Asked by: Lord Temple-Morris (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 11 October (HL1831), how many arrests of illegal immigrants, and how many arrests for immigration offences, there were in each of the last five years; and how many of those arrested in each year (1) were deported from the UK, (2) remained in custody, and (3) were released within the UK.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
It is not possible to provide information specific to the number of arrests for illegal immigrants because immigration offences cover a wide range of activities and the data specific to arrests for illegal immigration cannot be separated from arrests for other immigration offences. Additionally, an individual may be arrested for committing more than one offence, but as only one offence per arrest is recorded in a format that can be reported on centrally it is not possible to provide complete figures on arrests by individual offences type.
Information on arrests – either by an Immigration Enforcement or Police Officer – for committing an immigration offence is available. For the period 2011/12 to 2015/16, our records indicate that there were 119,730 arrests.
Data on the custody or detention status of those arrested cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost because checks of individual records would be required.
Asked by: Lord Temple-Morris (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many arrests of illegal immigrants there were in each of the last five years; and how many of those arrested in each year were (1) deported from the UK, (2) remained in custody, and (3) released within the UK.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
It is not possible to provide information in the format requested, because data on arrests for illegal immigration cannot be separated from arrests for other immigration offences.
Asked by: Lord Temple-Morris (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many citizens of South Sudan have arrived in the UK in the last five years; and of those, how many (1) have applied for asylum, (2) have been given leave to remain, and (3) have been returned to South Sudan.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Passenger arrival data by nationality are published annually by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release. However, it is not possible to separately identify those passengers that have applied for asylum from the total number of arrivals.
An outcome analysis of annual cohorts of asylum applicants is also published annually by the Home Office. Figures on the numbers of grants, refusals, enforced removal and voluntary departure for those applying for asylum between 2010 and 2014 are provided in Table B.
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015
Table A shows the number of South Sudan nationals given leave to enter the United Kingdom, from 2011 to 2015.
Table A: South Sudan nationals given leave to enter the United Kingdom | ||
Year | Total arrivals | |
2011 | 0 | |
2012 | 150 | |
2013 | 245 | |
2014 | 555 | |
2015 | : | |
Data rounded to the nearest 5 | ||
: = 2015 data are due to be published on 25 August 2016 | ||
Source: | ||
Table B: Outcome analysis of asylum applications for South Sudan, as at August 2015 | ||||||
Year of application | Total main applicants |
| Refused asylum, HP or DL | Total | Total | |
2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
2014 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Source: Table as_06 Outcome analysis of asylum applications, as at August 2015Those applying for asylum in the UK in one period may have arrived in the UK in a preceding period.
HP Humanitarian Protection
DL Discretionary Leave
The analysis of the outcomes of asylum applications are the recorded outcomes of the group (or cohort) of applicants in any one year, as at a particular time. A proportion of applications made in each of the years provided will be awaiting the outcome of an initial decision or an appeal. Applications from earlier years will inherently have had longer for the case to be processed than those from more recent years. This dataset is updated, in full, annually.
There are a large variety of routes that an asylum application can take to a final asylum outcome. As a consequence, analysis of the outcomes of asylum applications in any one year requires interpretation for a small percentage of cases. This interpretation is undertaken consistently by established computer code. The proportions and underlying figures for final outcomes of the analysis of applications for the group (or cohort) of applicants in any one year, are therefore estimated.
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015
Asked by: Lord Temple-Morris (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 provides sufficient authority to prosecute British citizens who join with states or other entities making war in support of the enemies of the United Kingdom; and, if not, whether they intend to amend the Act or to introduce new legislation based upon it in order to do so.
Answered by Lord Bates
The Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 remains in force and there are no current plans to amend it.
The UK has a range of terrorism and criminal law offences to tackle British citizens who travel overseas to participate in armed conflict abroad. Where there is evidence that these individuals are engaging in activities there which may harm the UK, we can already seek prosecution on their return to the UK.
The Prime Minister recently announced a package of wide-ranging measures which will further strengthen our capability to deal with the increased threat from foreign fighters and British-born jihadists who seek to harm the UK. In addition, the Government is already legislating in the Serious Crime Bill to extend our territorial jurisdiction over two offences in the Terrorism Act 2006 which will enable the prosecution of those who travel overseas to prepare and train for terrorism.