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861196

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her oral contribution of 6 March 2017, Official Report, column 560, if she will grant the application made in November 2016 by the hon. Member for Brighton Pavilion to visit Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	132345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>All requests for visits to immigration removal centres (IRC) by Honourable Members require the agreement of the Minister for Immigration, with local constituency MPs generally given priority over non-constituency MPs.</p><p>In addition to security and safety considerations, visits to view IRCs can affect the regime for detainees and are therefore subject to careful consideration and management to minimise disruption and intrusion.</p><p>I will consider the Honourable Member’s request.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:35:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

861138

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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: Telford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse plans to (a) visit and (b) consider Telford as part of its current investigation into child sexual exploitation in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
	uin	132287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Inquiry’s terms of reference require it to consider the extent to which institutions in England and Wales have failed in their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. Within the terms of reference, it is for the Inquiry to decide what it investigates and how it conducts its investigations.</p><p>The Inquiry also runs the Truth Project, which allows victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to share their experiences.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/03/2018 16:53:15 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

861052

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Charities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) any policy has been changed and (b) guidance has been implemented to reduce the number of Tier 5 (Temporary Worker - Charity Worker) visa applications granted in the last 5 years.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	132201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has implemented no changes to policy or guidance to reduce the number of Tier 5 (Temporary Worker) Charity Worker visa applications granted in the last 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:39:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

861236

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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	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 increase the proportion of (a) leave to remain, (b) indefinite leave to remain and (c) naturalisation applications processed within her Department's service standards.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	132385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The published statistics on leave to remain applications that have been processed within service standard can be found in the migration transparency data release.</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-february-2018 at:</p><p>InC_02: Percentage of In-Country visa applications, for each Route, processed within Service Standards.</p><p>InC_07: Premium Service Applications (same day)</p><p>We continually monitor and review our performance against service standards.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:33:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

861114

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Children
	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 increase the number of eligible child refugees who are able to enter the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	132263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK operates several resettlement schemes: Gateway, Mandate, the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS), working closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to provide a safe and legal route to the UK for the most vulnerable refugees. Moreover, our Family Reunion policy allow children to join their refugee parents, and there are also specific provisions that allow extended family members lawfully resident in the UK to sponsor unaccompanied children where there are serious and compelling circumstances.</p><p>The UK is also committed to close cooperation and collaboration with EU partners, to ensure the efficient and timely operation of the Dublin Regulation and national relocation schemes, namely to relocate and support unaccompanied children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. The UK provided protection to almost 6,000 children in 2017 and more than 28,000 since the start of 2010.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:31:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861127

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the grooming and sexual exploitation of vulnerable young women.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
	uin	132276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Progress Report, published in February 2017, announced a £40m package of measures to protect children and young people from sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking, and to crack down on offenders, including: £7.5m for a new, ground-breaking Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, which will develop evidence of what works to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation; a £7m uplift in funding in each of the last two years for non statutory organisations which support the victims and survivors of sexual abuse; and £2.3m for the second phase of the successful Disrespect Nobody campaign, which raises young people’s awareness of healthy relationships.</p><p>On 28<sup>th</sup> February the Home Office launched the Trusted Relationships Fund, which will provide grant funding to local authorities who wish to run initiatives to protect young people in their area from different forms of exploitation and abuse, including child sexual exploitation, county lines, and peer abuse. The fund is currently open for applications and successful projects will be announced in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/03/2018 16:48:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

861131

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) girls groomed for sexual exploitation and (b) perpetrators of child sexual exploitation in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
	uin	132280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not currently hold such figures. We are working to build the national picture of the nature and scale of this sort of abuse.</p><p>We have introduced new requirements for the police to record information relating to these offences which, along with the establishment of a new national Centre of Expertise on child sexual abuse, will help us to build a more informed picture of the scale of these crimes and the best ways to tackle and prevent them in the future.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/03/2018 16:51:43 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

861165

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Hate crime action plan 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	132314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Hate Crime action plan, “Action Against Hate”, published in July 2016 is a four year plan, with actions running up until 2020. We are approaching the half way point of the plan, and good progress has been made on many of the actions. This includes Home Office funding of £3.4 million for protective security measures for places of worship and other vulnerable faith institutions, and £900,000 for projects to tackle hate crime in local communities.</p><p>The Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will refresh the action plan this year, which will provide an opportunity to fully report on progress.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/03/2018 16:50:19 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

861043

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the loss of specialist teams for unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors on their (a) physical health, (b) mental health and (c) learning and development.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	132192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>All asylum claims lodged in the UK are carefully considered on their individual merits against a background of relevant case law and up to date country information.</p><p> </p><p>All Decision Makers who process asylum claims from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children must complete all three Tiers of Keeping Children Safe training before interviewing or deciding claims from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to delivering an asylum process that is efficient but also sensitive to the needs of all claimants so that sufficient information can be obtained to facilitate fair and sustainable decisions on their respective asylum claims. Where decision makers have concerns about the welfare of individual claimants then we have clear processes to raise these with the relevant bodies.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:38:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861153

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what access detainees in immigration detention centres have to mobile phones, the internet and social media.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	132302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Detention Services Order 08/2012 sets out the Home Office’s policy on detainees’ possession of mobile phones in immigration removal centres.</p><p>Detainees are able to retain their own mobile telephones throughout their detention, provided their handset has no recording facility and/or access to the internet. Where a detainee’s handset does not comply with these restrictions they are provided with a suitable handset by the immigration removal centre supplier so that they may maintain contact with friends, family and other means of support.</p><p>The provision of internet access in immigration removal centres helps detainees to remain in contact with family, friends and legal representatives and to prepare for removal.</p><p>Detention Services Order 04/2016 provides guidance on access to the internet. It is a contractual requirement that all immigration removal centres provide detainees with reasonable and regulated access to the internet and IT facilities. There are no plans to enable detainees to access social media.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 16:37:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy