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	registered interest
	date	21/04/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether procedures have changed as a result of recent successful prosecutions for unlawful immigration detention.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	71612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>The cross-system Detention Gatekeeper has now been introduced to scrutinise all proposed detentions independently of an arresting team. Individuals can now only enter immigration detention with the authority of the Detention Gatekeeper, who will ensure that there is no evidence of vulnerability which would be exacerbated by detention, that return will occur within a reasonable timeframe and check that any proposed detention is lawful.</p><p> </p><p>Separately, Case Progression Panels have been introduced to review all cases within immigration detention by a peer-led panel. These panels focus on ensuring that there is progression toward return for all individuals detained, and that detention remains lawful.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 26/04/2017 09:54:28 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

723021

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Enforcement Directorate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans for the Immigration Enforcement Business Plan for 2016-17 to be published.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	71513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s plans for immigration enforcement will be communicated in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/04/2017 12:21:01 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

723022

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid in compensation for unlawful immigration detention since figures on such compensation payments were published in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	71514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to my response to PQ 47658, submitted to Parliament on 19 October 2016.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/04/2017 09:33:54 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

573747

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	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, what steps she is taking to accelerate the process of family reunification for unaccompanied refugee children in Europe.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	44498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government began work to implement the ‘Dubs amendment’ immediately after the Immigration Bill gained Royal Assent. Over 30 children who meet the criteria in the Immigration Act have been accepted for transfer since it received Royal Assent in May, the majority of these have already arrived in the UK.</p><p>We continue to work with the French, Greek and Italian authorities and others to speed up existing family reunification processes or implement new processes where necessary for unaccompanied children. We have seconded a UK official to Greece, we have a long-standing secondee working in Italy and will shortly be seconding another official to the French Interior Ministry to support these efforts.</p><p>We have established a dedicated team in the Home Office Dublin Unit to lead on family reunion cases for unaccompanied children. Transfer requests under the Dublin Regulation are now generally processed within 10 days and children transferred within weeks. Over 120 children have been accepted for transfer this year from Europe.</p><p>We also continue to consult local authorities about the transfer unaccompanied refugee children from Europe to the UK, where it is in their best interests.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/09/2016 15:27:43 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston