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date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on lowering the minimum income threshold limit required by those wishing to bring family members to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Joan Walley
uin	211715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>We keep the family Immigration Rules under regular review in light of all feedback on their operation. However, we have no plans to lower the minimum income threshold required to bring family members to the UK under those rules. In its 11 July 2014 judgment in MM and Others the Court of Appeal upheld the lawfulness of the requirement and found that it strikes a fair balance between the interests of those affected and the community in general.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/10/2014 14:18:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	286 label Biography information for Joan Walley

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date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	G4S
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether G4S records (a) telephone calls made to it by asylum seekers who have ended the call as they have not been able to explain that they need an interpreter and (b) all other telephone calls received in connection with its contract to deliver accommodation for asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Ian Swales
uin	211808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>All providers are required under the COMPASS contracts to provide a minimum level of support to asylum seekers accommodated in their properties, this includes briefing the service user in a language that they understand, on how to contact the provider and the Home Office to make complaints.<br><br>G4S does make a record of all telephone calls they receive from asylum applicants accommodated in their property and refers service users to their interpreters where it is clear that an interpreter is required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/10/2014 14:19:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4045 label Biography information for Ian Swales