Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for Tier 2 visas for junior doctors were declined in the past 12 months.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information you have requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.
Information on the total number of Tier 2 refusals can be found here:
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Commonwealth citizens legally residing in the UK have been (a) deported and (b) detained in error by her Department in each of the last five years; and what her Department's policy is on issuing apologies to those detained in error.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.
All complaints to Immigration Enforcement are investigated. An apology will be offered where it is found that an error has been made.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government has made of the number of non-UK EU citizens who will qualify for settled status by March 2019.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The Home Office has not made any direct estimates of the numbers of EU citizens who will qualify for settled status.
However we know that the estimated population of non-UK EU citizens resident in UK was a) 3.5m by Country of Birth (3.1m excluding Irish born); and b) 3.6m by Nationality (3.2m excluding Irish nationals), in the year ending 2016.*
*ONS, Population of the United Kingdom by Country of Birth and Nationality. Released: 24 August 2017, next release: 23 August 2018.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of administering the system for applications for settled status.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The Home Office constantly reviews its capabilities in order to deliver the Government’s agenda. With negotiations now underway, we continue to assess how our priorities will impact on the workforce and capabilities required.
Operational units across the Home Office actively monitor workflows to ensure sufficient resources are in place to meet demand and will continue to do so throughout negotiations and as the UK leaves the EU. Any resultant changes to resource requirements will be factored into strategic planning.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have been (a) arrested and (b) charged in Wolverhampton on terrorism-related offences.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
The Home Office publishes data on the number of persons arrested and charged for a terrorism-related offences in Great Britain. From these data, we cannot identify the location of where arrests for terrorism-related offences occurred.
The data that the Home Office does hold can be found in the quarterly ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for EU nationals to apply for special status.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
All qualifying EU citizens and their family members will be given adequate time to apply for the new settled status. A grace period of blanket permission will last from EU exit day for a fixed period of time, which we will specify in due course, but which we expect to be up to two years.
The Government intends to introduce a voluntary scheme to enable eligible EU citizens and their family members to apply for this status before the UK leaves the EU, if they wish to do so. We will publish further details regarding the timetable in due course but we intend to launch in 2018.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspects have been granted police bail by each police force in each month since 2015.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not currently hold the information requested.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have been stopped and searched in (a) the area covered by West Midlands Police authority, (b) the City of Wolverhampton and (c) Wolverhampton North East constituency in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of stop and searches, conducted by each police force in England and Wales. The Home Office collects these data at police force area level only and does not hold this information at consistency level.
Data on stop and searches are broken down by the reason for the search and the ethnicity of the person being searched. These data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, and data for the year ending March 2016 can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2016
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of British citizens who have left the UK to join ISIS and who have (a) returned home and (b) been prevented from returning home.
Answered by Ben Wallace
Approximately 850 UK linked individuals of national security concern have travelled to engage with the Syrian conflict. We estimate that just under half have returned and approximately 15% are now dead. This number includes all those of national security concern, not just those affiliated with Daesh.
Everyone who returns from taking part in the conflict in Syria or Iraq must expect to be investigated by the police to determine if they have committed criminal offences, and to ensure that they do not pose a threat to our national security.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wolverhampton North East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers have been recruited to cover Wolverhampton in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of police community support officers (PCSOs) who join the police workforce, as standard direct recruits, by police force area level only.
These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin. The latest figures, published in July, are for the year to 31 March 2017.
Data on the number of PCSOs who joined West Midlands police for the years 2006/07 to 2016/17 can be found in the Police workforce: Joiners Open Data Tables, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables