Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
What steps she is taking to identify, and prosecute people who return to the UK from fighting for Daesh in Syria.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Government has been consistently clear; everyone who returns from taking part in the conflict in Syria or Iraq will be investigated by the police to determine if they have committed criminal offences. Where there is a case to answer those individuals will be prosecuted.
We are working with our international partners, bilaterally and via the UN, to improve the sharing of information to ensure those responsible for crimes can be brought to justice.
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the potential number of short-term EU migrants who are expected to enter the UK to live and work in each of the next five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It has been the practice of this Government not to make such forecasts. There are numerous different factors that can affect migration flows. Projections of UK’s population are published by the independent Office for National Statistics. http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections
As projections, these do not take account of the potential impact of Government policies or economic conditions. ONS produce estimates of short term migration for England and Wales https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/shorttermmigrationestimatesforenglandandwalesmid2014estimates
The majority of those coming as ‘short term migrants’ were for the reason “other” (which includes activities such as: holidays and travelling; visiting family and friends; and working holidays).
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library copies of all letters, leaflets and other material from her Department circulated to (a) stakeholders and (b) members of the public on the EU referendum; what the costs of the production and distribution of that material has been since 1 January 2016; and what she estimates the cost of any further production and distribution of such material will be between 6 May 2016 and 23 June 2016.
Answered by Karen Bradley
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to Parliamentary Questions 38811 and 38825 by the hon. Member for Weston –Super-Mare (John Penrose), Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, on 8 June 2016.
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of prospective migrants who will be deterred from entering the UK from other EU member states upon implementation of the emergency brake.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It has been the practice of this Government not to make such forecasts. There are numerous different factors that can affect migration flows.
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on levels of inward migration from other EU member states of (a) an economic downturn and (b) a rise in unemployment in such states.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It has been the practice of this Government not to make such forecasts. There are numerous different factors that can affect migration flows.
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons she has not produced an estimate of the potential effect on inward migration from the EU of the UK's negotiated settlement with the EU; and when she plans to publish that estimate.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It has been the practice of this Government not to make such forecasts. There are numerous different factors that can affect migration flows.
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EEA nationals have moved to the UK since 1 February 2004 and (a) are now eligible for and (b) have been granted permanent residency status by virtue of being resident for at least five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
European Economic Area (EEA) nationals have free movement rights in other Member States, but these rights are not unconditional. An EEA national does not gain the right of permanent residence merely by living in the UK; the right is only gained once they have exercised a Treaty right continuously for five years by working, being self-employed, self-sufficient or a student. EEA nationals who are not working or self-employed must have comprehensive sickness insurance and sufficient resources to support themselves and their families to avoid becoming a burden on the social assistance system.
EEA nationals with the right of permanent residence may apply for documentation confirming that right. The table below shows the number granted a document certifying permanent residence since 2006, when such documentation was introduced.
Grants of Documents certifying permanent residence for European Economic Area nationals | ||||||
Year | Documents certifying permanent residence - | |||||
2004 | 5,263 | |||||
2005 | 6,639 | |||||
2006 | 5,436 | |||||
2007 | 3,973 | |||||
2008 | 1,785 | |||||
2009 | 6,074 | |||||
2010 | 9,491 | |||||
2011 | 11,734 | |||||
2012 | 8,546 | |||||
2013 | 14,528 | |||||
2014 | 9,787 | |||||
Source:Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, Home Office, table ee_02. | ||||||
May include a small number of Croatian nationals in 2013 before their accession to the EU in July of that year. | ||||||
Figures for 2015 will be published on 26th May 2015.
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last had discussions with (a) her EU counterparts and (b) the European Commission on new measures to restrict migration from EU nationals into the UK.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Secretary of State for the Home Department regularly meets her European counterparts and representatives of the European Commission to discuss a wide range of issues.