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1181697

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the funding allocated to charitable organisations to support vulnerable EU citizens to apply for EU Settled Status will be continued beyond March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
uin	23399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The current grant funded organisations have had their funding extended until September 2020. In March, the Home Office announced a further £8 million would be made available to ensure funding for support organisations could continue through to March 2021. A new grant scheme has been launched and the bidding process started in May 2020.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/06/2020 16:04:45 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1181698

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps will be taken by UK Border Force to ascertain whether EU citizens entering the UK have settled status after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
uin	23400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>After the Transition Period EU citizens will not be routinely asked to prove they have been granted status under the EU Settlement scheme in order to re-enter the UK, but systems will be in place to allow border officials to make such checks where necessary.</p><p>Once the new points-based immigration system is fully introduced, Border Force will be able to identify those individuals granted status digitally without the need for the individual to provide evidence.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/06/2020 16:05:37 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1181700

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: 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 her Department's policy paper entitled Home Office immigration and nationality fees published on 20 February 2020, what recent assessment she has made of compliance of the fee for registering a child as a British citizen with the ruling in PRCBC and others v SSHD [2019] EWHC 3536 (Admin).
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	23402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>Although the judge ruled that there had not been proper consideration of the Government’s section 55 duties, the Immigration and Nationality Fees Regulations 2018 were not found to be unlawful.</p><p>We therefore continue to charge Child Registration fees as set out in the Fees Regulations. The court case remains on-going; the Home Office notes the Court’s judgment from the Admin Court and is considering its implications carefully, while awaiting the appeal hearing.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/03/2020 17:21:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1181743

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government has allocated to tackling female genital mutilation in each financial year since 2015; and how that funding was allocated.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	23441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>FGM is a crime and it is child abuse. The Government will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls. We significantly strengthened the law in 2015 in order to improve protection for victims and those at risk, and to break down the barriers to prosecution.</p><p>The table below comprises funding allocated by UK Government departments to tackle FGM since April 2015.  It excludes:</p><ul><li><p>staffing and other administrative costs;</p></li><li><p>grants which were made to organisations to tackle both FGM and other issues, where it is not possible to break down the money spent on FGM and on those other issues; and</p></li><li><p>components of broader funding provided to statutory agencies and office holders (namely the NHS and Police and Crime Commissioners) which those agencies and office holders chose to spend on FGM.</p></li></ul><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Financial years run from 1 April to 31 March.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total Domestic Government Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>£2,718,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>£1,664,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/2018</p></td><td><p>£1,918,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/2019</p></td><td><p>£1,814,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/2020</p></td><td><p>£432,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This funding comprised:</p><ul><li><p>Home Office expenditure on grants to four organisations for projects dealing solely with FGM as part of the Building a Stronger Britain Together Fund (2017/18-2019/20); and on a communications campaign to raise awareness of the risks of FGM (2017/18-2019/20).</p></li><li><p>Department for Education expenditure on grants to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) (2015/16); to Barnardo’s/National FGM Centre (2015/16-2019/20); and to two other voluntary sector organisations (2016/17-2017/18).</p></li><li><p>Department of Health and Social Care expenditure on the FGM Prevention Programme (2015/16-2017/18), as well as additional funding in 2018/19 to embed the improvements delivered by that programme across NHS services.</p></li><li><p>Funds allocated by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government to 37 local authority areas to fund locally-driven outreach, engagement and communications on the practice of FGM (2018/19).</p></li></ul><p>The Home Office also awarded £476,000 in grants to two projects dealing solely with FGM as part of the Violence Against Women and Girls Service Transformation fund. As these grants were awarded as a block encompassing three financial years, the figures cannot be broken down into financial years.</p><p>Information on the amount of funding provided by the Department for International Development (DfID) since 2015 is not available by financial year. DfID's spending by calendar year is outlined here: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-03-02/23440/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-03-02/23440/</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 14/07/2020 15:54:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1181769

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Right of Abode: British National (Overseas)
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the letter from Lord Goldsmith to the Home Secretary on 14 February which stated that the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration does not prevent the extension of full right of abode in the UK to those in Hong Kong who own a British National (Overseas) passport; and what response they intend to make to the reported request in that letter that "false statements" about the nature of his advice in relation to the rights of British National (Overseas) passports should be "retracted and not repeated".
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We have received Lord Goldsmith’s letter and we are considering our response. The UK takes seriously its support for BN(O)s and the rights that status confers upon them. We continue to believe that the best outcome for BN(O)s is for the high degree of autonomy and rights and freedoms set out in the Joint Declaration and provided for in the Basic Law to be upheld.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We have received Lord Goldsmith’s letter and we are considering our response. The UK takes seriously its support for BN(O)s and the rights that status confers upon them. We continue to believe that the best outcome for BN(O)s is for the high degree of autonomy and rights and freedoms set out in the Joint Declaration and provided for in the Basic Law to be upheld.</ins></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/03/2020 17:44:44 question first ministerially corrected 16/03/2020 17:58:42 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford previous answer version 12691 answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1181788

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Right of Abode: Hong Kong
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 17 February (HL1247), when they expect to complete their consideration of the right to abode requested by former Hong Kong Military Service Corps personnel which has been under assessment since January 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Craig of Radley
uin	HL2050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>Further to my response of 17 February, we continue to actively consider representations made on behalf of those former Hong Kong Military Service Corps who were unable to obtain citizenship through the selection scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/03/2020 16:35:00 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3385 label Biography information for Lord Craig of Radley

1181806

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were held in immigration detention in the UK at the start of each of the last five financial years; how many were compulsorily deported in each year; and what proportion of deportations were of (1) people at the end of court sentences, and (2) unsuccessful asylum claimants.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on people in detention in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of people in detention on the last day of each quarter are published in table Det_D02. Data on people leaving detention every quarter by reason for leaving (including whether they were returned from the UK) are published in Det_D03 of the Detailed Detention datasets.</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 December 2019. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the 'summary tables'. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on detention.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. Q1 2020 figures will be released on 21<sup>st</sup> May 2020.</p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the ‘returned from the UK’ category in the leaving detention by reason figures, refer to all enforced returns and voluntary departures.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 11/03/2020 17:37:44 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1181808

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many female genital mutilation protection orders were issued in (1) 2015, (2) 2016, (3) 2017, (4) 2018, and (5) 2019.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
uin	HL2070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>FGM is a crime and it is child abuse. The Government will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls. We significantly strengthened the law in 2015 in order to improve protection for victims and those at risk, and to break down the barriers to prosecution.</p><p>The first UK conviction for FGM took place on 1 February 2019 and the perpetrator was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The Home Office does not collate information on prosecutions centrally. Information on FGM prosecutions can be found in the Violence Against Women and Girls Reports, which are published annually by the Crown Prosecution Service.</p><p>We have not previously collected data on the number of FGM cases received under the mandatory reporting duty. However, to improve understanding of the prevalence of so called ‘honour-based’ abuse, including FGM, the Government amended the police Annual Data Requirement (ADR) to require police forces, from April 2019, to record where a crime has been committed in the context of preserving the ‘honour’ of a family or community. This new collection is also capturing police recorded offences of FGM which were initially reported to the police under the mandatory reporting duty. Subject to data quality checks, we expect the first dataset under this new mandatory ADR collection to be published by autumn 2020.</p><p>The Government will continue to keep the changes made in the Serious Crime Act 2015 under review in order to ensure that they are working effectively.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly statistics on the number of FGM Protection Orders (FGMPOs) issued by the family courts in England and Wales, which can be found via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p><p>The figures from 2015-2019 are set out in the table below. To note that FGMPOs were introduced in July 2015 and the figures for 2019 cover the period up to 30 September 2019. Figures for the final three months of 2019 will be published in due course.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>489</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/03/2020 16:37:24 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

1181809

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many reports of cases of female genital mutilation, or suspected female genital mutilation, they have received under the mandatory reporting for under-18s duty in the Serious Crime Act 2015 since that Act received Royal Assent.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
uin	HL2071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>FGM is a crime and it is child abuse. The Government will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls. We significantly strengthened the law in 2015 in order to improve protection for victims and those at risk, and to break down the barriers to prosecution.</p><p>The first UK conviction for FGM took place on 1 February 2019 and the perpetrator was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The Home Office does not collate information on prosecutions centrally. Information on FGM prosecutions can be found in the Violence Against Women and Girls Reports, which are published annually by the Crown Prosecution Service.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2072 HL2073 HL2074 question first answered 16/03/2020 17:44:26 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

1181810

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation for under 18s duty.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
uin	HL2072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>FGM is a crime and it is child abuse. The Government will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls. We significantly strengthened the law in 2015 in order to improve protection for victims and those at risk, and to break down the barriers to prosecution.</p><p>The first UK conviction for FGM took place on 1 February 2019 and the perpetrator was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The Home Office does not collate information on prosecutions centrally. Information on FGM prosecutions can be found in the Violence Against Women and Girls Reports, which are published annually by the Crown Prosecution Service.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2071 HL2073 HL2074 question first answered 16/03/2020 17:44:26 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington