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100448

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date	22/10/2014
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, what steps she is taking to make it possible for asylum seekers to make a complaint without it costing them money to call from their mobile phones.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Ian Swales
uin	211425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>Complaints regarding the operation of the Asylum system can be made by email or in writing to UK Visas and Immigration. <br><br>Information regarding the UK Visas and Immigration complaints procedure and how to contact the Complaints Allocation Hub is available to the public at the following website link:<br><br><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/10/2014 12:27:13 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4045 label Biography information for Ian Swales

100453

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2014 to Question 203287, on asylum, if she will make it her policy to apply the six-month service standard to all claims received before April 2014; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	211420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need it, and the Government is committed to effectively managing its asylum caseload. <br><br>It remains our aim to decide straightforward claims made before April 2014 by 31 March 2015. There will always be some cases where further information is required or that are too complex to decide within defined timescales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/10/2014 14:18:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

100745

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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 recent representations she has received on lowering the minimum income threshold limit required by those wishing to bring family members to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Joan Walley
uin	211715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>We keep the family Immigration Rules under regular review in light of all feedback on their operation. However, we have no plans to lower the minimum income threshold required to bring family members to the UK under those rules. In its 11 July 2014 judgment in MM and Others the Court of Appeal upheld the lawfulness of the requirement and found that it strikes a fair balance between the interests of those affected and the community in general.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/10/2014 14:18:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	286 label Biography information for Joan Walley

100818

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	G4S
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether G4S records (a) telephone calls made to it by asylum seekers who have ended the call as they have not been able to explain that they need an interpreter and (b) all other telephone calls received in connection with its contract to deliver accommodation for asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Ian Swales
uin	211808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>All providers are required under the COMPASS contracts to provide a minimum level of support to asylum seekers accommodated in their properties, this includes briefing the service user in a language that they understand, on how to contact the provider and the Home Office to make complaints.<br><br>G4S does make a record of all telephone calls they receive from asylum applicants accommodated in their property and refers service users to their interpreters where it is clear that an interpreter is required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 28/10/2014 14:19:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4045 label Biography information for Ian Swales

92883

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
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 11 September 2014 to Question 207956, how much of the funds given to local authorities under the Prevent programme was spent in each of the last five years; and what funds under that programme were spent by (a) police forces, (b) other frontline agencies and (c) central government in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	210147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>Since 2011, Prevent spend figures for frontline agencies, local delivery, and central agencies have been as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12 </strong></p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Frontline Agencies</strong></p></td><td><p>£7.5 million</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£7.9 million</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£6.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Local Delivery</strong></p></td><td><p>£1.2 million</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£3.3 million</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£4.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Central Government</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.2 million</p></td><td><p> </p><p> </p><p>£1.5 million</p></td><td><p> </p><p> </p><p>£4.1 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br>Funding for Prevent policing is part of a wider grant provided by the Home Office to the police for counter-terrorism activity. It is therefore not <br>possible to give a detailed breakdown of spend on police activity for Prevent. However funding for Prevent policing represents approximately half of the total Prevent funding.</p><p>Spend on the 2011 Prevent strategy has increased as the programme, particularly local delivery, has become more firmly embedded at local level, and good practice better established.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/10/2014 12:28:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 22237 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson