Asked by: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultation they undertake prior to, or during, negotiations with a developing country on a taxation treaty.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have responsibility for negotiating the UK’s double taxation agreements, subject to oversight by HM Treasury. HMRC run an annual consultation exercise to establish the negotiating priorities for the coming year, which are then approved by ministers. As part of this exercise they consider representations made by UK businesses, NGOs and government departments, including the Department for International Development, as well as the UK’s diplomatic missions throughout the world. When the programme is published it also invites representations about our forward programme.
HMRC’s programme for 2015/16 covers the following countries: Colombia, Fiji*, Ghana, Guernsey, India, Isle of Man, Israel, Jersey, Kazakhstan*, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho*, Malawi*, Portugal*, Russia, Thailand*, Turkmenistan*, UAE*, US, Uruguay*.
The UK’s starting point in negotiations is based closely on the OECD Model Double Taxation Convention, which is also the basis for most other countries’ tax treaties. Some developing countries prefer to follow the UN Model, the provisions of which differ in some areas to the OECD Model, and the UK has agreed to adopt these provisions in its treaties. The object of the negotiations is to produce a text acceptable to both countries, balancing their preferences. There is no timetable for how long negotiations should take. It is quite normal for negotiations to take two to three rounds to complete.
Consultation during the negotiations would be rare.
*Negotiations largely completed.
Asked by: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what terms they seek in taxation treaties with developing countries, and how they agree those terms before opening negotiations.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have responsibility for negotiating the UK’s double taxation agreements, subject to oversight by HM Treasury. HMRC run an annual consultation exercise to establish the negotiating priorities for the coming year, which are then approved by ministers. As part of this exercise they consider representations made by UK businesses, NGOs and government departments, including the Department for International Development, as well as the UK’s diplomatic missions throughout the world. When the programme is published it also invites representations about our forward programme.
HMRC’s programme for 2015/16 covers the following countries: Colombia, Fiji*, Ghana, Guernsey, India, Isle of Man, Israel, Jersey, Kazakhstan*, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho*, Malawi*, Portugal*, Russia, Thailand*, Turkmenistan*, UAE*, US, Uruguay*.
The UK’s starting point in negotiations is based closely on the OECD Model Double Taxation Convention, which is also the basis for most other countries’ tax treaties. Some developing countries prefer to follow the UN Model, the provisions of which differ in some areas to the OECD Model, and the UK has agreed to adopt these provisions in its treaties. The object of the negotiations is to produce a text acceptable to both countries, balancing their preferences. There is no timetable for how long negotiations should take. It is quite normal for negotiations to take two to three rounds to complete.
Consultation during the negotiations would be rare.
*Negotiations largely completed.
Asked by: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government with which developing countries they are currently negotiating taxation treaties, and what is the timetable for each negotiation.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have responsibility for negotiating the UK’s double taxation agreements, subject to oversight by HM Treasury. HMRC run an annual consultation exercise to establish the negotiating priorities for the coming year, which are then approved by ministers. As part of this exercise they consider representations made by UK businesses, NGOs and government departments, including the Department for International Development, as well as the UK’s diplomatic missions throughout the world. When the programme is published it also invites representations about our forward programme.
HMRC’s programme for 2015/16 covers the following countries: Colombia, Fiji*, Ghana, Guernsey, India, Isle of Man, Israel, Jersey, Kazakhstan*, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho*, Malawi*, Portugal*, Russia, Thailand*, Turkmenistan*, UAE*, US, Uruguay*.
The UK’s starting point in negotiations is based closely on the OECD Model Double Taxation Convention, which is also the basis for most other countries’ tax treaties. Some developing countries prefer to follow the UN Model, the provisions of which differ in some areas to the OECD Model, and the UK has agreed to adopt these provisions in its treaties. The object of the negotiations is to produce a text acceptable to both countries, balancing their preferences. There is no timetable for how long negotiations should take. It is quite normal for negotiations to take two to three rounds to complete.
Consultation during the negotiations would be rare.
*Negotiations largely completed.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which countries people have been forcibly removed in the last three years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table below shows the number of enforced removals from the United Kingdom by destination country for the last three years.
| Table: Enforced removals by country of destination, 2012 to 2014 | |||
| Country of destination | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| Afghanistan | 518 | 496 | 398 |
| Albania | 473 | 613 | 823 |
| Algeria | 124 | 90 | 60 |
| American Samoa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andorra | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Angola | 24 | 20 | 11 |
| Anguilla | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Argentina | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| Armenia | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Aruba | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Australia | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Austria | 56 | 68 | 31 |
| Azerbaijan | 7 | 0 | 2 |
| Bahamas, The | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Bahrain | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Bangladesh | 881 | 603 | 651 |
| Barbados | 14 | 12 | 8 |
| Belarus | 12 | 5 | 3 |
| Belgium | 100 | 110 | 69 |
| Belize | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Benin | 7 | 3 | 5 |
| Bermuda | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bhutan | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bolivia | 71 | 27 | 24 |
| Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Botswana | 19 | 2 | 7 |
| Brazil | 339 | 261 | 131 |
| British overseas citizens | z | z | z |
| Brunei | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bulgaria | 47 | 58 | 70 |
| Burkina | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Burma | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Burundi | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Cambodia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cameroon | 49 | 29 | 35 |
| Canada | 27 | 34 | 21 |
| Cape Verde | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cayman Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Chad | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chile | 32 | 20 | 13 |
| China | 617 | 512 | 423 |
| Christmas Island | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colombia | 86 | 64 | 34 |
| Comoros | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Congo | 7 | 8 | 5 |
| Congo (Democratic Republic) | 14 | 6 | 4 |
| Cook Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Croatia | 7 | 8 | 13 |
| Cuba | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Curacao | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cyprus | 14 | 8 | 9 |
| Cyprus (Northern part of) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Czech Republic | 36 | 58 | 110 |
| Denmark | 16 | 13 | 12 |
| Djibouti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dominica | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Dominican Republic | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| East Timor | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ecuador | 10 | 9 | 6 |
| Egypt | 53 | 51 | 44 |
| El Salvador | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Eritrea | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Estonia | 11 | 9 | 12 |
| Ethiopia | 11 | 6 | 3 |
| Falkland Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Faroe Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fiji | 9 | 3 | 2 |
| Finland | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| Former Yugoslavia | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| France | 286 | 327 | 397 |
| French Guiana | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| French Polynesia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gabon | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gambia, The | 72 | 57 | 21 |
| Georgia | 32 | 28 | 8 |
| Germany | 144 | 123 | 79 |
| Ghana | 229 | 186 | 158 |
| Gibraltar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Greece | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Greenland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grenada | 10 | 3 | 3 |
| Guadeloupe | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guam | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guatemala | 9 | 4 | 1 |
| Guinea | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Guyana | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Haiti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Heard Island and McDonald Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Honduras | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 13 | 10 | 11 |
| Hungary | 27 | 44 | 52 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| India | 2,087 | 1,357 | 1,135 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 12 | 13 |
| Iran | 27 | 18 | 9 |
| Iraq | 55 | 99 | 42 |
| Ireland | 214 | 178 | 106 |
| Israel | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| Italy | 297 | 366 | 377 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 9 | 12 |
| Jamaica | 306 | 287 | 284 |
| Japan | 4 | 12 | 3 |
| Jordan | 12 | 7 | 9 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Kenya | 50 | 42 | 51 |
| Kiribati | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Korea (North) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Korea (South) | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Kosovo | 24 | 30 | 28 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Laos | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Latvia | 105 | 94 | 189 |
| Lebanon | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Lesotho | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Liberia | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Libya | 8 | 24 | 18 |
| Liechtenstein | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 193 | 324 | 425 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Macau | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Macedonia | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Malawi | 61 | 51 | 22 |
| Malaysia | 147 | 127 | 82 |
| Maldives | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mali | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Malta | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| Marshall Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Martinique | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mauritius | 52 | 56 | 43 |
| Mayotte | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mexico | 52 | 19 | 14 |
| Micronesia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moldova | 24 | 12 | 5 |
| Monaco | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mongolia | 23 | 13 | 13 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Montserrat | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Morocco | 31 | 32 | 42 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Namibia | 23 | 18 | 15 |
| Nauru | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nepal | 174 | 144 | 153 |
| Netherlands | 105 | 110 | 91 |
| Netherlands Antilles | z | z | z |
| New Caledonia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Zealand | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Niger | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Nigeria | 707 | 698 | 506 |
| Niue | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norfolk Island | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway | 40 | 25 | 23 |
| Occupied Palestinian Territories | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Oman | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Other and unknown | 273 | 275 | 352 |
| Pakistan | 1,845 | 1,870 | 1,768 |
| Palau | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Papua New Guinea | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Paraguay | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Peru | 4 | 8 | 5 |
| Philippines | 158 | 115 | 108 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Poland | 372 | 415 | 579 |
| Portugal | 72 | 81 | 100 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Qatar | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Refugee | z | z | z |
| Reunion | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Romania | 463 | 705 | 829 |
| Russia | 31 | 13 | 8 |
| Rwanda | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Samoa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| San Marino | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 | 7 | 11 |
| Senegal | 11 | 12 | 9 |
| Serbia | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Serbia and Montenegro | z | z | z |
| Seychelles | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Sierra Leone | 24 | 11 | 12 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Slovakia | 44 | 58 | 95 |
| Slovenia | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| Solomon Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Somalia | 7 | 8 | 35 |
| South Africa | 58 | 57 | 34 |
| South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Spain | 71 | 70 | 59 |
| Sri Lanka | 364 | 164 | 185 |
| St. Helena | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| St. Lucia | 12 | 12 | 11 |
| St. Maarten (Dutch Part) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Martin (French Part) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 13 | 9 | 9 |
| Stateless | z | z | z |
| Sudan | 7 | 2 | 7 |
| Sudan (South) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Surinam | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Svalbard and Jan Mayen | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swaziland | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Sweden | 36 | 45 | 29 |
| Switzerland | 25 | 36 | 24 |
| Syria | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Taiwan | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tanzania | 32 | 24 | 16 |
| Thailand | 54 | 42 | 32 |
| Togo | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Tokelau | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tonga | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 25 | 34 | 23 |
| Tunisia | 21 | 11 | 31 |
| Turkey | 133 | 122 | 68 |
| Turkmenistan | 10 | 8 | 1 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tuvalu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uganda | 61 | 48 | 25 |
| Ukraine | 112 | 79 | 106 |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| United States | 66 | 98 | 70 |
| Uruguay | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Uzbekistan | 37 | 24 | 17 |
| Vanuatu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vatican City | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Venezuela | 6 | 10 | 9 |
| Vietnam | 589 | 468 | 296 |
| Virgin Islands (British) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virgin Islands (US) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wallis and Futuna | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western Sahara | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yemen | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Zambia | 19 | 8 | 10 |
| Zimbabwe | 42 | 32 | 34 |
| Total | 14,647 | 13,311 | 12,627 |
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of enforced removals from the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to enforced removals by destination are available in tables rv_05 to rv_06_q in Immigration Statistics: April – June 2015 on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Kyrgyzstan on (a) the Foreign Agents Bill and (b) freedom of expression and association in that country.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
During his visit to Kyrgyzstan in October last year, my Noble Friend the Minister for Justice, Lord Faulks, discussed with Kyrgyz interlocutors a number of human rights issues, including the Foreign Agents Bill and other legislation that might restrict freedoms of expression and association. Our Embassy in Bishkek has also raised our concerns on a number of occasions with the government of Kyrgyzstan and with Kyrgyz parliamentarians.
We will continue to raise our concerns about human rights directly with the government of Kyrgyzstan, and in suitable international fora, at every appropriate opportunity.
Asked by: Lord Hylton (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their view on Ukraine having free-trade agreements with both the European Union and Russia.
Answered by Lord Livingston of Parkhead
We are a not opposed to Ukraine having a free trade agreement with the Russian Federation if it wishes to do so.
An Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union has been signed and ratified by both the Ukrainian and European parliaments. The Association Agreement establishes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), which is due to come into force from 1st January 2016. Under the terms of the DCFTA, 98.1% of the value Ukrainian exports to the EU will become tariff-free. Additionally, Ukraine is required to take steps to modernise its trade relations by undertaking certain economic reforms and aligning a number of its industrial regulations and standards with those of the European Union.
Ukraine is also a signatory to the Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Area (CISFTA). Established in October 2011, this is a free trade area between Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Ukraine. The EU-Ukraine DCFTA does not stop Ukraine from remaining within this free trade area.
Separately from the CISFTA, Russia has established the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with a number of its neighbours. Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Russia are currently members. The EEU unifies its members’ import tariffs, customs regimes and a number of industrial regulations and standards. Therefore it is not possible for Ukraine to be a party, simultaneously, to both the EU-Ukraine DCFTA, which eliminates tariffs on most goods to and from the EU, and the EEU, which would require Ukraine to apply the same tariff rates as applied by Russia and the other EEU members.
However, this does not prevent Ukraine from maintaining or entering into free trade agreements with other countries or blocs, including the EEU; it leaves Ukraine free to determine its own trade policy.
Asked by: Mike Kane (Labour - Wythenshawe and Sale East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) locally engaged and (b) UK-based staff her Department has employed in each country with a DfID office in each year since 2010.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
The numbers of Staff Appointed in Country (SAIC) and Home Civil Service (HCS) based in DFID country offices in each year since 2010 are shown in the tables below. The figures are given for March of that year.
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||||||
Location | HCS | SAIC | HCS | SAIC | HCS | SAIC | HCS | SAIC | HCS | SAIC |
Afghanistan | 32 | 19 | 41 | 28 | 37 | 34 | 45 | 35 | 40 | 34 |
Bangladesh | 19 | 62 | 12 | 64 | 20 | 65 | 16 | 77 | 19 | 74 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Burma | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 18 |
Burundi | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cambodia | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Caribbean | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 9 |
China* | 7 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 10 |
Democratic Republic Of Congo | 14 | 30 | 18 | 30 | 21 | 36 | 24 | 40 | 29 | 46 |
Ethiopia | 18 | 36 | 16 | 42 | 23 | 47 | 26 | 60 | 19 | 75 |
Gambia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ghana | 9 | 25 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 27 | 13 | 33 | 11 | 34 |
India | 19 | 86 | 17 | 81 | 20 | 86 | 18 | 86 | 17 | 90 |
Indonesia** | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iraq | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kenya*** | 17 | 37 | 22 | 38 | 33 | 42 | 36 | 50 | 38 | 52 |
Kosovo | 2 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lesotho | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Liberia**** | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malawi | 10 | 30 | 9 | 26 | 12 | 32 | 10 | 37 | 10 | 40 |
Moldova | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mozambique | 9 | 22 | 8 | 26 | 9 | 29 | 9 | 25 | 13 | 25 |
Nepal | 14 | 35 | 13 | 37 | 17 | 40 | 16 | 42 | 13 | 43 |
Nigeria | 24 | 50 | 23 | 58 | 33 | 68 | 35 | 71 | 36 | 77 |
OPTs | 9 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 12 |
Overseas Territories | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Pakistan | 20 | 37 | 28 | 37 | 31 | 55 | 33 | 59 | 41 | 59 |
Rwanda | 12 | 15 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 27 | 12 | 30 | 15 | 29 |
Serbia | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sierra Leone | 11 | 19 | 9 | 22 | 13 | 21 | 16 | 29 | 17 | 31 |
South Africa | 12 | 21 | 10 | 21 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 22 | 20 |
South Sudan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 20 |
Sudan | 14 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 16 |
Tajikistan | 2 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 |
Tanzania | 13 | 20 | 14 | 19 | 19 | 23 | 21 | 29 | 24 | 32 |
Uganda | 11 | 23 | 10 | 24 | 11 | 28 | 9 | 33 | 23 | 35 |
Vietnam | 5 | 18 | 5 | 19 | 5 | 19 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 16 |
Yemen | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Zambia | 10 | 22 | 13 | 19 | 15 | 23 | 16 | 29 | 16 | 32 |
Zimbabwe | 9 | 21 | 9 | 21 | 12 | 19 | 13 | 19 | 15 | 18 |
*Our office in China works with the Chinese government to help reduce poverty in other developing countries. In March 2011 DFID closed its bilateral aid programme to China.
** In March 2011, DFID closed its poverty reduction programme and the DFID country office in Indonesia.
*** DFID Somalia was run out of the DFID Kenya office until April 2014
**** DFID’s programmes in Liberia are run from the Sierra Leone office.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the transparency and accountability of the Moscow Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was held in Moscow over 13-18 October 2014. The United Kingdom was represented at the Conference, as were the following Parties to the treaty:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lesotho, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen and Zambia.
An official report of the proceedings of the Conference will be published in November 2014.
In addition, the next Conference to be held in 2016 will consider options that would further maximise transparency, particularly with regard to Party delegations to Conference of the Parties and subsidiary bodies.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been deported to other European countries in each of the last four years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table below provides the total number of enforced removals of asylum cases to other European countries, in each year from 2010 to 2013.
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Deportations are a specific subset of removals which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. The deportation order prohibits the person returning to the UK until such time as it may be revoked. It is not possible to separately identify deportations from enforced removals.
It is not possible within these figures to say at what stage in the asylum process individuals have reached at the time of their removal, including
whether their claim has failed at that point, as those departing voluntarily can do so at any stage without necessarily notifying the Home Office.
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons removed or departed voluntarily from the UK and on persons refused entry to the United Kingdom within Immigration Statistics. The data on removals and voluntary departures by type are available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: April – June 2013, tables rv.06 and rv.06.q from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release and will be placed in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many travel document applications arising from each country were being processed as of 1 April 2014.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The following table gives a breakdown, by nationality, of outstanding
applications for a Home Office Travel Document.
To align with protocol on publishing statistics, the list represents the
position at 31 December 2013. However, most of the cases shown as outstanding have
been concluded since that date.
Nationality | No. Of Cases | |
Afghanistan | 447 | |
Albania | 85 | |
Algeria | 28 | |
Angola | 50 | |
Antigua & Barbuda | 1 | |
Armenia | 2 | |
Austria | 1 | |
Azerbaijan | 11 | |
Bahrain | 4 | |
Bangladesh | 16 | |
Belarus | 23 | |
Bhutan | 18 | |
Bosnia & Herzegovina | 2 | |
Botswana | 1 | |
Burkina Faso | 1 | |
Burundi | 44 | |
Cameroon | 54 | |
Chad | 7 | |
Chile | 1 | |
China | 75 | |
Colombia | 13 | |
Congo | 24 | |
Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) | 34 | |
Croatia | 4 | |
Czech Republic | 3 | |
Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 22 | |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 261 | |
Dominica | 1 | |
Ecuador | 10 | |
Egypt | 32 | |
Eritrea | 735 | |
Ethiopia | 56 | |
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | 42 | |
France | 1 | |
Gambia | 81 | |
Georgia | 7 | |
Ghana | 12 | |
Grenada | 2 | |
Guinea | 28 | |
Guinea-Bissau | 1 | |
Haiti | 1 | |
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China | 1 | |
India | 14 | |
Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1,228 | |
Iraq | 504 | |
Israel | 1 | |
Jamaica | 18 | |
Jordan | 2 | |
Kenya | 23 | |
Kosovo | 171 | |
Kosovo Resident - UN Issued Travel Document | 1 | |
Kuwait | 26 | |
Kuwait Bidoun | 2 | |
Kyrgyzstan | 3 | |
Lebanon | 5 | |
Liberia | 15 | |
Libya | 98 | |
Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of) | 3 | |
Malawi | 4 | |
Malaysia | 3 | |
Maldives | 3 | |
Mauritania | 3 | |
Mauritius | 1 | |
Mongolia | 8 | |
Morocco | 5 | |
Mozambique | 2 | |
Myanmar | 84 | |
Nepal | 2 | |
Nigeria | 60 | |
Officially Stateless | 1 | |
Pakistan | 421 | |
Palestinian Authority | 34 | |
Refugee - Article 1 of the 1951 Convention | 173 | |
Refugee - Other | 2 | |
Republic of Serbia | 20 | |
Romania | 3 | |
Russian Federation | 41 | |
Rwanda | 34 | |
Saudi Arabia | 4 | |
Senegal | 11 | |
Sierra Leone | 22 | |
Slovakia | 1 | |
Somalia | 1,210 | |
South Africa | 3 | |
Sri Lanka | 427 | |
Stateless Person (Article 1 of 1954 Convention) | 111 | |
St Vincent & the Grenadines | 1 | |
Sudan | 284 | |
Swaziland | 3 | |
Syria Arab Republic | 587 | |
Tajikistan | 1 | |
Thailand | 2 | |
Togo | 16 | |
Tonga | 1 | |
Trinidad & Tobago | 1 | |
Tunisia | 4 | |
Turkey | 66 | |
Turkish controlled area of Cyprus | 4 | |
Turkmenistan | 1 | |
Uganda | 73 | |
Ukraine | 3 | |
United Rep of Tanzania | 7 | |
United States of America | 2 | |
Uruguay | 1 | |
Uzbekistan | 10 | |
Venezuela | 2 | |
Vietnam | 36 | |
Yemen | 31 | |
Zambia | 3 | |
Zimbabwe | 508 | |
Total | 8,731 | |