Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the report entitled The medical implications of vehicle-mounted water cannon with special reference to the Ziegler Wasserwerfer 9000 (WaWe 9) system, published by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in 2013.
Answered by Damian Green
The report will be placed in the Library when the Home Secretary announces her
decision on whether to authorise water cannon for use by the police in England
and Wales.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which prisons are holding individuals solely under immigration powers.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The prisons detailed below are currently holding individuals in England and Wales solely under immigration powers:
| Ashfield | Glen Parva | Parc |
| Bedford | Guys Marsh | Pentonville |
| Belmarsh | Haverigg | Peterborough |
| Birmingham | Hewell | Ranby |
| Brinsford | High Down | Risley |
| Bristol | Highpoint | Rye Hall |
| Brixton | Holloway | Stafford |
| Bronzefield | Holme House | Stoke Heath |
| Bullingdon | Huntercombe | Styal |
| Bullwood Hall | Isis | Swansea |
| Bure | Leeds | Swinfen Hall |
| Cardiff | Lewes | Thameside |
| Chelmsford | Lincoln | Usk |
| Dartmoor | Littlehey | Wakefield |
| Doncastor | Liverpool | Wandsworth |
| Durham | Maidstone | Wayland |
| Elmley | Manchester | Whatton |
| Erlestoke | Moorland | Woodhill |
| Exeter | Mount | Wormwood Scrubs |
| Featherstone | New Hall | Wymott |
| Feltham | Norwich | Verne |
| Forest Bank | Nottingham | |
| Garth | Oakwood |
The prisons detailed below are currently holding individuals in Scotland under immigration powers:
Barlinnie, Edinburgh, Cornton Vale, Dumfries
1. All details quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.
2. The details have been extracted from NOMS and Home Office reports which are taken from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording
system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
3. Data generated on 31 March 2014.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on legal fees in immigration cases when she has been (a) the defendant and (b) the appellant, in each of the last five years for which records are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office cannot report separately on expenditure on legal fees in
immigration cases where the Secretary of State has been either defendant or
appellant because it does not record data in the format required for such an
analysis. The only way to answer this question would be to review all payments
of litigation expenditure manually which would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants receiving support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 have been receiving support for more than (a) two years, (b) four years and (c) six years; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Data specific to your request can be found in the table below.
Band Cases
Up to two years 2008
More than two years 822
More than four years 473
More than six years 212
Total 3515
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will announce the asylum support rates for 2014-15.
Answered by James Brokenshire
There are no immediate plans to change the support rates provided to destitute asylum seekers.
Asked by: Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrat - Brent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people held in immigration removal centres and who refused food or fluids have been transferred to prisons since May 2013.
Answered by James Brokenshire
No persons held in immigration removal centres have been transferred to prisons since May 2013 due to refusal of food or fluids.