Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has set a timetable for returning foreign national offenders remaining in UK prisons and communities to their countries of origin.
Answered by James Brokenshire
We aim to deport foreign national offenders at the earliest opportunity. We have removed 30,000 foreign national offenders since 2010, including 5,692 in the year 2015-16: the highest number since records began.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the number of Syrians seeking refugee status who enter the UK from Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
A person who is in genuine need of international protection should not travel through a safe country in order to choose where to claim asylum. If we have evidence that asylum seekers, including Syrian nationals, are the responsibility of Ireland we will seek to return them under the Dublin Regulation. Similarly, if we have evidence that individuals claiming asylum in the UK have already been granted international protection by Ireland we will also seek to return them.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people successfully applied for UK citizenship in each of the last five years; how many applications for citizenship in that time have been rejected; and how many people's applications for citizenship are pending.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The published National Statistics of British citizenship grants and refusals, 2009 to 2013, are given in the table below.
| British Citizenship grants and refusals, United Kingdom, 2009 to 2013 | |||||
| Year | Decisions taken to grant | Decisions taken to refuse or withdraw | |||
| 2009 | 203,789 | 10,251 | |||
| 2010 | 195,046 | 7,974 | |||
| 2011 | 177,785 | 6,884 | |||
| 2012 | 194,209 | 6,878 | |||
| 2013 | 207,989 | 7,269 | |||
| Source: Home Office, Migration Statistics | |||||
| Immigration Statistics July to September 2014 | |||||
| Tables cz_01 | |||||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics, including grants and refusals of British citizenship, 2000 to 2013, are published in the release Immigration Statistics July – September 2014, table cz_01 (Citizenship tables), which is
available from the Library of the House and on the Department’s website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
As at 30 September 2014, a total of 40,620 applications for British citizenship were awaiting despatch, either work in progress or outstanding not input.
The latest UK Visas and Immigration management information, including cases that are work in progress or outstanding not input, are published in the release Transparency data, Temporary and permanent migration data: November
2014, table InC4 which is available on the Department’s website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-november-2014
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under the age of 16 in each county were victims of sexual offences in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The police recorded crime data that the Home Office receives from the police forces of England and Wales relate only to how many crimes are recorded and not
how many reports are received or how many people were victims. It is only possible to centrally provide figures for certain sexual offences that identify the age of the victim in statute, namely:
Rape of a female child under 16
Rape of a female child under 13
Rape of a male child under 16
Rape of a male child under 13
Sexual assault on a female child under 13
Sexual assault on a male child under 13
Sexual activity involving a child under 13
Sexual activity involving child under 16
Sexual grooming (the victim must be under 16)
Data for these offences by police force area are available in the police recorded crime open data available here
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under the age of 16 have been the victim of a sexual offence in each police area in the last year for which data is available.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The police recorded crime data that the Home Office receives from the police forces of England and Wales relate only to how many crimes are recorded and not how many reports are received or how many people were victims. It is only possible to centrally provide figures for certain sexual offences that identify the age of the victim in statute, namely:
Rape of a female child under 16
Rape of a female child under 13
Rape of a male child under 16
Rape of a male child under 13
Sexual assault on a female child under 13
Sexual assault on a male child under 13
Sexual activity involving a child under 13
Sexual activity involving child under 16
Sexual grooming (the victim must be under 16)
Data for these offences by police force area are available in the police recorded crime open data available here
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from which countries from outside the UK have been granted UK citizenship in the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is given in the table below:
| British citizenship grants by the top 20 previous countries of nationality, 2009 to 2013 | |||||||
| Country of previous nationality | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||
| India | 26,541 | 29,405 | 26,290 | 28,352 | 36,351 | ||
| Pakistan | 20,945 | 22,054 | 17,641 | 18,445 | 21,655 | ||
| Philippines | 11,751 | 9,429 | 7,133 | 8,122 | 10,374 | ||
| Nigeria | 6,953 | 7,873 | 7,932 | 8,881 | 9,275 | ||
| Bangladesh | 12,041 | 7,966 | 5,149 | 5,702 | 8,902 | ||
| South Africa | 8,367 | 7,446 | 6,351 | 6,924 | 6,448 | ||
| China | 6,041 | 7,581 | 6,966 | 7,198 | 7,289 | ||
| Somalia | 8,139 | 5,817 | 4,664 | 5,143 | 5,688 | ||
| Zimbabwe | 7,703 | 6,301 | 4,877 | 5,647 | 4,412 | ||
| Sri Lanka | 4,762 | 4,944 | 5,886 | 6,163 | 3,855 | ||
| Turkey | 7,207 | 4,630 | 3,627 | 4,726 | 4,184 | ||
| Ghana | 4,662 | 4,551 | 3,931 | 4,744 | 4,675 | ||
| Afghanistan | 5,012 | 5,281 | 3,951 | 4,600 | 3,627 | ||
| Iraq | 5,497 | 4,385 | 5,742 | 3,822 | 2,393 | ||
| Nepal | 1,551 | 2,118 | 3,468 | 4,282 | 7,447 | ||
| Iran | 2,876 | 2,587 | 5,540 | 4,135 | 2,391 | ||
| United States | 3,116 | 2,926 | 2,591 | 3,350 | 3,119 | ||
| Jamaica | 3,148 | 2,958 | 2,514 | 3,005 | 2,874 | ||
| Australia | 2,890 | 2,593 | 2,449 | 2,792 | 2,683 | ||
| Poland | 458 | 1,419 | 1,863 | 3,043 | 6,066 | ||
| Other previous nationality | 54,129 | 52,782 | 49,220 | 55,133 | 54,281 | ||
| Total grants | 203,789 | 195,046 | 177,785 | 194,209 | 207,989 | ||
| Source: Migration Statistics, Home Office Statistics | |||||||
| Table cz 06 - Immigration Statistics April to June 2014 | |||||||
| Top 20 previous countries of nationality based on total grants for the period 2009 to 2013 | |||||||
| Data for every nationality is included in the regularly published table cz 06 - Immigration Statistics April to June 2014 | |||||||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics, including grants of British citizenship for all individual previous nationalities, 1990 to 2013, are published in the release Immigration Statistics April – June 2014, table cz_06
(Citizenship tables), which is available from the Library of the House and on the Department’s website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, How many reports the police recorded of sexual offences against children under 16 in each local authority in (a) 2009 and (b) the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Norman Baker
The police recorded crime data that the Home Office receives from the police forces of England and Wales relate only to how many crimes are recorded and not how many reports are received. It is only possible to centrally provide figures for certain sexual offences that identify the age of the victim in statute, namely:
Rape of a female child under 16
Rape of a female child under 13
Rape of a male child under 16
Rape of a male child under 13
Sexual assault on a female child under 13
Sexual assault on a male child under 13
Sexual activity involving a child under 13
Sexual activity involving child under 16
Sexual grooming (the victim must be under 16)
Data for these offences are provided at the community safety partnership (CSP) level in Tables A and F. Police recorded crime data are not wholly available at the local authority level although in most areas local authorities and CSPs are coterminous.
Data are provided for the financial year 2009/10 due to changes in offence codes in April 2009 and data for 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 are provided for context (Tables B to E).
Recent increases in the overall number of recorded sexual offences have been attributed by the Office for National Statistics to a) the willingness of victims to come forward and report these crimes to the police, partly due to wider ‘operation Yewtree effect, where victims of sexual offences that are not directly connected to Yewtree are now reporting these offences to the police. and b) an improvement in crime recording by the police for these offences.
The information requested is also published quarterly as part of the police recorded crime open data tables and can be accessed in an unformatted list here):
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
(see tables titled ‘Police recorded crime data by community safety partnership’).
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers there were, by country of origin, in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Figures for asylum applications for main applicants, by nationality, from 2009 to 2013 are published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) in the release Immigration Statistics.
The number of asylum applications from main applicants pending an initial decision, by nationality, for (a) more than one year and (b) more than five years, as at the end of 2013, can be found in the table," Asylum application from main applicants pending an initial decision as at 31/12/2013" which i will place in the House library.
These figures are a subset of those also published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the release Immigration Statistics.
Figures for asylum applications from main applicants refused a grant of asylum, Humanitarian Protection, Discretionary Leave or other grants of leave, at initial decision, by nationality, from 2009 to 2013 are published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the release Immigration Statistics.
The latest release Immigration Statistics October to December 2013 is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2013 and from the Library of the House.
Asylum data tables volume 1 is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/283693
/asylum1-q4-2013-tabs.ods
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers, by country of origin, have been waiting for a decision on their application for asylum for (a) one and (b) more than five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Figures for asylum applications for main applicants, by nationality, from 2009 to 2013 are published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) in the release Immigration Statistics.
The number of asylum applications from main applicants pending an initial decision, by nationality, for (a) more than one year and (b) more than five years, as at the end of 2013, can be found in the table," Asylum application from main applicants pending an initial decision as at 31/12/2013" which i will place in the House library.
These figures are a subset of those also published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the release Immigration Statistics.
Figures for asylum applications from main applicants refused a grant of asylum, Humanitarian Protection, Discretionary Leave or other grants of leave, at initial decision, by nationality, from 2009 to 2013 are published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the release Immigration Statistics.
The latest release Immigration Statistics October to December 2013 is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2013 and from the Library of the House.
Asylum data tables volume 1 is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/283693
/asylum1-q4-2013-tabs.ods
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many rejections of asylum seekers, by country of origin, there have been in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Figures for asylum applications for main applicants, by nationality, from 2009 to 2013 are published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) in the release Immigration Statistics.
The number of asylum applications from main applicants pending an initial decision, by nationality, for (a) more than one year and (b) more than five years, as at the end of 2013, can be found in the table," Asylum application from main applicants pending an initial decision as at 31/12/2013" which i will place in the House library.
These figures are a subset of those also published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the release Immigration Statistics.
Figures for asylum applications from main applicants refused a grant of asylum, Humanitarian Protection, Discretionary Leave or other grants of leave, at initial decision, by nationality, from 2009 to 2013 are published in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the release Immigration Statistics.
The latest release Immigration Statistics October to December 2013 is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2013 and from the Library of the House.
Asylum data tables volume 1 is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/283693
/asylum1-q4-2013-tabs.ods