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867483

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to amend the rules on refugee family reunion to include the extended definition of family in the Dublin III Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
uin	133458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK Immigration Rules have a comprehensive framework for refugees and their families to be safely reunited in the UK. Our family reunion policy allows immediate family members of those granted protection here to reunite with them. The Immigration Rules also provide for relatives with protection in the UK to sponsor children in serious and compelling circumstances. The Mandate resettlement scheme also allows those recognised by the UNCHR as refugees to join close family members here in the UK.</p><p>In addition, there is provision in the policy to grant visas outside the Rules in exceptional circumstances, which caters for extended family members who otherwise do not qualify under the Rules.</p><p>We do not believe there are unnecessary barriers to family reunion for refugees. Over the last five years there have been 24,700 family reunion visas issued –and this is in addition to the numbers granted asylum here or resettled here under our resettlement schemes.</p><p>We are listening carefully to concerns raised on this issue by Non-Governmental Organisations and others. We are currently reviewing our approach to family reunion as part of the Government’s wider asylum and resettlement policy strategy. We will be following the passage of the Family Reunion Family Member’s Bill closely and will continue our productive discussions in this area.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/03/2018 11:54:22 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

866989

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fascism
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 findings of the recent report by Hope Not Hate, The state of hate 2018, what steps her Department plans to take to tackle neo-Nazism in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	133107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of extremism and terrorism, whether Islamist or far and extreme right-wing.</p><p>In December 2016, the neo-Nazi group National Action became the first extreme right-wing group to be proscribed. Additionally, our latest published statistics showed that around a quarter of all those who received support through Channel were referred because of far right concerns. Channel is a voluntary and confidential programme which supports individuals who are vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism.</p><p>Through the 2016 Hate Crime Action Plan the Government has funded additional security measures in 129 places of worship, including places targeted by far and extreme right-wing extremists. The Action Plan will be refreshed later in 2018. The Government has also created a network of 160 civil society partners that are confronting extremism in their communities and is supporting Local Authorities to tackle far and extreme right-wing extremism.</p><p>The Government’s new Commission for Countering Extremism has been given a clear remit to identify and challenge extremism in all its forms.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/03/2018 17:23:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

867028

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Psychiatry
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 make it her policy to include child and adolescent psychiatrists to the Shortage Occupation List.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	133146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Rt Hon Gentleman to the answer that was given to a question from the Hon Member for Canterbury on 15 March, UIN 131857.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/03/2018 10:55:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

867051

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 16 March 2018 to Question 132219 on Home Office: Buildings, if she will publish the (a) area and (b) expenditure on property represented by the information provided in the table.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	133169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The information on what proportion of the Home Office estate is (a) rented, (b) owned and (c) occupied through any other type of agreement by area is provided in the table below.</p><p>Table: floor space in m<sup>2</sup></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Leasehold</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Freehold</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>PFI</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>MOTO</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>262,187</p></td><td><p>51.9</p></td><td><p>102,736</p></td><td><p>20.4</p></td><td><p>53,450</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td><td><p>31,856</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>54,478</p></td><td><p>10.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: The holding floor space given is the space held by the Home Office as the major occupier. It includes space where the Home Office acts as landlord to other Government Departments, private companies and individuals.</p><p>Information on what proportion of the Home Office estate is (a) rented, (b) owned and (c) occupied through any other type of agreement by expenditure cannot be provided without incurring a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/03/2018 16:49:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

867109

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers
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 make it her policy to provide Tier 2 visa cap exemptions for foreign nationals on (a) Government Shortage Occupation Lists and (b) working at PhD level roles in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	133227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>In July 2017, the Government commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to advise on the economic and social impacts of the UK’s exit from the European Union and also on how the UK’s immigration system should be aligned with a modern industrial strategy. The MAC’s call for evidence sought information on EU migrants’ skills, amongst other things, and this will be considered in their final report due in September 2018. Details can be found on the gov.uk website at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/call-for-evidence-and-briefing-note-eea-workers-in-the-uk-labour-market" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/call-for-evidence-and-briefing-note-eea-workers-in-the-uk-labour-market</a>.</p><p>The Government will take account of the MAC’s advice when making any final decisions about our future immigration system for EU nationals.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/03/2018 10:57:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

867140

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will introduce retrospective changes to the law, to allow people who were born outside the UK before 1 January 1983 to a British parent, to inherit their parent's UK citizenship.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	133258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>A person who is of the first generation born outside the United Kingdom to a British citizen would usually be a British citizen by descent, including where they were born before 1 January 1983, with a few exceptions.</p><p>The 1981 Act also contains provision for children born outside the UK to British citizens by descent, who have retained a close connection to the UK to register as British citizens.</p><p>Since the British Nationality Act 1981 was introduced amendments have been made to allow children of unmarried British fathers and children of British mothers, who would have become British citizens had women been able to pass on their citizenship in the same way as men, to register as British citizens.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/03/2018 10:50:31 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

867177

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
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 help protect shop workers from (a) physical abuse, (b) threats and (c) intimidation.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	133295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>All acts of violence and abuse against retail staff are serious matters whenever and wherever they occur. All such incidents should be reported to the police and taken seriously, investigated and, where appropriate, the perpetrators taken through the courts and met with tough sentences.</p><p>We are working with the police and the retail sector to identify what more can be done to prevent and respond to violence and abuse against retail staff, as part of the work of the National Retail Crime Steering Group. The Steering Group is jointly chaired by the Home Office and the British Retail Consortium.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/03/2018 16:51:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

865116

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer 13 March 2018 to Question 131298 on Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre; of the 98 reports made by a medical practitioner under Rule 35 in Yarl's Wood during Q3 of 2017, how many caseworker reviews of the appropriateness of continued detention led to a detainee's release from detention.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	132983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001 sets out the process by which doctors in immigration removal centres must report to the Home Office cases in which they have concerns that:</p><ul><li>a detainee’s health is likely to be injuriously affected by detention (35(1));</li><li>a detainee is suspected of having suicidal intentions (35(2)); or</li><li>a detainee may have been the victim of torture (35(3)).</li></ul><p>On receipt of a Rule 35 report, the Home Office caseworker must review the appropriateness of the detainee’s continued detention in conjunction with consideration of the adults at risk in immigration detention policy.</p><p>The total number of releases from all Immigration Removal Centres (IRC) because of Rule 35 during Q3 2017 is 102 and is published as part of the Transparency publication under the category ‘Reports made by a medical practitioner under Rule 35 by place of detention’. This can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p><p>Management information indicates that of the 102 total releases in Q3 2017, 26 of these were from Yarl’s Wood IRC. This information has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics and as internal management information is subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/03/2018 13:00:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

865117

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2018 to Question 131300, how many of the 148 arrivals into the UK from Greece under the Dublin Regulation in Q4 of 2017 were children.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	132984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims.</p><p>The Home Office published comprehensive data on the number of transfers into the UK from other Dublin states as part of the most recent quarterly Immigration Statistics release on 22/02/2018. The relevant statistics can be found at as_22_q, asylum volume 5 at the following link:</p><p><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 published statistics are broken down by each article of the Regulation and it is Article 8 which outlines the criteria for the Member State responsible for examining the asylum claims for unaccompanied minors.</p><p>It is important to note that the full data set includes children transferred as dependent family members under other articles of the Regulation, however a breakdown of these families by age is not published.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/03/2018 13:04:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

865130

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Community Policing: Hounslow
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 community response police in Hounslow in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	132997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold centrally the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), including the primary role that these officers perform, by police force area. Data are not available at the borough level.</p><p>The latest data available on the number of police officers and PCSOs in the Metropolitan Police Service, and their primary role, as at 31 March 2017 can be found in the Tables F1 and F3 of the police workforce statistics published in July 2017: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629865/police-workforce-tabs-jul17.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629865/police-workforce-tabs-jul17.ods</a></p><p>Data as at 31 March 2015 and 31 March 2016 can be found in the Tables F4 (for police officers) and Tables F3 and F6 (for PCSOs) of the police workforce statistics published in July 2016: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544954/police-workforce-tabs-jul16.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544954/police-workforce-tabs-jul16.ods</a></p><p>Previous data were collected under a different framework, with different definitions, and are therefore not directly comparable with data as at 31 March 2015 or 2016. Data have been published since 2012, and can be found in the supplementary data tables of the relevant police workforce publications via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p>Officers and PCSOs with multiple responsibilities or designations are recorded under their primary function. The data do not therefore provide a complete picture of all officers assigned to neighbourhood policing functions.</p><p>Some forces are not able to make a clear distinction between ‘Neighbourhood Policing’ roles and ‘Incident (Response) Management’ roles, therefore those forces record the majority of, or all, employees under just one function. A more reliable measure is the number of officers employed in ‘Local policing’ roles, which includes both neighbourhood and response functions.</p><p>Any comparisons at force level should be made with care due to collaboration arrangements between forces for particular functions. Additionally, police functions data are often affected by re-structuring within police forces. Therefore comparisons over time for specific functions should be made with care.</p><p>Decisions on the size and composition of the police workforce are operational matters for Chief Officers working with their Police and Crime Commissioners and taking into account local priorities.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 23/03/2018 10:54:53 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra