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437361

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the current threat from international terrorism to be downgraded from severe.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	19700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK terrorism threat level is set by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC). JTAC operates independently of Ministers and considers all relevant information to assess the threat from international terrorism. Its judgements are made on the basis of the latest intelligence, and it keeps the threat level under constant review.</p><p>The current threat level is SEVERE, meaning that an attack is highly likely. Members of the public should remain alert to the danger of terrorism, but they should not let the fear of terrorism stop them from going about their day-to-day life as normal.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/12/2015 17:35:22 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

437372

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Wigan Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department last met Wigan Council.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	19706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office meets regularly with local councils throughout the year on a number of different matters. A central record of all the meetings that are held is not maintained.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 19703 19704 question first answered 16/12/2015 17:47:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

437373

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Wigan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits her Department has made to Wigan in 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	19704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office meets regularly with local councils throughout the year on a number of different matters. A central record of all the meetings that are held is not maintained.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 19703 19706 question first answered 16/12/2015 17:47:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

437374

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Compass Contracts: Hotels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date her Department has instructed SERCO to no longer house asylum seekers in hotels.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	19705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The use of hotels is permitted under the terms of the COMPASS contract as a contingency accommodation when usual accommodation cannot meet demand. The Home Office is clear that this is only ever acceptable in an emergency and providers must move clients into suitable accommodation quickly. No instruction has been given to Serco to cease use of hotels, however we and the housing providers are pursuing all options to reduce hotel use and put in place alternative contingency options.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/12/2015 17:44:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

437376

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Wigan Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times her Department has met Wigan Council in 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	19703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office meets regularly with local councils throughout the year on a number of different matters. A central record of all the meetings that are held is not maintained.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 19704 19706 question first answered 16/12/2015 17:47:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

437004

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what input businesses make to the national strategy of the National Crime Agency.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL4470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency's (NCA’s) Annual Plan sets out its priorities and how it plans to exercise its functions in leading the fight to cut serious and organised crime. The NCA also produces on behalf of UK law enforcement the National Strategic Assessment (NSA) which draws together a single picture of the threat from serious and organised crime and is produced in consultation with a broad range of partners.</p><p>In discharging its functions, the NCA maintains close, collaborative and productive relationships with the police and other law enforcement agencies, Police and Crime Commissioners, the intelligence and security agencies, government departments (in particular with the Home Office), local government and the private and voluntary sectors, and Devolved Administrations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2015 17:22:14 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

437184

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Arrests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those listed in table P.04 of the September 2015 Statistical Bulletin 04/15, Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes and stop and search, Great Britain, financial year ending 31 March 2015, were (a) charged with and (b) convicted of offences.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	19618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the requested information on the number of persons in custody for terrorism-related offences and domestic extremism/separatism who were (a) charged with and (b) convicted of offences, broken down by self-declared religion.</p><p>Table P.02 of the statistical bulletin ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes, and stop and search, Great Britain, quarterly update to September 2015’ contains statistics on the number of persons in custody for terrorism-related offences and domestic extremism/separatism by type of prisoner. This includes those who have been remanded, convicted, as well as deportation cases, broken down by self-defined ethnicity.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/12/2015 17:34:04 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

437186

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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 assessment she has made of the effect of the Government's immigration policies on the number of international students enrolling in UK universities.
tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
tabling member printed	Richard Arkless
uin	19663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>We have an excellent offer for international students who wish to study at our world-leading institutions and there remains no limit on the number who can do so. As a result, the UK remains the second most popular destination in the world for international higher education students, and our excellent universities continue to attract large volumes of overseas students.</p><p>Annual visa applications from international students to study at British universities are now 17 per cent higher than they were in 2010, with visa applications to our elite Russell Group universities up by 39 per cent since 2010.</p><p>The most recent figures produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency also show a 6 per cent increase in the number of full-time non-EU new enrolments to UK higher education institutions between 2012/13 and 2013/14.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/12/2015 17:43:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4387 label Biography information for Richard Arkless

437187

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the implications of its decision to remove border staff at the ports of Stranraer and Cairnryan for UK security.
tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
tabling member printed	Richard Arkless
uin	19667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The ferry crossings between Stranraer, Cairnryan and Northern Ireland are domestic routes and are therefore not subject to immigration border controls.</p><p>Home Office Immigration Enforcement in Northern Ireland and Police Scotland work in close partnership to detect illegal migrants who are already in the UK and travelling on these ferries. Detections have increased year on year since the current partnership arrangement was introduced in 2011.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/12/2015 17:42:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4387 label Biography information for Richard Arkless

436813

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
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 7 December 2015 to Question 17662, if she will recompense postal applicants for a spousal visa whose application is not determined within eight weeks; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	19474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not intend to recompense all spousal visa applicants whose application was not determined within the 8 week postal service standard. The published service standard timeframes for spousal visa applications commences at the date of receipt, which is taken as the postal date marked on the application package and includes time taken for biometric enrolment.</p><p>Spousal visa applications may be decided outside of normal service standards for a range of reasons including requests for further information from the applicant or when an application is complex. An application will be deemed complex when it falls to be considered under Human Rights consideration beyond the original spousal route applied for. The applicant is normally advised when their application falls outside published service standards.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/12/2015 17:46:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 35307 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms