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900242

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
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 visas from highly skilled professionals were refused by his Department between January 2010 and January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	141777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>The available information relates to outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn, lapsed) of visa applications, broken down by category (including Tier 2 skilled work visas) and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017</a>. The large majority of Tier 2 visa application outcomes are grants.</p><p>Information for Q1 (January to March) 2018 is planned to be published on 24 May.</p><p>Tier 2 is the main immigration route for skilled work in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 141778 question first answered 11/05/2018 12:01:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

900243

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
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 visas from highly skilled professionals were refused by his Department between February 2014 and March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	141778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>The available information relates to outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn, lapsed) of visa applications, broken down by category (including Tier 2 skilled work visas) and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017</a>. The large majority of Tier 2 visa application outcomes are grants.</p><p>Information for Q1 (January to March) 2018 is planned to be published on 24 May.</p><p>Tier 2 is the main immigration route for skilled work in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 141777 question first answered 11/05/2018 12:01:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

900244

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Skilled Workers
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 applied for visas as highly skilled professionals were deported in each year between January 2010 and January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	141779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>The available published statistics do not provide the information requested. Total enforced removals and voluntary returns are published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics.</p><p><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> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/05/2018 12:03:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

900246

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Skilled Workers
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 applied for visas as highly skilled professionals were deported in each year between February 2014 and March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	141780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>The available published statistics do not provide the information requested. Total enforced removals and voluntary returns are published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics.</p><p><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> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/05/2018 13:33:50 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

900247

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time to process and make a decision on a visa application for a highly skilled professional has been in the last three months for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	141781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>Published data on entry clearance visa processing times for skilled work (Tier 2), including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards by category, is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-february-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-february-2018</a> The large majority of cases are straightforward and are dealt with within Service standards.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/05/2018 16:44:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

890285

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Harvey Weinstein
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the Metropolitan Police on investigations into the allegations made against Harvey Weinstein in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	137538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>We expect every report of sexual violence and rape to be treated seriously from the time it is reported, every victim to be treated with dignity, and every investigation and prosecution to be conducted thoroughly and professionally.<strong> </strong>The principle of operational independence means that the management of investigations is a matter for police forces under the direction and control of chief officers.</p><p>When a complaint has been made to the police, it is their responsibility to decide whether there are sufficient grounds to launch a criminal investigation. Ministers and officials are unable to intervene in individual cases or in operational decisions made by the police.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 30/04/2018 14:22:41 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

886373

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the names and addresses are of all schools in England and Wales which have been constructed via a private finance initiative or PF2 programme.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	136568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>In 2015 and 2016 the Department signed five PF2 contracts and the names and addresses of the 46 schools in these contracts are given in the attached annex.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to these PF2 contracts, between 1997 and 2013, 169 contracts were signed by local authorities under the private finance initiative. Whilst the Department holds a list of these contracts, which is published by Her Majesty’s Treasury, it does not maintain a list of the individual schools within these contracts. Local authorities will hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/04/2018 16:07:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name PF2_Contracts_2015-2016.xls title PF2_contracts_2015-2016.
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

886386

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	Michelle Samaraweera
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter that the Prime Minister sent to the Prime Minister of India on the extradition of the person who killed Michelle Samaraweera referred to in his Department's letter of 8 September 2016 to the hon. Member for Walthamstow.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	136581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>I can confirm that the then Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Prime Minister Modi on 17 June 2016. The letter covered a range of issues on which the British Government was engaging the Indian Government at the time, including extradition. I can also confirm the then Prime Minister did raise Michelle Samaraweera's case with Prime Minister Modi.</p><p>I can assure the Hon Lady that the British Government has continued to press the Indian Government to accelerate Mr Vyas' extradition hearing. Our High Commission officials raised this point with the Indian Government most recently in the margins of the latest hearing on 16 April.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 23/04/2018 16:45:35 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

872278

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	BBC: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to her oral contribution of 22 February 2018, Official Report, column 322, what the outcome was of her discussions with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on protecting the freedom of women at the BBC to discuss equal pay.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	134192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries and I will discuss pay equality with the BBC.</p><p> </p><p>We are clear that as a public service broadcaster funded by the license fee, the BBC has a responsibility to set an example on pay and other equality measures in the workplace. Getting this right is important for licence-payers as well as all the talented women who work for the BBC.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/04/2018 16:09:35 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

872294

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Government Departments: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what dates the (a) Permanent Secretary and (b) Ministers of his Department have met representatives of (i) Beatty, (ii) Barclays, (iii) Dalmore Capital, (iv) Equitix, (v) Innisfree, (vi) Interserve, (vii) Semperian and (viii) Veolia since 31 December 2017; and who attended those meetings.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	134208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p><p>Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel and</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/senior-officials-expenses</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/03/2018 11:41:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy