Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of her Department's landlords' checking service before the right to rent scheme is rolled out nationally.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Government has carried out an evaluation of phase one of the Right to Rent scheme in Birmingham, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Wolverhampton. This includes assessment of the implementation of the Landlords Checking Service. The findings of the evaluation were published on 20 October and will inform extension of the scheme. The evaluation can be found at the following link : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-right-to-rent-scheme
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) large and (b) small businesses have been found to have employed illegal migrants between 2010 and 2015.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not hold information on the size of businesses found to have employed illegal migrant workers. I can inform you that between the financial years 2010-11 and 2014-15 a total of 8,632 civil penalties were issued to employers who employed illegal migrants. The same employer may have received more than one penalty during this period.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed by her Department's landlord helpline service.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This service is for general queries and is provided by a commercial partner. Re-sources are constantly reviewed and deployed according to demand. Currently 2 full time equivalent members of staff handle incoming calls with a further 20 members of the call handling team trained in this area if additional resource is required.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many driving licences were incorrectly revoked from people who were suspected of living illegally in the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Immigration Act 2014 only granted this power in July 2014. Since the Home Department commenced the referral of driving licences of people with no valid leave in the UK to the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) in July 2014, over 12,500 driving licences have been revoked. So far only 283 driving licences have been reinstated.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people deported under the deport first, appeal later policy have subsequently appealed their case; and how many such appeals were successful.
Answered by James Brokenshire
From July 2014 to August 2015, more than 1,700 foreign national offenders have been removed under the deport first, appeal later powers, with many more going through the system. Of these, 426 have made an appeal against their deportation and 13 (0.7%) have been successful.
Total | |
Number of FNOs deported for the period July 2014 to August 2015 | 1,780 |
Number of FNOs who have appealed against their deportation for the period July 2014 to August 2015 | 426 |
Number of FNOs who have been successful in their appeal for the period July 2014 to August 2015 | 13 |
(1) All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. | |||||
(2) Removals figures relates to FNOs deported under the new immigration powers (NSA certified). | |||||
(3) Appeals figures relates to Non-EEA FNOs who have lodged an appeal after being deported under the new immigration powers (NSA certified). EEA FNOs who have lodged an appeal after being NSA Certified and were deported before appeal rights were exhausted. | |||||
(4) Data Extracted on 28th September, 2015.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been deported from each of the UK's refugee detention centres in each of the last five years.
Answered by John Hayes
Theattachedtable provides the total number of people leaving detention and subsequently removed from the UK, in each year from 2010 to 2014. Deportations are a specific subset of removals which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. The deportation order prohibits the person returning to the UK until such time as it may be revoked. It is not possible to identify deportations separately from total removals. The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people leaving detention and subsequently removed within the Immigration Statistics release. Data on people leaving detention by reason are available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics April – June 2015 tables dt_08 from GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refused asylum seekers have been forcibly removed from the country over the last five years.
Answered by John Hayes
The attached tableshows the number of enforced removals from the United Kingdom for the last five years of people who had claimed asylum at some point.
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of enforced removals from the United Kingdom, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to enforced removals are available in tables rv_01 and rv_01_q in Immigration Statistics: April – June 2015 on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the contribution of refugees to the UK economy.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
There are no current plans to undertake an assessment of the contribution of refugees to the UK economy. In September 2014, the Home Office published a report on the labour market characteristics of UK residents born abroad, which highlighted that the employment rate at that time was lowest among those who came originally as a refugee (47% for non-EEA).
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of why those asylum seekers detained at the Dungavel facility had their applications refused in the last year; and what reasons were given in each case for that refusal.
Answered by John Hayes
There were 222 asylum claimants who received a refusal decision on their asylum claim whilst held in detention at Dungavel Removal Centre over the past 12 months. Each asylum claim is considered on its individual merits and where an individual is found to be in genuine need of our protection, asylum is granted.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government has spent on deportations in each of the last five years.
Answered by John Hayes
This information is not recorded on an annual basis, so cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost