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48923

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, if she will take steps to ensure the viability of the financial position of the North East Refugee Service; and for what reasons her Department has not yet paid exit costs to that organisation.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	197162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Negotiations on the exit claim are underway between the Home Office and the <br>Refugee Council and we hope to conclude these as soon as possible. The North <br>of England Refugee Service was a subcontractor of the Refugee Council, and the <br>Home Office is therefore unable to negotiate directly with the North of England <br>Refugee Service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

48924

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, what assessment she has made of the potential benefits and risks of commercial mobile networks providing the emergency services communications network.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Glamorgan
tabling member printed	Alun Cairns
uin	197008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The potential benefits and risks have been considered in detail as part of the <br>Outline Business Case, which recommended this direction of travel and was <br>approved by the emergency services, lead departments and the devolved <br>governments of Wales and Scotland during March 2014. These risks and issues <br>will be updated as the Full Business Case is developed during the procurement <br>phase, which was launched on 14 April 14.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 9166 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns

48957

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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 absconders there were at each UK airport in each year since 2010; and how many and what proportion of such absconders were subsequently recovered.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	197140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>It is Home Office policy not to release operationally sensitive information at <br>port specific level, so as not to expose potential vulnerabilities in border <br>security.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 8405 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

48967

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, if she will require local police forces to cover the costs of police presence at Remembrance Sunday events.
tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
uin	196984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The attendance of police officers at Remembrance Sunday events is an <br>operational matter for individual Chief Constables. If the organisers of such <br>events request additional policing (referred to as Special Police Services), <br>the relevant Police and Crime Commissioner decides whether to charge for <br>it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

48990

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	197028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Coalition Government's approach to tackling domestic violence and abuse is <br>set out in its Violence against Women and Girls Action Plan, updated in March <br>2014. It is a subject we take very seriously.<br><br>In 2013, the Home Secretary commissioned Her Majesty's Inspectorate of <br>Constabulary (HMIC) to undertake a comprehensive review on how the police deal with domestic <br>violence and abuse. HMIC's report exposed significant failings. The Home <br>Secretary is establishing a new national oversight group, which she will chair, and on which I will sit, to ensure HMIC's recommendations are acted upon. <br>The Home Secretary has also written to chief constables making it <br>clear that every police force must have an action plan in place by September <br>2014, to improve their response to domestic violence and abuse.<br><br>The Government is committed to ensuring that the police and other agencies have <br>the tools necessary to tackle domestic violence, to bring offenders to justice <br>and to ensure victims have the support they need to rebuild their lives. The <br>Government accordingly announced the national roll-out of Domestic Violence <br>Protection Orders and the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme <br>from 8 March 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

48992

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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 UK Border Agency staff in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) the UK were (i) on zero-hours contracts and (ii) temporary staff in each of the last two years up to the most recent period for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	107179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The UK Border Agency was absorbed into the Home Office on 1 April 2013; its <br>successor business areas are UK Visas &amp; Immigration and Immigration Enforcement.<br><br>(i) The Home Office and its Agencies do not employ and have not employed staff <br>on zero-hours contracts. <br><br>(ii) A geographical breakdown of temporary staff employed in UK Border Agency <br>successor business areas in each of the last two years is shown at Table 1.</p><p>[ATTACH TABLE]</p><p><br>NOTE: Office for National Statistics defines temporary staff as those civil <br>servants with contracts of employment of less than one year; staff with Fixed <br>Term Appointments and Permanent staff are reported separately by all government <br>departments, as are Agency and Contingent Workers.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 107079 Table 1 V1.xlsx title TABLE 1
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

49110

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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 much has been spent on converting HM Prison The Verne for use as an immigration removal centre to date.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>£4 million has been spent to date on the conversion of HM Prison The Verne into <br>an Immigration Removal Centre. The work is about 60% complete and in total is <br>expected to cost approximately £8.5 million in line with the approved budget.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

49114

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, columns 352-3W, on asylum: children, if she will publish a breakdown by constituency of the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	197188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Figures for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children by parliamentary constituency <br>are not collected by the Home Office. <br><br>The Home Office publishes aggregate statistics on asylum applications from <br>unaccompanied asylum seeking children in tables as_08 and as_08_q (Asylum data <br>tables Volume 2) of Immigration Statistics. Figures based on revised counting <br>rules appear in the latest release Immigration Statistics October to December <br>2013 which is available from<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-dec<br>ember-2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

49135

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, what assessment she has made of the proposal set out in Baroness Newlove's report, Our Vision for Safe and Active Communities, for a Bling Back scheme where money made from selling local drug dealers' assets is handed back to the neighbourhood.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	197219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There has been a scheme since 2004 whereby a proportion of the proceeds of <br>crime recovered from drug dealers and other criminals are returned to law <br>enforcement agencies. The money returned to law enforcement has been used to <br>support a continued increase in the amounts recovered from criminals and can be <br>invested in community projects.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

48845

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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, what recent representations she has received on the levels of rural crime; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	196873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Between January and April 2014, the Home Office received five written <br>Parliamentary questions on issues relating to crime in rural areas, not <br>including this question. We also received one letter from a member of the <br>public and a letter from the Member for Thirsk and Malton.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering