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1017192

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Immigration of 4 September 2018, Official Report column 52WH, how many of the 22,6924 people with TOEIC test certificates whose results were found by ETS to be questionable subsequently (a) resat a test and (b) attended an interview.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	197313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Further details based on locally held management information (including numbers on opportunities to sit a further test and invites to interview) have previously been provided to the Home Affairs Select Committee. This information continues to be available on their website.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 17:30:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1017193

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Immigration of 4 September 2018, Official Report column 52WH, what steps were taken against those people out of the 22,694 with TOEIC certificates whose results were found by ETS to be questionable who did not subsequently (a) resit a test and (b) attend an interview.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	197314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>No action to refuse leave on the grounds of a questionable certificate should have been taken against anybody without first giving them the opportunity to resit their test with another provider or attend an interview with a Home Office official.</p><p>Whilst ETS notified the Home Office of 22,694 questionable UK test certificates, the actual number where it was relevant to require a fresh test and an interview with a Home Office official will have been much smaller.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 17:31:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1017224

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Mental Health
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 made implications for his policies of the report entitled, Policing and Mental Health, published by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services in November 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	197466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The report confirms the Government’s repeated view that the police should not be left, by default, to care for those who have committed no offence but who need professional healthcare, and its determination to enhance mental health services to ensure that those in crisis receive such appropriate care.</p><p>The Government has amended legislation to ban the use of police stations as places of safety for under 18 year-olds, and significantly reduce their use in the case of adults, and invested some £30m in increasing the capacity of health and community based places of safety. NHS England is committing to investing up to a further £250m a year by 2023-24 into new crisis services.</p><p>Home Office Ministers are leading work with health and po-licing partners to continue to identify and reduce unreasonable mental health pressures on the police.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 15:43:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1017287

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 (a) aged 18 and over and (b) aged under 18 successfully applied for asylum in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	197413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data, in its quarterly Immigration Statistics re-lease, on (a) number of people granted asylum in the UK (table as_2_q Asy-lum, volume 2), and (b) number of people under the age of 18 granted asylum in the UK (table as_2_q_c Asylum, volume 2)<br>Latest edition available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/758195/asylum2-sep-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/758195/asylum2-sep-2018-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 17:25:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1017347

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 publish guidance on registering under the EU Settlement Scheme for EU nationals who do not have identification or residency documentation due to being in the UK in a situation of trafficking and who have chosen not to enter the National Referral Mechanism and therefore do not have a positive conclusive grounds decision relating to their trafficked status.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	197484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Statement of Intent published on 21 June 2018, the EU Settlement Scheme will adopt a flexible approach to evidence of both identity and residence</p><p>When the scheme is rolled out fully by 30 March 2019 the Home Office will accept alternative evidence of identity and nationality where it accepts that the applicant is unable to obtain or produce the required document due to circumstances beyond their control or due to compelling practical or compassionate reasons. We will publish caseworker guidance on this in due course and will consult representatives of vulnerable groups.</p><p>The published caseworker guidance includes a broad range of evidence that caseworkers can accept to establish the applicant’s claimed period of residence in the UK. Victims of trafficking who have chosen not to enter the National Referral Mechanism will be able to choose from this (or other) evidence to prove their residence, or (if they have been working or claiming benefits) will be able to do so via our automated data matching with HM Revenue &amp; Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 17:27:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1017348

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigrants: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2018 to Question 185054, what estimate he has made of the number of EU victims of modern slavery within the UK who have been found under section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to have been forced to commit a criminal act by their traffickers; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of exempting those victims from the EU public policy and security tests for deportation.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	197485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not hold information centrally on the number of EU victims of modern slavery who have been found to have been forced to commit criminal acts by their traffickers.</p><p>The decision to deport under the EU public policy or security tests must be based exclusively on the personal conduct of the individual concerned, which must present a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests in society. It must take into account proportionality considerations, including how long the person has resided in the UK, their age, state of health, family and economic circumstances, social and cultural integration, and the extent of their links with the country of origin.</p><p>Victims of trafficking and modern slavery who have committed crimes either in the UK or overseas are not exempt from this assessment. We are not planning to reassess the EU deportation framework nor to disapply the test to victims of modern slavery. The proportionality assessment referred to above enables the circumstances of the crime to be taken into account.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 17:23:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1017349

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of EU victims of modern slavery in the UK with a (a) positive conclusive grounds decision or (b) reasonable grounds decision under the National Referral Mechanism; and what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of waiving the EU Settlement Scheme registration fee for people with those decisions.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	197486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) is responsible for publishing National Referral Mechanism (NRM) data and does so on a quarterly basis. <br>Published data on the referrals to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is available via the following link:<br><a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics</a>. The 2017 Annual Report of NRM statistics includes data on the outcomes of NRM decisions by nationality.</p><p><br>I am content that our approach to fees is reasonable, proportionate and fair to all EU citizens. However, I will keep the approach on fees under review. More broadly, we are also considering how the EU Settlement Scheme can take into account the specific circumstances of victims of modern slavery and how to support the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) service providers to link victims up with the Scheme while they are in NRM support.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/12/2018 16:21:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1017351

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times his Department has refused discretionary leave to remain where the child has not lived continuously in the UK for at least seven years but who has then reached that period after appeal in the last (a) 12 months, (b) three years and (c) five years.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	197487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The relevant data is not recorded in a reportable form. To answer the question would require individual scrutiny of each refused Outside the Rules/Family/Private Life based application and subsequent appeal. This would incur disproportionate cost to the public purse.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 17:34:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1014997

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of reported domestic abuse cases in which the police responded with a scheduled appointment rather than an urgent response in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	195584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.</p><p>On the 22 November, the Office for National Statistics published Domestic abuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2018. This bulletin collates information from across Government as well domestic abuse service providers to provide information on how domestic abuse is dealt with at the local level within England and Wales.</p><p>The publication can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2018" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2018</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 15:49:07 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1015122

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recent reduction in the discount rate for public service pension schemes on the financial stability of fire services.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
uin	195652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government proposed a change to the discount rate in September. This change was confirmed at the Budget in October. Provisional valuation results suggest employers will need to pay more into schemes from 2019/20.</p><p>At the Budget, the Treasury allocated extra funding to the reserve for 2019/20 to cover the unexpected additional costs arising from this change to the discount rate, including for fire. Provisional results indicate fire will pay an additional £10 million next year.</p><p>Fire services have the resources to do their work. At March 2018 the standalone FRAs held £545 million in reserves, equivalent to 42 percent of the core spending power.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 16:03:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney