Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children arrived in the UK from Albania in 2015.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The questions have been interpreted as referring to unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK.
Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release.
The following table shows applications for asylum from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, for nationals of Nigeria, Uganda, Albania and Eritrea during 2015.
Asylum applications received from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, from nationals of Nigeria, Uganda, Albania and Eritrea during 2015 | |
Nationality | Total applications |
Nigeria | 14 |
Uganda | 0 |
Albania | 456 |
Eritrea | 694 |
Table Notes | |
(1) These data are provisional and subject to change. | |
(2) An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum on his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom. | |
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children arrived in the UK from Eritrea in 2015.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The questions have been interpreted as referring to unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK.
Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release.
The following table shows applications for asylum from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, for nationals of Nigeria, Uganda, Albania and Eritrea during 2015.
Asylum applications received from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, from nationals of Nigeria, Uganda, Albania and Eritrea during 2015 | |
Nationality | Total applications |
Nigeria | 14 |
Uganda | 0 |
Albania | 456 |
Eritrea | 694 |
Table Notes | |
(1) These data are provisional and subject to change. | |
(2) An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum on his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom. | |
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children arrived in the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2015.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The question has been interpreted as referring to unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK.
During 2015, there were 11 asylum applications from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, received from nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release.
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in each constabulary have been (a) convicted and (b) disciplined for sexual offences in the last five years.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of police officers convicted or disciplined for sexual offences.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what receipts were received by each police force from the proceeds of crime in 2015.
Answered by John Hayes
More assets were taken off criminals in 2014/15 than ever before. £199 million was recovered, and hundreds of millions more was frozen and put beyond the reach of criminals. The table below shows the total receipts from cash forfeited by each police force, and receipts from confiscation orders in the financial year 1 April 2014-31 March 2015.
The table includes data for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. However, the figures for the Police Service of Northern Ireland are for cash forfeitures only, as under the devolution settlement, all confiscation receipts are retained by Northern Ireland, and the Home Office holds no data.
Police Force | Total receipts from cash forfeiture orders and confiscation orders in the year 2014-15 |
Avon & Somerset Constabulary | £1,490,611.90 |
Bedfordshire Police | £1,094,410.68 |
British Transport Police | £556,348.90 |
Cambridgeshire Constabulary | £720,660.84 |
Cheshire Constabulary | £2,484,655.12 |
City of London Police | £2,555,229.61 |
Cleveland Police | £556,308.05 |
Cumbria Constabulary | £1,135,771.58 |
Derbyshire Constabulary | £676,892.51 |
Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | £1,398,001.79 |
Dorset Police | £275,603.19 |
Durham Constabulary | £739,926.17 |
Dyfed-Powys Police | £196,955.52 |
Essex Police | £1,636,232.98 |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | £1,321,446.18 |
Greater Manchester Police | £6,823,306.05 |
Gwent Police | £755,622.39 |
Hampshire Constabulary | £1,357,509.31 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | £1,895,544.77 |
Humberside Police | £1,009,594.15 |
Kent Police | £1,710,364.42 |
Lancashire Constabulary | £2,125,492.14 |
Leicestershire Constabulary | £1,462,857.28 |
Lincolnshire Police | £440,109.19 |
Merseyside Police | £3,971,554.79 |
Metropolitan Police Service | £23,518,346.51 |
Norfolk Constabulary | £605,485.18 |
North Wales Police | £555,579.35 |
North Yorkshire Police | £395,279.48 |
Northamptonshire Police | £1,607,162.05 |
Northumbria Police | £827,194.86 |
Nottinghamshire Police | £924,929.87 |
Police Service of Northern Ireland | £521,050.22 |
South Wales Police | £1,313,813.78 |
South Yorkshire Police | £1,666,790.98 |
Staffordshire Police | £1,099,376.89 |
Suffolk Constabulary | £939,571.40 |
Surrey Police | £1,081,929.13 |
Sussex Police | £1,089,285.30 |
Thames Valley Police | £834,890.14 |
Warwickshire Police | £263,041.41 |
West Mercia Constabulary | £698,110.14 |
West Midlands Police | £4,689,385.89 |
West Yorkshire Police | £5,062,763.87 |
Wiltshire Constabulary | £430,894.47 |
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children from each country of embarkation arrived at UK airports without being eligible for entry clearance in 2015.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This information is not held centrally.
The UK Government takes child safeguarding extremely seriously. All Border Force officers have received training in keeping children safe and all operational processes involving children comply with requirements as set out in the Children and Young Persons Act.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children arriving at UK airports from which countries were not eligible for entry clearance in 2015.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This information is not held centrally.
The UK Government takes child safeguarding extremely seriously. All Border Force officers have received training in keeping children safe and all operational processes involving children comply with requirements as set out in the Children and Young Persons Act.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a database of flags and symbols of terrorist, radical and extreme groups is maintained by her Department or by the police.
Answered by John Hayes
The Home Office does not hold or maintain a database of flags and symbols of terrorist, radical and extreme groups. The Home Office does hold and maintain a list of proscribed organisations which is held on the GOV.UK website. I cannot comment on information held by the police as this is an operational matter.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to investigate and close Neo-Nazi training camps being organised.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Government’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST) is intended to tackle all forms of terrorism and extremism, including that from the far right. In addition, the Home Secretary announced last year that the Home Office has taken responsibility for a new cross-government counter-extremism strategy. The strategy will aim to build up the public sector and civil society to identify extremism in all of its forms, confront it, challenge it and defeat it. It will cover extremism in all its forms: not just Islamist extremism but neo-Nazism and other forms of extremism too.
The investigation of Neo Nazi training camps is an operational matter for the police.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which person in her Department issued the D-notice imposed on the journalist Don Hale in 1984 in relation to a list of hon. Members allegedly named as being involved in child abuse.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
No such notice was ever issued. A ‘D Notice’ - or Defence Advisory (DA) Notice) can only be authorised by the Secretary of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee (DPBAC).
The Defence Advisory (DA) Notice System is a purely voluntary compact between Government and the national media and is designed solely to avoid the inadvertent public disclosure of core national security information. It offers advice only, and that advice can be accepted or rejected, in whole or in part by the media, and is not supported by any form of sanction, legal or otherwise. No ‘D Notice’ advice aimed at shielding senior figures involved in criminal activities was, or could ever have been issued, let alone complied with.