Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label attachment file name title previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

449301

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Emergency Services: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure no shortfalls occur in future in the pensions of firefighters and police officers.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	John Pugh
uin	24996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>On 1 April 2015, in line with wider public service pension reform, new career average pension arrangements were introduced for police officers and firefighters. These changes have put pension arrangements on a sustainable footing for the future, setting a fair balance of costs between public servants and other taxpayers, while continuing to provide good pensions for police officers and firefighters which reflect their roles.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 04/02/2016 16:03:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

449383

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Iran and Pakistan: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information she holds on the number of drug traffickers who have been sentenced to death in (a) Iran and (b) Pakistan following conviction resulting from counter-narcotics activities supported by the UK in those countries.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	25121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government provides counter-narcotics assistance to a range of international partners, including Pakistan. The Government does not provide counter-narcotics assistance to Iran. There is no evidence to suggest that any drug traffickers have been sentenced to death in Pakistan where the conviction has resulted from counter-narcotics activities supported by the UK government.</p><p>All our work is the subject of comprehensive and ongoing assessments of human rights risks, in line with Overseas Security &amp; Justice Assistance (OSJA) guidance. This helps ensure that counter-narcotics assistance provided to countries which retain the death penalty is congruent with UK human rights principles. The Government strongly opposes the use of the death penalty in all circumstances. UK Ministers have and will continue to urge countries, including Iran and Pakistan, to repeal the death penalty and take action to ensure human rights are safeguarded.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/02/2016 15:59:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

449384

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the correlation between smuggling rings which bring people into the EU and human trafficking gangs which exploit migrants for sex and slavery.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	25211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>Organised crime groups are known to be involved in smuggling and trafficking operations, and in some cases both. We are working closely with operational partners including the National Crime Agency, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement, as well as partners across Europe and Africa, to develop the intelligence picture on both of these crime types.We will continue to monitor the development of links between these two crime types.</p><p>We are working with partners across Europe and Africa, including through the Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce to identify and disrupt organised crime groups facilitating irregular migration in source and transit countries.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/02/2016 15:07:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

449452

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Harassment: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department works with other governments to tackle internet harassment and trolling perpetrated by residents of other countries on UK citizens.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	25116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>Legislation is in place to deal with internet trolls, cyber-stalking and harassment, and perpetrators of grossly offensive, obscene or menacing behaviour.</p><p>The Criminal Justice Act 2015, strengthened legislation in respect of two communications offences which can be used to prosecute misuse of social media: section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, and section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. These amendments provide the police with additional time to investigate these offences, and increasing the maximum penalty for the former to two years imprisonment. We are continuing to invest in law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional and local levels to ensure delivery agencies have the capacity to deal with the increasing volume and sophistication of online crime. We have boosted the capabilities of the National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), which has led and will continue to lead operations to disrupt serious cyber crime at scale, both domestically and internationally. This includes joint operations with industry and international law enforcement partners globally, to disrupt cyber criminals and protect UK citizens.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/02/2016 09:15:37 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43452 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

449453

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with spouses or partners who are UK citizens have been detained in immigration removal centres in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	25145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The data requested is not available centrally and is not routinely collected.</p><p>It could be provided only by examining individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/02/2016 16:23:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

449454

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former students have been arrested and detained for remaining in the UK beyond the term of their tier 4 student visa in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	25192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>In the time period 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2015, 2920 students are recorded on Home Office databases as having been arrested as Section 10 Overstayers. Of that number 2100 are flagged as having been detained.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/02/2016 16:26:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin

449455

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Overseas Students
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 the extension of a tier 4 student visa were declined in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	25032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The requested information is given in the table below:</p><p>Decisions on applications for an extension of stay : Tier 4 &amp; pre-PBS equivalent (main applicants)</p><p>Year Grants Refusals</p><p>2013 104,668 11,544</p><p>2014 68,231 11,486</p><p>Source: Immigration Statistics July - September 2015, Home Office, table ex_01</p><p>Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 25 February 2016.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476907/extensions-q3-2015-tabs.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476907/extensions-q3-2015-tabs.ods</a></p><p>Information on refusals of extensions of stay for Tier 4 students is published in Extensions table ex_01 in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics release.</p><p>The latest edition, is published in Extensions table ex_01 in the Home Office's Immigration Statistics: July to September 2015 is available from the Library of the House and on the GOV.UK statistics web pages at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/02/2016 16:40:46 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin

449457

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with spouses or partners with UK citizenship have (a) applied for, (b) been refused and (c) been granted indefinite leave to remain in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	24969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The available information is given in the tables below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Grants and refusals of settlement (indefinite leave to remain) to spouses/partners</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>on the basis of marriage to/a relationship with a British citizen or settled person</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>All Partners (spouses and partners: UK or settled persons)</strong></p></td><td><p><em>of which:</em></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Sponsor is a British Citizen (1)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Refusals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Refusals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p><strong>53,147</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,116</strong></p></td><td><p>46,572</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p><strong>41,684</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>534</strong></p></td><td><p>36,393</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p><strong>37,399</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>498</strong></p></td><td><p>32,741</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p><strong>50,498</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>774</strong></p></td><td><p>43,633</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p><strong>28,230</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>968</strong></p></td><td><p>24,042</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Source: <br></strong>Immigration Statistics July - September 2015, Home Office, table se_04 and subsets of data in se_02</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476908/settlement-q3-2015-tabs.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476908/settlement-q3-2015-tabs.ods</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Table notes</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>(1) excludes unmarried partners</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>:</strong> = Not available.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on applications and refusals for spouses or partners of UK citizens is not available and could only be produced at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records.</p><p>Corresponding data for calendar year 2015 is planned to be published on 25 August 2016.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/02/2016 15:54:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

449458

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with spouses or partners with UK citizenship have been refused entry to the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	24970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The available information is shown in the attached table.</p><p>Information on spouses or partners of UK citizens is not available as it is not held on centrally collated statistical databases and could only be produced at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.</p><p>The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, July - September 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/02/2016 15:05:55 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name Table - 24970, 24971 and 24972 (1).xlsx title Visa applications and resolutions table
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

449459

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with spouses or partners with UK citizenship have been granted a visa to enter the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	24971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The available information is shown in the table attached.</p><p>Information on spouses or partners of UK citizens is not available as it is not held on centrally collated statistical databases and could only be produced at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.</p><p>The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, July - September 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 04/02/2016 16:08:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name Table - 24970, 24971 and 24972.xlsx title Visa applications and resolutions
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan