The UK Border Agency was absorbed into the Home Office on 1 April 2013; its
successor business areas are UK Visas & Immigration and Immigration Enforcement.
(i) The Home Office and its Agencies do not employ and have not employed staff
on zero-hours contracts.
(ii) A geographical breakdown of temporary staff employed in UK Border Agency
successor business areas in each of the last two years is shown at Table 1.<\/p>
[ATTACH TABLE]<\/p>
NOTE: Office for National Statistics defines temporary staff as those civil
servants with contracts of employment of less than one year; staff with Fixed
Term Appointments and Permanent staff are reported separately by all government
departments, as are Agency and Contingent Workers.<\/p>"}
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, "title" : "TABLE 1"}
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, "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-05-06T12:00:00.00Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
]}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) the UK were (i) on zero-hours contracts and (ii) temporary staff in each of the last two years up to the most recent period for which records are available.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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}
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], "uin" : "107179"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/38104", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/38104/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
<\/p>
This information is not held centrally and would only be available at
disproportionate cost.<\/p>
<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1530", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for James Brokenshire"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Old Bexley and Sidcup"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "James Brokenshire"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-04-10", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-04-10T12:00:00.00Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : ""} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : ""} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-02-11", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people deported by the Border Agency since May 2010 have subsequently been convicted of a criminal offence in the UK.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/533", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for David Hanson"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Delyn"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr David Hanson"} ], "uin" : "187705"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/38302", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/38302/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
<\/p>
The Home Office has suspended acceptance of all ETS tests taken and used in the
UK whist the scope of the issue is ascertained and to determine the number of people who
have taken a test and been involved in fraud. We have specialist teams in place
to undertake this analysis.
We are looking at all current and past applications. Anyone who is found to
have used or is currently trying to use evidence that they obtained dishonestly
can expect to have their leave curtailed and be removed from the UK or have any
outstanding application refused and leave the UK. We will also seek criminal
prosecution where appropriate and use all of the measures that we have
available.
Our reforms have curbed abuse by closing bogus colleges, making the application
process more rigorous and imposing more rules on colleges to improve course
quality. However, as the recent BBC Panorama programme highlighted, much more
needs to be done.
The Government will take all necessary steps, but our approach also requires
the education sector, particularly private or further education colleges and
those providing secure English language testing, to take on their
responsibility to tackle abuse.<\/p>
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<\/p>
The report will be placed in the Library when the Home Secretary announces her
decision on whether to authorise water cannon for use by the police in England
and Wales.<\/p>
<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/76", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Damian Green"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Ashford"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Damian Green"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-04-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-04-09T12:00:00.00Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : ""} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : ""} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-02-13", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the report entitled The medical implications of vehicle-mounted water cannon with special reference to the Ziegler Wasserwerfer 9000 (WaWe 9) system, published by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in 2013.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1170", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sarah Teather"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Brent Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Sarah Teather"} ], "uin" : "188418"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/39387", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/39387/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
[holding answer 26 February 2014]<\/p>
For the for week commencing 24 February 2014, there were 821 immigration detainees in prisons.<\/p>
<\/p>
Please note that the data includes a small number of individuals who have never served a custodial sentence. These individuals present specific risk factors that indicate they pose a serious risk of harm to the public or to the good order of an Immigration Removal Centre, including the safety of staff and other detainees, which cannot be managed within the regime applied in IRCs.<\/p>
<\/p>
To extract this small number of cases who have not served a custodial sentence would incur a disproportionate cost as this would involve looking at individual records.<\/p>
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<\/p>
We are unable to provide figures specific to asylum cases awaiting travel
documents. This information is only held within paper case files, which would
mean this question could only be answered through a disproportionately
expensive manual case search.<\/p>
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<\/p>
As indicated in the debate on 12th February 2014, Official Report, column 858, both the
Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Investigatory Powers Tribunal
provide an avenue for investigating concerns in this area.
As a matter of long-standing practice, we do not routinely comment on the
detailed use of interception and surveillance, or provide a breakdown of the
number of warrants signed in relation to specific circumstances or
nationalities.
Figures for the overall number of interception warrants authorised by the Home
Secretary during the period 1989-1992 were published in the Annual Report to
the Prime Minister by the Interception Commissioner under the legislation then
in force (the Interception of Communications Act 1985). The published figures
are as follows:<\/p>
Figures for the overall number of interception warrants authorised by the Home Secretary under the Interception of Communications Act 1985 during the period 1989-1992 are shown in the tables below. They provide separate figures for warrants covering telecommunications (which exclude letters), warrants covering letters (letters were relatively more important as a mode of communication than they would be today), and a total for both categories of these warrants.<\/p>
<\/p>
Warrants (a) in force on 31 December 1988 and b) issued during the course of 1988:<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/p>
| <\/td> | Telecommunications<\/p><\/td> | Letters<\/p><\/td> | Total<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Warrants<\/p><\/td> | (a)<\/p><\/td> | (b)<\/p><\/td> | (a)<\/p><\/td> | (b)<\/p><\/td> | (a)<\/p><\/td> | (b)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <\/td> | 225<\/p><\/td> | 412<\/p><\/td> | 75<\/p><\/td> | 48<\/p><\/td> | 300<\/p><\/td> | 460<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Warrants (a) in force on 31 December 1989 and b) issued during the course of 1989:<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>
|