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51 records in UK in 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the £275 million offered by the Prime Minister to Turkey "to secure its southern border" will be spent; whether that funding is intended to stop refugees entering Turkey in advance of any general ceasefire or peace agre
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government over what period, and under what headings, the €3 billion offered by the EU to Turkey in respect of refugees and migrants will be spent; and what verification of expenditure there will be.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the EU directives on asylum into which they have opted, and what are those from which they have opted out.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2015 to Question 19712, how much such funding her Department provided to (a) Jordan, (b) Iraq and (c) Israel in those years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many properties have been bought by Serco for the purpose of housing asylum seekers in each parliamentary constituency in the Wigan local authority area; and how many asylum seekers have been hous
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the responses to her letter of 24 November 2015 to all local council leaders on the Dispersal of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children; and if she will make a statement
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's fact sheet on the Syrian Resettlement Programme, what the evidential basis is for the Statement that Sudan is primarily a country of transit; what assessment her Dep
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have received how many Syrian refugees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her oral contribution of 16 November 2015, Official Report, column 365, if she will bring forward proposals on a national database of communication for refugees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons applicants who reside in Liverpool, Wavertree constituency who have outstanding asylum claims are no longer given a timeframe for completion of that application.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have received, if any, about Turkish and Greek coastguards attacking boats of refugees near the Greek islands, thus endangering life.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been age assessed while in detention in each of the last 12 months; and how such assessments were carried out by immigration officers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children seeking asylum have been referred by her Department to the Refugee Council Children's Section for advice in the last two years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been completed within the new timetable for upon local authorities in each month since March 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the rate of appeal was against age-assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each month since March 2010; and what proportion of such appeals were successful.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from Albania have been returned to that country in the last year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the need for special education facilities to educate young people coming to the UK as a result of the conflict in Syria; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removals from the UK under the Dublin Regulation there were in each year since 2005; and what information the Government holds on the number of such removals from other EU countries in each o
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum in the UK have been (a) made by and (b) granted to citizens of The Gambia in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will offer military resources to assist with the refugee crisis (a) in Lesbos and (b) elsewhere.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the potential change in numbers of Syrian refugees arriving in Europe as a result of the commencement of UK airstrikes in Syria.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions the Government has had with the UNHCR about the de-registration of Syrian refugees in Lebanon; what assessment he has made of the effect of the Lebanese government progra
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees have (a) died and (b) been injured during an attempt to reach Britain from the Calais refugee camp.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has made to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with regards to the Calais refugee camp.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Government Ministers or officials have visited the Calais refugee camp.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what humanitarian support the Government is offering in refugee camps in (a) Lesbos, (b) Idomeni, (c) Calais, (d) Dunkirk and (e) other locations.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding will be provided to local authorities for each Syrian refugee they resettle in the (a) first and (b) second year of resettlement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which local authorities have agreed to take refugees under the Syrian Refugee resettlement scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the Government is offering to the government of Lebanon on the distribution of central resources to municipalities to enable host communities to assist refugees; and if he wi
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child refugees the Government granted asylum to in each of the last 24 months; and how many were from the Calais refugee camp.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has provided to (a) Turkey, (b) Lebanon and (c) assist with the effect of the refugee crisis in Syria in those countries in each year since 2011-12.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set up a dedicated correspondence team in her Department to liaise with applicants solicitors on the processing of asylum claims.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on humanitarian assistance in (a) Syria and (b) neighbouring countries receiving Syrian refugees in the last two years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding and other resources her Department has provided for Syrian refugee camps.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to support resettlement of Syrian refugees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of Overseas Development Aid her Department used to tackle the refugee crisis in the last 12 months; and how much her Department plans to allocate in future years to tackling that
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 8 December (HL4152), how many refugees have applied for family reunion in Britain (1) from France, and (2) from other countries, since 1 January 2013; and how much of the fund
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what provision is made to enable young asylum seekers to have legal support and advice on reaching the age of 18.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take steps to ensure that Turkey does not repatriate any genuine refugees, following the recent EU–Turkey financial agreement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many asylum seekers facing deportation committed self harm or suicide in the past year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government to which countries unsuccessful asylum seekers were deported in each year between 2010 and 2014, and in each of those years, how many unsuccessful asylum seekers were deported to each of those countries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the number of refugees in (1) Europe, (2) the Middle East, and (3) North Africa, and what those figures are broken down by country.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that torture survivors who reach the UK, in particular those from Syria, have access to specialist rehabilitation; and whether they have plans to increase the number of places available
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 17668, if he will collect information on how much has been spent from the public purse on providing legal aid for asylum seekers who wish to purse immigration
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2015 to Question 18565, what the components are of the 12 month support package provided to resettled Syrian refugees to assist with their integration.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the Syrian Vulnerable Person Relocation scheme in each year until 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2015 to Question 18222, if her Department will put procedures in place to ensure that family members who are not resettled together when they arrive in the UK unde
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what commitments the UK has made to supporting refugees from Syria who are in Europe.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Pakistan applied for asylum under the detained fast-track procedure for reasons of religious persecution and discrimination in each of the last three years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Pakistan applied for asylum and requested certification under section (a) 94(1) and (b) 94(2) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 in each of the last three years.