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157011

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of what it would have cost to have continued paying police widows' pensions to those widows or widowers who lost their serving husbands or wives between 1987 and 2006, before officers had the option to opt in to a scheme which permitted payments to continue to a surviving spouse on remarriage.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
uin	215397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made. The police pension schemes are administered locally by police forces, so data on this specific issue is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 25/11/2014 14:23:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

157014

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department expects to be shown successive versions of the final report and associated documents in the historic child abuse inquiry.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	215413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The final report of the Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will be shared with the Home Department before it is published. Decisions about how the Inquiry will interact with the Home Office on the final report will be taken when the Chairman is identified and is in place.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 25/11/2014 14:37:21 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

157018

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Breast Ironing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will commission a study to establish the prevalence of breast-ironing in the UK amongst the Western, Eastern and Central African disapora communities.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	215393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The government condemns violence against women and girls in all its forms and is clear that political or cultural sensitivities must not get in the way of preventing, identifying and prosecuting practices like breast ironing.<br><br>There are currently no plans to commission a study to establish the prevalence of breast-ironing in the UK amongst the Western, Eastern and Central African disapora communities.<br><br>However, the government is working with local areas to support them to identify areas of need in their communities in order that they provide services to victims.<br><br>Where breast ironing is practised on girls it is child abuse and should be treated as such by all frontline professionals.<br><br>The clear legal frameworks that apply to child abuse apply to breast ironing.<br><br>As with any other form of child abuse, any cases should be referred to the police who will investigate and where appropriate work with the CPS to prosecute.<br><br>It is important that affected communities come together to speak out against such abhorrent practices and denounce them for the crimes they are.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 25/11/2014 14:39:03 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

156526

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they would incur any contractual penalties if they were to decide to cancel the Azure Card; and if so what those penalties would be.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Contract does not include any penalties for early termination of provision of the Azure Card.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2014 14:30:59 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

156527

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many, if any, refused asylum seekers have had support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 removed.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>This question has been interpreted as requesting information on the number of people who have received Section 4 support and been removed from the UK.</p><p>Since 2007 we have removed 2301 people who have received Section 4 support.</p><p>The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. This response was obtained by data matching a number of different databases. This is therefore likely to under-report the total figure as it will not capture data where individuals have variances in their personal details recorded on the different databases.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2014 14:30:44 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

156528

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many refused asylum seekers, who have been supported under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, have subsequently been granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>This question has been interpreted as requesting the number of people who have received Section 4 support and have also, at some point, been granted leave to remain in the UK.</p><p>Since 2007 we have granted leave to remain to 1197 people who have also received Section 4 support.</p><p>The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. This response was obtained by data matching a number of different databases. This is therefore likely to under-report the total figure as it will not capture data where individuals have variances in their personal details recorded on the different databases.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2014 14:34:21 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

156593

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with hon. Members from Sinn Fein and the SDLP on the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	215221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government continues to fully support the Northern Ireland Justice Minister, who is leading discussions with the parties, to try to secure full operating powers for the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland. Home Office Ministers have regular discussions with Ministerial colleagues and others. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings. <br><br>The Director General of the National Crime Agency has also given his full support to these negotiations and has met with some of the political partiesand appeared before the Northern Ireland Policing Board. <br><br>We are committed to resolving this so that the people and communities of Northern Ireland can benefit from the full range of the National Crime Agency’s capabilities, like the rest of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/11/2014 15:36:25 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

156610

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department were employed in non-frontline roles in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	215331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The number of staff in the Home Department employed in non frontline roles for the past 3 years is set out in Table 1. The comparative number of staff in frontline roles is also provided.<br><br>The Home Office did not collect this data prior to March 2012. In response on 25th January 2012 (column 283W) to a previous parliamentary question, an estimate was made that 20% (around 5,000) of staff in the Home Department were engaged in non-frontline roles at that time.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 25/11/2014 14:25:30 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 215331 Table 1 (2).xlsx title Staff in frontline roles previous answer version 29396 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

156621

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what process she plans that businesses will report exploitation in their supply chains as a result of the Modern Slavery Bill.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
uin	215322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Businesses required to comply with the transparency in supply chains provision, now included in the Modern Slavery Bill, will be required to publish their annual slavery and trafficking statement on their website. They must also include a link to the slavery and human trafficking statement in a prominent place on their website’s homepage. <br><br>Where a business uncovers slavery or trafficking in their supply chains they will be encouraged to report their concerns or findings to the relevant authorities in that jurisdiction. The statutory guidance to support businesses <br>in understanding what kinds of information they may wish to include in any slavery and trafficking statement may include guidance on reporting concerns.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/11/2014 15:16:10 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

156649

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
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 which countries from outside the UK have been granted UK citizenship in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Turner
uin	215213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is given in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><strong>British citizenship grants by the top 20 previous countries of nationality, 2009 to 2013</strong></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Country of previous nationality</td><td>2009</td><td>2010</td><td>2011</td><td>2012</td><td>2013</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>India</td><td>26,541</td><td>29,405</td><td>26,290</td><td>28,352</td><td>36,351</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Pakistan</td><td>20,945</td><td>22,054</td><td>17,641</td><td>18,445</td><td>21,655</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Philippines</td><td>11,751</td><td>9,429</td><td>7,133</td><td>8,122</td><td>10,374</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Nigeria</td><td>6,953</td><td>7,873</td><td>7,932</td><td>8,881</td><td>9,275</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Bangladesh</td><td>12,041</td><td>7,966</td><td>5,149</td><td>5,702</td><td>8,902</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>South Africa</td><td>8,367</td><td>7,446</td><td>6,351</td><td>6,924</td><td>6,448</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>China</td><td>6,041</td><td>7,581</td><td>6,966</td><td>7,198</td><td>7,289</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Somalia</td><td>8,139</td><td>5,817</td><td>4,664</td><td>5,143</td><td>5,688</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Zimbabwe</td><td>7,703</td><td>6,301</td><td>4,877</td><td>5,647</td><td>4,412</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Sri Lanka</td><td>4,762</td><td>4,944</td><td>5,886</td><td>6,163</td><td>3,855</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Turkey</td><td>7,207</td><td>4,630</td><td>3,627</td><td>4,726</td><td>4,184</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Ghana</td><td>4,662</td><td>4,551</td><td>3,931</td><td>4,744</td><td>4,675</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Afghanistan</td><td>5,012</td><td>5,281</td><td>3,951</td><td>4,600</td><td>3,627</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Iraq</td><td>5,497</td><td>4,385</td><td>5,742</td><td>3,822</td><td>2,393</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Nepal</td><td>1,551</td><td>2,118</td><td>3,468</td><td>4,282</td><td>7,447</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Iran</td><td>2,876</td><td>2,587</td><td>5,540</td><td>4,135</td><td>2,391</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>United States</td><td>3,116</td><td>2,926</td><td>2,591</td><td>3,350</td><td>3,119</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Jamaica</td><td>3,148</td><td>2,958</td><td>2,514</td><td>3,005</td><td>2,874</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Australia</td><td>2,890</td><td>2,593</td><td>2,449</td><td>2,792</td><td>2,683</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Poland</td><td>458</td><td>1,419</td><td>1,863</td><td>3,043</td><td>6,066</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Other previous nationality</td><td>54,129</td><td>52,782</td><td>49,220</td><td>55,133</td><td>54,281</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Total grants</td><td>203,789</td><td>195,046</td><td>177,785</td><td>194,209</td><td>207,989</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Source: Migration Statistics, Home Office Statistics</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Table cz 06 - Immigration Statistics April to June 2014</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">Top 20 previous countries of nationality based on total grants for the period 2009 to 2013</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="8">Data for every nationality is included in the regularly published table cz 06 - Immigration Statistics April to June 2014</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest Home Office immigration statistics, including grants of British citizenship for all individual previous nationalities, 1990 to 2013, are published in the release Immigration Statistics April – June 2014, table cz_06 <br>(Citizenship tables), which is available from the Library of the House and on the Department’s website at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/11/2014 14:29:07 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1426 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Turner