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1132808

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Educational Testing Service: Standards
	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 made of the reliability of ETS’s validation systems before awarding that company a licence to deliver the TOEIC English language test in 2011.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	266059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The licence which allowed TOEIC English language testing to be used for immigration purposes was awarded following a tendering process. As part of this process the Home Office assessed both the equivalence of each tester's English test to a recognised European Standard and security arrangements around testing.</p><p>Details of the security requirements which ETS Global BV were bound to adhere to were provided to the HASC in August 2016. A copy of these requirements can be found at Annex C of <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/english-language-testing/written/36543.pdf%20" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/english-language-testing/written/36543.pdf </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/06/2019 15:13:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1132878

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Sustainable Development
	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 potential effect of the UK leaving the EU with no deal on his Department’s ability to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 16 in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	266185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government remains focussed on ensuring a smooth and orderly withdrawal from the EU with a deal as soon as possible, and we have been clear that we do not want or expect a no deal scenario. However, as a responsible government, we continue to prepare for all scenarios.</p><p>The Home Office has been planning and preparing for a no deal scenario for some time, and we have contingency plans in place across areas including law enforcement, passports and the border. Whatever the outcome of our exit from the EU, we remain committed to supporting the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals both domestically and internationally. The UK’s first Voluntary National Review (VNR) will be published shortly. The VNR will review UK action both domestically and internationally in support of Goal 16. It will also outline key challenges and next steps, recognising that while progress is being made, there is more work to do.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2019 16:18:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1132892

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation: Venezuela
	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 were deported to Venezuela in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	266192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The number of enforced returns from the UK by year and country of destination is published in table rt_05q (returns data tables, volume 5) in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2019’, available from the GOV.uk website at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods</a></p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns. Information for April to June 2019 will be published on 22 August 2019.</p><p>The information requested on Venezuelan nationals in same-sex marriage that have been deported to Venezuela is not available in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 266194 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:12:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1132894

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation: Venezuela
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Venezuelan nationals in same-sex marriages have been deported to Venezuela since 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	266194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The number of enforced returns from the UK by year and country of destination is published in table rt_05q (returns data tables, volume 5) in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2019’, available from the GOV.uk website at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods</a></p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns. Information for April to June 2019 will be published on 22 August 2019.</p><p>The information requested on Venezuelan nationals in same-sex marriage that have been deported to Venezuela is not available in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 266192 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:12:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1132924

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: CTF Partners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his (a) Department and (b) Department's agencies have entered into contracts with CTF Partners since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	266223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Our records show that neither; (a) the Home Department, or (b) the Department’s agencies have entered into any contracts with CTF Partners since 2015.</p><p><br>Home Office are committed to the HMT Transparency Agenda and EU Competition regulations and therefore all contract requirements and awards that exceed the EU procurement directives' financial thresholds are advertised in the <a href="http://ted.publications.eu.int/official/" target="_blank">Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU)</a> via contract notices. Furthermore, all requirements and contract awards over £10,000 are published on <a href="https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Contracts Finder </a>at this link:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a> .</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/06/2019 14:54:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1132965

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Africa
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries in Africa do not have a UK visa application centre.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	266256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>UK Visa &amp; Immigration can confirm 23 countries do not have a UK Visa application and customers are advised to apply in an alternative location:</p><p><br>Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sao Tome &amp; Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, Swaziland and Togo</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/06/2019 14:55:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1132966

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Africa
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries in Africa have a UK visa application centre which is not open each working day.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	266257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Opening times of Visa Application Centres are determined by volumes of applications. The vast majority of Visa Application Centres are open every working day with the exception of the following; Gambia, Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/06/2019 15:00:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1132980

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Evidence: DNA
	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 Independent review of the Home Office response to the mandating of DNA evidence for immigration purposes and pursuant to the Answers of 18 June 2019 to Questions 264449 and 264448, whether the Home Office has contacted every person who was identified by the review but not originally identified by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	266269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office continues to proactively and reactively contact all those known to have been affected by the mandating of DNA evidence and offer redress where appropriate. This includes the additional customers highlighted by the Review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/06/2019 12:01:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1132798

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the police force prices for goods and services in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016; and whether there is a policing-specific rate of inflation.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	266144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The data for 2015 and 2016 has been published at <a href="https://www.police.uk%20" target="_blank">https://www.police.uk </a>and is published by individual Force.</p><p>There is no police specific rate of inflation applied to the commonly bought items.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/06/2019 15:09:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1132801

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sleeping Rough
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of time dispersal orders used by the police to clear homeless camps in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	266077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>We introduced the dispersal power through the Anti-social, Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to enable the police to disperse anti-social individuals for up to 48 hours. The legislation requires the officer authorising use of the power to be satisfied on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to remove or reduce the likelihood of people being harassed, alarmed or distressed or the occurrence of crime or disorder.</p><p>Data on how many times the dispersal power has been used is not collated centrally.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/06/2019 16:02:52 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham