Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the Metropolitan Police Service review on criminal finances that was produced in 2012.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Metropolitan Police Service conducted an internal review of the management and deployment of its financial investigators. Publication of the review is a matter for the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and the Metropolitan Police Service.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of how many lorries entering the UK were screened by (a) body-scanning machines and (b) dogs in the last 12 months.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Body detection freight scanners are one of a range of screening techniques used by Border Force. Border Force operates a multi-layered search regime, which includes detection dogs, carbon- dioxide monitors, heartbeat detectors and scanners.
Border Force estimates that approximately 1.2 million vehicles have been screened entering the UK through juxtaposed port, by Passive Millimetre Wave Imager (PMMWI) and 1.1 million vehicles by dogs in the last 12 months.
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 of the people named in the European Magnitsky Recommendation were granted UK visas in each of the last three years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office do not routinely comment on individual immigration cases. The Home Office has obligations in law to protect this information. The Immigration Rules allow us to deny entry to those whose presence in this country is not considered to be conducive to the public good and the Home Secretary has the power personally to exclude an individual from the UK.
If we received a visa application from an individual whose name was published on the EU list, then this would be considered in our decision on whether to grant a visa.
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 of the people named on the US Magnitsky list were granted UK visas in each of the last three years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
If an individual on the US Cardin list applied for a visa, we would consider this in our decision on whether to grant entry clearance to the UK.
We cannot provide further details as we do not routinely comment on individual immigration cases. The Home Office has obligations in law to protect this information. The Immigration Rules allow us to deny entry to those whose presence in this country is not considered to be conducive to the public good and the Home Secretary has the power personally to exclude an individual from 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, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2010 to Question 5608, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people from each country of origin considered to be involved in corruption from travelling to the UK in the period since that Answer was given.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Since July 2010, two people have been excluded by the Secretary of State for corruption. It would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold to provide a further breakdown of how many people have been denied a visa to travel to the UK due to corruption. Any application for entry clearance or leave to enter from a person who has been excluded from the UK by the Secretary of State must be refused under the Immigration Rules.
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 of the 18 people affected by the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, named by the US administration in April 2013, are banned from entering the UK.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Government considers the case of Sergei Magnitsky a human rights case of utmost concern. The Government has long made its concerns clear on this case and called for a full and transparent investigation into the death of Sergei Magnitsky.
The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual immigration cases. The Immigration Rules allow us to deny entry to those whose presence in this country is not considered to be conducive to the public good, such as human rights abusers and the Home Secretary has the power to personally exclude an individual from the UK. These powers are used when justified and based on all the available evidence depending on the individual circumstances of the case.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan, announced by the Prime Minister at the Open Government Partnership Summit in October 2013.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Government will publish the UK Anti-Corruption Plan later this year.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress she has made on implementing the commitment in paragraph 6.44 of the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy, published in October 2013, to review the financial incentives provided to support whistle blowers in cases of fraud, bribery and corruption.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Government is committed to supporting those who report cases of fraud, bribery and corruption. Earlier this year, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills issued the Government’s response to a call for evidence on the whistleblowing framework, setting out how it will be strengthened to support whisteblowers; and the National Crime Agency was recently added to the list of prescribed persons to whom whistleblowers can make a disclosure and be protected under employment legislation. There have been a number of recent reports evaluating the case for financial incentives and the Government continues to consider what more can be done to support whistleblowers in cases of bribery and corruption.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people considered to be involved in corruption or organised crime from travelling to the UK in each year between 2005 and 2009, by country of origin; and on how many occasions such bans have subsequently been revoked.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This information could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people from each country of origin considered to be involved in corruption or organised crime from travelling to the UK in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions such bans have been revoked.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.