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519283

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Greece
	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 accelerate the process of identifying and processing people who are eligible for family reunification transfers from Greece to other EU countries under the Dublin III Regulation in addition to the two UK experts already sent to Greece to support Greek immigration officials dealing with applications under Dublin III Regulation and a further one to be deployed in May.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	37355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2016 answer text <p>As notified in my statement of 21 April, HCWS687, 75 UK expert personnel will be deployed to Greece to support implementation of the EU-Turkey Migration Agreement and will conduct a number of duties. A proportion of the UK expert personnel will work closely with European Asylum Support Officer (EASO) coordinators and the Greek Asylum Service to process cases through the admissibility process and provide expert support to the Greek authorities and other EU partners on overall co-ordination of the response. Supporting the operation of the Greek asylum service is a fundamental part of this Government’s approach to identifying individuals in need of protection at the earliest possible opportunity and ensuring they are identified as eligible for family reunification consideration under the terms of Dublin Regulation.</p><p>This is in addition to the support that we are already providing to European partner Dublin Units. Two UK experts have already been deployed to the Greek Dublin Unit and have provided valuable assistance. A third was due to be deployed, however, EASO has informed us that support to the Greek Dublin Unit is currently at full complement. We stand ready to deploy our experts as soon as they are required. We are confident that through our cooperation and concerted joint efforts we can identify and facilitate the swift transfers of cases through our national systems and make effective use of the Dublin Regulation.</p><p>As announced on 4 May we are now looking to transfer children who were already present in Europe before the EU-Turkey deal came into force on 20 March, where it is in their best interests. It is important that we ensure we fulfil our obligations to children who are already in UK, as well ensuring we have the right support for those who may be brought to the UK from Europe. We are working with the relevant Member States, the UNHCR and other Non-Governmental Organisations and local authorities to establish the best way to implement the provisions of the Immigration Act 2016 for the transfer of unaccompanied refugee children from Europe to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/05/2016 13:01:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

519276

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls
	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 use data from border exit checks to estimate emigration from the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	37511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37509 37510 37512 37514 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519294

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to increase the resources available for the processing of Dublin III asylum transfer requests.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	37249
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>We continue to work with a number of EU Member States and the European Asylum Sup-port Office (EASO) to ensure Dublin works effectively. We are in ongoing discussions with France, Italy and Greece, as well as the UNHCR, to ensure that we continue to have the right processes in place and the resources to make them work effectively.</p><p>We have recently deployed two UK experts to the Greek Dublin Unit. We are currently providing bilateral support to the Italian Dublin Unit through a long term secondment. We are also due to deploy an additional UK expert to the Italian Dublin Unit shortly.</p><p>Our work with France including the permanent official contact group and a recently sec-onded senior UK official to the French Dublin Unit to assist with the identification and transfer of cases has shown results of our collaborative efforts.</p><p>The Home Office has a unit processing Dublin III asylum transfer requests from and to the United Kingdom. This unit comprises 78.34 full time equivalent managers, caseworkers and support staff. Staffing levels will remain in line with anticipated volumes.</p><p>As announced on 4 May we are now looking to transfer children who were already present in Europe before the EU-Turkey deal came into force on 20 March, where it is in their best interests. It is important that we ensure we fulfil our obligations to children who are already in UK, as well ensuring we have the right support for those who may be brought to the UK from Europe. We are working with the relevant Member States, the UNHCR and other Non-Governmental Organisations and local authorities to establish the best way to implement the provisions of the Immigration Act 2016 for the transfer of unaccompanied refugee children from Europe to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37247 37248 37250 37499 question first answered 26/05/2016 16:44:47 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

519298

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fraud
	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 level of trends in (a) online and (b) telephone fraud in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	37302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office collect statistics from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) on the number of fraud offences recorded and these are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in Tables A4 and A5 of the quarterly crime statistics at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a></p><p>Although Action Fraud requests information on enablers (e.g. online, telephone, post) when frauds are reported, it is voluntary for victims to provide it and not verified. As a result there is likely to be a significant number of offences that should have been flagged as, for example, online but are not, as well as incorrectly classified offences. NFIB intend to revisit this issue once their new management information system has been launched.</p><p>The ONS recently added new fraud and cyber crime questions to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). As part of this development, they also added a question to ask victims whether the internet or any type of online activity related to any aspect of the offence experienced. As such, it should be possible to estimate the level of online fraud against individuals from this and ONS are developing their plans for publishing this information.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/05/2016 15:19:57 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

519277

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what analysis she plans to undertake of the data gathered from border exit checks; and whether those checks will provide accurate data on emigration disaggregated by route.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	37512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Exit checks were introduced in April 2015. They will, over a period of time, provide us with a range of insights into the behaviours of migrants and how they comply with restrictions placed upon their length of stay in the UK.</p><p>Data collected from exit checks is a record of cross border movement. It may in the future help inform but will not in itself answer questions on emigration.</p><p>The Home Office has announced that it is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting and intends to publish an initial evaluation of the use of exit checks for this purpose. The evaluation will be a technical assessment of the analysis carried out thus far and of the further analysis necessary to better understand short, medium, and long term opportunities.</p><p>The initial evaluation of the use of exit checks will be published on 25 August to coincide with the next quarterly immigration statistics release.</p><p>Publication of the initial evaluation on the use of exit checks will be on the GOV.UK website</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37509 37510 37511 37514 question first answered 06/06/2016 17:19:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

519286

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	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 publish all of her Department's statistics on the incidents of (a) domestic violence and (b) dowry related abuse in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	37200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>Statistics on domestic violence are published combining domestic violence and abuse through the Office for National Statistics who are responsible for the publication of crime statistics, including those of domestic violence and abuse. Detailed information on domestic violence and abuse from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) is published annually in their Focus on: Violence and Sexual Offences series. The most recent publication, for the year ending March 2015, is available here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2015</p><p>Additionally, since April 2015 the police have notified the Home Office where recorded offences are domestic abuse related. Figures from the police for April to September 2015 were also published in the statistical bulletin linked above (see Table 6.01). The publication also includes information on the number of domestic abuse incidents the police deal with, in Appendix Table 4.08. Some incidents are not subsequently recorded as crimes as no crime as defined in law has taken place, so numbers will be higher than the number of domestic abuse crimes.</p><p>The increases seen in domestic abuse incidents recorded by the police over this time period is thought to reflect improvements in the identification and recording of these incidents by the police alongside increased willingness of victims to report such incidents to the police. The CSEW has not shown an increase in domestic abuse over this period.</p><p>The Home Office has not received specific information on dowry related abuse.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/05/2016 09:54:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

519296

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Latvia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas have been issued to Latvians who are categorised as non-citizens in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	37269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. To obtain it would involve interrogating individual case records, at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/05/2016 14:25:29 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

519287

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Football
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the UK Football Policing Unit has requested information from other EU member states on football banning orders and other data relevant to the safe policing of football matches in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	37209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held. The UK National Football Information Point within the UK Football Policing Unit exchanges information relevant to the safe policing of football matches with National Football Information Points in other EU countries, whenever UK national and club teams play against national or club teams from other EU member states.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/05/2016 13:15:37 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

519273

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Greece
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many take charge requests under the family unity provision of the Dublin III Regulation the UK has received for transfer from Greece in the last six months; how many such requests were accepted; and how many people so accepted have arrived in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	37451
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>Data on cases progressed under the Dublin III Regulation is recorded on the main immigration database. However, this data is not held in a way that allows it to be reported on automatically and is therefore not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/05/2016 14:26:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

519272

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed in the Higher Education Audit Team; and what plans she has to change that number.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	37513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>There are currently five staff working in the Higher Education Assurance Team (HEAT). The team is part of the Home Office's wider Sponsor Compliance Network which is currently under review. Until that review is complete it is not possible to confirm the team's eventual size and structure but its role and responsibilities will continue to be delivered within the Compliance Network's operating structure.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 26/05/2016 15:37:30 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield