Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visitor visas were refused in each year since 2010.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
Information on the number and proportion of grants and refusals of visitor visas is published in the Home Office’s quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas table vi_01_q, latest edition at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has guaranteed replacement funding for organisations currently receiving support through the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
All projects under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) will continue to receive funding for the lifetime of their projects, even if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of not replacing funds currently provided to UK organisations through the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund on (a) UK organisations supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and (b) refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
All projects under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) will continue to receive funding for the lifetime of their projects, even if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she plans to provide equivalent funding to replicate the aims of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund after the UK has left the EU.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
All projects under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) will continue to receive funding for the lifetime of their projects, even if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign nationals serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection have been deported to countries that do not have an equivalent sentence in each year since 2010.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The Government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the UK, and any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.
Since 2010, we have removed almost 50,000 Foreign National Offenders from our prisons, immigration removal centres and the community, with more than 5,000 removed in 2018/19.
Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.
The Home Office does publish quarterly statistics on the numbers of Foreign Nationals removed from the UK. This data can be found by accessing the following https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals given sentences of imprisonment for public protection have been deported from the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The Government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the UK, and any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.
Since 2010, we have removed almost 50,000 Foreign National Offenders from our prisons, immigration removal centres and the community, with more than 5,000 removed in 2018/19.
Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.
The Home Office does publish quarterly statistics on the numbers of Foreign Nationals removed from the UK. This data can be found by accessing the following https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to apply restrictions on access to (a) social security and (b) health services to non-UK EU citizens (i) without evidence of settled status and (ii) with other legal immigration status after 31 October 2019.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Eligibility rules governing access to social security benefits and NHS services by EU citizens living in the UK will not change on 31 October 2019. We have made clear that all EU citizens will require status under UK immigration legislation to continue living in the UK after the end of 2020, when the new points-based immigration system is introduced. We will set out the rules for the new system and associated entitlements in due course.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers expected to retire in the next three years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon Member in the time available before Prorogation.