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777850

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
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 increase the number of refugee families reunited under the Mandate scheme.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	109687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>Since 2008, the Home Office have resettled over 380 refugees to the UK under the Mandate scheme.</p><p>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees can refer any case meeting the scheme’s criteria to the Home Office for consideration and there is no fixed annual quota.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/11/2017 09:50:55 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

777858

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
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 refugee family reunion rules on the capacity of refugees to integrate fully in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	109651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>We support the principle of family unity and recognise that reuniting refugees in the UK with their immediate family can help with the integration process by providing support to participate in the economic, social, cultural, civil and political life of this country.</p><p>Our family reunion policy has seen over 24,000 family reunion visas granted in the last five years.</p><p>Refugees and those who benefit from family reunion visas are entitled to broadly the same rights and benefits as British citizens, including access to the labour market and mainstream benefits to support their integration. Refugees are also able to apply for an integration loan.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/10/2017 16:46:36 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

777859

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for family reunion visas under part 11 of the Immigration Rules were granted outside of those rules in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	109652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The specific information you have requested is not currently published.</p><p>Published statistics on visa applications in the Family category can be found online at the following address: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638590/entry-visas1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638590/entry-visas1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/10/2017 16:44:00 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

758230

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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, how many of the refugee family reunion visas granted on the basis of exceptional compelling compassionate circumstances outside the immigration rules were under 18, for each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	9040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2017 answer text <p>The data is not recorded centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Published statistics on visa applications in the Family category can be found online at the following address: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638590/entry-visas1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638590/entry-visas1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 9041 question first answered 04/10/2017 13:47:49 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

758231

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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, how many refugee family reunion visas were granted to children, by country of origin, for each year for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	9041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2017 answer text <p>The data is not recorded centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Published statistics on visa applications in the Family category can be found online at the following address: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638590/entry-visas1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638590/entry-visas1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 9040 question first answered 04/10/2017 13:47:50 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

750778

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Republic of Ireland
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 Section 2(1) of the Ireland Act 1949, what the status of Irish citizens will be after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	4182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The close historic, social and cultural ties between the UK and Ireland have led to the creation of additional rights above those associated with common membership of the EU. The special status afforded to Irish citizens within the UK is rooted in the Ireland Act 1949 and, for the people of Northern Ireland, in the 1998 Belfast Agreement. As outlined in the UK Government policy paper released on 26 June, relating to the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, we want to protect the rights enjoyed by UK and Irish nationals when in the other State.</p><p>We remain committed to preserving the rights of Irish citizens within the UK.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 14/07/2017 13:51:08 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

658556

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Aerials: Na h-Eileanan an Iar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many emergency service network masts will be built in Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	57707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>In delivering the Emergency Services Network (ESN), the mobile network operator EE will deliver up to 291 new mast sites. Government will deliver approximately 230 further sites (known as the “Extended Area Services” (EAS) sites) in the most remote and rural areas of Great Britain.</p><p>Under the terms of the State Aid decision for ESN, any ESN site where EE offers a commercial service must be made available to the other UK mobile operators and interested parties to provide their own a service on an equal and non-discriminatory basis.</p><p>There are no potential EAS sites being considered in the constituency of Na h-Eileanan an Iar. There are currently up to 25 proposed new EE sites in the constituency. Delivery of these sites is subject to planning permission and the acquisition of land.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 19/12/2016 17:17:12 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

422683

registered interest
date	20/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Deportation
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 estimate the cost to the public purse of deporting people who moved to the UK planning to work in the Scottish fishing industry.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	12638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>Border Force has not deported anyone working in the Scottish Fishing Industry at public expense within the last 5 years.</p><p>Immigration Enforcement cannot estimate the cost of deporting people who moved to the UK to work in the Scottish fishing industry as to do so would involve a manual search of records which could only be conducted at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/10/2015 13:57:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

66137

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fisheries: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK Border Force has reached any understanding with individual Scottish fishing boats regarding the employment of members of their crew who are not citizens of EEA member states.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	204355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are no local understandings in place and any action is in line with the <br>Immigration Rules and Border Force Operating Mandate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/07/2014 12:31:01 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

62683

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family visas were granted (a) in each year since 2011 and (b) in the current year up to the latest available quarter for which figures are available; and what the (i) category of family visa and (ii) UK nation of residence of the sponsor of each such visa was.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	201341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The available information requested is given in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><em>Family entry clearance visas issued, by category.</em></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Visa Category</strong></td><td><strong>2011</strong></td><td><strong>2012</strong></td><td><strong>2013</strong></td><td><strong>Q1 2014 (Jan-Mar)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Family: Partner</td><td>33,496</td><td>30,411</td><td>23,557</td><td>6,825</td></tr><tr><td>Family: Child</td><td>97</td><td>85</td><td>73</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Family: Other</td><td>4,306</td><td>3,710</td><td>4,233</td><td>1,591</td></tr><tr><td>Family: Partner (for immediate settlement)</td><td>1,336</td><td>1,097</td><td>1,084</td><td>176</td></tr><tr><td>Family: Child (for immediate settlement)</td><td>4,596</td><td>4,001</td><td>3,844</td><td>726</td></tr><tr><td>Family: Other (for immediate settlement)</td><td>1,892</td><td>1,588</td><td>899</td><td>296</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total</strong></td><td><strong>45,723</strong></td><td><strong>40,892</strong></td><td><strong>33,690</strong></td><td><strong>9,630</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><em>Source: Immigration Statistics, January-March 2014, Before Entry Volume 2, table be_01_q</em></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on entry clearance visa grants <br>by category in table be_01_q (Before Entry tables volume 2) within the <br>‘Immigration Statistics' release. The numbers are broken down by nationality in <br>table be_06_q_f (Before Entry tables volume 4). It is not possible to <br>separately identify those granted visas under the old family rules and those <br>granted visas under new family rules implemented on 9 July 2012.<br><br>A copy of the latest release, ‘Immigration Statistics January - March 2014' is <br>available from the Library of the House and from: <br>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-stati<br>stics-quarterly-release. <br><br>The figures provided relate to family members issued visas in the family <br>immigration route. Statistics on the dependants of migrants issued visas in <br>other routes, such as the Points Based System, can be found within the <br>published data at the above link.<br><br>The information requested in part (ii) on the UK nation of residence of the <br>sponsor of each of the family visas of interest is not readily available and <br>could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Furthermore, not all sponsors <br>are based in the UK and not all individuals granted a visa in the family route <br>have a sponsor.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/06/2014 11:27:58 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil