Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2014 to Question 210553, how many of the people granted humanitarian protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme (a) are family members of individuals who qualify as vulnerable under the scheme and (b) have been assessed as having serious medical needs.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Of the people granted Humanitarian Protection under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme up to the end of June 2014, 11 are Principal Applicants and 39 are dependant family members. Of these people 14 have been assessed as having serious medical needs.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are being held in prisons solely under immigration powers.
Answered by James Brokenshire
As at 14 October 2014 there were 374 detainees held in prison establishments solely under immigration powers.
The information provided above is based on management information only and has not been subject to the detailed checks that apply for National Statistics publications. These figures are provisional and are subject to change.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been deprived of their British Citizenship under subsection (2) of section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 in the last six months; how many such cases fell within subsection (4A) of that section; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981, the Secretary of State is empowered to deprive, by order, any person of any form of British
nationality, subject to satisfying the relevant criteria. The Secretary of State may deprive somebody of their British citizenship if satisfied that such deprivation is conducive to the public good or the individual obtained British citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact. Since April 2014, seven people have been deprived of their citizenship on the grounds that it was either conducive to the public good to do so, or that the individual concerned obtained their British citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact. No cases have been deprived under subsection (4A) of that section.
Please note: this information has been provided from local management information and is not a national statistic. As such, it should be treated as
provisional and therefore subject to change.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian people have been resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme since the launch of that scheme.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of people granted Humanitarian Protection in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons
Relocation scheme in Table as_19 (Asylum data table Volume 4) of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April – June 2014, is available from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
In the year ending June 2014, a total of 50 people were granted Humanitarian Protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many immigration or asylum cases during the last 12 months where a person has claimed to be under the age of 18, that person has been treated as an adult on the basis that their appearance or demeanour strongly suggests they are significantly over the age of 18.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This information is not currently published or readily available and could be obtained only through the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.
The Home Office is looking into ways to improve the statistical recording of age dispute information.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the London Borough of Brent who have had their benefits capped under the household benefit cap have subsequently moved out of that borough.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The information requested is not readily available and can only be be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the London Borough of Brent have been subject to the household benefit cap for (a) less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months and (d) more than six months.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of section 39 of the Immigration Act 2014 on the level of immunisations amongst children against the infectious diseases listed in Schedule 1 of The National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS treatment in primary care (which in this context includes the standard childhood immunisations) is currently exempt from charging under the National Health Services (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations (2011). In addition, treatment for infectious diseases listed in Schedule 1 of the Regulations is also exempt from charging.
Section 39 of the Immigration Act 2014 concerns a change in the definition of ordinary residence within the context of National Health Services charging provisions for non-EEA nationals who are subject to immigration control. Some NHS services are only free-of-charge to those people who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom. Primary care services are currently free-of-charge, regardless of ordinarily resident status.
The introduction of section 39 will affect neither the exemptions in primary care nor the exemptions for infectious diseases.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who used the Assisted Voluntary Returns scheme (a) submitted their first asylum claim after being detained in an immigration removal and (b) had their asylum case decided within the Detained Fast Track in each of the last five years for which records are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is shown in the following table:
The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols, as such it should be treated as provisional and subject to change.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold an inquiry into trends in the number of deaths of individuals detained in immigration detention.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Any death in immigration detention is a tragic event and each death is subject
to independent investigation, as appropriate, by the police, the Coroner and
the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.
Any recommendations made by the investigating authorities are thoroughly
examined to see how they can be used to help prevent further tragedies across
the detention estate and action plans are drawn up to monitor their
implementation.
For example, firm written reminders were issued to all suppliers on the
requirements of the current Detention Services Order on use of handcuffs, which
was followed up by a workshop on their appropriate use and the importance of
proper risk assessments. Recommendations relevant to medical care for detainees
have been shared with NHS England to inform their commissioning of healthcare
services from 1 September 2014.