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536172

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date	13/07/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2016 to Question 37587, whether she is taking steps to reduce the time taken to process applications for the remaining children in refugee camps in Calais.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	42586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>Where an asylum claim is lodged in France by a minor with close family connections to the UK, both governments are committed to ensuring that process are in place to expedite reunification. Under the UK-France Joint Declaration of 20 August 2015, the UK and France have committed to ensuring that the provisions of the Dublin III Regulation are used efficiently and effectively. To assist the handling of such cases, the two Governments have established a permanent official contact group, agreed single points of contact within respective Dublin Units and the UK has seconded an asylum expert to the French administration to improve all stages of the process of identifying, protecting and transferring relevant cases to the UK. We continue to work with the French Government to improve processes.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:36 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

536295

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allow people who have recently been granted refugee status and have not yet received a refugee integration loan to remain in asylum accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	42662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other.</p><p>Those who are granted refugee status are given access to the labour market, mainstream benefits and housing assistance from their local authority. There are therefore no plans to allow refugees to stay in asylum support accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office offers integration loans to recognised refugees. The loan is designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p><p>The Home Office also funds strategic migration partnerships which provide coordination and support services for those organisations working with migrants and refugees in local communities.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government announced that £20 million of additional funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses would be introduced in October 2016. This funding will reach the most isolated communities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 42666 42667 42727 question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:16 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

536296

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a strategy for ensuring that classes in English are provided for refugees as soon as possible after refugee status has been granted.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	42666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other.</p><p>Those who are granted refugee status are given access to the labour market, mainstream benefits and housing assistance from their local authority. There are therefore no plans to allow refugees to stay in asylum support accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office offers integration loans to recognised refugees. The loan is designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p><p>The Home Office also funds strategic migration partnerships which provide coordination and support services for those organisations working with migrants and refugees in local communities.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government announced that £20 million of additional funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses would be introduced in October 2016. This funding will reach the most isolated communities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 42662 42667 42727 question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:16 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

536297

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: English Language
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 English classes are provided for refugees as soon as possible after refugee status has been granted.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	42667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other.</p><p>Those who are granted refugee status are given access to the labour market, mainstream benefits and housing assistance from their local authority. There are therefore no plans to allow refugees to stay in asylum support accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office offers integration loans to recognised refugees. The loan is designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p><p>The Home Office also funds strategic migration partnerships which provide coordination and support services for those organisations working with migrants and refugees in local communities.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government announced that £20 million of additional funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses would be introduced in October 2016. This funding will reach the most isolated communities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 42662 42666 42727 question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:16 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

536300

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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, if she will make it her policy to provide an integration support service for refugees to help those refugees who have recently arrived in the UK to integrate into local communities.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	42727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other.</p><p>Those who are granted refugee status are given access to the labour market, mainstream benefits and housing assistance from their local authority. There are therefore no plans to allow refugees to stay in asylum support accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office offers integration loans to recognised refugees. The loan is designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p><p>The Home Office also funds strategic migration partnerships which provide coordination and support services for those organisations working with migrants and refugees in local communities.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government announced that £20 million of additional funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses would be introduced in October 2016. This funding will reach the most isolated communities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 42662 42666 42667 question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:16 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

533883

registered interest
date	08/07/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what legislation prosecutions are brought against perpetrators of hate crime and racist abuse.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	42267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2016 answer text <p>Hate crimes are criminal behaviour and may be prosecuted in England and Wales using the full range of criminal offences. Sections 29 to 32 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 set out racially and religiously aggravated offences covering wounding, assault, damage, harassment (including stalking) and threatening/abusive behaviour which carry higher sentences than equivalent non-aggravated offences. Sections 18 to 23 of the Public Order Act 1986 contain offences of stirring up racial hatred and sections 29B to 29G contain offences of stirring up hatred on grounds of religion or sexual orientation. There is also an offence of racialist chanting at football matches in section 3 of the Football Offences Act 1991.</p><p> </p><p>Sections 145 and 146 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 make it an aggravating factor for the purposes of sentencing if at the time of committing the offence, or immediately before, the offender demonstrated hostility towards the victim on the basis of their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity or that the offence was motivated by hostility towards persons who had that characteristic. Under paragraph 5(2)(g) of Schedule 21 to the 2003 Act., murder motivated by hostility on the grounds of any of these characteristics attracts a life sentence with a 30 year starting point for the minimum term.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/07/2016 13:03:10 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

532546

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how much has been paid to officials of his Department as an additional incentive for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments, (b) how much has been offered to any individual staff member for a one-off occurrence, (c) how many staff received such incentivised additional payments, (d) from which budgets such payments were made and (e) at which Ministerial or official level the business cases or payment approval for such payments was made in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2016 to date.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	41812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>With the exception of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the Ministry of Justice does not make any additional incentive payments to staff for working overtime in addition to overtime payments or time off in lieu.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS does not generally pay additional incentives (over and above standard hourly rates) to staff to work overtime. In 2015 however, the Director of Public Sector Prisons approved the introduction of a bespoke scheme under which Prison Officers were invited to enter into contracts to work a set number of additional hours over a 14 week period.</p><p> </p><p>Staff who enter into these contracts are paid a bonus at the end of the 14 week period after having completed the agreed number of additional hours. The level of bonus payments, which are funded from existing NOMS budgets, is set at either £150 or £275 depending on the agreed number of additional hours. To provide details of the number of staff who have received such payments within the time available would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/07/2016 14:41:21 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

530702

registered interest
date	30/06/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents reported to the police online reporting portal True Vision in June 2016 took place in (a) Nottingham and (b) Nottinghamshire.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	41510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2016 answer text <p>The True Vision reporting facility, which is owned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, is designed to help victims access services and to increase the reporting of hate crime.</p><p>There were nine reports made through True Vision to Nottinghamshire Police in June 2016. Seven of these reports were submitted between 23<sup>rd</sup> and 30<sup>th </sup>June. True Vision does not record details of the location within the county.</p><p>True Vision reports also include both crime and non-crime hate incidents. Any form of hate crime is totally unacceptable and there are tough sentencing options available to the courts to deal with those who commit these crimes. We will continue to work with the police to increase reporting of these offences.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 41511 41512 question first answered 08/07/2016 14:48:26 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

530703

registered interest
date	30/06/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents reported to the police online reporting portal True Vision have taken place in (a) Nottingham and (b) Nottinghamshire in June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	41511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2016 answer text <p>The True Vision reporting facility, which is owned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, is designed to help victims access services and to increase the reporting of hate crime.</p><p>There were nine reports made through True Vision to Nottinghamshire Police in June 2016. Seven of these reports were submitted between 23<sup>rd</sup> and 30<sup>th </sup>June. True Vision does not record details of the location within the county.</p><p>True Vision reports also include both crime and non-crime hate incidents. Any form of hate crime is totally unacceptable and there are tough sentencing options available to the courts to deal with those who commit these crimes. We will continue to work with the police to increase reporting of these offences.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 41510 41512 question first answered 08/07/2016 14:48:26 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

530704

registered interest
date	30/06/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents reported to the police online reporting portal True Vision after 23 June 2016 took place in (a) Nottingham and (b) Nottinghamshire.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	41512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2016 answer text <p>The True Vision reporting facility, which is owned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, is designed to help victims access services and to increase the reporting of hate crime.</p><p>There were nine reports made through True Vision to Nottinghamshire Police in June 2016. Seven of these reports were submitted between 23<sup>rd</sup> and 30<sup>th </sup>June. True Vision does not record details of the location within the county.</p><p>True Vision reports also include both crime and non-crime hate incidents. Any form of hate crime is totally unacceptable and there are tough sentencing options available to the courts to deal with those who commit these crimes. We will continue to work with the police to increase reporting of these offences.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 41510 41511 question first answered 08/07/2016 14:48:26 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker