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Entry Clearances: Sri Lanka
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for (a) visas and (b) leave to remain from Sri Lankan nationals his Department has under consideration. [279430]
Mr. Woolas: There are 1,957 Sri Lankan nationals who are currently awaiting a decision on their applications for Leave to Remain.
During May 2009, we received 3,424 visa applications from Sri Lankan nationals.
Immigration
Mr. Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for indefinite leave to remain in the UK remained to be processed seven years or more after the date of application at the end of 2008. [247227]
Mr. Woolas: At the end of 2008 there were 13 applications that remain to be processed seven or more years after the date of application.
Immigration Controls
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which countries the UK Border Agency operates points of entry campaigns explaining UK immigration and asylum policy. [280812]
Mr. Woolas: Detailed guidance on the requirements to be met by foreign nationals who wish to enter the UK is available from all UK Border Agency Visa Application Centres and Visa Sections overseas, and on central and local websites. Call centres are also in operation in many locations.
Immigration Controls: Voluntary Work
Mr. Alan Reid: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people of each nationality have been refused entry to the UK at ports and airports on the grounds that they intended to carry out voluntary work during their stay since the Tier 5 volunteer worker category of the points-based immigration system was introduced. [282176]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 25 June 2009]: It is not possible to provide definitive figures on the number or nationality of those refused entry on the grounds that they intended to carry out voluntary work during their stay. This information can be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.
Immigration: Deportation
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether individuals deported by the UK Border Agency are accompanied by officials on their removal from the UK. [280810]
Mr. Woolas: The UK Border Agency staff do not accompany individuals removed or deported on their departure from the UK. However, the Agency uses contractors to facilitate overseas removal who do, from time to time, accompany individuals deported from the UK.
Members: Correspondence
John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the visa enquiry office of the Islamabad consulate plans to reply to the hon. Member for Edinburgh West's correspondence of 24 April 2009, on his constituent Mr U. Malik. [279825]
Mr. Woolas: The UK Border Agency (Visa Services) replied to the hon. Member on 11 June 2009.
Migration
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) which of the recommendations relating to migration made by the Home Affairs Committee between 2005 and 2007 have been implemented by his Department; how many such recommendations he plans to implement; and what recent steps he has taken to implement such recommendations; [269301]
(2) when he plans to answer Question 269301, tabled on 1 April 2009, on implementation of recommendations of the Home Affairs Committee relating to migration. [278593]
Mr. Woolas: In October 2007 the Home Office provided the Home Affairs Select Committee with a progress report on implementing the accepted recommendations in the report HC775. The Government responded to the Committee's report on Justice and Home Affairs Issues at European Union Level on (HC76-I) on 11 October 2007.
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how applications for regulation have been received by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner in each year from 2001. [281419]
Mr. Woolas
[holding answer 19 June 2009]: The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) is an Executive non-departmental public body sponsored
by the Home Office, and receives and deals with applications from advisers. The number of applications received are as follows:
| Number of initial applications received( 1) | |
| (1) Applications are made by an organisation rather than an individual adviser. | |
Overseas Students
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information his Department holds on the number of educational establishments which (a) accepted non-EU students, (b) were inspected and (c) passed inspection in 2007. [274433]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 11 May 2009]: The Home Office does not hold this information.
Since the launch of tier 4 of the PBS on 31 March 2009, educational establishments wishing to bring non-EEA national students to the UK are required to hold a sponsor licence, which can only be obtained by establishments that are either publicly funded and subject to the system of public inspections and audits, or private institutions that are accredited by a UK Border Agency-approved accreditation body. Around 1,500 institutions are currently registered to bring students to the UK. We estimated that around 4,000 institutions were active in bringing non-EEA students to the UK prior to the introduction of tier 4 of the points-based system.
Overseas Visitors: Jordan
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Jordanian nationals visited the UK in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. [282302]
Mr. Woolas:
The latest available statistics on the number of Jordanian nationals given leave to enter the United Kingdom as visitors are for 2007. These are published in table 2.3 of the Home Office publication "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2007". This and future publications may be obtained
from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:
The statistics are based on landing card information and may include the same individuals more than once if they visited the United Kingdom on multiple occasions in the period.
Data for 2008 are scheduled for publication in August 2009.
Police: Greater London
Angela Watkinson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which boroughs in London the number of police officers will be reduced in the next 12 months as a result of the application of the Metropolitan Police resource allocation formula; and if he will make a statement. [281789]
Mr. Hanson: The allocation of resources by the Metropolitan Police Service to the London borough operational command units is a matter for the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA).
I understand that the resource allocation formula used by the MPS and the MPA to allocate resources to boroughs is kept under review.
Public Order Offences
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of (a) abandoned vehicles, (b) animal problems, (c) hoax calls to emergency services, (d) malicious communications, (e) noise, (f) rowdy or nuisance behaviour by neighbours, (g) rowdy or inconsiderate behaviour in public, (h) street drinking, (i) substance misuse, (j) trespass, (k) inappropriate use or sale of fireworks, (l) begging or vagrancy and (m) hate incidents, as defined by the National Incident Category List, were recorded by each police force in 2007-08. [258634]
Alan Johnson: The data requested are shown in the tables. The data are normally used for management information only and are not subject to the detailed checks that apply for National Statistics publications. The data are provisional and may be subject to change.
As part of the reviews of the burdens the Home Office places on police forces, the National Incident Category List has been simplified for 2009, with a 33 per cent,. reduction in complexity, leading to a significant decrease in the data demand placed on forces.
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