Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

899929

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Horn of Africa: EU Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made under the EU–Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative to tackle irregular migration from the Horn of Africa.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL7592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Khartoum Process has made good progress to address people smuggling and human trafficking in the Horn of Africa. The UK chaired two thematic meetings in 2016 and 2017 and Egypt hosted a trilateral meeting (Khartoum/Rabat Processes and Horn of Africa Initiative) in November 2017 to understand progress to date; ongoing challenges and the solutions needed for a joined-up and concerted response.</p><p>The Khartoum Process has approved 147 programmes under its Better Migration Management (BMM) programme in this area and it also continues to implement the Regional Operation Centre of Khartoum (ROCK) which aims to improve cooperation and information sharing between law enforcement agencies to effectively disrupt the people smuggling and trafficking rings exploiting migrants. The 2018 Italian Chairmanship will build upon these efforts with further thematic and training workshops alongside a review of thematic conclusions to ensure tangible future delivery. There will also be a Joint Senior Officials Meeting in November to assess the progress made under the Joint Valletta Action Plan.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/05/2018 11:03:42 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

899945

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cloud services contracts that were previously delivered by British cloud services providers for the Home Office are now delivered by multinational cloud service providers; what is the value of those contracts; and what are the names of the previous providers.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL7608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>It is difficult to accurately compare cloud service contracts previously held with British Companies to the hosting arrangements the Home Office currently has with multi-national cloud companies, as the services in question are not precisely like-for-like. At present, the Home Office has a number of cloud services contracts with different providers ranging from multi-nationals to British owned companies such as UK Cloud.</p><p>The Home Office process for selecting appropriate cloud service providers is closely aligned to the wider Government Cloud Strategy and a rigorous competitive commercial process is followed when awarding such contracts, layered with a rigorous technical decision process on aligning cloud service providers to various programmes and projects.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/05/2018 14:41:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

899959

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police and Crime Panels
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 2 May (HL7063), whether they have any responsibilities relating to the performance of Police and Crime Panels; and if not, to whom Police and Crime Panels are accountable.
tabling member printed	Lord Laming
uin	HL7622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>Police and Crime Panels (PCPs) have the appropriate powers, as set out in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, to scrutinise the actions and decisions of elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and enable the public to hold them to account.</p><p>The Home Office provides grant funding to support PCPs in discharging their statutory functions, as set out in the Act, ensuring effective scrutiny of PCCs.</p><p>However, as PCPs are local bodies, modelled on local authority scrutiny committees, the Government does not have direct responsibility for their performance. PCPs are accountable to the constituent local authorities within their PCC’s force area which nominate members to the Panel.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/05/2018 16:08:41 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming

899966

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the UK registration system for EU citizens resident in the UK will be promoted through a comprehensive advertising campaign, including on TV.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL7629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>It is vital that the over three million non-UK EU citizens and their family members living in the UK understand how and when to apply under the settlement scheme. That is why the Home Office has already launched a national ‘stay informed’ awareness campaign to set out EU citizens’ rights after the UK leaves the EU and to point towards reliable sources of information, including official emails from the government.</p><p>Further comprehensive communications activity is planned in line with the roll-out of the settlement scheme later this year, including a multi-channel advertising campaign tailored to reach EU citizens. In addition, we have a well-established programme of stakeholder engagement, including businesses and EU citizens’ representatives.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/05/2018 16:07:59 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

900018

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Social Media: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department is taking steps to monitor and regulate dating sites to prevent the exploitation of under-age people.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	141785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>Children using adult dating sites face serious risk from those who are seeking to exploit them, and anyone using these platforms to communicate sexually with someone under the age of 16 is committing a crime.</p><p>As set out in the Internet Safety Strategy, the Government would like to work with adult dating companies to review processes and procedures, and to develop new protective messaging to help their user community prevent young people being put at unnecessary risk, and to ensure they remain in line with the law. We will consider whether there is a stronger role for companies to act to protect young people, including by terminating accounts belonging to young people.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/05/2018 14:54:48 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

900047

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2018 to Question 129973 on Slavery, how many people issued with positive conclusive grounds decisions (a) received a holding letter confirming a determination is on hold, (b) continue to be supported by the adult victim care contract and (c) had support from the adult victim care contract suspended since his Department published its interim guidance.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	141698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Court of Appeal issued a judgment in the case of (PK (Ghana) v SSHD) on 13 February 2018. We are considering the implications of the judgment.</p><p>As we do so, interim guidance has been issued to caseworkers to put on hold any refusals of discretionary leave to remain (DL) decisions for confirmed victims of modern slavery. Grants of discretionary leave are continuing. This guidance is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/interim-operation-guidance-discretionary-leave-for-victims-of-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/interim-operation-guidance-discretionary-leave-for-victims-of-modern-slavery</a></p><p>In line with standard practice, support providers under the Victim Care Contract can seek an extension of support for confirmed victims who are awaiting a discretionary leave decision.</p><p>We are not aware of any individuals in support whose DL decision is on hold where continuing support has not been requested by the support provider.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish data on how many such determinations are on hold.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/05/2018 17:29:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

900057

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the conclusion of the review of the use and retention of custody images.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	141889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Review of the Use and Retention of Custody Images’ was published in February 2017, and can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/custody-images-review-of-their-use-and-retention" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/custody-images-review-of-their-use-and-retention</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 11/05/2018 11:44:42 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

900076

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Scotland
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 in-person appointments at the Further Submissions Unit in Liverpool that have been offered to asylum applicants living in Scotland in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	141884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested on the estimated number of in-person appointments at the Further Submissions Unit in Liverpool, that have been offered to asylum applicants living in Scotland in each year, is not available in the format requested and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Home Office implemented a new policy on 30 March 2015, requiring all individuals who have been refused asylum, who have exhausted their appeal rights and have been found not to be in need of protection by the courts, to make an asylum further submission in person. All individuals who have been refused asylum who wish to submit further submissions on asylum or human rights grounds are required to telephone the Home Office’s Further Submissions Unit and book an appointment to submit their submissions in person in Liverpool.</p><p>The current Home Office policy is that further submissions must be submitted in person in Liverpool, but arrangements will be kept under review.</p><p>When scheduling an appointment at the Further Submissions Unit, account is taken of an individual’s location and distance of travel to Liverpool. For those individuals who may have to travel, an appointment will be offered later in the day to reduce any financial implications. Additionally, appointments are scheduled in advanced allowing for the most cost effective form of travel to be booked.</p><p>In exceptional circumstances, for example due to a disability or severe illness, further submissions from failed asylum seekers may be accepted either through local arrangements or by post, providing that supporting evidence is submitted, as specified within the published further submissions policy which can be accessed at the following:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502334/Further_Submissions_API_v9_0_EXT.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502334/Further_Submissions_API_v9_0_EXT.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 141885 141886 question first answered 11/05/2018 11:59:28 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

900079

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Caribbean
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Caribbean-born foreign nationals aged (a) 46 or above, (b) 50 or above, (c) 60 or above and (d) 70 or above have served or are currently serving custodial sentences; how many of those sentences relate to (i) illegal working, (ii) working without papers proving their right to work, and (iii) false papers or fraudulent papers; how many of those people have been or are currently being held in immigration removal centres prior to removal; and how many have been deported to Caribbean countries in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	141675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The MoJ routinely publish data of the nationalities of time serving individuals:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/702300/population-31-march-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/702300/population-31-march-2018.ods</a></p><p>The Home Office routinely publish data which gives a breakdown by nationality of detained foreign nationals: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a></p><p>The Home Office routinely publishes migration statistics data which gives a breakdown by nationality of all removals: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683361/returns2-oct-dec-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683361/returns2-oct-dec-2017-tables.ods</a></p><p>Providing the remainder of the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/05/2018 16:06:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

900084

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	EU Immigration: Horn of Africa
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 progress on the EU-Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative to tackle irregular migration.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	141891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Khartoum Process has made good progress to address people smuggling and human trafficking in the Horn of Africa. The UK chaired two thematic meetings in 2016 and 2017 and Egypt hosted a trilateral meeting (Khartoum/Rabat Processes and Horn of Africa Initiative) in November 2017 to understand: progress to date; ongoing challenges; and the solutions needed for a joined-up and concerted response.</p><p>The Khartoum Process has approved 147 programmes under its Better Migration Management (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMM" target="_blank">BMM</a>) programme and it also continues to implement the Regional Operation Centre of Khartoum (ROCK) which aims to improve cooperation and information sharing between law enforcement agencies to disrupt the people smuggling and trafficking rings exploiting migrants. The 2018 Italian Chairmanship will build upon these efforts with further thematic and training workshops alongside a review of thematic conclusions to ensure tangible future delivery. There will also be a Joint Senior Officials Meeting in November to assess the progress made under the Joint Valletta Action Plan.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/05/2018 16:34:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel