Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many private hire vehicle drivers have been arrested in (a) London and (b) the UK for offences related to plying for hire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of private hire vehicle drivers arrested.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to incorporate into the Serious Organised Crime Strategy the conclusions of the document, UK commitment to action on illegal wildlife trade, published in February 2014.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The Home Office continues to work with other departments to ensure that the Government delivers on the UK Commitment to Action on the Illegal Wildlife Trade. The Government will review its progress against the UK’s commitments
early next year.
The Serious and Organised Crime Strategy applies the successful framework we use to counter terrorism to drive and coordinate our response to serious and organised crime, which encompasses illegal wildlife trade. The National Crime
Agency and its law enforcement partners focus on disrupting those serious and organised criminals that present the highest risk to the UK and its communities, including in areas such as child sexual exploitation and modern
slavery. Where high-risk organised criminals are engaged in illegal wildlife trade, the Agency will lead, support or coordinate an appropriate level of response.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the average waiting times at the UK border for the last three years at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Manchester, (e) Birmingham and (f) Luton airports.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The yearly average queue times for passengers arriving at the Primary Checkpoint to be admitted into the UK are set out in the table below. All meet service level agreement targets, which are below 25 minutes for European Economic Area (EEA) passengers and below 45 Minutes for non-EEA passengers.
| Average Passenger Queue Times (hr:mm) | ||||||
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||
| Port | EEA | NonEEA | EEA | NonEEA | EEA | NonEEA |
| Heathrow TN1 | 00:05 | 00:13 | 00:03 | 00:08 | 00:02 | 00:05 |
| Heathrow TN3 | 00:06 | 00:19 | 00:03 | 00:11 | 00:02 | 00:09 |
| Heathrow TN4 | 00:04 | 00:22 | 00:02 | 00:11 | 00:02 | 00:08 |
| Heathrow TN5 | 00:06 | 00:21 | 00:04 | 00:13 | 00:04 | 00:09 |
| Gatwick North | 00:03 | 00:05 | 00:03 | 00:05 | 00:02 | 00:04 |
| Gatwick South | 00:04 | 00:07 | 00:03 | 00:05 | 00:02 | 00:03 |
| Stansted | 00:13 | 00:20 | 00:07 | 00:10 | 00:06 | 00:09 |
| Manchester TN1 | 00:09 | 00:15 | 00:10 | 00:17 | 00:09 | 00:15 |
| Manchester TN2 | 00:10 | 00:19 | 00:09 | 00:16 | 00:08 | 00:15 |
| Manchester TN3 | 00:08 | 00:14 | 00:15 | 00:23 | 00:11 | 00:16 |
| Birmingham | 00:07 | 00:11 | 00:06 | 00:09 | 00:05 | 00:09 |
| Luton | 00:09 | 00:09 | 00:08 | 00:08 | 00:07 | 00:09 |
| The figures quoted above are management information subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change. | ||||||
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration officers are deployed at each UK airport.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The requested information has not been released as it is Border Force policy not to release port-specific staff numbers on grounds of national security.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the immigration status is of Tareque Rahman, Vice Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Answered by James Brokenshire
For reasons of confidentiality, the Home Office does not routinely
comment on individual cases.