Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's policy is for individuals who were enrolled on courses at the Cambridge College of Learning that were found at an immigration tribunal to have been fraudulent is (a) deport those people and (b) allow those people to stay in the UK and apply for indefinite leave to remain.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Home Office continues to take action at every opportunity to prevent immigration abuse, pursue immigration offenders and increase compliance with immigration law including arresting and returning illegal migrants to their country of origin.
Information on former overseas students of the Cambridge College of Learning is not aggregated in national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a manual case by case review to collate the data, which would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date her Department began to record details of sponsorship of non-EU nationals entering the UK on student visas.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The sponsorship of non-EU students was introduced in three stages:
Educational Institutions were able to make an application for a licence to sponsor non-EU students under Tier 4 of the Points Based System from July 2008.
Non–EU student applications under Tier 4 of the Points-Based System were introduced on 31 March 2009, and from this date onwards institutions had students linked to their sponsor licence.
From 22 February 2010 all non-EU Tier 4 student applications had to be supported by a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies, an electronic document assigned by a Tier 4 sponsor, which institutions are required to monitor and report against, and this activity was recorded by the Home Office.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many threat to life notices each police force in England and Wales has issued in the last five years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
This information is not held centrally. Where a threat is made to an individual, it is an operational matter for police forces and law enforcement agencies to decide whether to issue threat to life notices, taking account of individual circumstances, to mitigate the risk to potential victims.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many threat to life notices were issued to people with suspected links to organised crime in each of the last five years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
This information is not held centrally. Where a threat is made to an individual, it is an operational matter for police forces and law enforcement agencies to decide whether to issue threat to life notices, taking account of individual circumstances, to mitigate the risk to potential victims.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many threat to life notices have been issued in each of the last five years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
This information is not held centrally. Where a threat is made to an individual, it is an operational matter for police forces and law enforcement agencies to decide whether to issue threat to life notices, taking account of individual circumstances, to mitigate the risk to potential victims.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former overseas students of the Cambridge College of Learning have been granted (a) indefinite leave to remain and (b) UK citizenship since that College's closure.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Information on how many former overseas students of the Cambridge College of Learning would have submitted an indefinite leave to remain or UK citizenship application is not aggregated in national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a manual case by case review to collate the data, which would be disproportionately expensive.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former overseas students of the Cambridge College of Learning were (a) deported and (b) not deported following that College's closure.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Home Office’s database that is used to record sponsorship data was introduced after the Cambridge College of Learning closed down.
We are, therefore, unable to obtain details of the college’s former overseas students.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of cheques sent to HM Revenue and Customs that were fraudulently intercepted and (b) value of these cheques in each month since December 2013.
Answered by David Gauke
The table below sets out the information requested where it is alleged that cheques intended for HMRC were fraudulently intercepted with context comparing these cases with the total number of cheques and related value processed by HMRC.
Year | Month | No. of cases reported | Value of cases | Total cheques banked Dec 13 - Dec 14 | ||||
2013 | December | 19 | £37,125.42 | Volume | 5,765,106 | |||
2014 | January | 12 | £17,889.40 | Value | £22,127,227,566 | |||
February | 9 | £28,082.49 | ||||||
March | 37 | £106,859.00 | Stolen cheques as a percentage | |||||
April | 11 | £18,496.89 | Volume | 0.0032% | ||||
May | 14 | £29,668.29 | Value | 0.0017% | ||||
June | 15 | £60,297.28 | ||||||
July | 20 | £28,223.64 | ||||||
August | 19 | £24,241.32 | ||||||
September | 8 | £11,732.22 | ||||||
October | 7 | £7,135.32 | ||||||
November | 9 | £7,799.25 | ||||||
December | 3 | £8,747.92 | ||||||
183 | £386,298.44 | |||||||
HMRC encourages customers, through Internet and other guidance material not to pay by cheque and to take advantage of more secure payment methods and pay electronically.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were living with a brain tumour, including all intercranial tumours, on the last date for which figures are available.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The UK Cancer Prevalence Project from the National Cancer Intelligence Network and Macmillan Cancer Support will publish 20-year cancer prevalence data in summer 2015, including new statistics on brain tumour survivors. Previous data can be found at:
http://www.ncin.org.uk/view.aspx?rid=76
Note: The brain tumour statistic relates to International Classification of Diseases’ version 10 codes C70-C72.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people had been diagnosed with a brain tumour, including all intercranial tumours, in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland on the last date for which figures are available.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.