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date	03/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the amount of time that child refugees have to wait for an initial decision on their application.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	240605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office takes seriously its safeguarding responsibilities under s55 of the Borders, Immigration and Citizen Act 2009, which requires us to act in a child’s best interest. We acknowledge that there is no specified time limit in which Unaccompanied Children cases need to be decided and maintain that the responsibility to act in a child’s best interests means more than simply speed.</p><p>To promote a greater understanding and transparency of the asylum system, we are prioritising deciding unaccompanied asylum-seeking child cases, whose claims are more complex, while we develop a new set of service standards for the overall asylum claim system. We are working closely with NGOs regarding the new service standards.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/04/2019 15:44:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

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registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
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 cases where Section 60 is used result in (a) an illegal object being found and (b) a crime being detected in (i) London and (ii) England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	240049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>In the year ending March 2017/18, there were 2,501 stop and searches conducted in England and Wales under Section 60 (s60) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Of these searches 202 (or 8%) resulted in an arrest, including 71 arrests for offensive weapons and 131 arrests for other reasons. 85 (or 3%) resulted in an outcome which was linked to the initial reason for conducting the search.</p><p>The Metropolitan Police Service conducted 1,836 s60 searches in this period, of which 175 (or 10%) resulted in an arrest- including 55 arrests for offensive weapons and 120 arrests for other reasons. 62 (or 3%) resulted in an outcome which was linked to the initial reason for conducting the search.</p><p>Full figures can be found in the annual police powers and procedures statistical release <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 08/04/2019 16:23:21 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West