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1082332

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pension Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of pension sharing orders relating to police pensions; and if he will review his policy to ensure that people in receipt of police pensions are not disadvantaged by such orders in the event that they become divorced.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	228791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>Pension sharing is one way in which the pension entitlements of divorcing parties may be split. It is governed by legislation which applies generally to pensions on divorce. Following pension sharing, a pension for the ex-spouse is calculated using actuarial guidance as prescribed. We have no plans to make changes to the pension sharing arrangements for the police pension scheme.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/03/2019 16:18:16 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1087272

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to reduce illegal immigration since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	231564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing illegal immigration. Since 2010 we have completely reformed the immigration system, cutting abuse whilst focusing on attracting the brightest and the best.</p><p>We are tackling illegal immigration by making it harder for those who do not qualify under the Immigration Rules to live here illegally, including through measures introduced in the Immigration Acts 2014 and 2016. We have taken action against over 1,000 colleges to prevent the admission of non-genuine students into the country. We continue to take enforcement action against employers who employ illegal workers; applying civil penalties, intervening with licensing authorities to withdraw licences, and closing their business premises where necessary.</p><p>In addition, we have pursued an ambitious programme of reform at the border, included investment in new technology in the United Kingdom and at our juxtaposed controls to keep this country safe, with Border Force transforming its working practices, command and control and leadership. These reforms are working and border security has been enhanced.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/03/2019 16:56:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1087273

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Impact Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library all impact assessments his Department has made of changes to the immigration system since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	231565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Impact Assessments associated with legislation or rules changes are publicly available on gov.uk.</p><p>We keep all immigration policies under regular review including the impact that they are having on net migration.</p><p>The introduction of major immigration policies are accompanied by published impact assessments where appropriate, and the Government also commissions the Migration Advisory Committee to advise on immigration policy. Recent changes proposed in the Immigration White Paper, ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system,’ were accompanied by an analytical assessment which was published as part of the paper. <br></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 231566 231567 question first answered 19/03/2019 17:08:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1087275

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the changes to the immigration system that increased immigration since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	231566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Impact Assessments associated with legislation or rules changes are publicly available on gov.uk.</p><p>We keep all immigration policies under regular review including the impact that they are having on net migration.</p><p>The introduction of major immigration policies are accompanied by published impact assessments where appropriate, and the Government also commissions the Migration Advisory Committee to advise on immigration policy. Recent changes proposed in the Immigration White Paper, ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system,’ were accompanied by an analytical assessment which was published as part of the paper. <br></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 231565 231567 question first answered 19/03/2019 17:08:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1087276

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the changes to the immigration system that reduced net immigration since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	231567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Impact Assessments associated with legislation or rules changes are publicly available on gov.uk.</p><p>We keep all immigration policies under regular review including the impact that they are having on net migration.</p><p>The introduction of major immigration policies are accompanied by published impact assessments where appropriate, and the Government also commissions the Migration Advisory Committee to advise on immigration policy. Recent changes proposed in the Immigration White Paper, ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system,’ were accompanied by an analytical assessment which was published as part of the paper. <br></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 231565 231566 question first answered 19/03/2019 17:08:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1137574

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which security tools and data systems the UK will no longer have access to in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	274647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s position remains that leaving with a deal, which includes ambitious internal security arrangements, is in the UK’s and EU’s best interests. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, then we would cease to cooperate through the EU’s internal security tools and data systems upon exit.</p><p>The Home Office continues to work closely with operational partners to ensure readiness for a range of possible exit scenarios in October, including no deal. We have been working intensively with these partners for some time to transition cooperation with EU Member States to alternative, non-EU mechanisms, should that be needed in a no deal scenario. In the security and law enforcement space, this would include making more use of Interpol, Council of Europe Conventions and other forms of cooperation, such as bilateral channels.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 15/07/2019 10:47:19 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1141037

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of calls to the 101 service were (a) answered in under 30 seconds, (b) answered between 30 to 60 seconds, (c) answered between 60 seconds and 120 seconds, (d) answered between 120 and 180 seconds, (e) answered between 180 and 300 seconds (f) answered between 300 and 600 seconds (g) answered after 600 seconds, (h) unanswered in each of the last three years for which information is available; and how many calls there were in total in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	280458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect data on the 101 service, this is an operational decision for individual forces.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/07/2019 09:23:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1196500

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the amount of revenue that will accrue to the public purse from the Immigration Health Surcharge in each of the years to the end of the current forecast period.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	48627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely publish data relating to financial forecasts. Income data for the Immigration Health Surcharge is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>Please see page 137 of the Home Office 2018-19 Annual Report and Accounts for the most recent disclosure of Immigration Health Surcharge income</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807126/6.5571_HO_Annual_Report_201920_WEB.PDF</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2020 13:42:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1198344

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British National (Overseas): Passports
	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 hold valid British National Overseas passports.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	52461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>The number of valid British National (Overseas) passports in circulation as at 17th April 2020 was 357,156.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 04/06/2020 14:49:22 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226774

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department have undertaken unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	77794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>1.) Training on unconscious bias is primarily provided through the Unconscious Bias eLearning package on the Civil Service Learning site. The table below shows the number of individual Home Office staff that have undertaken this course in each of the last five financial years:</p><p><strong>Table 1: Take up of Unconscious Bias eLearning</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 15 to 31 Mar 16</p></td><td><p>1,893</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 16 to 31 Mar 17</p></td><td><p>2,862</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 17 to 31 Mar 18</p></td><td><p>5,179</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 18 to 31 Mar 19</p></td><td><p>7,925</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 19 to 31 Mar 20</p></td><td><p>15,306</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>2.) In addition to the Unconscious Bias eLearning package the subject of unconscious bias has been included in the Diversity &amp; Inclusion eLearning package on the Civil Service Learning site from May 2019. The table below shows the number of Home Office staff that have undertaken this course from 1 May 2019 to 31 March 2020:</p><p><strong>Table 2: Take up of Diversity &amp; Inclusion eLearning</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 May 19 to 31 Mar 20</p></td><td><p>14,460</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>3.) Civil Service Learning also provide a half day workshop on unconscious bias, aimed at Senior Civil Servants. A total of 23 Home Office Senior Civil Servants staff have attended this workshop as shown below:</p><p><strong>Table 3: Take up of Unconscious Bias workshop</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 18 to 31 Mar 19</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 19 to 31 Mar 20</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>4.) It should be noted that all figures include permanent Home Office Civil Servants only; contactors working on behalf of the Home Office are not included.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/09/2020 10:23:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien