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1052163

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with Chief Constables on increasing the authority of forces to implement stop and search where there is a recently proven spike in knife crime.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	215131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Stop and search is a vital policing tool when used correctly and officers have the Government's full support to use these powers in a way that is fair, lawful and effective.</p><p>The Home Secretary has been clear that he wants officers to feel confident, trusted and supported when they are using stop and search powers, which form one part of our broader strategy to tackle violence.</p><p>We are therefore looking at ways to reduce bureaucracy and increase efficiency in the use of this power to ensure the police feel better able to use these powers where they have reasonable grounds to do so.</p><p>Both the Home Secretary and I engage with the Chief Constables on a regular basis to discuss matters of concern, including the use of stop and search and recent incidents of knife crime, especially in London.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/02/2019 18:16:04 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1052214

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to answer Question 208260 tabled on 14 January 2019 on Deportation: Windrush Generation.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	215142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The response for UIN 208260 was given on 1 February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 16:53:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1052217

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much it will cost to apply for European Temporary Leave to Remain in the event of the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	215086
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>European Temporary Leave to Remain will only apply if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. It will enable EU citizens who arrive in the UK after EU exit to live, work and study in the UK for a temporary period. It will also allow them to be accompanied or joined by their close family members (their spouse, civil partner, partner, and dependent child under 18) who are third country nationals. There will no limit to the number of dependent children who may accompany or join the EU citizen.</p><p>Information about the application fee for European Temporary Leave to Remain will be made available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215087 question first answered 07/02/2019 12:22:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1052219

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-EU family members would be allowed to accompany an EU citizen under the planned arrangements for EU citizens migrating to the UK after 29 March 2019 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	215087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>European Temporary Leave to Remain will only apply if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. It will enable EU citizens who arrive in the UK after EU exit to live, work and study in the UK for a temporary period. It will also allow them to be accompanied or joined by their close family members (their spouse, civil partner, partner, and dependent child under 18) who are third country nationals. There will no limit to the number of dependent children who may accompany or join the EU citizen.</p><p>Information about the application fee for European Temporary Leave to Remain will be made available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215086 question first answered 07/02/2019 12:22:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1052220

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Letting Agents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect on (a) tenants and (b) potential tenants of steps taken by letting agents to establish the right to rent.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	215225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office carried out an evaluation of phase one of the Right to Rent scheme in Birmingham, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Wolverhampton in 2015, published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-right-to-rent-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-right-to-rent-scheme</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/02/2019 13:25:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1052223

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of people living in the UK under visitor visas who have been required to travel overseas to process their applications for (a) family visas, (b) work visas and (c) permanent leave to remain in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	215088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>A visitor is a person who is coming to the UK, usually for up to six months, for a temporary purpose, for example as a tourist, to visit friends or family or to carry out a business activity.</p><p>Visit visas are not granted for the purpose of living in the UK or making the UK their home through frequent and successive visits, therefore the information requested is not available</p><p>Individuals in the UK as visitors may extend their visit whilst in the UK, as long as the total stay does not exceed 6 months.</p><p>Applications to switch from visit to spouse or child settlement visa applications need to be made from overseas. Information on the number of in country extensions for main applicants previously in the visitor category is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, extensions table expc_01, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 16:51:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1052252

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to publish UK Border Force performance data by port of entry.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	215208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Border Force does not routinely publish data that does not meet the Home Office standard for publication or that could impact its operational effectiveness. There are no current plans to publish this data in the future.</p><p>Border Force transparency data can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/border-force-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/border-force-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 07/02/2019 12:17:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1052254

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Slavery
	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 23 January 2019 to Question 211929, what steps his Department is taking to contact people affected who will have received a final stage National Referral Mechanism conclusive grounds decision and whose support will have ended.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	215249
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Government is making every effort to pay back everyone affected by the contract changes in March 2018. We recognise that some individuals will have left government funded services and integrated into communities in the UK and overseas and so may be harder for government to contact than others that are still in support services.</p><p>On 24 January 2019, personalised letters were sent out to all those we identified as being affected and eligible for repayments. For those still in support, the letters detailed how much and how they will be paid. For those who have left support, the letters explained how to apply for these payments.</p><p>If an individual believes they are eligible but did not receive a letter, they can complete an application form on gov.uk. There is no closing date for when people can apply for back payments if they think they are eligible. Further information is available on gov.uk (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-subsistence-rates-back-payment-victims-of-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-subsistence-rates-back-payment-victims-of-modern-slavery</a>).</p><p>We are working with stakeholders to raise awareness of the gov.uk page and the letters that were sent out to those identified.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/02/2019 13:37:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1052269

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Kent
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of suspected migrant crossings by boat to Kent in (a) October, (b) November, (c) December and (d) January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	215149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>During 2018, over 500 migrants - mostly Iranian - attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels. 80% of them attempted this in the last three months of the year. Around 40% of the attempts last year were either disrupted by French law enforcement or returned to France via French agencies.</p><p>Border Force and operational partners are carrying out intelligence-led activity on a number of fronts to prevent migrants from entering the UK via clandestine and illegal means. We are also working very closely with our colleagues in France to prevent migrants from making these dangerous crossings.</p><p>Through these efforts, we reduced the number of individuals attempting the crossing from around 250 in December to 90 in January.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215150 215151 215152 215153 215154 question first answered 07/02/2019 14:01:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1052271

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Kent
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspected migrants attempting to enter Kent by small boat were intercepted in (a) October, (b) November 2018 (c) December 2018 and (d) January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	215150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>During 2018, over 500 migrants - mostly Iranian - attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels. 80% of them attempted this in the last three months of the year. Around 40% of the attempts last year were either disrupted by French law enforcement or returned to France via French agencies.</p><p>Border Force and operational partners are carrying out intelligence-led activity on a number of fronts to prevent migrants from entering the UK via clandestine and illegal means. We are also working very closely with our colleagues in France to prevent migrants from making these dangerous crossings.</p><p>Through these efforts, we reduced the number of individuals attempting the crossing from around 250 in December to 90 in January.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215149 215151 215152 215153 215154 question first answered 07/02/2019 14:01:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke