Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of each nationality who were suspected by UK law enforcement of involvement in organised crime, financial crime or serious human rights abuses have been subject to visa bans to prevent them coming to the UK in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Ben Wallace
We consider that publishing information on the nationalities of individuals excluded from the UK would risk undermining international relations and foreign policy objectives and consequently do not provide country specific breakdowns. We also do not comment on the number of immigration disruptions that have been put in place against specific groups of individuals.
We can however confirm that foreign nationals requiring leave to enter the UK must meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules in the category of entry sought and that, by their own actions, must not have brought themselves within scope of the general grounds for refusal in the Immigration Rules. Evidence that an individual has been involved in organised crime or human rights abuses would be taken into account when a visa application is considered. Individuals will be denied entry to the UK where there is evidence to show that their presence would not be considered conducive to the public good.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people suspected by UK law enforcement of involvement in organised crime, financial crime or serious human rights abuses have been subject to visa bans to prevent them coming to the UK in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Ben Wallace
We consider that publishing information on the nationalities of individuals excluded from the UK would risk undermining international relations and foreign policy objectives and consequently do not provide country specific breakdowns. We also do not comment on the number of immigration disruptions that have been put in place against specific groups of individuals.
We can however confirm that foreign nationals requiring leave to enter the UK must meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules in the category of entry sought and that, by their own actions, must not have brought themselves within scope of the general grounds for refusal in the Immigration Rules. Evidence that an individual has been involved in organised crime or human rights abuses would be taken into account when a visa application is considered. Individuals will be denied entry to the UK where there is evidence to show that their presence would not be considered conducive to the public good.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people suspected by UK law enforcement of involvement in organised crime, financial crime or serious human rights abuses have been subject to visa bans to prevent them coming to the UK from Russia in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Ben Wallace
We consider that publishing information on the nationalities of individuals excluded from the UK would risk undermining international relations and foreign policy objectives and consequently do not provide country specific breakdowns. We also do not comment on the number of immigration disruptions that have been put in place against specific groups of individuals.
We can however confirm that foreign nationals requiring leave to enter the UK must meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules in the category of entry sought and that, by their own actions, must not have brought themselves within scope of the general grounds for refusal in the Immigration Rules. Evidence that an individual has been involved in organised crime or human rights abuses would be taken into account when a visa application is considered. Individuals will be denied entry to the UK where there is evidence to show that their presence would not be considered conducive to the public good.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people known as being members of the Klyuev criminal group have been subject to visa bans to prevent them coming to the UK in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Ben Wallace
We consider that publishing information on the nationalities of individuals excluded from the UK would risk undermining international relations and foreign policy objectives and consequently do not provide country specific breakdowns. We also do not comment on the number of immigration disruptions that have been put in place against specific groups of individuals.
We can however confirm that foreign nationals requiring leave to enter the UK must meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules in the category of entry sought and that, by their own actions, must not have brought themselves within scope of the general grounds for refusal in the Immigration Rules. Evidence that an individual has been involved in organised crime or human rights abuses would be taken into account when a visa application is considered. Individuals will be denied entry to the UK where there is evidence to show that their presence would not be considered conducive to the public good.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Dimitry Klyuev, Pavel Karpov or Andrey Pavlov have been issued with UK travel bans at any point in the last eight years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
We have a long established practice of not routinely commenting on individual immigration cases.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to improve value for money in her Department's expenditure.
Answered by Priti Patel
Value for money is not just a matter for those who ultimately foot the bill for our aid budget – British taxpayers. Given the lifesaving work UK aid does across the globe, driving value for money also means that fewer lives are wasted to the scourge of poverty and disease. Driving the very best results for our money is therefore as much about helping the poorest as it is for justifying spending to those paying for it.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders have successfully challenged deportation from the UK on human rights grounds in each of the last 10 years; and how many such claims relied upon (a) Article 3, (b) Article 8 and (c) another Article of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The following table shows the total number of foreign national offenders who have successfully challenged deportation from the UK on human rights grounds for the financial years 2006-07 to 2015-16. Data prior to this date is not available as it was not captured by the Home Office central reporting system.
Please note that the Home Office is not able to provide data on successful appeals where claims are broken down by Article 3, Article 8 and another Article on the European Convention on Human Rights. Individually this information is not held centrally and can only be collated at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce re-offending rates.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
A third of all crime is committed by people who have been in prison. If we want to reduce crime, we need to make sure that time spent in custody is used to reform offenders so that they contribute positively to society on release. I will be saying more about this in the White Paper.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times HM Revenue and Customs has used the direct recovery of debts power; and what estimate he has made of the average sum so recovered.
Answered by Jane Ellison
HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) Direct Recovery of Debt (DRD) power came into force in November 2015.So far this year, following visits by HMRC staff to taxpayers at their homes/offices as part of the DRD process, £20m in unpaid tax has been collected from those with the means to pay without actually needing to exercise the full DRD power, as this is a last resort. As part of this process, the need to deduct directly from a debtors bank account has taken place twice, with the average sum recovered being £39,246.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures are in place for her Department to monitor and deport former students of (a) the Cambridge College of Learning and (b) similar institutions which also closed before collection of sponsorship data of non-EU nationals began.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Home Office continues to take action at every opportunity to prevent immigration abuse, pursue immigration offenders and increase compliance with immigration law including arresting and returning illegal migrants to their country of origin.
Information on former overseas students of the Cambridge College of Learning is not aggregated in national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a manual case by case review to collate the data, which would incur disproportionate cost.