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1061050

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
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 12 February 2019 to Question number 217557 on undocumented migrants, what estimate he has made of the number of migrants entering the UK illegally in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	221669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Border Force do not routinely publish this level of data on clandestines, as this could compromise immigration controls and impact on national security.</p><p>I refer the Rt. Hon member for Dover to the answer of 12 February which states:</p><p>The Home Office works closely with partners in the UK and overseas to strike people smuggling at source – identifying and dismantling the organ-ised crime groups that facilitate illegal immigration. Additionally, the UK works abroad to reduce factors that may push or force people to attempt such journeys - through creating jobs, tackling modern slavery, providing education and delivering life-saving humanitarian assistance in response to conflicts and natural disasters.</p><p>In November a new UK-France Coordination and Information Centre opened in Calais to strengthen our joint efforts to tackle all kinds of crimi-nality at the border. Border Force is working alongside Police Aux Fron-tieres as part of a 24/7 operation to help prevent illegal attempts to cross the shared border and exchange intelligence between UK and French agencies to combat cross-border criminality.</p><p>Despite our successes in preventing attempts to enter the UK illegally, we are not complacent. We will continue to work closely with our French coun-terparts to maintain border security and keep legitimate passengers and trade moving.</p><p>At juxtaposed controls and ports around the country, Border Force officers use some of the most advanced detection technology available to find and stop migrants attempting to reach the UK illegally.</p><p>We have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security, with all freight vehicles entering the UK screened for people being smuggled into the UK using a range of techniques, which include using carbon dioxide detectors and motion sensors as well as sniff-er dogs to detect clandestine on board lorries.</p><p>We have taken steps to address the possibility that there may be a dis-placement of clandestine migrant activity towards smaller and less fre-quented ports, as enhanced controls at the juxtaposed ports have become increasingly effective.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 16:04:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1061051

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
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 12 February 2019 to Question 217557 on undocumented migrants, what proportion of freight vehicles are screened for people being smuggled into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	221670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Honourable member for Dover to the answer of 12 February which states:<br>We have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security, with all freight vehicles entering the UK screened using a range of techniques, which include using carbon dioxide detectors and motion sensors as well as sniffer dogs to detect clandestine on board lorries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 16:01:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1060819

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking and Immigration: Port of Dover
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 12 February 2019 to Question 217562 on Home Office Spending, what page of Home Office annual report and accounts: 2010 to 2011 contains the information requested in that Question.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	220861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not routinely publish breakdowns of operational departmental spending. The information we do publish can be found in Chapter Five of the Departmental Core Data Tables 2010-11 and 2011-12, in the Annex to the Departmental Core Data Tables 2013-14 and 2014-15 and the Parliamentary Accountability and Audit Report and the Financial Statements sections of 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 220862 220863 220864 220865 220866 220867 220868 220874 question first answered 19/02/2019 16:10:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1060820

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking and Immigration: Port of Dover
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 12 February 2019 to Question 217563 on Home Office Spending, what page of Home Office annual report and accounts: 2011 to 2012 contains the information requested in that Question.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	220862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not routinely publish breakdowns of operational departmental spending. The information we do publish can be found in Chapter Five of the Departmental Core Data Tables 2010-11 and 2011-12, in the Annex to the Departmental Core Data Tables 2013-14 and 2014-15 and the Parliamentary Accountability and Audit Report and the Financial Statements sections of 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 220861 220863 220864 220865 220866 220867 220868 220874 question first answered 19/02/2019 16:10:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1060821

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking and Immigration: Port of Dover
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 12 February 2019 to Question 217564 on Home Office Spending, what page of Home Office annual report and accounts: 2012 to 2013 contains the information requested in that Question.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	220863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not routinely publish breakdowns of operational departmental spending. The information we do publish can be found in Chapter Five of the Departmental Core Data Tables 2010-11 and 2011-12, in the Annex to the Departmental Core Data Tables 2013-14 and 2014-15 and the Parliamentary Accountability and Audit Report and the Financial Statements sections of 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 220861 220862 220864 220865 220866 220867 220868 220874 question first answered 19/02/2019 16:10:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1056999

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
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 6 February 2019 to Question 215158 on UK-France Migration Committee, what services were purchased with the £3.6 million of funding to support transfers of eligible children to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK and France enjoy a special relationship based on shared values and priorities, including promoting the rule of law, protecting the rights of individuals and ensuring the security of our citizens. In January 2018 both countries signed the Sandhurst Treaty, which included a funding package of £45.5 million to fund joint co-operation on all elements of tackling the impact of illegal migration in northern France.</p><p>Within this package, £3.6 million was specifically allocated to funding the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK, including training for those working with unaccompanied children, family tracing and targeted information campaigns. This full package of £3.6 million was paid to the French Government at the end of 2018. We continue to work with France to transfer eligible children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 and the Dublin regulation and transfers are ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/02/2019 15:48:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1057065

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to his Department (a) has been and (b) will be of Royal Navy assets patrolling the English Channel in relation to immigration.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The deployment of the Royal Navy vessel is an interim measure whilst the two Border Force cutters currently redeployed from overseas make their way back to UK waters.</p><p>As stated in the House of Lords by Baroness Williams on 6 February 2019 to date, it has cost a total of £700,000.</p><p>The deployment is being funded by the Home Office and will be kept under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/02/2019 16:36:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1057066

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
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: Patrol Craft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the names are of the two Border Force cutters that he has recalled from the Mediterranean and Aegean seas; what their current locations are; and on what date they will arrive in the English Channel.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>HMC Protector and HMC Seeker have been recalled to the English Channel.</p><p>All essential maintenance has been completed on the cutters and both are fully crewed. These vessels are designed and built to work around coastal areas rather than to undertake long distance open ocean deployments during adverse weather conditions.</p><p>For the crews to transit the Bay of Biscay during winter, especially during the current period of deep Atlantic pressures sweeping across and causing high swells (at times up to 14 metres), is a dangerous pursuit and one which must not be taken carelessly. The vessels therefore require a favourable weather window to return to the UK safely and securely.</p><p>The two cutters are expected to arrive in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/02/2019 16:39:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1057067

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
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: Patrol Craft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the daily operating cost is of a Border Force cutter (a) at sea and (b) in port.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>It is Home Office policy not to comment on details of the deployment of any operational capability or taskings, as to do so would or is likely to prejudice national security.</p><p>Please see below a Home Office publication link to transparency data from 2010 to financial year 2017/2018 on Home Office spending.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts</a></p><p><br>Border Force uses a layered approach to coastal defence, including patrols comprising additional military and law enforcement vessels, on-shore resources and intelligence and surveillance to detect efforts to smuggle guns and drugs or facilitate illegal entry into the country.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 218792 question first answered 18/02/2019 15:45:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1057068

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
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: Patrol Craft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the daily operating cost is of a Border Force patrol craft (a) at sea and (b) in port.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>It is Home Office policy not to comment on details of the deployment of any operational capability or taskings, as to do so would or is likely to prejudice national security.</p><p>Please see below a Home Office publication link to transparency data from 2010 to financial year 2017/2018 on Home Office spending.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts</a></p><p><br>Border Force uses a layered approach to coastal defence, including patrols comprising additional military and law enforcement vessels, on-shore resources and intelligence and surveillance to detect efforts to smuggle guns and drugs or facilitate illegal entry into the country.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 218791 question first answered 18/02/2019 15:45:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke