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227980

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications for (1) entry, and (2) asylum, the United Kingdom has granted on grounds of religious persecution in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL5795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>There is no visa route available to apply to enter the UK on grounds of religious persecution, so no UK visas have been issued on these grounds. It is not possible to provide information regarding the number of people who have claimed asylum on the grounds of religious persecution, as information on the basis of a claim for asylum is not readily accessible.</p><p>The information requested in the noble Lord's question could only be obtained through a manual search of individual case files, which would only be achievable at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/03/2015 14:57:03 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

172697

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Poland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 16 December 2014 (HL3409), whether they will now publish the results of their specific consideration of the sustainability of levels of immigration from Poland to the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government regularly considers the impact of migration from the European Union and has published research on this issue. In July 2014 the Migration Advisory Committee published its report on the growth of EU and non-EU labour in low-skilled jobs and its impact on the UK. In the same month the Government’s Balance of Competences report on the Free Movement of Persons assessed the effects of EU migration on the labour market and its impact on local communities.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/01/2015 14:24:36 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

169097

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Poland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 2 December (HL3119), which department would have the authority to carry out an assessment of the contribution of Polish immigrants to the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL3587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>No assessment of immigrants’ contribution to the United Kingdom on the basis of nationality has been conducted by Her Majesty's Government, but it would be open to a number of departments to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/01/2015 15:43:06 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

167637

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Poland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 19 November (HL2693), whether they regard the current level of immigration from Poland to the United Kingdom to be sustainable.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL3409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The UK is open to the brightest and best, but immigration must be controlled in the national interest. Across government, we are working hard to bring net migration down and address the factors which draw people to Britain for the wrong reasons. Our reforms have cut net migration from outside the EU by nearly a quarter since 2010 - close to levels not seen since the late 1990s.</p><p>We have introduced tough domestic reforms to ensure that our controls on accessing benefits and services, including the NHS and social housing, are amongst the tightest in Europe. These include measures to prevent EU job seekers and involuntarily unemployed EU workers from claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance for longer than three months unless they have a genuine prospect of work. We have also introduced measures to ensure that new EU job seekers will be unable to access Jobseeker’s Allowance, or Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit, until they have been resident in the UK for three months.</p><p>The Prime Minister has made clear that further steps are needed to address immigration from the European Union. We have given specific consideration to the sustainability of levels of migration from Poland.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:11:41 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

114522

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Poland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of (1) the positive, and (2) the negative, contributions of Polish immigrants to the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL2693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office has made no such assessment.</p><p>The United Kingdom welcomes those who want to come to this country to contribute to our economy and our national way of life, but immigration must be controlled and kept at a sustainable level. Uncontrolled, mass immigration can make it difficult to maintain social cohesion and, puts pressure on public services.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/11/2014 14:47:47 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten