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	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	o ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when Ministers of her Department first were made aware of immigration status difficulties affecting the Windrush generation; and what steps they took as a result.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	136440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department was made aware of the immigration status difficulties of individual cases, as flagged by members of the House and the media. The wider issue around the immigration status difficulties affecting some of the Windrush generation has come to the fore, and the attention of Ministers, in recent months. On the 16 April we set up a Taskforce to help those affected get documents they need and on 30 May, the Windrush Scheme came into force. This Scheme is designed to ensure that members of this generation, their children born in the UK and those who arrived in the UK as minors will be able to apply for citizenship, or various other immigration products, free of charge.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 13:36:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

909176

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Freezing of Assets
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department,how many bank account freezing orders have been (a) applied for by his Department under the powers contained in Schedule 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, (b) granted by a magistrates court and (c) granted and then revoked following an appeal since January 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	146113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p><br>The operation of the banking measures in the 2016 Immigration Act is at an early stage. Banks and building societies had until the end of the first quarter of this year to conduct their checks against Home Office disqualified persons data and the results have been reviewed. Currently, no freezing orders have been applied for, granted or have been revoked following an appeal under the powers contained in Schedule 7 of the Immigration Act 2016.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 12:00:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

884974

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Disclosure of Information
	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 news article entitled Amber Rudd denies seeing leaked Home Office violent crime report, published by the Guardian on Monday 9 April 2018, whether her private office viewed the leaked report mentioned in that article before publishing the Serious Violence Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	135962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The former Home Secretary made clear at the launch of the Serious Violence Strategy on 9 April that the Guardian had not shared the leaked document with us and so was unable to verify if she had seen that particular report. However, she had seen analysis from Home Office officials as the strategy and its underlying evidence developed.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/06/2018 13:49:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

926550

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments
	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 recital 10 of the EU animal experiments directive 2010/63/EU, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the objective of achieving the final goal of full replacement of procedures on live animals for scientific and educational purposes is fully reflected in domestic law following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and the expiry of any transition period.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	154669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The use of animals in scientific research remains a vital tool in improving our understanding of how biological systems work both in health and disease. Such use is crucial for the development of new medicines and cutting edge medical technologies for both humans and animals, and for the protection of our environment.</p><p>The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, as amended in 2012, requires that testing only takes place where no scientifically satisfactory non-animal alternative method exists. Project licence proposals for research on animals, for which there is no non-animal alternative, must comply fully with the principles of the 3Rs: replacement, reduction and refinement.</p><p>Following EU exit, the requirement for the replacement of animal tests where practicable, and the principles of the 3Rs, will be fully retained in ASPA.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 26/06/2018 10:53:46 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

927773

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Veterinary Medicine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the lifting of restrictions on the allocation of Tier 2 visas will apply to highly skilled veterinarians.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	155851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>On Friday 15 June, the Government announced changes to the allocation of places within the Tier 2 (General) cap of 20,700. The change – which will be implemented through amended Immigration Rules coming into effect on 6 July – will ensure that all doctors and all nurses needed in the UK will be able to be recruited to work here without being counted against the cap. This is intended to be a temporary change which recognises the importance of alleviating pressure on the NHS and which creates extra space within the cap for other sectors of the economy, including highly skilled veterinarians. <br> <br>In parallel, we have asked the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to review the full composition of the Shortage Occupation List.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 11:36:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

914937

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Generation: Biometrics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the issuing of biometric residence permits for Windrush cases has been prioritised by his Department over other cases in the last two months.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	148813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office is processing Windrush cases, and the issuing of the associated Biometric Residence Permits (BRP) once a decision has been made, as a priority.</p><p>This is being successfully managed to provide Windrush individuals with the documents they need as soon as possible, without impacting on the performance of wider BRP production.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 12:50:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

927965

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Cameroon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has received any applications for asylum on the grounds of persecution because of political opinion from persons originating in Southern Cameroon within the last nine months.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	155757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on asylum claimants is held on both the asylum case file and the main immigration database. This will include personal details of claimants and relatives such as claimed dates and places of birth, claimed religion, claimed ethnicity, as well as details of their asylum claims. The way this information is stored is such that it is often not possible to report on these information fields without conducting a manual search of both paper and electronic records. Therefore, we cannot identify how many asylum claims have been granted or refused leave from specific parts of countries of origin or as a result of political opinion<br>Published data relating to the outcomes of asylum claims from each country (including Cameroon) can be found in tab as_02 at volume 1 of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 11:37:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

926622

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Pregnancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is an aggravated offence for a pregnant women to use (a) cannabis, (b) ecstasy, (c) heroin and (d) other illegal or street drugs during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	154632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>There is no specific offence for drug use. It is an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 for any person to possess a controlled drug. The penalty will depend on: the class and quantity of drug, where a person and the drugs were found, their personal history and other aggravating or mitigating factors. <br>The Government is determined to protect vulnerable women from drug misuse. Advice about alcohol and drugs is available to pregnant women as part of their routine antenatal care. Pregnant women who misuse alcohol or drugs will be put in contact with a midwife or doctor who has special expertise in the care of pregnant women with alcohol or drug problems. They will be able to refer them to an alcohol or drug treatment programme and other organisations that can help.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 26/06/2018 11:32:25 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

911246

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that (a) members of the Windrush generation, (b) their children who were born in the UK or were minors when they arrived in the UK and (c) people who arrived in the UK between 1973 and 1988 who approach the Windrush task force will not have their information passed to Immigration Enforcement.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	147978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>On 24 May the Department published its guidance on how decision makers will decide a Windrush Scheme applications. The evidential burden is set out in the guidance that is available at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/windrush-scheme-casework-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/windrush-scheme-casework-guidance</a></p><p>The Department has set up a dedicated team to proactively support members of the Windrush Generation and has implemented a simplified application process. All staff considering Windrush Scheme cases are experienced caseworkers, with further bespoke training focused on the published guidance set out in the Statutory Instrument and underlining the sensitive nature of these cases.</p><p>All applications under the Windrush Scheme will be handled sympathetically and proactively. The taskforce will ensure that all relevant evidence is considered and have already helped more than 800 people to get the documentation they need to demonstrate their right to be in the UK.</p><p>Anyone who believes their application has been refused incorrectly will be able to reapply through the scheme at no extra cost</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 12:47:28 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

926852

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Religious Buildings: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has a timetable for reopening the Vulnerable Faith Institution Scheme to enable bids from places of worship to improve their security measures; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
	tabling member printed	Laura Smith
	uin	155374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has committed £2.4m over three years (2016 to 2019) to provide protective security measures to places of worship in England and Wales that have been subject or are vulnerable to hate crime.</p><p>The third year of the scheme opened for applications on 8 June. The Vulnerable Faith Institutions Scheme was a separate funding scheme of £1million for one year following the attack at Finsbury Park in June 2017.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/06/2018 12:26:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith