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IPS will continue our programme of stakeholder involvement to ensure that important information regarding the NIS reaches the widest possible audience. We are planning events in Greater Manchester over the next two months and will ensure that student organisations are represented.
We also send out a monthly newsletter to stakeholders to keep them informed about the NIS and this currently goes to 600 organisations.
During her recent visit to Manchester, the Home Secretary visited Newall Green School in Wythenshawe to meet young people who could be some of the first to be able to apply for cards from 2010. Together they discussed how identity cards will help young people strike out on their own by opening their first bank account, renting their first flat, or perhaps travelling to Europe for the first time.
As part of the Home Secretary's recent visit to Manchester, the regional broadcast/print media were invited to attend and film her visit to a local school to
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Local coverage of the event focused primarily on good pieces in the Manchester Evening News and Press Association, which was picked up more widely by local and regional media.
National online coverage was reported by BBC News, ITN Online, Channel Four Online, Eastern Daily Press and a range of global news sites.
Channel M filmed the Home Secretary's visit and Key 103, City Talk and XFM recorded interviews.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what benefits they expect as a result of immigrants being issued with ID cards; and how they are being monitored. [HL3447]
Lord West of Spithead: The identity card for foreign nationals provides evidence of the holder's nationality, identity and status in the U.K. It provides information that makes it easier to understand the migrant's entitlement, including any right to work or access public services. Taking biometrics, and then locking them to that person's details, provides a very safe and secure way of identifying that person and helps to combat illegal working and reduce illegal immigration to the UK.
The identity card helps businesses:
reduce administrative burdenmake it easier for employers, sponsors and others to check entitlementsensure those who are here illegally do not receive benefits and other privileges of living in the UK.For the individual it makes it easier to:
provide proof of their right to live in the UKprove their identity safely and quickly where and whenever this is requiredget a job, as potential employers can use the card to check future employees identity and employment status quickly and easily.The monitoring of these benefits is ongoing and includes a range of different statistical and survey methods.
Immigration
Questions
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord West of Spithead on 20 April (WA 348), how many of the 3,829 persons refused entry at the United Kingdom border on grounds relating to the public good were from member states of the European Union. [HL3653]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): From 2006 to 2008, 1,026 EU citizens were refused entry to the UK on the grounds of public health, public safety or public policy.
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A breakdown of each year's figures is provided in the following table:
| Year | Total | EU | Non EU |
Prior to the introduction of the EEA Regulations in 2006, refusals of EU and non-EU nationals, on the grounds of public health, public safety or public policy, were recorded under the same code.
The data provided are based on locally collated management information, which may be subject to change and does not represent published national statistics.
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord West of Spithead on 29 April (WA 37), how many of the 3,530 people granted indefinite leave to remain under immigration rule 276B(i)(b) were in receipt of public funds; what was the total cost to the public purse of hearing their cases; whether any are currently in receipt of public funds; and what were their countries of origin. [HL3655]
Lord West of Spithead: Information on the number of people granted indefinite leave to remain under immigration rule 276B(i)(b) who were in receipt of public funds, either at the time of their application or currently, is not centrally recorded. The country of origin of all those granted indefinite leave to remain is given in the attached table.
| Nationalities of Applicants Granted Leave to Remain under Immigration Rule 276B | |
| Nationality | Granted |
Figures are rounded to nearest five.
Because of rounding, figures may not add up to totals shown.
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