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792794

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date	20/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the recommendations in the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s report, Building the Post-Brexit Immigration System, whether the Government plans to exempt SMEs from the immigration skills charge.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	114721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The Immigration Skills Charge (ISC), introduced on 6 April, is a charge paid by UK-based employers sponsoring non-EEA nationals under Tier 2, our main immigration work route.</p><p>The ISC is designed to incentivise employers to invest in training and upskilling the resident workforce. Income raised by the Charge will be used to address skills gaps in the UK workforce - which will be of benefit to businesses in the long term.</p><p>There is a flat rate of £1,000 per Tier 2 migrant sponsored per year but small or charitable sponsors already have a reduced rate of £364 per migrant per year.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/11/2017 17:29:59 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

732637

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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 plans she has to extend the Immigration Skills charge to EU citizens when the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	1040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The arrangements which will apply to EU nationals seeking to work in the UK following the UK’s exit from the European Union have yet to be determined.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 04/07/2017 08:55:35 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

804440

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: India
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 bring forward proposals to offer visitors from India an equivalent visitor visa arrangement to that already provided to Chinese visitors under the two-year multiple entry scheme to encourage trade and tourism between India and the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	118635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Since January 2016 the UK has offered a two-year validity visit visa to Chinese nationals for the same price as a six-month visa. This is a pilot scheme which we are running to assess the benefits and impacts of such an approach more broadly. There are currently no plans to extend this pilot to any other countries.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office does, however, recognise that visitors from India are an important source of revenue for our tourism market and is committed to offering the most efficient and customer focused visa service in India.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 13/12/2017 17:30:31 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

757021

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Seized Articles: Electrical Goods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seizures of counterfeit electrical goods have been seized in each port in Scotland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	8288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>This data could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Government views the problem of counterfeit electrical goods extremely seriously and the inherent dangers to public safety. Border Force are focused on detecting the smuggling of these items into UK ports across the country.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/09/2017 16:28:47 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

765955

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Extradition: United Arab Emirates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many extradition requests have been made, (b) how many of those have been refused and (c) what the cost to the public purse for legal aid is for such requests made by the UAE in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	106085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>As a matter of long standing policy and practice, the UK will neither confirm nor deny whether an extradition request has been made or received until such time as a person is arrested in relation to the request.</p><p>Between 2010 – 2016, 22 people were arrested in relation to extradition requests from the UAE to the UK. In the same period, 1 individual was extradited from the UK to the UAE, with the remaining cases discharged by the courts or still pending.</p><p>In regards to the cost to the public purse for legal aid for such requests, the Legal Aid Agency and Scottish Legal Aid Board does not collect data in the form requested.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/11/2017 10:57:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day