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228324

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to expand the size of the immigration detention estate.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	228234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Detaining and removing people with no right to be in the country, with dignity and respect, is an essential part of effective immigration controls.<br><br>The future requirements of the detention estate, including its capacity and location, is kept under constant review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/03/2015 12:26:23 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 51913 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

227583

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent trends in the rate of acceptances of visa applications for Syrians visiting the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	227606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Application volumes, issue and refusal rates of visa applications from all nationalities are monitored on an ongoing basis. <br><br>All visa applications made by Syrian nationals are considered on a case by case basis, on their individual merits, and in accordance with the Immigration Rules.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/03/2015 16:24:38 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 51456 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

227586

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme were principal applicants.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	227678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As of 31 December 2014, 143 people were relocated to the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme, 34 of whom were principal applicants (i.e. head of family) and 109 their dependents. <br><br>This is the latest publicly available figure, as numbers are released as part of the Home Office official statistics each quarter. The number of arrivals under the scheme up to the end of March 2015 will be published on 21 May.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 23/03/2015 15:57:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 51459 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

227587

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules tabled on 16 March 2015, HC1116, on the number of applications made by Syrian nationals for asylum in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	227676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>An analysis of asylum claims made by Syrian nationals, in the eighteen month period ending November 2014, showed some Syrian asylum claimants were found to have abused the UK’s transit without visa provisions using a US issued visa. Applicants used their US visas to arrive in the UK to claim asylum rather than to transit to an onward destination as the provisions intend. The change made by HC1116 will stop this abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/03/2015 16:21:10 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 51458 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

227588

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of support provided under sections 4 and 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	227673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are supported under section 95 if they would otherwise be destitute. Failed asylum seekers are supported under section 4 if they would otherwise be destitute and there is a temporary barrier that prevents their departure from the UK.<br><br>The assistance available to both groups consists of accommodation (with gas, electricity and water provided free) and a weekly allowance to buy food and other essential items. They are also able to access healthcare and education.<br><br>The Home Office keeps these arrangements under regular review and is satisfied they are an effective way of ensuring people are not left destitute.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/03/2015 16:20:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 51457 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

227167

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to review the use of detention for immigration purposes.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	227497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Detention plays a key role in maintaining an effective immigration control and protecting our borders. We keep periods of detention to a minimum, consistent <br>with the need to detain in order to remove from the UK those with no right to be here and who do not leave voluntarily. <br><br>There are no plans to review the use of detention overall but on 9 February the Home Secretary announced that Stephen Shaw, the former Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, is to lead an independent review of the policies and procedures relating to the welfare of immigration detainees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 18/03/2015 11:53:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

178162

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people ordinarily resident in the UK have a European Health Insurance Card.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	223572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>As of 31 December 2014 there were 26,801,935 valid European Health Insurance Cards issued to people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, in circulation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/02/2015 15:55:07 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

177851

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Nigeria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Nigerian government on implementing the (a) recommendations made by the UK and (b) other recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	223364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>At Nigeria’s UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in October 2013, the UK called on the Nigerian government to fully investigate reports of extra judicial killings and torture by the Nigerian security forces, to bring to justice those responsible and to establish a human rights monitoring system.</p><p>We continue to raise these and other human rights concerns with the Nigerian authorities, as highlighted at the UPR, such as the death penalty and LGBT rights.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 09/02/2015 16:02:42 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

177853

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Nigeria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the human rights implications of UK military assistance to the Nigerian government to help combat Boko Haram.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	223400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>When providing military assistance to another nation, the Ministry of Defence is required under the UK Government’s Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) Human Rights Guidance to consider the possibility of that assistance directly or significantly contributing to a violation of human rights and to identify measures that mitigate this risk. We continue to follow these stringent guidelines. The UK Government has made clear to the Nigerian authorities at all levels that, whilst we support Nigeria’s fight against terrorism, we do not condone human rights violations.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 09/02/2015 16:00:28 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

177893

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial and material support her Department provides to families who are removed from the UK via pre-departure accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	223363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Families removed from the UK via Cedars pre-departure accommodation are provided with an individual returns support package which can include financial assistance, based on need.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/02/2015 16:21:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather