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1172523

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on progressing the Government's plans for the Domestic Abuse Bill.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	6709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The landmark Domestic Abuse Bill was announced alongside the Queen’s Speech on 19 December 2019.</p><p>Subject to parliamentary approval, we are fully committed to enacting this landmark legislation at the earliest opportunity and implementing it quickly. I am in regular discussion with my ministerial colleagues to this end.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/01/2020 16:52:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1172543

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gambling: Crime
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 the 28 December 2019 NHS England news story on gambling, whether she has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on (a) the cost to the public purse in policing the increase in cases of pathological gambling whereby people tum to crime to fund their addiction and (b) the revenue accruing to the public purse from taxes on gambling.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	6728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 30/01/2020 17:47:13 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1172548

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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 (a) identify and (b) support police officers with post-traumatic stress disorder.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers. This includes £7.5 million to fund the development of the National Police Wellbeing Service, which was launched in April 2019.</p><p>The NPWS has developed evidence-based guidance, advice, tools and resources which can be accessed by forces, as well as individual officers and staff. There is an emphasis on prevention, for example by helping forces to identify mental health issues early through psychological screening, helping officers to access support earlier. This helps Chief Constables in their duty to ensure the wellbeing of all officers and staff, which includes supporting officers with specific welfare needs by signposting to relevant services and additional support.</p><p>We have also set out a vision for a new Police Covenant, recognising the bravery and commitment of officers who work night and day to keep us safe. We plan to focus on physical protection for officers, their health and wellbeing and support for their families.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/02/2020 13:30:32 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172572

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Iraq
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people from the Kurdistan Region in Iraq were refused an entry visa to the UK in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	6653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the information requested. Available information on entry clearance visa applications can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019</a>.</p><p>Our commercial partner, TLS Contact, operates the User Pay application point in Erbil which operates five days a week (Sundays to Thursdays) between 0900 and 1600 and offers 42 appointment slots each day. The operating frequency of our outsourced operations are dictated by demand.</p><p>The UK keeps its visa system under regular review. Decisions on changes are always taken in the round and reflect key facets of the bilateral relationship with the country concerned. These will vary globally, but often include security, compliance, returns, reciprocal arrangements for UK nationals, logistics and prosperity.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 6654 question first answered 03/02/2020 17:42:02 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1172573

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Iraq
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to improve the visa application system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	6654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the information requested. Available information on entry clearance visa applications can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019</a>.</p><p>Our commercial partner, TLS Contact, operates the User Pay application point in Erbil which operates five days a week (Sundays to Thursdays) between 0900 and 1600 and offers 42 appointment slots each day. The operating frequency of our outsourced operations are dictated by demand.</p><p>The UK keeps its visa system under regular review. Decisions on changes are always taken in the round and reflect key facets of the bilateral relationship with the country concerned. These will vary globally, but often include security, compliance, returns, reciprocal arrangements for UK nationals, logistics and prosperity.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 6653 question first answered 03/02/2020 17:42:02 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1172581

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Children
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 the Answer of 5 November 2019 to Question 8260, when the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship scheme will be rolled out nationally.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	6690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Independent Child Trafficking Guardians (ICTGs) are currently operational in one third of all local authorities in England and Wales.</p><p>Ongoing considerations are underway into the recommendations made by the Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 relating to the wider roll out of this service. The Government remains committed to the national roll out of ICTGs.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/01/2020 16:33:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1172670

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
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 appoint a new Independent Reviewer of Prevent.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	6768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The Prevent review will go ahead and we are currently considering the next steps. We will make further announcements about its progress, including appointing a new reviewer, as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 6769 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:55:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1172672

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has been made on ensuring that the job of the independent Reviewer of Prevent is publicly advertised; and (a) where and (b) when that advertisement will be published.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	6769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The Prevent review will go ahead and we are currently considering the next steps. We will make further announcements about its progress, including appointing a new reviewer, as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 6768 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:55:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1172688

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: 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 her policy is on providing a legal entitlement for citizens of Northern Ireland to be recognised as (a) Irish, (b) British and (c) both.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	6775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement sets out the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose, and confirms their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship.</p><p>In line with this commitment, the people of Northern Ireland are legally able to hold British, or Irish citizenship or both.</p><p>The reciprocal Common Travel Area arrangements between the UK and Ireland ensure that the people of Northern Ireland are not required to choose and assert an identity, or to align their citizenship with their choice of identity, in order to access public services and other entitlements in the UK.</p><p>The Home Office intends to change the UK’s Immigration Rules so that family members of the people of Northern Ireland can apply for immigration status on broadly the same terms as family members of Irish citizens and will open the route as soon as delivery allows. This will enable the people of Northern Ireland to bring their family members to the UK on an equal basis regardless of whether they are British, Irish or both, and regardless of how they identify.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/01/2020 16:57:24 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1172727

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Repatriation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many voluntary removals were performed in each of the last five years; and how many of those voluntary removals were classified as (a) assisted returns, (b) controlled returns and (c) other verified returns.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	6800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. <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>Data on the number of voluntary returns, including type of voluntary return, are published in table Ret_D01 of the returns detailed datasets . <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets</a></p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2019. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the 'summary tables'. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2019#returns" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-september-2019#returns</a></p><p>The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=release-date-oldest" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=release-date-oldest</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 30/01/2020 16:27:26 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan