Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of cross-government spending on tackling extremism since 2010.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office has not conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of cross-government spending on tackling extremism.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2014 to Question 213850, what estimate she has made of the total number of vehicles entering the UK which were not subject to screening by either body scanning machines or dogs in the last 12 months.
Answered by James Brokenshire
We have made no such estimate as the use of screening is conducted on an intelligence led basis as part of Border Force's multi-layered approach.
The screening of vehicles by Border Force is undertaken through a range of methods. These include Passive Millimetric Wave Imagers, carbon dioxide probes, body detection dogs and heart beat detectors. Border Force has investment in
detection technology over the last 18 months, includes a £2 million scanner upgrade, a further £400,000 committed to infra red camera technology, and a £1.3 million investment in specialist dog search teams, at the juxtaposed
controls.
The selection of vehicles for screening is made on an intelligence led basis. Border Force staff, their contractors and detection technology are deployed to meet the risk.
In 2013/14 Border Force and its contractors detected 18,000 clandestine attempts to enter the UK illegally at our juxtaposed controls. This represents an increase of over 60% from 2012/13.
The UK and French Governments have signed a joint declaration agreeing to work together to improve the quality of border controls.
Border Force deploys 7,500 specialist staff, five cutters at sea and spends £518 million a year protecting our borders.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department takes account of the US travel ban list in determining whether to grant visa applications.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Visa applications are checked against a number of different databases. Any information that is provided from these checks is taken into consideration when considering the visa application. It is long-standing policy not to discuss
specific information used to consider visa applications that is not already in the public domain, as to do so would not be in the interests of border and national security.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ethiopian nationals are on the UK travel ban list.
Answered by James Brokenshire
There are no Ethiopian nationals on the UN and EU travel bans that are implemented by the UK.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Malawi nationals are on the UK travel ban list.
Answered by James Brokenshire
There are no Malawi nationals on the UN and EU travel bans that are implemented by the UK.