Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 11080, on deportation: appeals, how many appellants (a) had a legal representative at their panel and (b) gave evidence at the appeal via video link.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Such data is not aggregated in national reporting systems, which would mean these questions could only be answered through a disproportionately expensive manual case search to collate the data.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign national offenders deported between July 2014 and August 2015 who returned to a country other than their country of nationality.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 11080, that there had been 13 successful appeals, the additional data requested is not available. Such data is not aggregated in national reporting systems, which would mean these questions could only be answered through a disproportionately expensive manual case search to collate the data.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the length of time was that each person who successfully appealed against their deportation under the deport first, appeal later measures spent outside the UK.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 11080, that there had been 13 successful appeals, the additional data requested is not available. Such data is not aggregated in national reporting systems, which would mean these questions could only be answered through a disproportionately expensive manual case search to collate the data.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people deported under the deport first, appeal later measures have successfully appealed against their deportation; how many of those people have returned to the UK; and of those people that have returned, what the length of time was that each such person spent outside the UK between their deportation and return.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 11080, that there had been 13 successful appeals, the additional data requested is not available. Such data is not aggregated in national reporting systems, which would mean these questions could only be answered through a disproportionately expensive manual case search to collate the data.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to her Department has been of (a) deporting and (b) returning deported people following a successful appeal under the deport first, appeal later measures.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office has not estimated the cost of (a) deporting and (b) returning deported people following a successful appeal under the deport first, appeal later measures. We are unable to disaggregate the specific costs relating to deport first, appeal later provisions and any attempt to do so would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed by her Department's landlords' checking service.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Government is tightening up access to public and other services to protect them from abuse by people who are in the UK illegally. It is right for people only to be able to access private accommodation if they are here legally. This is only fair to people who play by the rules, not least, those who come here legally.
This service enables a landlord to verify a person’s immigration status, with regards to the Right to Rent, with the Home Office in cases where a person has an ongoing application outstanding or where a person’s identification documents are with the Home Office. Resource of this service is kept under review to ensure capacity meets demand. At present the service is staffed by 2 full-time equivalent members of UK Visas and Immigration staff. A further 20 members of the call-handling team are also trained to respond to enquiries if additional recource is required. We have plans in place to scale-up the resource in line with the demand requirements of the national roll-out.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the number of illegal migrants working in late-night takeaways and off-licences.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It is not currently possible to quantify accurately the number of immigration offenders in the UK as, by their very nature, those that deliberately evade immigration control to enter and stay in the country illegally are not officially recorded until they come to light and are arrested. The current Immigration Bill includes measures to prevent illegal workers from obtaining and holding licences permitting the sale of alcohol or late night refreshments, as part of a range of provisions continuing the Government's reforms to tackle illegal working.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were incorrectly investigated as a result of immigration officials believing that they were living illegally in the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This data can not be extrapolated from our systems and would necessitate a case by case examination across multiple IT systems. The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost. All of Immigration Enforcement's operations are intelligence led and are only conducted when information suggests that they will encounter an illegal migrant.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average amount of time taken to deport a person living illegally in the UK was in 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Data on the average amount of time taken to deport a foreign national offender from UK in 2014-15 is contained in figures published quarterly by the Home Office link below: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been carried out of the performance of the right to rent pilot in Birmingham, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Wolverhampton.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Government has carried out an evaluation of phase one of the Right to Rent scheme in Birmingham, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Wolverhampton. This includes assessment of the implementation of the Landlords Checking Service. The findings of the evaluation were published on 20 October and will inform the extension of the scheme. The evaluation can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-right-to-rent-scheme