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595874

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/10/2016
	date	07/10/2016
	date tabled	07/10/2016
	ddp created	07/10/2016 18:18:53
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	07/10/2016 18:34:48 14/10/2016 14:57:04
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	house id	1
	identifier	46945
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	14/10/2016 14:25:25
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's policy is for individuals who were enrolled on courses at the Cambridge College of Learning that were found at an immigration tribunal to have been fraudulent is (a) deport those people and (b) allow those people to stay in the UK and apply for indefinite leave to remain.
	session	2016/17
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2016/17 46945
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	46945
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Home Office continues to take action at every opportunity to prevent immigration abuse, pursue immigration offenders and increase compliance with immigration law including arresting and returning illegal migrants to their country of origin.</p><p>Information on former overseas students of the Cambridge College of Learning is not aggregated in national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a manual case by case review to collate the data, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p>
	creator	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab written parliamentary question 1010790
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

1010790

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	23/11/2018
	date	20/11/2018
	date tabled	20/11/2018
	ddp created	20/11/2018 20:33:55
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	21/11/2018 16:15:28 26/11/2018 17:55:01
	hansard heading	Consumers
	house id	1
	identifier	193477
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	26/11/2018 17:23:36
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to respond to the Green Paper on modernising consumer markets.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 193477
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	193477
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring markets work in the interests of ordinary people and the Consumer Green Paper contained a number of provisions which safeguard consumer rights whilst ensuring competition benefits consumers. We will continue to develop policy options across the range of measures proposed in the green paper and will respond in due course.</p>
	creator	4007
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	tabling member	4007

100214

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/10/2014
	date	21/10/2014
	date tabled	21/10/2014
	ddp created	21/10/2014 21:01:21
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:11:35
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Frontex
	house id	1
	identifier	211292
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 12:22:42
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any (a) request by the UK to participate in the activities of Frontex and (b) any offer by the UK to make its expertise and facilities available to Frontex has been refused by the Management Board of Frontex in the last five years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211292
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211292
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The UK does not participate fully in Frontex by virtue of its decision not to join the external borders part of Schengen agreement. The Frontex Regulation was nevertheless drafted in such a way to require Frontex to facilitate operational cooperation between the UK and Member States on a case by case basis (Article 12(1) of the Frontex Regulation). The nature of Frontex lends itself to UK involvement on a case by case basis.<br><br>As a result there have been no occasions within the last five years when the Management Board of Frontex has refused an offer made by the UK to make its expertise and facilities available for Frontex activities.<br><br>Over the last five years, the UK has provided experts in air borders, returns and fraudulent documents as well as debriefers, interpreters, screeners and a heartbeat detector with operator.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

100215

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/10/2014
	date	21/10/2014
	date tabled	21/10/2014
	ddp created	21/10/2014 21:01:22
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:11:42
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Frontex
	house id	1
	identifier	211298
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 12:23:23
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assistance the UK has provided to Frontex operations in each of the last five years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211298
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211298
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The UK does not participate fully in Frontex by virtue of its decision not to join the external borders part of Schengen agreement. The Frontex Regulation was nevertheless drafted in such a way to require Frontex to facilitate operational cooperation between the UK and Member States on a case by case basis (Article 12(1) of the Frontex Regulation). The nature of Frontex lends itself to UK involvement on a case by case basis.<br><br>As a result there have been no occasions within the last five years when the Management Board of Frontex has refused an offer made by the UK to make its expertise and facilities available for Frontex activities.<br><br>Over the last five years, the UK has provided experts in air borders, returns and fraudulent documents as well as debriefers, interpreters, screeners and a heartbeat detector with operator.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

101451

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	03/11/2014
	date	28/10/2014
	date tabled	28/10/2014
	ddp created	28/10/2014 23:51:32
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 04:52:36
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Republic of Ireland
	house id	1
	identifier	212268
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/11/2014 15:58:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) suspected of and (b) charged with terrorism offences have been surrendered by the Republic of Ireland to the UK in each of the last 30 years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212268
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212268
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Data is available between 1973 and 1999. It has not been possible to differentiate between terrorism and terrorist-related offences. Eight people in total were extradited to the UK from the Republic of Ireland for terrorism offences during this period and using the previous extradition arrangement. However, during this period the UK made 110 extradition requests to the Republic of Ireland in relation to terrorist offences, meaning that less than 10% of UK requests were successful during this period.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Extradited to the UK</em></strong></p></td><td><p>Principal offence</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Ireland</p></td><td><p>Terrorism</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1973</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1974</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1975</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1976</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1977</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1978</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1979</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1980</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1981</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1982</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1983</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1984</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1985</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1986</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1987</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1988</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1989</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1990</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1991</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1992</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1993</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1994</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1995</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1996</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>No reliable data is held between 1998 and 2008.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2009 three people have been surrendered to the UK from the Republic of Ireland in connection with terrorist and terrorism-related offences.</p><p> </p><p>Patrick Gordon was arrested in Ireland in May 2013 and was surrendered to the UK in May 2014. He is charged with possessing documents containing information of a kind likely to be used by terrorists - bomb making recipes to produce napalm type weapons.</p><p> </p><p>Liam Rainey was surrendered to the UK in 2011. He has been convicted of kidnapping a well-known republican in Belfast.</p><p> </p><p>Ryan McKenna was arrested in Ireland in September 2013 and was surrendered to the UK in February 2014. He was charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing explosives. Along with four individuals he was accused of trying to bomb a railway line using an IED and a home-made mortar. He was subsequently acquitted of all charges on 1 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Although not yet surrendered, Adam Busby, the founder of the Scottish National Liberation Army, has been arrested in Ireland subject to a UK issued Arrest Warrant in relation to terrorism-related offences. He is wanted in connection with hoax bomb warnings and poisoning threats against well known political figures, including the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.</p><p> </p><p>The Irish Justice Minister, Frances Fitzgerald, made clear in a letter dated 4 September 2014 to the Home Secretary and Justice Secretary that should the UK fail to opt in to the package of 35 criminal justice measures on 1 December 2014, there is no guarantee that the Irish courts would preserve the validity of outstanding Arrest Warrants. Consequently, Adam Busby could walk free if the UK does not rejoin the Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p>We are not aware of any UK requests to Ireland for terrorist and terrorism-related offences being refused.</p><p> </p><p>In an article for the Irish Independent on 6 November the Irish Justice Minister noted that the, ‘…Arrest Warrant, in particular, had greatly assisted our mutual efforts to fight cross-border crime and to bring serious criminals, including terrorist, to justice’. Between 2010 and 2013 Ireland surrendered 88 people to the UK to face justice. This includes:</p><p>· Four for murder;</p><p>· Two for rape;</p><p>· 17 for child sex offences;</p><p>· One for kidnapping;</p><p>· Two for armed robbery; and</p><p>· 11 for Grievous Bodily Harm</p><p> </p><p>During this same period the UK (excluding Scotland) surrendered 114 people to Ireland, including for offences of murder, rape and child sex offences.</p><p> </p><p>Although extradition to and from Ireland was previously covered by the Backing of Warrants scheme, if the UK were not to rejoin the Arrest Warrant it would rely on the 1957European Convention on Extradition (ECE) in its relations with Ireland and all other EU member states. The Arrest Warrant offers the UK distinct advantages over the ECE.</p><p> </p><p>Firstly, the process of extradition under the Arrest Warrant is quicker and cheaper than under the ECE. It takes approximately three months to surrender someone using an Arrest Warrant, however, it takes ten months on average using the ECE. On average it costs £13,000 to extradite someone using the EAW, and £62,000 using the ECE. This means that it would have cost the UK more than £5.5m more to extradite the same number of people to Ireland between 2010 and 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Secondly, under the ECE certain countries can refuse to extradite their own nationals. This is not possible under the Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p>Thirdly, under the ECE, extradition can also be refused due to the length of time that has passed since the offence was committed. Again this is not possible under the Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p>Fourthly, Article 3 of the ECE allows refusals for ‘political offences’. It would be possible for terrorists to argue that their activities fell within the scope of this ground for refusal.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

101458

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	03/11/2014
	date	28/10/2014
	date tabled	28/10/2014
	ddp created	28/10/2014 23:51:34
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 04:53:22
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Republic of Ireland
	house id	1
	identifier	212267
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/11/2014 15:58:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) suspected of and (b) charged with terrorism-related offences were extradited to the UK from the Republic of Ireland in each of the last 30 years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212267
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212267
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Data is available between 1973 and 1999. It has not been possible to differentiate between terrorism and terrorist-related offences. Eight people in total were extradited to the UK from the Republic of Ireland for terrorism offences during this period and using the previous extradition arrangement. However, during this period the UK made 110 extradition requests to the Republic of Ireland in relation to terrorist offences, meaning that less than 10% of UK requests were successful during this period.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Extradited to the UK</em></strong></p></td><td><p>Principal offence</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Ireland</p></td><td><p>Terrorism</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1973</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1974</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1975</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1976</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1977</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1978</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1979</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1980</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1981</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1982</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1983</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1984</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1985</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1986</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1987</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1988</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1989</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1990</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1991</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1992</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1993</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1994</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1995</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1996</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>No reliable data is held between 1998 and 2008.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2009 three people have been surrendered to the UK from the Republic of Ireland in connection with terrorist and terrorism-related offences.</p><p> </p><p>Patrick Gordon was arrested in Ireland in May 2013 and was surrendered to the UK in May 2014. He is charged with possessing documents containing information of a kind likely to be used by terrorists - bomb making recipes to produce napalm type weapons.</p><p> </p><p>Liam Rainey was surrendered to the UK in 2011. He has been convicted of kidnapping a well-known republican in Belfast.</p><p> </p><p>Ryan McKenna was arrested in Ireland in September 2013 and was surrendered to the UK in February 2014. He was charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing explosives. Along with four individuals he was accused of trying to bomb a railway line using an IED and a home-made mortar. He was subsequently acquitted of all charges on 1 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Although not yet surrendered, Adam Busby, the founder of the Scottish National Liberation Army, has been arrested in Ireland subject to a UK issued Arrest Warrant in relation to terrorism-related offences. He is wanted in connection with hoax bomb warnings and poisoning threats against well known political figures, including the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.</p><p> </p><p>The Irish Justice Minister, Frances Fitzgerald, made clear in a letter dated 4 September 2014 to the Home Secretary and Justice Secretary that should the UK fail to opt in to the package of 35 criminal justice measures on 1 December 2014, there is no guarantee that the Irish courts would preserve the validity of outstanding Arrest Warrants. Consequently, Adam Busby could walk free if the UK does not rejoin the Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p>We are not aware of any UK requests to Ireland for terrorist and terrorism-related offences being refused.</p><p> </p><p>In an article for the Irish Independent on 6 November the Irish Justice Minister noted that the, ‘…Arrest Warrant, in particular, had greatly assisted our mutual efforts to fight cross-border crime and to bring serious criminals, including terrorist, to justice’. Between 2010 and 2013 Ireland surrendered 88 people to the UK to face justice. This includes:</p><p>· Four for murder;</p><p>· Two for rape;</p><p>· 17 for child sex offences;</p><p>· One for kidnapping;</p><p>· Two for armed robbery; and</p><p>· 11 for Grievous Bodily Harm</p><p> </p><p>During this same period the UK (excluding Scotland) surrendered 114 people to Ireland, including for offences of murder, rape and child sex offences.</p><p> </p><p>Although extradition to and from Ireland was previously covered by the Backing of Warrants scheme, if the UK were not to rejoin the Arrest Warrant it would rely on the 1957European Convention on Extradition (ECE) in its relations with Ireland and all other EU member states. The Arrest Warrant offers the UK distinct advantages over the ECE.</p><p> </p><p>Firstly, the process of extradition under the Arrest Warrant is quicker and cheaper than under the ECE. It takes approximately three months to surrender someone using an Arrest Warrant, however, it takes ten months on average using the ECE. On average it costs £13,000 to extradite someone using the EAW, and £62,000 using the ECE. This means that it would have cost the UK more than £5.5m more to extradite the same number of people to Ireland between 2010 and 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Secondly, under the ECE certain countries can refuse to extradite their own nationals. This is not possible under the Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p>Thirdly, under the ECE, extradition can also be refused due to the length of time that has passed since the offence was committed. Again this is not possible under the Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p>Fourthly, Article 3 of the ECE allows refusals for ‘political offences’. It would be possible for terrorists to argue that their activities fell within the scope of this ground for refusal.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

101652

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	03/11/2014
	date	29/10/2014
	date tabled	29/10/2014
	ddp created	29/10/2014 21:30:24
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:14:43
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants: Republic of Ireland
	house id	1
	identifier	212487
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/11/2014 15:59:42
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the last European Arrest Warrant was issued by the UK to the Republic of Ireland in relation to an offence or offences related to terrorism.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212487
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212487
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The most recent Arrest Warrant issued by the UK to Ireland for terrorism-related offences was on 29 August 2013, with the subject surrendered in February 2014. <br><br>There are currently two outstanding Arrest Warrants for terrorism-related offences that were issued by the UK to Ireland.<br><br>The Government of Ireland made clear in a letter dated 4 September 2014 from the Irish Justice Minister to the Home Secretary that should the UK fail to opt in to the package of 35 criminal justice measures on 1 December 2014, there is no guarantee that the Irish courts would preserve the validity of outstanding Arrest Warrants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

101653

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	03/11/2014
	date	29/10/2014
	date tabled	29/10/2014
	ddp created	29/10/2014 21:30:24
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:14:49
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants: Republic of Ireland
	house id	1
	identifier	212488
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/11/2014 15:59:43
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many European Arrest Warrants issued by the UK to the Republic of Ireland for terrorism-related offences remain outstanding.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212488
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212488
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The most recent Arrest Warrant issued by the UK to Ireland for terrorism-related offences was on 29 August 2013, with the subject surrendered in February 2014. <br><br>There are currently two outstanding Arrest Warrants for terrorism-related offences that were issued by the UK to Ireland.<br><br>The Government of Ireland made clear in a letter dated 4 September 2014 from the Irish Justice Minister to the Home Secretary that should the UK fail to opt in to the package of 35 criminal justice measures on 1 December 2014, there is no guarantee that the Irish courts would preserve the validity of outstanding Arrest Warrants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

171303

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/01/2015
	date	17/12/2014
	date tabled	17/12/2014
	ddp created	17/12/2014 23:10:53
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 18:36:00
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force
	house id	1
	identifier	219212
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	06/01/2015 14:53:03
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to increase the number of front-line staff employed to work at the UK border.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 219212
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	219212
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Border Force has recruited additional officers over the past two and a half years and currently employs 7,900 operational staff across the UK – an increase from 7,029 in 2012. Border Force officers work closely with the National Crime <br>Agency's Border Policing Command, which was created in 2013 and has over 300 officers based at UK ports and airports, to ensure that there is a single coherent strategy for border security, based on a shared assessment of risk and <br>threat.<br><br>Border Force has a clear operating mandate that sets out the checks required for both passengers and customs activity. Its workforce has become increasingly multi-skilled, dynamic and flexible; allowing for staff to be deployed to areas <br>of greatest need at short notice. This approach, which is similar to those adopted by other law enforcement organisations, ensures that frontline resources are concentrated where they are needed most.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007

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	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	27/03/2014
	date	24/03/2014
	date tabled	24/03/2014
	ddp created	25/03/2014 00:31:04
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 02:58:56
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	identifier	193408
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	01/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2014, Official Report, column 604W, on EU Justice and Home Affairs, with which countries the EU as a legal personality has concluded co-operation agreements in the field of justice and home affairs.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 193408
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	193408
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the response given by the Minister for Europe (Mr David Lidington) on 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 70W. In addition, JHA agreements have also been concluded with Brazil, Ukraine and Moldova during the course of this Government which build on the borders and immigration aspects of the Schengen system, in which the UK does not participate.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4007
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4007