will be eligible for foster care if it is considered that that this placement type will provide appropriate support and best meet their individual needs.</p><p>The UK has well-established and effective safeguarding procedures to ensure the safety of children who come to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:56:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

518269

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: India
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 28 April 2016 to Question 35127, what the average cost of removing to India a person who had been refused leave to remain by (a) sea and (b) air was in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	36919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office has published information on the average cost of removal but this is not broken down by mode of transport, and to do so would incur disproportionate cost. Further information can be found at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/costs-involved-in-detaining-and-removing-illegal-migrants.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:41:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

518270

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: India
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 28 April 2016 to Question 35126, how many people who were refused leave to remain in 2015 were removed to India; and how many such people required a medical escorting contractor.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	36920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The number of individuals refused leave to remain in 2015 who were removed to India is contained in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Table 1 - Number of individuals refused leave to remain in 2015 and returned to India in the year to 31 December 2015.</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Removal Category</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Individuals returned, 2015</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enforced Removals</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Voluntary Departures</p></td><td><p>1,045</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>Published Removals data to 31 December 2015 was used to identify those removed. Note that some individuals may have been removed since this date.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Voluntary departures consists of Assisted Voluntary Returns, Confirmed Voluntary Departures and Notified Voluntary Departures.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>For individuals with more than one removal recorded during the time period, only the most recent removal after refusal has been counted.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Figures represent a count of individuals. Multiple instances for the same individual have been counted once.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p><strong>This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:33:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

518271

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking child refugees of each (a) gender and (b) age group who are currently in EU member states.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	36889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government does not hold information on the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking child refugees in EU Member States by (a) gender and (b) age group.</p><p>This is collected by each Member State and compiled by Eurostat. It is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database</p><p>The UK Government is currently consulting with France, Italy and Greece to establish how best we can implement the recent Lord Dubs’ amendment to the Immigration Bill. This will include an assessment of numbers and needs of unaccompanied children in these Member States.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:46:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

518272

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people who have had their application for asylum refused but cannot legally be returned to their country of origin.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The government expects those who have been refused asylum and who have no lawful basis to remain in the UK to leave at the earliest opportunity. If there is a genuine obstacle that prevents a failed asylum seeker's departure from the UK and they are destitute, they can apply for support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. As of 31 December 2015, a total of 3,821 failed asylum seekers and their dependants were supported under section 4.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:32:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

518273

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were resident in each London borough in 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	36894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The table below gives the number of asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support in each local authority in London, as at the end of December 2015. The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of section 95 support, by local authority, are published quarterly by the Home Office in Table as_16_q of the Immigration Statistics release. The latest publication (Immigration Statistics, October to December 2015) is available on the GOV.UK website:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015/asylum</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support, London local authorities, as at end December 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total supported under Section 95, London local authorities</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,446</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham</p></td><td><p><strong>167</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnet</p></td><td><p><strong>71</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley</p></td><td><p><strong>30</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p><strong>85</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden</p></td><td><p><strong>25</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croydon</p></td><td><p><strong>141</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing</p></td><td><p><strong>135</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enfield</p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich</p></td><td><p><strong>84</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney</p></td><td><p><strong>36</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith and Fulham</p></td><td><p><strong>25</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p><strong>126</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow</p></td><td><p><strong>51</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havering</p></td><td><p><strong>57</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td><td><p><strong>149</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hounslow</p></td><td><p><strong>82</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington</p></td><td><p><strong>26</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td><td><p><strong>14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p><strong>35</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p><strong>41</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham</p></td><td><p><strong>83</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merton</p></td><td><p><strong>29</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham</p></td><td><p><strong>274</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge</p></td><td><p><strong>193</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td><td><p><strong>20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p><strong>59</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton</p></td><td><p><strong>11</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets</p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waltham Forest</p></td><td><p><strong>143</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth</p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster</p></td><td><p><strong>35</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>1. These figures are provisional and subject to revision.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>2. The data include dependants in receipt of support.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>3. The data excludes unaccompanied asylum seeking children supported by Local Authorities.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:52:38 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

518274

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Pakistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications from Pakistan for applicants wishing to visit the UK were (a) made, (b) accepted and (c) refused in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014 and (iv) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	36870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The number of visitor visa applications received, granted and refused from Pakistani nationals for the years 2012 to 2015 is set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Entry clearance visitor visa applications and resolutions (grants, refusals, withdrawn or lapsed)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Pakistani nationals</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Applications</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Resolved</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>of which</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Granted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Refused</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Withdrawn or lapsed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>85,500</p></td><td><p>87,172</p></td><td><p>54,768</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td><td><p>32,115</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>289</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>85,749</p></td><td><p>88,901</p></td><td><p>61,578</p></td><td><p>69%</p></td><td><p>27,102</p></td><td><p>30%</p></td><td><p>221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>87,541</p></td><td><p>89,709</p></td><td><p>57,117</p></td><td><p>64%</p></td><td><p>32,332</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>90,066</p></td><td><p>90,414</p></td><td><p>44,989</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td><td><p>45,222</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td><td><p>203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Source:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Immigration Statistics October - December 2015, Home Office, tables vi_01_q, and corresponding datasets.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Notes.</strong> Some applications made in a particular year may be resolved (granted, refused, withdrawn or lapsed) in a subsequent year. For this reason the grant and refusal rates are calculated as proportions of the total resolved cases in each year, not the total applications.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 10:23:54 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

518275

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
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) single adult males and (b) single adult females were in reciept of support under the provisions of section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Holborn and St Pancras
tabling member printed	Keir Starmer
uin	36895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The Home office publishes statistics on those supported under section 4 at the end of each quarter in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.</p><p>Of the 3,821 main applicants and dependants that were supported under section 4 as at the end of December 2015, 1,948 were single adults. Where the gender of the main applicant is recorded, 1,544 of these were males and 335 were females.</p><p>The data relating to single adults is a subset of figures published in Table as_18_q, in volume 4 of the latest Immigration Statistics release, available at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 11:01:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4514 label Biography information for Keir Starmer

518279

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Eritrea
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 effect of the findings of the Government's Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015, published on 21 April 2016, on her Department's country guidance on people from Eritrea seeking asylum in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	36796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>We are currently updating our September 2015 country information and guidance on handling asylum claims made by Eritrean nationals.</p><p>The revised guidance will be based on an assessment of a range of sources including the Foreign Office’s Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015 as well as recent publications by Amnesty International and the findings of a Home Office fact finding mission to Eritrea undertaken in February 2016.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:46:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane