Asked by: Susan Elan Jones (Labour - Clwyd South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to ensure that UK passports can be provided bi-lingually in English and Welsh for people living in Wales.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Her Majesty’s Passport Office complies with the Welsh Language Scheme, providing Welsh language passport application services in Wales, upon request.
The current passport includes Welsh language translations on page one of the passport and of the captions present on the biographical details page. Her Majesty’s Passport Office intends to continue providing a Welsh translation of these sections within the new design of the passport.
There are currently no plans to translate additional sections of the passport into Welsh.
Asked by: Susan Elan Jones (Labour - Clwyd South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether all children in Calais with valid family reunion claims and the first 300 of those children identified as most at risk will be re-located to the UK in time for the start of the new school year in September 2016.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Both Governments are clear that migrants in Calais in need of protection should claim asylum in France. The UK will consider requests to take responsibility of an asylum application made in France, where an asylum claim is lodged by a minor with close family connections in the UK and both governments are committed to ensuring such cases are prioritised. To assist the handling of these cases the UK and France have established a senior level standing committee, agreed single points of contact within respective Dublin Units and the UK seconded an asylum expert to the French administration to facilitate the improvement of all stages of the process of identifying, protecting and transferring relevant cases to the UK. Since February 2016 the UK has accepted over 30 requests from France under the Dublin Regulation to take charge of asylum seeking children on family grounds of which more than 20 have already been transferred to the UK.
Asked by: Susan Elan Jones (Labour - Clwyd South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner on the removal of people convicted of child abuse and rape from the Sex Offenders Register.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Home Office has not received any representations from the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner on the removal of people convicted of child abuse and rape from the sex offenders’ register.
Offenders who are on the register indefinitely are only able to seek a police review after 15 years. In 2012, the Home Office issued detailed guidance to police forces on assessing applications for review. All decisions to release a sex offender from the notification requirements must be authorised by a senior police officer. Public safety is at the heart of all decisions taken by police, and those who continue to pose a risk will remain on the sex offenders' register, if necessary for life.
Asked by: Susan Elan Jones (Labour - Clwyd South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms certificates were issued in Clwyd South constituency in the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
Firearms statistics are compiled by police force area and not by constituencies.
The generic term ‘firearm’ covers both firearms and shotguns. The number of firearm certificates (firearm and shotgun) issued (new and renewal) in South Wales in the last five years totals 9,893.