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477986

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Middle East: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to support refugees in camps in the Middle East.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	904134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>At the Syria Conference the UK announced that we will more than double our commitment to the Syria crisis, to £2.3 billion. The UK supports refugees, displaced and vulnerable people and host communities across the Middle East including in Yemen, Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 16/03/2016 15:52:15 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

459040

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of how many citizens of (a) Ireland, (b) Malta, and (c) Cyprus will be eligible to vote in the EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	30512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 14/03/2016 13:29:19 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 30512 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Citizens eligible to Vote
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

457185

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Political Impartiality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the BBC upholds its obligations under the charter relating to impartiality during the EU referendum campaign.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	903872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>In June 2015 I wrote to the Chairs of the BBC Trust and Ofcom on this subject. Their replies set out their plans. The Trust has since consulted on and published guidelines for covering the referendum.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 03/03/2016 18:00:22 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453797

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of asylum seekers who have been found to have fraudulently claimed to be under the age of 18 in each of the last years.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Asylum Claims by Year with a disputed age</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year of Claim</p></td><td><p>Totals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>318</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data is taken from published statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum</p><p>Whilst we do hold information on the results of these assessments and whether they were found to be under the age of 18 the way corresponding data is held means that to obtain the data could only be achieved at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/02/2016 15:50:32 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453798

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 have been charged with a criminal offence in the last year; and what proportion of such asylum seekers were subsequently found to have fraudulently claimed to be under the age of 18.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not maintain a central record of the requested information and could only provide it at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/03/2016 16:21:42 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453250

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	EU Budget
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what amount of funding the European Court of Auditors has recorded as having been misspent in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The European Court of Auditors prepares an annual audit report on the EU Budget which is published each year in November in relation to the previous EU financial year, running from January to December. This includes an estimated ‘error rate’ in relation to EU budget payments made which were not in compliance with EU regulatory requirements.</p><p>The latest audit report available, published in November 2015, relates to the financial year 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 report can be consulted at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/annualreports-2014/annualreports-2014-EN.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/annualreports-2014/annualreports-2014-EN.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 24/02/2016 16:16:43 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453254

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
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	Austria: Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received from the Austrian government on a person suspected of rape in Linz, Austria, who is now resident in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not received any representations from the Austrian government on this alleged case.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 01/03/2016 17:35:42 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453302

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 arrived in the UK for each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release. The attached table gives total applications for asylum from UASC aged under 18, for 2012 to 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Asylum applications received from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children under 18, excluding dependants, 2012 to 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total applications</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,028</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,197</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Table Notes</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" rowspan="2"><p>(1) An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum on his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics July to September 2015, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/02/2016 15:59:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453320

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who claim to be under the age of 18 have undergone independent testing to determine their age in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Asylum Claims by Year with a disputed age</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year of Claim</p></td><td><p>Totals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>318</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data is taken from published statistics</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/02/2016 16:06:26 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453321

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were suspected of making fraudulent claims to be under the age of 18 in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>We publish statistics where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. In the twelve months to September 2015 there were 590 such cases. Data is taken from published statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum</p><p>The results of these assessments and the Home Office’s eventual finding as to age are recorded on the immigration casework database but this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/02/2016 15:52:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies