Asked by: James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals her Department has started removal proceedings against in (a) the UK, (b) Southend and (c) Rochford and Southend East constituency.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Statistics on persons returned from the UK is published in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics. The latest edition, Immigration Statistics: October to December 2016 is available from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016
Asked by: James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders by country were (a) imprisoned, (b) released from prison and (c) deported in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Home Office does not disclose country specific information regarding deportation of foreign national offenders as its disclosure could prejudice relations between the UK and foreign governments.
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on foreign national offenders imprisoned on a quarterly basis which can be accessed at the following link:
Asked by: James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals serving prison sentences have been deported from prisons in (a) the UK, (b) Southend and (c) Rochford and Southend East constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The information requested is available at
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/returns
We are unable to provide a breakdown of the number of removals for each of the requested constituencies in the UK and therefore the figures published are for the total number of removals.
Asked by: James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines her Department provides on the process for the removal of people from the UK who have exhausted an asylum application and appeal process.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Home Office encourages people with no right to be here to leave the country voluntarily and will offer help for them to do this. Where they fail to leave the Home Office we will enforce their departure. Guidelines on removal are available
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/enforcement-instructions-and-guidance
Asked by: James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the implication for burglary prevention of the selling by Amazon of lock picking kits.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The Home Office has not undertaken such an assessment. We are aware that equipment which may have a number of legitimate uses can be bought online which can potentially be misused by criminals to commit crimes such as burglary. We are clear that, where such crimes take place and are reported to the police, they should be taken seriously, investigated and, where appropriate, the perpetrators taken through the courts and met with tough sentences.