Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196128 on Overseas Visitors: Visas, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of providing a substantive answer to that question.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The government publishes the threshold which would need to be crossed in order for a written question to be responded to with a disproportionate cost response.
This is currently set at £850. Whilst we are not able to provide the exact amount it would cost to answer your question in full, we estimate it would be over this amount as it would require a manual search of a large number of individual records.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial review applications against visitor visa refusals in which the Home Office asked the applicant to withdraw in order to reconsider the application resulted in the original decision being overturned in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial review applications against visitor visa refusals has the Home Office asked the applicant to withdraw in order to reconsider the application in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial review applications have been lodged against Home Office visitor visa application refusals in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date she plans to replace the existing Chief Executive and Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission as part of the establishment of the Independent Office for Police Conduct?
Answered by Nick Hurd
As announced on 20 October 2017, the reforms to the governance of the Independent Police Complaints Commission will be implemented in January 2018, including the establishment of the new Director General role and unitary board, at which time the IPCC will be renamed the Independent Office of Police Conduct.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants refused further leave to remain in the UK who had been granted recourse to public funds can continue to receive such public funds until their appeal rights against such a refusal have been exhausted.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Applicants who have recourse to public funds, can continue to receive such funds until their appeal is finally determined if they had valid leave when they made their application, and that leave and conditions were extended when their leave expired.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants refused further leave to remain in the UK who had been granted recourse to public funds can continue to receive such public funds until their appeal rights against such a refusal have been exhausted.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Applicants who have recourse to public funds, can continue to receive such funds until their appeal is finally determined if they had valid leave when they made their application, and that leave and conditions were extended when their leave expired.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2017 to Question 63085, what recent steps she has taken to offer asylum to unaccompanied refugee children who are currently in Greece and Serbia.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Responsibility for processing asylum claims in Serbia and Greece, including those made by unaccompanied children, lies with the Serbian and Greek authorities. There are no provisions in our Immigration Rules for someone to travel to the UK to claim asylum.
However, we are working with the Greek authorities, UNHCR and non-governmental organisations to identify children from Greece who may qualify for transfer to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 or the Dublin III Regulation. We have also seconded an expert to Greece to support these efforts.
In addition, we have established a £10 million Refugee Children Fund for Europe to support the needs of vulnerable refugee and migrant children arriving in Europe. The fund supports three specialist and mandated organisations – the UNHCR, Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee in their work with host authorities to care for and assist unaccompanied or separated children in Europe and the Balkans.
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that more unaccompanied children are granted asylum in the UK.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Over 8,000 children were granted asylum or another form of leave in the UK in the year ending September 2016.
Each claim for asylum is considered on its individual merits and asylum decision makers receive extensive training on considering asylum claims, including claims made from unaccompanied children. Protection is normally granted when a claimant establishes a well-founded fear of persecution under the Refugee Convention or their particular circumstances engage our obligations under Article 3 (ECHR).
Asked by: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2016 to Question 51510, on criminal proceedings: mental illness, if she will ensure that appropriate places of safety are extended to people with autism.
Answered by Sarah Newton
If a person with Autism Spectrum Disorder appears to be suffering from a mental disorder and is deemed in need of immediate care and control, a police officer may remove that person to a place of safety under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. If a person with Autism Spectrum Disorder does not appear to be suffering from a mental disorder and is not in need of care and control, a place of safety as defined in the Mental Health Act 1983 would not be an appropriate environment. In these cases appropriate alternative measures of support should be sought in line with the needs of that individual.