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170479

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes against Property: Worcester
	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 (a) the level of reported property crime including burglaries for each of the last five years in Worcester and (b) the proportion of such crimes that have been solved.
	tabling member constituency	Worcester
	tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
	uin	218799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Data supplied by police forces and held by the Home Office relate to the number of property crimes recorded by (rather than reported to) the police. Figures for each of the last 5 years for South Worcestershire Community Safety <br>Partnership (CSP) are given in the table. The whole of the Worcester constituency is contained within this CSP.<br><br>The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the outcomes of crimes at CSP level. This information is only held at police force area level.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 18/12/2014 14:50:13 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone attachment 1 file name Copy of ePQ75.14 - table v2.xls title Table 1
	tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

170487

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants were granted British citizenship who had previously committed crimes in other countries in each year since 2010; and of what crimes those applicants had been convicted.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	218744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on how many individuals who were granted British citizenship who <br>had previously committed crimes in other countries is not aggregated in <br>national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a <br>disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to collate the data.<br><br>However where the Secretary of State is aware that a person has committed <br>crimes in other countries they would not normally be granted citizenship as the <br>good character requirement would not be satisfied.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:42:37 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

170477

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	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 who were granted British citizenship disclosed financial fraud in their application for citizenship.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	218818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on how many individuals who were granted citizenship who disclosed <br>financial fraud in their application for citizenship is not aggregated in <br>national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a <br>disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to collate the data.<br><br>However where the Secretary of State is aware that a person has practised fraud <br>they would not normally be granted citizenship as the good character <br>requirement would not be satisfied.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:45:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

170484

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	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 British citizenship were made in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	218741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested, which is published regularly, is given in the table below<br><br></p><p /> <p /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><strong>Citizenship applications, United Kingdom 2010 to 2013</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Year</td><td>Applications for British citizenship</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>199,767</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>207,797</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>181,410</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>232,262</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Source: Home Office, Migration Statistics</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Immigration Statistics July to September 2014</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Tables cz_01</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p /> <p /> <p><br>The latest Home Office immigration statistics, including applications for <br>British citizenship are published in the release Immigration Statistics July -<br>September 2014, table cz_01 (Citizenship tables), which is available from the <br>Library of the House and on the Department’s website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/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 05/01/2015 11:48:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

170482

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Charities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had on drafting best practice guidelines on the presence of campaigning charities during police searches and arrests.
	tabling member constituency	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
	tabling member printed	Simon Hart
	uin	218739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>An important component of the Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme is the introduction of lay observation. The Scheme’s guidance makes it clear that forces have discretion to determine the most appropriate arrangements to support this. This allows the public, including interested organisations, to observe stop and search in action.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 17/12/2014 17:35:32 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart

170478

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce legislative proposals to prevent anyone who has entered or stayed illegally in the UK being granted British citizenship.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	218768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Applicants for naturalisation need to meet the statutory requirements in the British Nationality Act 1981 which specify that a person must not have been in breach of the Immigration Rules during the required residential qualifying period.<br />In addition, a person is required to be of good character. If a person meets these requirements, the Home Secretary may, if she thinks fit, grant a certificate of naturalisation. <br /><br />We have recently substantially strengthened our policy on both the good character and residence requirements. Our revised policy on good character makes it clear that entering the UK illegally or evading immigration control will <br />usually mean that a person is prevented from acquiring citizenship for a period of 10 years. In terms of assessing the residence requirements, new guidance has been published on how the Home Secretary will exercise her discretion. We <br />will no longer overlook lengthy periods of unlawful residence, as was the case under previous governments. Whereas previously discretion would have been exercised in cases where a person who deliberately entered or remained in the UK without permission had attempted to regularise their stay by making an application to the Home Office, we will no longer tolerate this. We will normally only exercisediscretion to overlook periods of unlawful residence if they are short and genuinely inadvertent or outside the applicant’s control.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/01/2015 14:44:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

170472

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: G4S and Serco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many tenders from (a) Serco and (b) G4S for contracts let by her Department have been successful in each year since May 2010; how much her Department paid to each of those companies for the execution of contracts in each such year; how many contracts which terminate after 2015 each company hold with her Department; and what the monetary value is of all outstanding contracts between her Department and each company.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	218604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s Transparency Agenda the Home Department publishes all its contracts over £10,000. Contracts are publically available on the Contracts Finder portal. <br><br>www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/<br><br>Contract data fields will contain the information requested. Where any monetary value sections are incomplete, this is because the information has been deemed commercially sensitive and may be detrimental to both the Department or the <br>supplier to release.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/01/2015 14:58:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

170474

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
	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 the Criminal Finances Improvement Plan 2014, what steps she is taking to strengthen her Department's ability to recover assets hidden overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	218615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Attacking criminal finances is central to our Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. Under the Criminal Finances Improvement Plan, the Government is working with operational partners to strengthen the ability to recover assets hidden overseas.<br><br>Earlier this month the Government adopted the EU measures on the mutual recognition of confiscation orders, which should result in improved asset recovery from EU countries. The measure also includes an asset sharing agreement with all of the other 27 EU Member States. The Government continues to seek asset sharing agreements with other key jurisdictions outside the EU. <br><br>Specialist Crown Prosecution Service Asset Recovery Advisors have been appointed for Spain, UAE, the Caribbean and Europe, with a further post in South Africa to be filled early in the new year. There has already been improvements to performance as a result of this activity, including the first ever return of UK criminal assets from the UAE.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/12/2014 17:55:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

170473

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
	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 the Criminal Finances Improvement Plan 2014, what steps she is taking to work with the private sector to maximise asset recovery.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	218614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Attacking criminal finances is central to our Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. Under the criminal finances improvement plan we are working across Government and with operational partners to explore how private sector skills and capabilities can be deployed to maximise asset recovery.<br><br>Our work with private sector partners specifically includes:<br>• The Government is exploring new ways of working with the private sector to improve the enforcement of confiscation orders. <br>• The Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office have completed a review of the use of receivers to enforce confiscation orders, resulting in the launch of an improved framework for the use of enforcement receivers. <br>• HM Courts and Tribunal Service is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services for criminal financial impositions. This includes the collection and enforcement of fines, compensation, prosecutor costs, victims surcharge, fixed penalties and Confiscation Orders.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/12/2014 17:52:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

170468

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances: English Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2014 to Question 218042, what steps her Department takes to ensure that the candidate sitting a test online is the same person who completed the secure online verification process.
	tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
	tabling member printed	Mr Graham Brady
	uin	218718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>English language tests for visa purposes require attendance in person at an invigilated test centre. It is incumbent upon Secure English Language Test (SELT) providers to check the identity of individuals sitting their tests. The secure online verification process is the system delivered by the SELT test providers which the Home Office uses to check results relied on in support of an immigration application.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:58:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady