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78037

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take additional steps to tackle human trafficking within the UK's borders.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	205994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>This Government is determined to stamp out all forms of modern slavery and human trafficking, regardless of whether these crimes have involved <br>cross-border movement. The Modern Slavery Bill will give law enforcement the tools to tackle modern slavery and enhance support and protection for victims. The Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive are both bringing forward their own legislation to tackle this terrible crime and we are working with them closely to ensure a coordinated approach across the UK. We are also undertaking a comprehensive programme of activity which includes awareness-raising for front-line professionals, to ensure that they can spot the signs of modern slavery, including human trafficking, and know what to do.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 30/07/2014 12:42:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

77168

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation and Extradition
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 has taken to ensure that people deported or extradited from the UK and who pose a threat to national security are unable to return to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	205002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>A person who has been deported faces a mandatory refusal of entry under Paragraph 320(2) of the Immigration Rules until or unless the deportation order is revoked by the Secretary of State. This is generally not considered until a minimum of ten years have elapsed. <br><br>A person may be extradited from the UK to stand trial or to serve a sentence. This information is taken into account in decisions whether to grant or refuse re-entry to the UK. Where there is an overseas conviction entry will be considered in accordance with Paragraph 320(2) of the Immigration Rules, which provide for a mandatory refusal depending on the age and seriousness of the sentence imposed. <br><br>In addition, where an individual is a threat to national security, the Secretary of State may exercise her discretion to personally exclude that person from the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/07/2014 16:54:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

77170

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the performance of the National Crime Agency; and what discussions officials in her Department have had with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive on extending the scope of that agency to operate in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	205016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The creation of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has changed and improved the way we tackle serious and organised crime in this country. The NCA is taking a <br>stronger, more effective leadership role across our law enforcement community, and tackling threats and individuals which some in the past thought were too difficult or untouchable. This closer co-ordination is already delivering results, and you may be aware of a recent NCA investigation, in partnership with Surrey Police and Bahraini authorities that resulted in four men being sentenced to a total of 20 years imprisonment for a range of sexual offences against children. This is just one example of how the NCA is working with partners in the UK, and internationally, to take the fight to organised criminals. <br><br>The Northern Ireland Justice Minister is leading in the efforts to extend the powers of the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland within an appropriate framework. As he said in answer to an Assembly question on 9 July, David Ford hopes to bring a revised proposed model for the operation of the NCA in Northern Ireland to all relevant parties as soon as practicable to seek to move matters forward. My officials have, naturally, had extensive discusssions with the Department of Justice and will continue to do so. <br><br>While these discussions are ongoing, the National Crime Agency remains committed to assisting the Police Service of Northern Ireland in tackling serious and organised crime as far as the restrictions on its powers permit.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/07/2014 15:51:52 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

76413

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor UK citizens suspected to be travelling, or are found to have travelled, to the Middle East to fight for ISIS and similar radical groups to ensure that upon their return they will not pose an internal threat through their own actions or the radicalisation of others.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	204619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes extremely seriously the threat posed by those who travel from the UK to join terrorist movements abroad and who might return with enhanced capabilities which they may intend to use against the UK or the intention of radicalising others.<br><br>The investigation and monitoring of individuals who pose a threat to our national security is an operational matter for the police and Security Service. Prosecution is always the preferred option for tackling terrorists. But where this is not possible a range of other disruptions may be used. <br><br>These include disrupting travel by cancelling British passports on public interest grounds, dual nationals’ deprivation of British citizenship and exclusion from the UK to prevent their return, and interviews at the border as part of Counter Terrorist investigations. <br><br>We have also proscribed a number of terrorist groups active in the Syrian conflict, including ISIS. Membership or support for a proscribed organisation is a criminal offence.<br><br>Those who return from Syria are individually assessed and where further investigation is not warranted we can provide tailored counter-radicalisation interventions to support the returnee and dissuade them from travelling again or radicalising others.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/07/2014 16:21:11 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

76414

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on people in Northern Ireland of delays in handling passport applications.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	204609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Her Majesty's Passport Office monitors performance at national level as it <br>distributes work across the UK estate. The Belfast Office Full Time Equivalent (FTE) <br>workforce in June 2014 was 216.29 compared with 147.76 FTE in June 2012. <br>The increase in staff has been to deal with the introduction of processing<br>of work from overseas in 2013-14 and the introduction of an evening shift in<br>January 2014 to assist in dealing with UK applications. Currently there are 20 <br>additional staff redeployed to Belfast to assist in the examination function.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/07/2014 14:01:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

76417

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Religious Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures are in place to offer safe passage to the UK for those seeking refuge from institutionalised religious persecution across the world.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	204617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The UK has a proud tradition of providing protection to those who need it and fully considers all asylum applications lodged in the UK in accordance with our international obligations. However there is no obligation on us to consider applications or enquiries made on behalf of people abroad about asylum in the UK. The approach of both the UK and the European Union is that an individual should apply for protection from the authorities in the first available safe country, irrespective of whether or not it is a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, failing which the local office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) should be able to assist. <br><br>Moreover, under international law, someone seeking asylum must first be outside the country of his nationality or habitual residence, since international protection cannot be provided while a person is within the territorial jurisdiction of his home country.<br><br>The UK will continue to fulfil its responsibilities to those who arrive within our borders and seek protection.<br><br>While there is no provision within our Immigration Rules for someone to be given permission to travel to the UK to seek asylum, the Government operates a Gateway Protection Programme, established several years ago with the aim of bringing genuine refugees direct to the UK. This Programme is run in partnership with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).It underpins the UK’s proud tradition of providing protection to refugees and the Government’s commitment to supporting UNHCR’s global effort to provide durable solutions to the plight of refugees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/07/2014 15:35:47 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

50141

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of policing of demonstrations and parades in London.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	198088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The policing of demonstrations and parades in London are an operational matter <br>for the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

50142

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers have been seconded to the Police Service of Northern Ireland from police forces in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	198090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not hold this information centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

50143

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
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 in England and Wales have been arrested following the issue of a warrant by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	198089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Arrest warrants issued by the Police Service of Northern Ireland are a devolved <br>matter and the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

45354

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effect on Northern Ireland of recent changes to immigration rules in respect of Romania and Bulgaria.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	193859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Statistics will be published in the normal way by the Office for National <br>Statistics and the Department for Work and Pensions. The first statistics <br>covering the period after the expiry of transitional controls will be published <br>in May 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn