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864285

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2018 to Question 131413, whether her Department requested legal advice on the legality of threatening accelerated deportation to detainees on hunger strike in immigration detention centres.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	132769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>We do not consider that the letter issued to individuals in immigration detention who have refused foods or fluids contravenes human rights obligations or immigration law. The letter in question is part of guidance which was cleared by Home Office lawyers and published in October 2017.</p><p>The approach taken in the letter accurately reflects the fact that, in the interests of health and wellbeing, the most appropriate way in which to respond to some cases of refusal to take food or fluids is to prioritise the consideration of the individual’s case including, if appropriate, their removal from detention and the UK, whilst ensuring that the case is processed fairly.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 132767 question first answered 22/03/2018 12:59:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

864283

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Detainees
	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 12 March 2018 to Question 131413, what assessment she has made of the legality of threats of expedited deportation and the compatibility of such threats with human rights and immigration law.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	132767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>We do not consider that the letter issued to individuals in immigration detention who have refused foods or fluids contravenes human rights obligations or immigration law. The letter in question is part of guidance which was cleared by Home Office lawyers and published in October 2017.</p><p>The approach taken in the letter accurately reflects the fact that, in the interests of health and wellbeing, the most appropriate way in which to respond to some cases of refusal to take food or fluids is to prioritise the consideration of the individual’s case including, if appropriate, their removal from detention and the UK, whilst ensuring that the case is processed fairly.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 132769 question first answered 22/03/2018 12:59:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

864315

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Naturalisation
	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 have been received from (a) Irish citizens and (b) citizens of other EU countries for British citizenship under the naturalisation rules in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
	uin	132799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The available published information on the total number of applications made for British citizenship by the applicant’s country of nationality, including both naturalisation and registration, is in the Home Office’s <em>Immigration Statistics, October to December 201</em>7, Citizenship table cz_01_q_a available from</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/list-of-tables#citizenship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/list-of-tables#citizenship</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 12:19:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

864326

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of refugees residing in the UK who have been separated from their family due to not being eligible for family reunification.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	132810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK Immigration Rules have a comprehensive framework for refugees and their families to be safely reunited in the UK. Our family reunion policy allows immediate family members of those granted protection here to reunite with them. The Immigration Rules also provide for relatives with protection in the UK to sponsor children in serious and compelling circumstances. The Mandate resettlement scheme also allows those recognised by the UNCHR as refugees to join close family members here in the UK.</p><p>In addition, there is provision in the policy to grant visas outside the Rules in exceptional circumstances, which caters for extended family members who otherwise do not qualify under the Rules.</p><p>We do not believe there are unnecessary barriers to family reunion for refugees. Over the last five years there have been 24,700 family reunion visas issued –and this is in addition to the numbers granted asylum here or resettled here under our resettlement schemes.</p><p>We are listening carefully to concerns raised on this issue by Non-Governmental Organisations and others, we are currently reviewing our approach to family reunion as part of the Government’s wider asylum and resettlement policy.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2018 12:22:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

864431

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Children
	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 ensure that rights for child refugees under the Dublin III regulations are maintained after the UK leaves the EU; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	132914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Dublin Regulation is a mechanism for participating states to determine responsibility for asylum seekers, not children with refugee status. We fully intend that the Dublin III arrangements, like the rest of the asylum acquis, will continue to apply during the transition period. The Dublin III Regulation is an EU reciprocal agreement which requires agreement by both sides, and cannot be replicated unilaterally. We expect co-operation on asylum and migration to continue with our European allies after the UK leaves the EU, the exact nature and scope of this cooperation will be a matter for the negotiations.</p><p>Whilst we remain bound by it, we remain committed to the efficient and effective operation of the Dublin Regulation for all asylum seekers, including children. Our efforts are clear, for example the Sandhurst Treaty, signed between the UK and France on 18 January 2018, announced a number of further measures to support unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/03/2018 15:01:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

864286

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Secondment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent MP account management staff are on secondment to her Department; and what the cost is to the public purse of those secondments.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	132770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Since September 2017 the Home Office has seconded 19 full time equivalent staff from HM Revenue and Customs to the MP Account Management Teams. The seconded staff are part of a Cross Government Operational Delivery Profession whose role it is to support peaks in customer demand.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/03/2018 15:05:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

864304

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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 information her Department holds on the number of people who have been unlawfully detained in immigration centres for (a) 1 week, (b) 1 month, (c) 3 months, (d) 6 months and (e) 1 year or more.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	132788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of people who have been unlawfully detained in immigration centres for the periods requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost through the examination of individual case records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/03/2018 15:07:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy