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Meg Hillier: It has not been possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals who are not required to have a compulsory identity card have applied for a voluntary national identity card. [299388]
Meg Hillier: It has not been possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Illegal Immigrants: France
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions he has had with the French authorities on closure of illegal camps near Calais. [293796]
Mr. Woolas: The UK and French Governments maintain regular contact in the area of immigration. I met with Eric Besson, the French Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Solidarity-based Development, at the UK-France Summit on 6 July 2009. Both Ministers committed to further action to combat illegal immigration, including through strengthening security at the shared border and taking resolute action to reduce the pull factors for illegal immigrants and criminal networks.
The Home Secretary also met with Eric Besson at the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council on 21 September.
Both Ministers stressed the importance of the joint UK-France commitment to combat illegal immigration in northern France, and the Home Secretary supported the French operation to close the illegal camps near Calais. The Home Secretary also reiterated the work being undertaken to strengthen not only the shared border, but that of Europe as a whole.
Immigrants: Domestic Violence
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department is taking to reduce the incidence of offences of domestic violence against women with insecure immigration status. [299093]
Mr. Woolas: It has not been possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress his Department has made on the review of conditional funding for non-UK national victims of domestic violence. [299094]
Mr. Woolas: It has not been possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the average number of women of insecure immigration status who are victims of domestic violence each year. [299095]
Mr. Woolas: It has not been possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what mechanisms are in place to assist women of insecure immigration status who are victims of domestic violence while their immigration status is being determined. [299096]
Mr. Woolas: It has not been possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications there were under the Domestic Violence Rule in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008; and what percentage of those applications were granted. [299805]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not been possible to respond to the hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long on average it took to process applications made under the Domestic Violence Rule in 2008. [299806]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not been possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Immigrants: Employment
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment his Department has made of the effect on domestic workers requiring a visa of the cost of visa renewal. [299652]
Mr. Woolas: It has not been possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Immigration Controls
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many organisations have had their sponsorship licences revoked by the UK Border Agency. [294388]
Alan Johnson: 24 organisations had their sponsorship licences under the points based system revoked by the UK Border Agency up to 3 November 2009.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many calls the UK Border Agency card verification service has received in each of the last 12 months; and how many such calls resulted in the identification of a false card. [294389]
Alan Johnson: Since identity cards for foreign nationals went live on 25 November 2008 up until mid October 2009, 260 calls have been received by the card verification service broken down by month as follows:
| Number | |
| (1) Unknown (2 )To date | |
None of these calls resulted in the identification of a false card. There are no figures for February, March, April 2009 because the verification service's management information system was not operating. However, by the end of April the system was repaired and is now able to accurately record figures.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many documents of each type submitted by applicants for a sponsor licence had been reported as lost on the latest date for which figures are available. [294392]
Alan Johnson: There have been no recorded instances of documents supplied by sponsors as part of their application having been lost by the UK Border Agency.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sponsors under the points-based immigration system have been downgraded from an A to B rating in each of the last 36 months. [294398]
Alan Johnson: The number of sponsors downgraded under the points based immigration system from A to a B rating for each month that records have been kept is:
| Number | |
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times level (a) 1 and (b) 2 users of sponsorship management systems have been found to have disclosed their system access details to other people. [294399]
Alan Johnson: To date evidence shows that one college has breached the requirements for use of the sponsor management system. The college's sponsor licence has been revoked.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many security breaches of the UK Border Agency sponsorship management system there have been; and what the cause was of each such security breach. [294409]
Alan Johnson: There have been no recorded instances of any security breaches of the sponsorship management system.
Immigration Controls: Ministers of Religion
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many ministers of religion of each (a) nationality and (b) country of birth have (i) applied for and (ii) been granted permits under tier 2 of the points-based immigration system. [294396]
Alan Johnson: I will write to the hon. Member.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many dependants of ministers of religion of each (a) nationality and (b) country of birth have (i) applied for and (ii) been granted permits under tier 2 of the points-based immigration system in each of the last 36 months. [294397]
Alan Johnson: I will write to the hon. Member.
Immigration: Pakistan and Afghanistan
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department from how many people from (a) Pakistan and (b) Afghanistan a visa for entry to the UK has been withdrawn (i) because the visa application was found to have been (A) fraudulently made and (B) accompanied by forged documents and (ii) for reasons of national security in the last 10 years. [294286]
Alan Johnson: Although we collect information on the number of visas revoked after they have been issued, we are unable to identify the specific data requested except at disproportionate cost.
Independent Safeguarding Authority
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what key performance indicators have been established for the Independent Safeguarding Authority. [289338]
Meg Hillier: A number of KPIs and priorities are detailed within the ISA's Business Plan 2009-10. These include:
Inform those entitled to know of a decision being made within one day
60 per cent. of stakeholders say they are clear about the role of the ISA
75 per cent. of complainants satisfied by the way the ISA handled the complaint
85 per cent. of complaints resolved within 21 days
All invoices paid within 30 days
Downtime of casework IT system below 5 per cent
Increase the rate of recruitment applications from minority groups by 10 per cent
Caseworker development programme 95 per cent. attendance by operational staff
80 per cent. of staff say they understand the values of the ISA
90 per cent. of staff probation reports completed within six months
Staff sickness average eight days per employee
90 per cent. of staff return to work interviews undertaken within five days
Staff turnover no more than 10 per cent.
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of applications the Independent Safeguarding Authority will process in its first 12 months. [299396]
Mr. Hanson: It has not been possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Interpreters: Finance
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the police have spent in (a) England and Wales and (b) Essex on interpreters for (i) suspects, (ii) charged individuals and (iii) victims of crime who are unable to speak English in each of the last three years. [296938]
Mr. Hanson [holding answer 3 November 2009]: The chief officers of each police force are responsible for making sure that appropriate arrangements are in place for provision of suitably qualified interpreters. This information is not collected centrally.
Licensing Laws
Mr. Arbuthnot: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for licences by a person who had previously held a licence were refused in each of the last three years because he or she had served alcohol to a person who was inebriated. [299567]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not been possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Members: Correspondence
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to reply to the letter of 15 September 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs Aara Sadid. [297633]
Alan Johnson: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 10 November 2009.
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Minister for Borders and Immigration expects to reply to the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire's letter concerning Mr. Peter Edmondson of Duffield, Derby, dated 16 June 2009, reference: PM/OP/Edmondson. [297976]
Mr. Woolas: My officials wrote to the right hon. Member on 19 May 2009, in response to his letter of 30 April about this case. We have no record of receiving a further letter of 16 June on behalf of Mr. Peter Edmondson. We will be happy to look into the matter on receipt of a copy.
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 24 September 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Adnan Khakoo. [299051]
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