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817977

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date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to tackle county lines exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	903125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>We are taking a wide range of actions to tackle county lines and are working together closely across Government, with the police, the National Crime Agency, local authorities and voluntary sector partners. Most recently, in December we implemented the new Drug Dealing Telecommunications Restriction Orders to enable the police and NCA to close down phone numbers being used for county lines drugs dealing.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/01/2018 16:21:58 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

818014

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What guidance and support her Department is providing to EU citizens on registering for settled status before the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	903117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>There will be a streamlined and digital process for EU citizens applying for settled status, that minimises the administrative burden and helps to ensure swift and successful applications. My Department is engaging frequently with representatives of EU citizens in the UK, so we can design a system that best addresses their needs. This includes guidance for the new scheme, which is being developed and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 08/01/2018 16:47:55 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

818015

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to support refugees living in different regions of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	903119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to supporting refugees to integrate and rebuild their lives in the UK. This is why they are given the same access to the labour market and benefits as UK residents, as well as access to English language training. The most vulnerable refugees who arrive under one of our resettlement programmes also receive a comprehensive package of support.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/01/2018 16:49:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

818016

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Direct Selling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to tackle doorstep crime.
tabling member constituency	Witney
tabling member printed	Robert Courts
uin	903120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government set up the Joint Fraud Taskforce through which police, banks and trading standards work together to help protect vulnerable people from the fraudulent approaches made by doorstep criminals. The Banking Protocol, which helps bank staff recognise signs of fraud, such as unusually high cash withdrawals, has stopped over £9 million pounds from getting into criminal hands and led to over 100 arrests.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 08/01/2018 16:50:10 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

818017

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	How many applications for leave to remain are under consideration by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	903121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>At the end of September 2017, at the time of our last published data, 86,219 applications for limited leave to remain were under consideration by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 08/01/2018 16:52:17 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

818566

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many incoming transfers under the Dublin III Regulation (regulation 604/2013) were made to the UK in 2017; and how many times the discretion under Article 18(1) of the Regulation was used in 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The discretionary clauses under the Dublin III Regulation can be found at Article 17 of the Regulation, with Article 17(2) being the relevant criteria for coming transfer requests</p><p>The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims. It is not an application route for transfer to the UK. At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which can be found at:<br><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_quarterly_report" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_quarterly_report</a>. <br>The Commission has data up to, and including 2016. This shows the UK processed over 6,000 Dublin requests in 2016: over 4,200 outgoing requests to other Member States and almost 1,800 incoming requests. 2017 data is not yet available. <br>Under the Dublin III Regulation, Member States have two months from receiving a request from another participating Member State to accept or reject responsibility for processing the asylum claim. <br>Once a Dublin request has been accepted (or legal matters have been resolved), the Regulation provides that the sending Member State has six months to enact the transfer. The Home Office works closely with EU Member State partners to enact transfers as soon as possible and ahead of the six month timeframe.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/01/2018 14:30:44 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818567

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prostitution
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 5 January (HL4302) concerning offences relating to prostitution, (1) whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the terms of reference for the research that has been commissioned by the Home Office; and (2) who has been commissioned to conduct that research.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government will place a copy of the tender document which sets out the terms of reference for this research in the Library of the House. <br>The research tender process will close on 15 January, after which time bids will be assessed and the successful applicant announced by the end of March 2018.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 15/01/2018 12:33:57 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818577

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Lead: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many incidents of the theft of lead from church roofs were reported in each of the past five years; what was the weight of the lead stolen in each of those years; and how many successful prosecutions for such theft there were in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL4454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects data on police recorded metal thefts, but it is not possible from these data to identify whether the metal was taken from a church, nor the weight of the stolen metal</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes police recorded crime data on metal theft annually within their property crime tables. The latest figures, for the year ending March 2017, can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables</a></p><p><br>Prosecutions data are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 15/01/2018 12:30:55 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

818604

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many immigration detention estate Independent Monitoring Board reports for 2016 they responded to; and when they intend to respond to the rest of those reports.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL4481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government has responded to the Brook House immigration removal centre and the Cedars pre-departure accommodation Independent Monitoring Board annual reports for 2016.</p><p>My hon. Friend the Minister of State for Immigration will review the remaining Independent Monitoring Board reports for the immigration detention estate and respond in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/01/2018 14:18:45 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

818616

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of detention for adult asylum seekers in the UK in 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Ramsbotham
uin	HL4493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on the length of detention of people leaving detention is available in tables dt_06_q and dt_09_q of the detention tables in the latest releases of ‘Immigration Statistics, July to September 2017’, available from the Home Office website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662536/detention-jul-sep-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662536/detention-jul-sep-2017-tables.ods</a>.</p><p>The table includes a breakdown of adults and child detainees who have previously claimed asylum at some stage. However, we cannot identify those minors which were unaccompanied. Figures for Q4 2017 will be released on 22 February 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>People leaving detention by length of detention, January to September 2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Length of detention</p></td><td><p><strong>Total Detainees</strong></p></td><td><p>Of which: Adult asylum detainees</p></td><td><p>Child asylum detainees</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>*Total</p></td><td><p><strong>20,730</strong></p></td><td><p>10,222</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A: 3 days or less</p></td><td><p><strong>5,514</strong></p></td><td><p>2,044</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>B: 4 to 7 days</p></td><td><p><strong>1,483</strong></p></td><td><p>855</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>C: 8 to 14 days</p></td><td><p><strong>2,604</strong></p></td><td><p>1,086</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>D: 15 to 28 days</p></td><td><p><strong>3,619</strong></p></td><td><p>1,550</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>E: 29 days to less than 2 months</p></td><td><p><strong>3,494</strong></p></td><td><p>1,875</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F: 2 months to less than 3 months</p></td><td><p><strong>1,566</strong></p></td><td><p>978</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G: 3 months to less than 4 months</p></td><td><p><strong>794</strong></p></td><td><p>546</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>H: 4 months to less than 6 months</p></td><td><p><strong>813</strong></p></td><td><p>631</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>I: 6 months to less than 12 months</p></td><td><p><strong>680</strong></p></td><td><p>536</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>J: 12 months to less than 18 months</p></td><td><p><strong>100</strong></p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>K: 18 months to less than 24 months</p></td><td><p><strong>41</strong></p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>L: 24 months to less than 36 months</p></td><td><p><strong>20</strong></p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M: 36 months to less than 48 months</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>N: 48 months or more</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Figures are provisional.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Asylum detainees: People detained solely under Immigration Act powers</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>who are recorded as having sought asylum at some stage.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The median length of detention for adults, who had claimed asylum at some point, between January and September 2017, was between 15 and 28 days. There are a small number of detainees who have been detained for long periods of time, which would skew the mean value. The median is therefore the most suitable average for these data.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL4494 HL4495 question first answered 16/01/2018 14:57:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3744 label Biography information for Lord Ramsbotham