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833913

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Jamaica
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State will she place in the Library a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the British Government and Jamaican Government, signed in 2007, on deportations and forced removals from the UK to Jamaica.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	125671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not have a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jamaican government regarding enforced deportations and enforced returns.</p><p>However, the Ministry of Justice reports that in 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in relation to the operation of a proposed prisoner transfer agreement between the United Kingdom and Jamaica. As the prisoner transfer agreement was not ratified the Memorandum of Understanding was not brought into force.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2018 15:58:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

833067

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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, whether her Department plans to amend current legislation in order to fulfil the remaining unallocated spaces under Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	125383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK is fully committed to transferring the specified number of 480 unaccompanied children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 as soon as possible. Whilst the Government is clear that we will not be amending the current legislation, after extensive discussion with France, Greece and Italy, we have updated the eligibility date on an exceptional basis to ensure we can transfer the circa. 260 remaining unaccompanied children and meet our obligation under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. We are working closely with Member States and with relevant partners such as the UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs to ensure the safe transfer of children referred by each Member State to the UK. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing.</p><p>Our Family Reunion policy allow children to join their refugee parents, and there are also specific provisions that allow extended family members lawfully resident in the UK to sponsor unaccompanied children where there are serious and compelling circumstances. This policy is reflected in domestic legislation and will be unaffected by our exit from the EU. We have reunited over 24,000 partners and children with their families under our family reunion policy in the last five years.</p><p>Until we leave the EU, the UK remains bound by EU asylum legislation, where we have opted in, including the Dublin Regulation. The Dublin III Regulation is the mechanism to determine the Member State responsible for the consideration of an asylum claim. We are considering the options to ensure effective cooperation on the country responsible for processing asylum claims when we leave the EU. This will be a key consideration as part of the process of establishing a new relationship with our European partners.</p><p><br>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications and their outcomes from unaccompanied asylum seeking children who enter the UK. The data are published in volume 3 of the asylum tables in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The latest release includes data up to September 2017, is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017-data-tables</a>.</p><p><br>In addition, the Home Office published a one-off data publication on the number of children transferred from France as part of the UK’s comprehensive support for the Calais camp clearance in autumn 2016. The data is published here: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transfers-of-children-to-the-uk-from-the-calais-operation-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transfers-of-children-to-the-uk-from-the-calais-operation-november-2017</a><br>The Home Office only returns an unaccompanied child with no lawful basis to remain in the UK if it is satisfied that safe and adequate reception arrangements are in place in the country to which they are to be removed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 125384 question first answered 05/02/2018 16:41:19 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

833068

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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, whether her Department will commit to maintaining in law, the right of children fleeing conflict to seek sanctuary in the UK if they have family members currently living in our country, after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	125384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK is fully committed to transferring the specified number of 480 unaccompanied children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 as soon as possible. Whilst the Government is clear that we will not be amending the current legislation, after extensive discussion with France, Greece and Italy, we have updated the eligibility date on an exceptional basis to ensure we can transfer the circa. 260 remaining unaccompanied children and meet our obligation under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. We are working closely with Member States and with relevant partners such as the UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs to ensure the safe transfer of children referred by each Member State to the UK. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing.</p><p>Our Family Reunion policy allow children to join their refugee parents, and there are also specific provisions that allow extended family members lawfully resident in the UK to sponsor unaccompanied children where there are serious and compelling circumstances. This policy is reflected in domestic legislation and will be unaffected by our exit from the EU. We have reunited over 24,000 partners and children with their families under our family reunion policy in the last five years.</p><p>Until we leave the EU, the UK remains bound by EU asylum legislation, where we have opted in, including the Dublin Regulation. The Dublin III Regulation is the mechanism to determine the Member State responsible for the consideration of an asylum claim. We are considering the options to ensure effective cooperation on the country responsible for processing asylum claims when we leave the EU. This will be a key consideration as part of the process of establishing a new relationship with our European partners.</p><p><br>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications and their outcomes from unaccompanied asylum seeking children who enter the UK. The data are published in volume 3 of the asylum tables in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The latest release includes data up to September 2017, is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017-data-tables</a>.</p><p><br>In addition, the Home Office published a one-off data publication on the number of children transferred from France as part of the UK’s comprehensive support for the Calais camp clearance in autumn 2016. The data is published here: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transfers-of-children-to-the-uk-from-the-calais-operation-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transfers-of-children-to-the-uk-from-the-calais-operation-november-2017</a><br>The Home Office only returns an unaccompanied child with no lawful basis to remain in the UK if it is satisfied that safe and adequate reception arrangements are in place in the country to which they are to be removed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 125383 question first answered 05/02/2018 16:41:19 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

833075

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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, whether her Department plans to release reliable, disaggregated data on unaccompanied minors entering and leaving the UK.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	125391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK is fully committed to transferring the specified number of 480 unaccompanied children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 as soon as possible. Whilst the Government is clear that we will not be amending the current legislation, after extensive discussion with France, Greece and Italy, we have updated the eligibility date on an exceptional basis to ensure we can transfer the circa. 260 remaining unaccompanied children and meet our obligation under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. We are working closely with Member States and with relevant partners such as the UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs to ensure the safe transfer of children referred by each Member State to the UK. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing.</p><p>Our Family Reunion policy allow children to join their refugee parents, and there are also specific provisions that allow extended family members lawfully resident in the UK to sponsor unaccompanied children where there are serious and compelling circum-stances. This policy is reflected in domestic legislation and will be unaffected by our exit from the EU. We have reunited over 24,000 partners and children with their families under our family reunion policy in the last five years.</p><p>Until we leave the EU, the UK remains bound by EU asylum legislation, where we have opted in, including the Dublin Regulation. The Dublin III Regulation is the mechanism to determine the Member State responsible for the consideration of an asylum claim. We are considering the options to ensure effective cooperation on the country responsible for processing asylum claims when we leave the EU. This will be a key consideration as part of the process of establishing a new relationship with our European partners. <br>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications and their outcomes from unaccompanied asylum seeking children who enter the UK. The data are published in volume 3 of the asylum tables in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The latest release includes data up to September 2017, is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017-data-tables. <br>In addition, the Home Office published a one-off data publication on the number of children transferred from France as part of the UK’s comprehensive support for the Calais camp clearance in autumn 2016. The data is published here: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transfers-of-children-to-the-uk-from-the-calais-operation-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transfers-of-children-to-the-uk-from-the-calais-operation-november-2017</a><br>The Home Office only returns an unaccompanied child with no lawful basis to remain in the UK if it is satisfied that safe and adequate reception arrangements are in place in the country to which they are to be removed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/02/2018 17:48:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

833077

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Rolling Stock
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2017 to Question 116533, on rolling stock, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect on the environment of the development of bi-modal trains; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	125393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The assessment of the environmental impacts of the development of bi-modal trains is a matter for the Secretary of State for Transport and Defra has therefore not made such an assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/02/2018 17:50:51 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

833079

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Railways: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118503, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of diesel particulates from bi-mode trains on the health of passengers, railway workers and people who live near to railway lines.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	125395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply previously given on 05 February 2018, PQ 125393.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/02/2018 18:01:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris