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522664

	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, what steps she is taking to ensure that the issuing of 30-day entry clearance visas does not inhibit refugee family reunion; and for what reasons such time-limited entry clearance visas are issued.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	39205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>When a family reunion application is made, individuals can specify when they would like the visa to be valid from to take account of their need to make the necessary travel arrangements. If there is any delay expected in the processing time of the application, the individual will be contacted by UKVI and informed about the delay. Where someone is unable to make arrangements to travel to the UK within 30 days, they can apply for a replacement visa.</p><p>We continue to engage with stakeholders to ensure we deliver further improvements including reviewing the visa issuing processes and associated guidance.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/06/2016 17:09:39 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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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

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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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

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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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

522653

	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	Compass Contracts
	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 Compass contracts for asylum accommodation, if she will publish (a) the codes of discipline that providers have in place pursuant to 1.2.9.2 of the Compass Statement of Requirements and (b) how many breaches of such codes took place in each year since 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	38984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>In accordance with the contract Statement of Requirements, COMPASS providers have submitted code of discipline and behaviour for their employees to the Home Office for approval prior to the Contract Commencement Date, and ensure that all staff adheres to the code throughout the term of the Contract.</p><p>The codes of discipline are published on provider websites and issued to all service users upon entering accommodation. I will place a copy of the ‘codes of discipline’ for each of the providers in the House Library. The Home Office does not centrally record the number of breaches of disciplinary code.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/06/2016 17:04:13 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

522654

	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	Compass Contracts
	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 Compass contracts for asylum accommodation, if she will publish (a) copies of the training programmes that providers have in place pursuant to 1.2.9.2 of the Compass Statement of Requirements and (b) the dates on which such training took place in each year since 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	38985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>In accordance with the contract Statement of Requirements, COMPASS providers ensure that the recruitment, selection and training of its staff, including persons employed by or as agents of sub-contractors to the Provider, are consistent with the standards of service required for the performance of the service. The Providers fully equip and train staff (including volunteers) in regular contact with service users and responsible for the safety and security of Service Users and dependent children to ensure they are able to fulfil their roles and ensure that appropriate and sufficient security provisions are made for all staff undertaking face-to-face activities.</p><p>The delivery of training by providers takes place regularly throughout the year, as and when new staff are recruited, and consists of both individual and online learning as well as classroom-based group workshops. The Home Office does not centrally record the dates on which all such training takes place and both the dates and copies of individual module material could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/06/2016 16:59:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

522655

	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	Compass Contracts
	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 Compass contracts for asylum accommodation and paragraphs 4.4.2.6 (b), (d) and (e) of the Compass Statement of requirements, how many reports were made by service users in each Compass region of (a) anti-social, suspicious, criminal, threatening or harassing behaviour, (b) neglect, sexual harassment or exploitation and (c) domestic violence or concerns with safeguarding of children in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	38986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2016 answer text <p>In accordance with the Statement of Requirements, COMPASS providers provide a confidential, yet auditable complaints service for service users of asylum accommodation. Where a Service User raises, or the provider becomes aware of, a prescribed complaint, the provider immediately reports any such complaints to the Home Office and where appropriate the police.</p><p>The Home Office closely monitors provider performance, including complaints and incident reporting, at monthly contract management meetings. The recording of information concerning the reports made solely by service users of (a) anti-social, suspicious, criminal, threatening or harassing behaviour, (b) neglect, sexual harassment or exploitation and (c) domestic violence or concerns with safeguarding of children in each year is not however recorded on centrally collated statistical databases in manner that allows for data extraction and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by examination of individual monthly records.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/06/2016 16:53:56 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

522656

	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	Compass Contracts
	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 Compass contracts for asylum accommodation and paragraphs 4.5.1.3(d) and (e) of the Compass Statement of Requirements, how many reports were made by service users in each Compass region of (a) sexual or physical abuse and concerns regarding the safeguarding of children, neglect, harassment or exploitation and (b) theft or loss of a service user's belongings in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	38987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2016 answer text <p>In accordance with statement of requirements, COMPASS providers provide a confidential, yet auditable complaints service for service users of asylum accommodation. Complaints and incidents can be reported by service users themselves or by other parties such as co-residents, NGO’s, representatives, provider housing officers or Home Office inspectors.</p><p>Where a Service User or other party raises a prescribed complaint, the provider immediately reports any such allegations to the Home Office and where appropriate the police. The Home Office closely monitors complaints by type and Compass region, however information split by complainant type can only be obtained at disproportionate cost by examination of individual incident records.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/06/2016 16:40:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald