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Immigration: Appeals
Mike Gapes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) on what date (a) the Border and Immigration Agency received notification that the appeal of Mrs Hina Sayid (ref. S1377193) to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal had been allowed and (b) the UK Border Agency received documentation in support of Mrs Sayid's application for a visit visa; and if she will make a statement; [202222]
(2) when she expects to issue the constituent of the hon. Member for Ilford South, Mrs Hina Sajid (ref. S1377193) with documents confirming her indefinite leave to remain, following the determination of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal on 2nd October 2007 allowing the appeal against the decision to refuse her such leave; when Mrs Sajid's passport will be endorsed with the appropriate status; and if she will make a statement. [202224]
Mr. Woolas: I wrote to the hon. Member on 24 November 2008.
Immigration: Biometrics
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint Service database will be used to store biometrics collected from (a) foreign nationals receiving identity cards and (b) British citizens receiving identity cards. [237724]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 20 November 2008]: The Immigration and Asylum fingerprint service database will only be used for foreign nationals. The British Citizen’s biometric information cannot be stored on the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint Service.
Immigration: Educational Institutions
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many educational institutions have (a) had action other than enforced closure taken against them following immigration-related offences and (b) been closed down following immigration-related offences in each year since 1997. [233323]
Jacqui Smith: I will write to the hon. Member.
Immigration: Gurkhas
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what timetable she has set for the implementation of Mr Justice Blake's judgment of 30th September 2008 on Gurkhas. [238327]
Mr. Woolas: [holding answer 24th November 2008]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Immigration: Skilled Workers
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of migrants admitted under the highly skilled migrant programme who are (a) unemployed and (b) working in unskilled jobs. [201159]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 24 April 2008]: I will write to the hon. Member.
Damian Green:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when her Department received from the Migration Advisory Committee the Tier 2
skilled employment shortage occupation list due to be completed by June 2008; and when her Department plans to publish it. [223327]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 9 September 2008]: I will write to the hon. Member.
Independent Monitor of Certification of Claims as Clearly Unfounded
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget for the office of the Certification Monitor of the UK Border Agency and its predecessors was in each of the last three years. [239018]
Jacqui Smith: A total annual budget of £15,680 was set aside for the Certification Monitor including all fees and expenses). The last Certification Monitor's Report was published in 2006. In that year, following a consultation exercise, the Government announced that the role of the Certification Monitor would be subsumed in the office of the Chief Inspector of the UKBA. The Chief Inspector, John Vine, is expected to publish his first annual report after the end of the current financial year.
Independent Monitor of Entry Clearance Refusals
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many approved visa application cases were investigated by the Independent Monitor for Entry Clearance Refusals Without the Right of Appeal in each of the last three years. [238922]
Mr. Woolas: None, as her statutory remit only refers to refused visas in categories which do not attract a right of appeal.
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget of the offices of the Independent Monitor for Entry Clearance Refusals Without the Right of Appeal was in each of the last three years. [238923]
Jacqui Smith: The budget for the offices of the Independent Monitor for Entry Clearance Refusals without the Right of Appeal was £260,000 for 2006-07, £278,000 for 2007-08 and £278,000 for 2008-09. These figures include staff costs of the UK Border Agency Independent Monitor Liaison Team and the Independent Monitor's salary. The Independent Monitor provides her own office and office equipment.
Inspections
Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many inspectors were employed by her Department in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 1997-98. [228094]
Mr. Woolas: The question does not specify which category of inspector should be counted so the following figures include any grades which include “inspector” in their title.
The figures are for full time equivalent paid permanent staff only.
Please be aware there are no inspector grades in the Identity and Passport Service or the Criminal Records Bureau.
232.61 (full-time equivalent) staff were recorded as Inspector in the Home Office Headquarters (HQ) and the United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA).
101.62 (full-time equivalent) staff were recorded as Inspector in the Home Office Headquarters (HQ) and the United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA).
Internet
Derek Wyatt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans there are to introduce a content filtering scheme for the internet. [239261]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Lancashire Constabulary: Pay
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has made an assessment of the cost of backdating the pay increase for police in Lancashire Constabulary to September 2007. [188713]
Mr. Coaker: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much Lancashire Constabulary has allowed in its budget to fund the pay settlement. [188714]
Mr. Coaker: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is open to Lancashire Constabulary to increase the agreed pay settlement award through a bonus system. [188715]
Mr. Coaker: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Licensing: Television
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were charged with television licence fee evasion in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area. [235706]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not collected centrally. Collection of the licence fee is the responsibility of the BBC.
Liverpool
Mr. Wareing: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the purposes of her visit to the Liverpool, West Derby constituency on 10 January 2008 were; whom she met during the visit; and what decisions she has made as a result of the visit. [180319]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 21 January 2008]: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary visited Merseyside as part of the Tackling Guns Action Programme on 10 January 2008. Her programme of engagements included a visit to the Croxteth area to the Alt Valley Community Trust Skills Centre and Croxteth Community Primary School. She had a short political meeting with Cllr Rose Bailey at the end of the primary school visit before moving on to her next engagement.
Maritime Analysis Operations Centre - Narcotics
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding the Government have contributed to the Maritime Analysis Operations Centre—Narcotics in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09; and how much it plans to contribute in each of the next three years. [234287]
Jacqui Smith: I will write to the hon. Member.
Mass Media
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which organisations provided media monitoring services to (a) her Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last three years; and what the cost of each contract was. [239598]
Mr. Woolas: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which keywords or terms her Department has monitored in the media in each of the last three years. [239734]
Mr. Woolas: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Members: Correspondence
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to reply to the letter of 5 July from the hon. Member for Beaconsfield. [163945]
Jacqui Smith: The hon. Member’s letter was received in the Home Office on 6 July 2007, and was immediately transferred to the Department for Transport. Notification of the transfer was sent to the hon. Member the same day. The Department for Transport advise that a reply was sent by the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Canning Town (Jim Fitzpatrick), on 8 August 2007.
Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she will respond to the letters of 22 September and 29 October from the hon. Member for Billericay regarding Mr. Kevin Browne. [237196]
Meg Hillier [holding answer 18 September 2008]: As Minister with responsibility for the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), I wrote to the hon. Member in response to his letter dated 29 October 2008 on 24 November 2008. Officials can find no record of having received a letter from the hon. Member dated 22 September regarding Mr. Kevin Browne.
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she will reply to the letter of 9 October 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on behalf of Miss Z. Hallam. [238139]
Jacqui Smith: I replied to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on 25 November 2005.
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she will reply to the letter of 14 October 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on behalf of Mrs. Asia Rehman. [238140]
Jacqui Smith: I replied to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on 25 November 2008.
Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when a reply will be sent to the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood’s enquiry dated 10 September 2008 on behalf of Karlene Cameron, ref: H118332. [239300]
Mr. Woolas: It has not proved possible to respond to the right hon. Lady in the time available before Prorogation.
Metropolitan Police: Ethnic Groups
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) all recruits and (b) recruits from ethnic minorities entering the Metropolitan Police in each of the last five years have completed their probationary period. [227413]
Mr. Coaker: I will write to the hon. Member.
Metropolitan Police: Homosexuality
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of Metropolitan Police recruits identified themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in each of the last five years; and what percentage of those recruits completed their full probationary period. [227418]
Mr. Coaker: I will write to the hon. Member.
Metropolitan Police: Human Trafficking
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the reasons are for the withdrawal of funding for the Metropolitan police human trafficking unit; and if she will make a statement. [237851]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 24November 2008]: I will write to the hon. Member.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when her Department notified the Metropolitan Police that her Department's funding of the Metropolitan Police human trafficking unit would be withdrawn; what representations she has received from the Metropolitan Police on this matter; and if she will place in the Library recent relevant written correspondence she has set and received on this matter. [237852]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 24 November 2008]: Work to combat human trafficking is core police business. Accordingly, the additional funding provided to forces to tackle human trafficking has always been on a time limited, pump priming basis to encourage forces to mainstream this work into their existing budgets.
The Metropolitan Police human trafficking team is funded from money administered by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) which informed the Metropolitan Police of the funding available and the basis on which it would be provided, earlier this year.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of people-trafficking-related (a) investigations, (b) trials and (c) convictions have arisen through the activity of the Metropolitan Police human trafficking unit in each year since its inception. [237853]
Mr. Alan Campbell: I will write to the hon. Member.
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