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522448

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government expects to complete its analysis of responses to the consultation on reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	39163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is giving very careful consideration to the responses it received to the consultation. In particular we are looking closely to see if there is any scope to find a set of reforms that will deliver the Government’s objectives and which will be agreeable to the unions. I expect that we will be able to publish our analysis within the 12 week target set out in the consultation document.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/06/2016 13:27:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

522657

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Assisted Voluntary Return Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which countries her Department returns people through the assisted voluntary return programme.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	39024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Voluntary Returns Service would work to support all those eligible for an assisted return to their country of origin. Whilst nationality does not preclude assistance, the elements of support available would depend on the circumstances of the individual and the country to which they will be returning.</p><p>The Home Office seeks to support returnees to reintegrate and make a sustainable return.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/06/2016 15:01:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

522665

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants for refugee family reunion have been made outside the immigration rules in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	39206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The data is not recorded centrally and could only be obtained by examining individual case records which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/06/2016 12:04:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

523249

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to increase exports.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	905203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the answer given in response to the member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun question on 7 June in Oral questions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 07/06/2016 14:55:43 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

520858

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unsuccessful refugee family reunion applications during the last three years were rejected on the basis of the child being 18 years or older.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	38032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The family reunion policy allows those granted refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK to sponsor their pre-flight family members, i.e. spouse or partner and children under the age of 18, who formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country, to reunite with them in the UK.</p><p>Information on the applicant’s relationship with their sponsor is not collated centrally. As such it is not possible to identify how many applicants have applied for family reunion as adult children aged 18 or over or what the outcome was.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 38031 question first answered 06/06/2016 16:17:08 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

520859

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful refugee family reunion applications there have been in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	38033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The available published statistics relate to the 'Family: other' category, which are known to very largely consist of family reunion cases. The information is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Entry clearance visas (cases resolved </strong><em>of which</em><strong>: grants, refusals, withdrawn/lapsed): Family Other<strong>[2]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Cases resolved</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><em>of which:</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Granted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Refused</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Withdrawn or lapsed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6,108</p></td><td><p>4,211</p></td><td><p>1,797</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6,658</p></td><td><p>4,596</p></td><td><p>1,931</p></td><td><p>131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>8,544</p></td><td><p>4,949</p></td><td><p>3,466</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Source:</strong><br>Immigration Statistics Oct - Dec 2015, Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>[1] For the year 2015 family reunion visas made up 99% of “Family: Other” visas granted.</p><p>[2] The “Family: Other” category consists of:</p><ul><li>Family reunion: pre-existing family members (partners, minor children) of a person with refugee leave or humanitarian protection, who has not yet obtained British citizenship;</li><li><em>From July 2012</em>: dependants who are not partners or children of those with refugee leave or humanitarian protection;</li><li><em>From July 2012</em>: parents with access rights to a child.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in 'Immigration Statistics', available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/06/2016 16:18:47 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

520863

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugee family reunion applications to bring children of 18 years or older into the UK were submitted in the last three years; and how many of those applications were successful.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	38031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The family reunion policy allows those granted refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK to sponsor their pre-flight family members, i.e. spouse or partner and children under the age of 18, who formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country, to reunite with them in the UK.</p><p>Information on the applicant’s relationship with their sponsor is not collated centrally. As such it is not possible to identify how many applicants have applied for family reunion as adult children aged 18 or over or what the outcome was.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 38032 question first answered 06/06/2016 16:17:08 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

520872

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
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 consider proposals put forward by the British Red Cross Torn Apart campaign to extend refugee family reunion to include young people over the age of 18 who were living with their parents when they were forced to flee.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	37784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>There are no plans to extend the family reunion criteria. The current policy meets our international obligations and strikes the right balance.</p><p>Where family members cannot meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules, such as in the case of an 18 year old applying to join their refugee parents in the UK, we consider whether there are exceptional circumstances or compassionate reasons to justify granting entry clearance outside the Rules.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/06/2016 16:22:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

520873

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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, how many people of each nationality detained for over (a) six and (b) 12 months between 2005 and 2015 for the purpose of removal were successfully removed.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	37778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The table attached shows the number of people removed on leaving detention, by nationality who were held for over six and over twelve months.</p><p>Published statistics relating to immigration detention are only available from 2010 onwards. It is not possible to provide pre-2010 figures and this information could be provided only by examining individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within the Immigration Statistics release on the GOV.UK website:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37779 question first answered 06/06/2016 16:34:25 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name Table 37778 with 37779.xlsx title People removed on leaving detention
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

520874

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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, how many people of each nationality were held in detention for over (a) six and (b) 12 months between 2005 and 2015 for the purpose of removal.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	37779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The table attached shows the number of people removed on leaving detention, by nationality who were held for over six and over twelve months.</p><p>Published statistics relating to immigration detention are only available from 2010 onwards. It is not possible to provide pre-2010 figures and this information could be provided only by examining individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within the Immigration Statistics release on the GOV.UK website:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 37778 question first answered 06/06/2016 16:34:25 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name Table 37778 with 37779.xlsx title People removed on leaving detention
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald