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Written Question
Psychoactive Substances Act 2016
Wednesday 13th April 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when those parts of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 which have not come into force are expected to come into force; and what the reason is for the time taken to bring all provisions of that Act into force.

Answered by Karen Bradley

We expect to commence the Psychoactive Substances Act in its entirety in the spring. In line with the advice of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, we are in the final stages of putting in place a programme of testing to demonstrate the psychoactivity of a substance prior to commencement of the Act. The timing of commencement has always been subject to consideration of all the activity necessary across the UK for the provisions to come into force


Written Question
Asylum: Nigeria
Tuesday 15th March 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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 Nigeria 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


Written Question
Asylum: Uganda
Tuesday 15th March 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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 Uganda 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


Written Question
Asylum: Albania
Tuesday 15th March 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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


Written Question
Asylum: Eritrea
Tuesday 15th March 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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


Written Question
Refugees: Democratic Republic of Congo
Friday 11th March 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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


Written Question
Police: Sexual Offences
Thursday 10th March 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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.


Written Question
Proceeds of Crime
Friday 26th February 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Children
Thursday 25th February 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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.


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Children
Thursday 25th February 2016

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - 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.