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101174

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has issued to the Referred Casework Unit on how to process compassionate compelling cases; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ilford South
tabling member printed	Mike Gapes
uin	212157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>Guidance available to Entry Clearance Officers and the Referred Casework Unit on exceptional circumstances and compassionate factors when considering family migration applications is available in the ' Family Life (as a Partner or Parent): 5-Year Routes' guidance which is published on Gov.uk at:<br><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chapter-8-appendix-fm-family-members" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chapter-8-appendix-fm-family-members</a> <br><br>The referred Casework Unit also consider ad hoc applications in other visa categories when referred by an Entry Clearance Manager overseas where there are compelling and compassionate circumstances and where there may be consideration given to a grant of leave to enter outside the rules.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:53:49 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 25282 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	184 label Biography information for Mike Gapes

100892

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people considered to be involved in corruption or organised crime from travelling to the UK in each year between 2005 and 2009, by country of origin; and on how many occasions such bans have subsequently been revoked.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	211853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>This information could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:44:58 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24987 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

100664

registered interest
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	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on excluding foreign university students from net immigration targets.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	211742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>Net migration statistics are produced by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS). In line with the internationally agreed UN definition, these statistics define a migrant as someone changing their normal place of residence for more than a year. This includes students in net migration in the same way as other migrants. Other countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand also include students in their net migration figures. <br><br>Net migration measures the difference between the number of peoplecoming the UK and the number leaving, so if students return home after<br>their studies, their impact on long-term net migration will be minimal. The ONS has recently improved its methodology so that it is possible to<br>better identify students in the emigration flows to give a more accurate measure of the contribution of students to overall net migration.In the last year, 124,000 non-EU students came to Britain to stay for more than 12 months, and the ONS estimates that only 50,000 left the country. <br><br>All migrants who are in the UK for 12 months or more have an impact on our communities, infrastructure and public services. Changing the way we measure migration would not make any difference to our student migration policy. There is no cap on the number of students who can come to the UK, and the county remains open to the brightest and the best.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:46:23 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

100445

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: West Africa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what visa arrangements are being made for citizens of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea whose visas are expiring or expired and whose return flights have been cancelled by the relevant airlines.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Dame Joan Ruddock
uin	211471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that there should not be a general ban on international travel or trade to the countries affected by ebola. This is consistent with the position of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, whose advice for British nationals is that travel for essential reasons should continue. Nationals from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose flights have been cancelled but whose visas are expiring or expired are therefore expected to re-arrange their flights and leave the UK at the earliest opportunity. <br><br>However, the Government is monitoring the situation closely.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:41:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24350 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	190 label Biography information for Dame Joan Ruddock

100446

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners released without consideration of deportation since 2010 have been (a) subsequently convicted of a crime in the UK, (b) sentenced to prison or community sentence in the UK and (c) been deported.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	211423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 211424 question first answered 05/11/2014 14:47:04 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24330 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

100447

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) name, (b) offence and (c) date of deportation was of the foreign national prisoners released without consideration of deportation since 2010 who were subsequently convicted.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	211424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 211423 question first answered 05/11/2014 14:47:04 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24332 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

100455

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to deport illegal migrants to their home country.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	211615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>We have recently legislated in the Immigration Act 2014 to make it harder for illegal migrants to remain in the country undetected and to encourage people to leave of their own accord. The provisions include implementing a penalty for those landlords who rent property to immigrants without leave in the UK, denying free access to most secondary healthcare in the UK to illegal immigrants, requiring banks to check against a database of known immigration offenders before opening accounts, introducing new powers to check the immigration status of applicants before issuing a driving licence and revoking the driving licences of those migrants who have overstayed, and introducing new powers to clamp down <br>on those trying to gain immigration advantage by entering into a sham marriage or civil partnership. <br><br>We have also used the Immigration Act to streamline the process of enforcing the removal of illegal migrants when necessary. We have reduced the number of appeal rights from 17 to 4, and set out clearly in primary legislation the right balance on Article 8 rights, to prevent individuals from playing the system. We have also streamlined the process of serving immigration decisions to reduce bureaucracy and further accelerate the system.<br><br>We also introduced on 1 January 2014 new regulations allowing us to prevent the re-entry to the UK for up to 12 months of EEA nationals who are<br>removed for failing to exercise treaty rights, unless they have a valid reason to be here. <br><br>These measures support and enhance our immigration enforcement capability, with teams operating on a targeted, risk-based approach across the country to detect and remove illegal migrants. This effort has also been given fresh impetus with the break-up of the UK Border Agency and the creation of a focused Immigration Enforcement operational command.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:44:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

100462

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2014 to Question 210553, how many of the people granted humanitarian protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme (a) are family members of individuals who qualify as vulnerable under the scheme and (b) have been assessed as having serious medical needs.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	221660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>Of the people granted Humanitarian Protection under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme up to the end of June 2014, 11 are Principal Applicants and 39 are dependant family members. Of these people 14 have been assessed as having serious medical needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:28:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24355 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

100463

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Force
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget was for Border Force (a) total and (b) operations expenditure in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	221657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>The budget for Border Force for (a) total and (b) operations expenditure in 2013-14.<br>(a) Total Budget £467 million<br>(b) Operational Budget £396million</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:40:45 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24316 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

100464

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel Restrictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each country were (a) added to and (b) removed from the travel exclusion list in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	221658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>It is long-standing policy not to discuss information held on watch lists as to do so would not be in the interests of border and national security.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2014 14:29:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 24317 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay