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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

816721

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 119260, whether his Department has a minimum acceptable level for the (a) accuracy and (b) completeness of the electoral register.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	121148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>By law, Electoral Registration Officers are charged with maintaining a complete and accurate electoral register. The Government has not set a minimum acceptable level of completeness or accuracy.</p><p>The most recent full assessment of the register completeness and accuracy was published in July 2016 by the Electoral Commission. It showed that completeness was stable (at around 85 per cent) and that the introduction of individual electoral registration in 2014 had led to a statistically significant improvement in register accuracy (at around 90 per cent).</p><p>The Government published its democratic engagement plan in December 2017 setting out how we intend to work with Electoral Registration Officers and others to continue to ensure we have the best possible electoral registers.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/01/2018 14:51:08 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

809770

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118752, on Sports: Children, how many children the (a) Families Fund and (b) Potentials Fund aims to support; and how many schools those children attend.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	120390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>The Families Fund and the Potential Fund are new investment approaches. Projects apply directly to Sport England for funding and are then assessed against a range of criteria. Both the Families Fund and Potentials Fund are still in the early stages of investment and Sport England will work with successful projects to understand their reach and impact as they are rolled out.</p><p> </p><p>16 awards totalling over £2.1m have so far been made from the Potentials Fund. This was announced in November 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England is currently assessing applications to the Families Fund which will make available awards of between £50,000-£500,000. Final decisions on projects to be awarded funding will be made in March 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 10/01/2018 09:44:30 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

809814

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118502, what the estimates used by his Department as determined by the Office of the Rail Regulator for the current control period are.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	120434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>Full track access charges are published by Network Rail on the following website:</p><p><a href="https://www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-commercial-partners/information-operating-companies/cp5-access-charges/" target="_blank">https://www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-commercial-partners/information-operating-companies/cp5-access-charges/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The difference between the average maintenance cost per mile of track applied by Network Rail to franchisees operating electric trains and bi-mode trains for the control period in question indicated that track maintenance costs were expected to be approximately 11-12% higher than electric trains of the same design.</p><p> </p><p>The final track access charges relating to the Intercity Express Programme trains will be published by Network Rail in due course.</p><p>Whilst heavier than the electric Intercity Express Programme trains the bi-modes are still lighter than the High Speed Trains they are replacing which means less track wear and damage with lower operating costs – a benefit to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>Through the use of bi-modes we can improve journeys for passengers sooner and reduce the need for as much disruptive engineering work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/01/2018 12:43:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

808985

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Public Spaces Protection Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish updated guidance on the use of Public Spaces Protection Orders and Community Protection Notices.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	120094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>Refreshed statutory guidance for frontline professionals on the use of Public Spaces Protection Orders and Community Protection Notices and other powers to tackle anti-social behaviour provided by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 was published on 24 December 2017.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 10/01/2018 17:22:26 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris