Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
type
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

65527

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants for a UK passport have paid an upgrade fee to fast-track their application after having submitted that application at a passport office at each such office and in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
	tabling member printed	Mr Shaun Woodward
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information is not collected in the format requested and the cost of <br>collecting the information would be disproportionate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/07/2014 14:53:43 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	98 label Biography information for Mr Shaun Woodward

167523

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre
	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 steps to defer removals of any potential witnesses to the alleged assault which took place on 29 November 2014 at Campsfield House IRC so they are able to give evidence to the police.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	216799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>An incident took place at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre on Saturday 29 November which resulted in two detainees being subject to control and restraint techniques. The Independent Monitoring Board was made aware of <br>the incident and attended the centre. <br><br>During the incident no detainees were injured and nobody required hospital treatment, although an officer at the centre sustained minor injuries. As of 3rd December, no complaints of alleged assault have been made.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 216800 question first answered 10/12/2014 15:04:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

167524

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential witnesses to the alleged assault which took place on 29 November 2014 at Campsfield House IRC have since been issued with Removal Directions or Removal Orders/Notices.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	216800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>An incident took place at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre on Saturday 29 November which resulted in two detainees being subject to control and restraint techniques. The Independent Monitoring Board was made aware of <br>the incident and attended the centre. <br><br>During the incident no detainees were injured and nobody required hospital treatment, although an officer at the centre sustained minor injuries. As of 3rd December, no complaints of alleged assault have been made.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 216799 question first answered 10/12/2014 15:04:03 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

168980

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports she has received of the police response when called out to an alleged assault at Campsfield House immigration centre on 29 November 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Mitie, the service provider for Campsfield House IRC, was in contact with the police during the protest at the centre. The police were advised of the circumstances of the use of control and restraint. No detainees were injured <br>and nobody required hospital treatment. No complaints of assault have been made to the Home Office as of 10 December. <br><br>At her request, Baroness Lister was provided with some background information relating to the protest at Campsfield.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 217796 question first answered 15/12/2014 12:00:16 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

168981

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre
	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 publish the statement sent by her Department to Baroness Lister on 1 December on the alleged assault and subsequent protest at Campsfield House immigration centre on 29 November.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Mitie, the service provider for Campsfield House IRC, was in contact with the police during the protest at the centre. The police were advised of the circumstances of the use of control and restraint. No detainees were injured <br>and nobody required hospital treatment. No complaints of assault have been made to the Home Office as of 10 December. <br><br>At her request, Baroness Lister was provided with some background information relating to the protest at Campsfield.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 217795 question first answered 15/12/2014 12:00:16 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

177895

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	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, when the current service level agreement between her Department and the National Offender Management Service on the use of prisons to hold immigration detainees comes to an end.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	223426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The current service level agreement between the Home Office and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), which includes the use of prisons to hold immigration detainees, ends on 31 March 2015.<br><br>The Home Office is in negotiation with NOMS to renew the agreement</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 223425 question first answered 09/02/2015 16:37:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

177896

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	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, what plans her Department has to extend or renew the current service level agreement between her Department and the National Offender Management Service on the use of prisons to hold immigration detainees.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	223425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The current service level agreement between the Home Office and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), which includes the use of prisons to hold immigration detainees, ends on 31 March 2015.<br><br>The Home Office is in negotiation with NOMS to renew the agreement</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 223426 question first answered 09/02/2015 16:37:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

225665

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	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 proportion of leave to remain applications have been treated as falling outside normal service standards in each six-month period in the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	226568
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>New service standards have applied to leave to remain applications submitted to <br>UK Visas and Immigration on or after 1 January 2014. Comparing the performance <br>against new service standards to the performance against previous service <br>standards is not possible given the change in methodology at that time. <br><br>However, reporting on UK Visas and Immigration’s performance against service <br>standards is now more detailed than prior to 1 January 2014 and can be found in <br>the temporary and permanent migration section of the quarterly migration <br>transparency data release, available at: <br>www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data<br><br>Information about what UK Visas and Immigration’s published service standards <br>are and how applications that have been excluded from service standards are <br>categorised is available in the ‘Notes’ tab of the temporary and permanent <br>migration data.<br>Information on how many applications were concluded within service standards is <br>available at tab ‘InC2’.<br>Information on how many applications did not meet the service standard and how <br>many applications were excluded from the service standard is available at tab <br>‘InC5’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/03/2015 15:25:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

228206

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Rape: Democratic Republic of Congo
	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 has taken to implement the recommendations in the report, Rape as torture in the DRC, published by Freedom from Torture in June 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	228160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Government issued a Country Policy Bulletin on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in October 2014 which includes guidance and country information for asylum decision-makers on considering the risks faced by womenreturning to the DRC. <br><br>The Bulletin is available at: <br><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/democratic-republic-of-congo-country-information-and-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/democratic-republic-of-congo-country-information-and-guidance</a> <br><br>The Bulletin cites the Freedom from Torture (FfT) report of June 2014 and a July 2013 FfT submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the same subject.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/03/2015 15:26:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

48298

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	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 Israeli citizens were found to be working in the UK without an appropriate visa in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	196266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table gives the number of Israeli nationals arrested on illegal <br>working type enforcement visits from 2009 to 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Table 1 – Israeli nationals arrested on illegal working type enforcement visits, 2009 to 2013</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arrests</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>97</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith