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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Nov 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"In the past few months there has been increasing evidence that the countries surrounding Syria have begun to close their borders to reduce the number of refugees they allow through, leaving many in a desperate situation. I join the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) in urging the Government …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Nov 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"T3. As the Minister will know, over the last few months I have been chairing an inquiry in which a cross-party group of Members of Parliament has been investigating immigration detention and the treatment of detainees. We have heard some very disturbing evidence from detainees themselves about the impact on …..."
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Written Question
Immigrants: Detainees
Wednesday 5th November 2014

Asked by: Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were moved between different immigration removal centres in each of the last six months.

Answered by James Brokenshire

The information requested cannot be provided without collation and examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Asylum: Syria
Wednesday 5th November 2014

Asked by: Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2014 to Question 210553, how many of the people granted humanitarian protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme (a) are family members of individuals who qualify as vulnerable under the scheme and (b) have been assessed as having serious medical needs.

Answered by James Brokenshire

Of the people granted Humanitarian Protection under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme up to the end of June 2014, 11 are Principal Applicants and 39 are dependant family members. Of these people 14 have been assessed as having serious medical needs.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 04 Nov 2014
Modern Slavery Bill

"That is a helpful clarification. I agree with the Minister that we have to tackle the root cause of the abuse. I simply think that we need to do both. I am not sure that the solutions that the Minister has suggested will be enough on their own. I wonder …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 04 Nov 2014
Modern Slavery Bill

"We have no time, but I just want to put on the record that I agree with the hon. Gentleman...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 04 Nov 2014
Modern Slavery Bill

"I wish to comment on new clause 2. This Bill is unique in that it is one piece of Home Office legislation that I warmly welcome. None the less, I was disappointed to find that it did not include any provisions relating to the protection of overseas domestic workers.

Since …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Refugees and Migrants (Search and Rescue Operation)

"Claiming that rescuing people from drowning in the sea is somehow a pull factor for people who are fleeing war is an absurd and deeply unethical thing for the Government to do. Can the Government not see that more people are travelling because half of the middle east is burning? …..."
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Written Question
Prisoners: Illegal Immigrants
Thursday 23rd October 2014

Asked by: Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are being held in prisons solely under immigration powers.

Answered by James Brokenshire

As at 14 October 2014 there were 374 detainees held in prison establishments solely under immigration powers.

The information provided above is based on management information only and has not been subject to the detailed checks that apply for National Statistics publications. These figures are provisional and are subject to change.


Written Question
British Nationality
Wednesday 22nd October 2014

Asked by: Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been deprived of their British Citizenship under subsection (2) of section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 in the last six months; how many such cases fell within subsection (4A) of that section; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by James Brokenshire

Under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981, the Secretary of State is empowered to deprive, by order, any person of any form of British
nationality, subject to satisfying the relevant criteria. The Secretary of State may deprive somebody of their British citizenship if satisfied that such deprivation is conducive to the public good or the individual obtained British citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact. Since April 2014, seven people have been deprived of their citizenship on the grounds that it was either conducive to the public good to do so, or that the individual concerned obtained their British citizenship by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact. No cases have been deprived under subsection (4A) of that section.

Please note: this information has been provided from local management information and is not a national statistic. As such, it should be treated as
provisional and therefore subject to change.