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926944

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the equity of the £18,600 minimum income requirement for spousal visas where the potential income of the incoming spouse would enable a family to meet that threshold.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	155367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Supreme Court has upheld the lawfulness of the minimum income requirement for spouse visas, which prevents burdens on the taxpayer and promotes integration. The Supreme Court agreed that it strikes a fair balance between the interests of those wishing to sponsor a spouse to settle in the UK and of the community in general.</p><p>The earning potential of the non-EEA national partner is no guarantee that they will find work in the UK. Those with an appropriate job offer here can apply under Tier 2 of the Points Based System. However, in cases in which there are exceptional circumstances which could require entry to the UK to be granted, the applicant and their partner may be permitted to rely on other sources of income, which can include the potential income of the spouse or partner.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 11:33:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

921349

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	EU Battlegroups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the Government's decision to withdraw from leading the EU battlegroup in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	905759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>In March this year, given ongoing negotiations about post-Brexit arrangements between the UK and EU, we decided to withdraw our provisional offer to lead an EU Battlegroup in the second half of 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Our decision gave good time for another Member State to take on the role.</p><p> </p><p>The UK/EU Withdrawal Agreement has confirmed that the UK may not lead an EU Battlegroup during the Implementation Period.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 11/06/2018 15:47:19 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

918519

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 May 2018 to Question 146959, how many people have been detained under (a) the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991, (b) section 47 of the National Assistance Act 1948, (c) sections 1, 2 or 12 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, (d) the Children Act 1989 and (e) section 3 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	150753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Before 2016-17, the official statistics on detentions under the Mental Health Act were collected in aggregate form and cannot be broken down any further to identify specific legislation. Since 2016-17 the data collection has changed, to the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS), and information on the number of known detentions for people formally detained under Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 as amended by the Criminal Procedures (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 is available for 2016-17 and is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Information is not available on the number of people detained under the other individual pieces of legislation requested, although a total of detentions made under these Acts is also shown in the table.</p><p> </p><p>Number of detentions which were not under the Mental Health Act (1983) in 2016/17, England</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Formally Detained Under</p></td><td><p>Number of Detentions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 as amended by the Criminal Procedures (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Acts</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Formal detentions not under the Mental Health Act (1983)</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: MHSDS, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>The table shows the number of detentions made under Acts other than the Mental Health Act. The total has been published in the ‘Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures: 2016-17’ publication but is further broken down here to show the number of detentions made under the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 as amended by the Criminal Procedures (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991.</p><p> </p><p>This is a count of detentions rather than a count of people and one person may be detained more than once in any given period.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/06/2018 09:28:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

909312

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the annual statistics published by NHS Digital entitled Inpatients Formally Detained in Hospitals Under the Mental Health Act 1983 and patients subject to Supervised Community Treatment, what legislation patients are detained under when they are detained under previous legislation (Fifth Schedule) and other Acts; and what safeguards are in place to ensure that those patients are appropriately detained.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	146959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>The publication Inpatients Formally Detained in Hospitals Under the Mental Health Act 1983 and patients subject to Supervised Community Treatment was superseded in 2017 by Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital’s data definition for “previous legislation (Fifth Schedule of the Act)” refers to people admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Act 1959 under transitional arrangements in place when the 1983 Act came into force. Its definition of &quot;other Acts&quot; includes Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991, Section 47 of the National Assistance Act 1948, Sections 1, 2 or 12 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, Children Act 1989, and Section 3 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973.</p><p> </p><p>The operation of the other Acts named, where they remain extant, is a matter for other Government departments.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/05/2018 10:34:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

909117

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Act 1983 Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the work undertaken to date by the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	146321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act published an interim report on Tuesday 1 May 2018 which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act-interim-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act-interim-report</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government commissioned this review with the objective of ensuring that the Mental Health Act works better for patients and their families, in view of rising rates of detention and the current disproportionate number of people from black and minority ethnic groups detained under the Act.</p><p> </p><p>The Government welcomes the good progress made by Sir Simon Wessely and his team so far, including the wide-ranging engagement with stakeholders and service users which has been undertaken to date. We look forward to receiving the review’s final recommendations when published in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/05/2018 10:31:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

909122

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Turkey: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions she has had with President Erdogan of Turkey on human rights in that country.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	146322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p><em> </em>I refer the hon. Member to the press release issued on 15 May 2018 following my meeting with President Erdogan and which is available on the <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-with-president-erdogan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-with-president-erdogan</a></p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May grouped question UIN 144974 question first answered 25/05/2018 12:08:21 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

905509

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Gaza: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions she has had with President Erdogan of Turkey on the violence at the Gaza Border of 14 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	144974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p><em> </em>I refer the hon. Member to the press release issued on 15 May 2018 following my meeting with President Erdogan and which is available on the <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-with-president-erdogan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-with-president-erdogan</a></p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May grouped question UIN 146322 question first answered 25/05/2018 12:08:21 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

905515

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Middle East: Peace Negotiations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Middle East peace process continues in a fair and legitimate manner.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	144975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>​At this highly sensitive time in the region, there is an urgent need to restart the peace process between Israel and Palestine. We regularly press both parties to resume direct negotiations towards a two-state solution. The Foreign Secretary spoke to Palestinian Authority President Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on 16 May and reiterated the need for progress.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/05/2018 16:16:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

904768

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Palestinians: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans the Government has made to provide humanitarian support for a potential increase in Palestinian refugees across the Middle East as a result of the recent violence in Gaza.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	144394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>We are not aware of an increase in the number of internally displaced persons within Gaza, or an increase in the number of refugees in the region, as a result of the recent violence on the Israel-Gaza border. However, more than 22,500 people remain displaced in Gaza since the 2014 conflict.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is a long term supporter of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) which supports Palestinian refugees across the region, including those displaced in Gaza, through the provision of: basic education to around 500,000 children; health services for around 3 million Palestinian refugees; social assistance for approximately 280,000 of the poorest Palestinian refugees; and a source of income for almost 30,000 refugees working for UNRWA. The UK will deliver its next round of financial support earlier than originally planned to meet the growing needs of Palestinian refugees across the region.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/05/2018 16:51:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

904770

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to support Palestinian refugees seeking to enter the UK as a result of recent violence in Gaza.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	144395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>We remain deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and are closely monitoring the situation. We are working closely with UN agencies and others to respond to ongoing needs in Gaza, including supporting up to 1 million Gazans by addressing critical water and sanitation needs through UNICEF. The UK is also a long-term supporter of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which provides basic services to 1.3 million people in Gaza, including basic health care.</p><p>There are safe and legal routes for people to come to the UK should they wish to join family members here, work or study. They would need to meet the requirements of the relevant Immigration Rule under which they were applying to qualify for a visa. Details about the criteria and how to apply are available on the GOV.UK website at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/apply-uk-visa" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/apply-uk-visa</a>.</p><p>However, there are no specific provisions in the Immigration Rules for people to be allowed to travel to the UK to seek asylum. Those who need international protection should claim in the first safe country they reach or register with mandated UN agencies – that is the fastest route to safety.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/05/2018 16:27:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield