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date	16/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many international students living and studying in the UK have not had their passports returned to them by the Passport Office in time to travel abroad before Christmas 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	219051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>In January 2014 UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) introduced a new set of service standards for fee-paying in-country applications.<br><br>Applications from Tier 4 students will be completed within 8 weeks of application provided that the customer has complied with application requirements and has provided the necessary documentation.<br><br>Since January, UKVI has processed over 98% of in-country Tier 4 student applications within the 8 week service standard.<br><br>Students that applied in good time and complied with all application requirements could therefore have expected to receive their passports back before Christmas 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/01/2015 14:45:13 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 36882 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

169554

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Emergency Travel Documents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Emergency Travel Documents wore issued to overseas applicants in each month since June 2012.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	218108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Consular data is published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is available at: <br><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/consular-data" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/consular-data</a>. <br>This includes data on the number of emergency travel documents (ETDs) issued to British citizens on a monthly basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/01/2015 14:40:53 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 33438 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

169566

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on removing foreign nationals in each year since 1997.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	218023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Home Office spend on removing foreign nationals includes the costs incurred in transporting foreign nationals to their country of origin, and third party cost incurred as part of the Facilitated Removals and Assisted Voluntary Returns <br>(AVR) removal programmes. It includes associated flight costs, and the costs of escorts used when removing foreign nationals from the country.</p><p><br>£m Total <br>2009-10 - 68.0 <br>2010-11 - 71.8 <br>2011-12 - 54.2 <br>2012-13 - 57.3 <br>2013-14 - 55.3 <br><br>Notes: <br>1. The following costs are excluded from the figures given above: Home Office staff costs; overheads; any related EU funding; areas of expenditure where costs could only be attributed to the removals process at disproportionate <br>cost; and the cost of escorting foreign nationals within the UK to a port of departure where such costs could only be identified at disproportionate cost. <br><br>2. Due to changes in the structure of the Home Office group (the Departmental boundary), data prior to 2009-10 is not available except at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/01/2015 14:42:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 33441 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead