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 Syrian people have been resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme since the launch of that scheme.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of people granted Humanitarian Protection in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons
Relocation scheme in Table as_19 (Asylum data table Volume 4) of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April – June 2014, is available from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
In the year ending June 2014, a total of 50 people were granted Humanitarian Protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme.
Asked by: Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many immigration or asylum cases during the last 12 months where a person has claimed to be under the age of 18, that person has been treated as an adult on the basis that their appearance or demeanour strongly suggests they are significantly over the age of 18.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This information is not currently published or readily available and could be obtained only through the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.
The Home Office is looking into ways to improve the statistical recording of age dispute information.
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 who used the Assisted Voluntary Returns scheme (a) submitted their first asylum claim after being detained in an immigration removal and (b) had their asylum case decided within the Detained Fast Track in each of the last five years for which records are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is shown in the following table:
The 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, as such it should be treated as provisional and subject to change.
Asked by: Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold an inquiry into trends in the number of deaths of individuals detained in immigration detention.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Any death in immigration detention is a tragic event and each death is subject
to independent investigation, as appropriate, by the police, the Coroner and
the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.
Any recommendations made by the investigating authorities are thoroughly
examined to see how they can be used to help prevent further tragedies across
the detention estate and action plans are drawn up to monitor their
implementation.
For example, firm written reminders were issued to all suppliers on the
requirements of the current Detention Services Order on use of handcuffs, which
was followed up by a workshop on their appropriate use and the importance of
proper risk assessments. Recommendations relevant to medical care for detainees
have been shared with NHS England to inform their commissioning of healthcare
services from 1 September 2014.
Asked by: Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which websites detainees in each immigration detention centre are blocked from accessing.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The details of individual blocked websites are not held centrally and could
only be obtained by examination of information held at each immigration removal
centre (IRC) at disproportionate cost.
Internet access is not standardised across all IRCs although a review of access
is being undertaken to address this.
Suppliers operating IRCs on behalf of the Home Office use specialised software
which screens out prohibited categories of sites or sites whose addresses
contain prohibited key words rather than blocking individual website addresses.
Prohibited categories are based on safety and security concerns, for example
potential terrorist or pornographic sites.