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390591

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to publish the full consolidated Immigration Rules in their current amended form.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL1531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/08/2015 answer text <p>The full consolidated Immigration Rules in their current amended form are already published on GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 13/08/2015 11:09:48 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

390631

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Police Air Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take in response to the National Police Air Service London tweeting a picture of Michael McIntyre from a helicopter surveillance camera team, in the light of the Surveillance Camera Commissioners Code of Practice.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL1571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2015 answer text <p>The National Police Air Service (NPAS) is a police-led, operational initiative. West Yorkshire Police is the lead body on behalf of the national collaboration, accountable to the NPAS Strategic Board.</p><p>The Surveillance Camera Commissioner is in contact with NPAS to ensure that their use of surveillance camera systems is in line with the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice issued by the Home Secretary under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. He will also be meeting the National Police Lead on CCTV to discuss wider issues.</p><p>NPAS have publicly acknowledged the need to demonstrate that their activities are ethical and carried out in the public interest. An investigation will be carried out by the Professional Standards Department of West Yorkshire Police into the actions of the helicopter crew concerned. This incident should not detract from the vital work of NPAS across the country in fighting crime and keeping communities safe.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 10/08/2015 11:09:09 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

390644

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	People Smuggling: Mediterranean Region
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many traffickers across the Mediterranean have been (1) apprehended, and (2) prosecuted, in the United Kingdom, or any other European Union member state, during (1) the last year, and (2) since such trafficking began.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL1584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Her Majesty's Government has established a dedicated law enforcement team to tackle organised immigration crime in the Mediterranean region. 90 officers will be deployed in the UK, Mediterranean and Africa to pursue and disrupt these callous organised crime groups profiting from the people-smuggling trade.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 30/07/2015 14:14:19 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

390827

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metropolitan Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints of racism were (a) made and (b) upheld against Metropolitan Police officers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	7672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally by the Home Office.</p><p>The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) publishes quarterly data on police complaints for each force, which includes a breakdown of the nature of allegations recorded. The category of ‘Discriminatory Behaviour’ includes incidents of racism.</p><p>The IPCC also holds a more detailed breakdown of the category information, but does not hold information of the disciplinary outcomes subsequent to the complaints. This information may be held by the force itself.</p><p>I have asked the IPCC to write to the Honourable Member with the information it has available and will arrange for a copy to be placed in the House Library.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 7673 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:16:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 16621 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

390828

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metropolitan Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints of racism upheld against Metropolitan Police officers resulted in (a) no action taken, (b) suspension, (c) other disciplinary measures and (d) dismissal in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	7673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally by the Home Office.</p><p>The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) publishes quarterly data on police complaints for each force, which includes a breakdown of the nature of allegations recorded. The category of ‘Discriminatory Behaviour’ includes incidents of racism.</p><p>The IPCC also holds a more detailed breakdown of the category information, but does not hold information of the disciplinary outcomes subsequent to the complaints. This information may be held by the force itself.</p><p>I have asked the IPCC to write to the Honourable Member with the information it has available and will arrange for a copy to be placed in the House Library.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 7672 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:16:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 16625 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

390829

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications for visitor visas from each country were accepted in the last year for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	7602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is given in the table below.</p><p>The latest Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas, are published quarterly in the ‘Immigration Statistics, January-March 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/07/2015 13:07:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ 7602 Kirsty Blackman Visitor Visas Nationality(1).xlsx title HO Immigration Statistics
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

390830

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances a non-British parent of a young child based in the UK, who is not allowed to stay in the country for periods longer than six months, stops being considered as a primary care giver for immigration purposes as a result of siblings filling that role.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	7600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The requirements to be met by a non-European Economic Area national for entry clearance to or leave to remain in the UK as a parent of a child based here are set out in paragraphs EC-PT.1.1. and R-LTRPT.1.1. of Appendix FM to the Immigration Rules. Further guidance on these requirements can be found on GOV.UK at: <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></p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/07/2015 13:06:48 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

390831

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Grzegorz Kowalski
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 speed up the repatriation of Grzegorz Kowalski; and when Mr Kowalski will be repatriated.
tabling member constituency	Norwich North
tabling member printed	Chloe Smith
uin	7715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/07/2015 13:04:30 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith

390832

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Lancashire
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 in each local authority district in Lancashire hold gun licences.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	7684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on the number of firearms licenses and shotgun certificates issued by police forces in England and Wales. As at 31 March 2014 there were 2,923 firearm certificates and 12,233 shotgun certificates on issue by Lancashire police force.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/09/2015 15:50:20 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

390833

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Amnesties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the date was of the most recent gun amnesty in each police force area in England; and how many firearms were handed-in in each such amnesty.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	7683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Following the firearms surrenders in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands in 2013 and 2014, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) co-ordinated further such activities in the majority of the remaining force areas of England and Wales between 29 September and 21 November 2014. The only exception was Wiltshire where a firearms surrender is planned to take place later this year. The dates and numbers of weapons handed in are set out in the table below. Items surrendered include air weapons, stun guns, blank firers and CS sprays.</p><p><strong>Police Force Firearm Surrenders:</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date of Surrender</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Force</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Number Firearms Surrendered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Avon &amp; Somerset</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>64</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Bedfordshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>66</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cambridgeshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>141</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cheshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>46</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cleveland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>33</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cumbria</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>131</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Derbyshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>172</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Devon &amp; Cornwall</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>444</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Durham</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>34</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Dorset</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>93</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Essex</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>124</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Gloucestershire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>38</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>12-27 July 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Greater Manchester</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>225</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Hampshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>105</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Hertfordshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>234</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Humberside</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>53</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Kent</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>82</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lancashire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>140</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>21 Sept-7 Oct 2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Leicestershire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>138</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lincolnshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>132</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Merseyside</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>103</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>MPS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>355</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Norfolk</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>504</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>North Yorkshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>138</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northamptonshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>195</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northumbria</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>67</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>10-21 November 2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nottinghamshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>231</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>South Yorkshire </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>54</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staffordshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>208</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Suffolk</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>382</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Surrey</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>50</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sussex</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>282</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TVP</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>221</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>West Mercia &amp;</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>480</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Warwickshire</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>19 July-2 August 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>West Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>163</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>West Yorkshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>89</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Anticipated late 2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wiltshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Source: National Ballistics Intelligence Service, 'Operation MAGPIE – Firearms Surrender Autumn/Winter 2014', published May 2015</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 07/09/2015 15:12:49 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick