Immigration Controls
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 August 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many University-sponsored Graduate Entrepreneur Tier 1 visas have been issued since 6 April 2013.
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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 August 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many University-sponsored Graduate Entrepreneur Tier 1 visas have been issued since 6 April 2013.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 August 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of staff answering enquiries to the UK Visas and Immigration MPs' Hotline have been directly employed by the Home Office in the last six months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 August 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether staff answering calls to the UK Visas and Immigration MPs' Hotline who are not directly employed by the Home Office receive the same training and have access to the same information as staff w
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 August 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what private companies have been contracted to answer enquiries to the UK Visas and Immigration MPs' Hotline in the last six months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the effect of data breaches of sensitive immigration information on people whose details have been accidentally published online.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Joshua Kulei of Kenya has ever been banned from entering the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who met the costs of damaged caused by the fire in October 2013 at Campsfield House, Oxfordshire.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason fire sprinklers were not installed at Campsfield House, Oxfordshire prior to the fire in those premises in October 2013.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department informed Campsfield House operators Mitie of the advice of the Oxfordshire Fire Service that sprinklers should be fitted there.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what checks are in place to ensure that the United Kingdom does not provide a safe haven for corrupt individuals or human rights violators; and who carries out such checks.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many international migrants have entered Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect on operations at border control of trends in the number of women having different surnames to their children.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to respond to the Independent Monitoring Board's Annual Report 2013 on Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre and in particular its finding in respect of the provision of appropriate accommodation for
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, following the Independent Monitoring Board's Annual Report 2013, they have initiated changes at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre to ensure that detainees claiming to be under 18 are assessed by social servi
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the availability of language test centres in Ukraine in response to the current security situation in parts of that country.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that staff of her Department alleviate distress suffered by families who are subject to questioning at border control because the children have different surnames to t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons hon. Members' recent representations to the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration were not referred to the post for a review; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the hon. Member for Ilford South will receive a reply from the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration to the urgent representations he made on behalf of his constituents Mr and Mrs Mehta on 1
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has issued to UK Visas and Immigration Directorate on responding to hon. Members' representations on visit visa cases.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken for the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration to reply to hon. Members in (a) all and (b) urgent visit visa cases was in the last 12 months; and if she will make a sta
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on immigration security at UK airports in 2013.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent report by the Migration Advisory Committee about the effectiveness of employment rules, what plans they have to review and, if necessary, amend those laws.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of her Department's expenditure on the (a) immigration system once associated fee income has been deducted and (b) asylum system in each of the last three financial years fo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
A Bill to provide that employers may not offer to migrant workers terms and conditions less favourable than those offered to UK nationals for the same employment; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's announcement of 20 February 2014, on funding for the International Organization for Migration Greece Assistance for the Voluntary Return and Reintegrati
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the Exchequer has been of the asylum and immigration system once fee income has been deducted in each of the last seven years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many e-gates are now in operation at (a) UK ports and (b) Manchester Airport; what proportion of such passengers are using e-gates; and what the rejection rates is of travellers using e-gates (i)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the request by Rupert Ogwuezor dated 13 June 2011 for reconsideration of his case (HO reference: 01085860/2) will be determined; and what the reasons are for the time taken to process this case.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government why the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Ms Rashida Manjoo, was not allowed access to Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre during her visit in April.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the appropriateness of the current number of female officers employed by Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are taking steps to ensure that women in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre who are on suicide watch are only supervised by female officers; and if so, what steps are being taken.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the contribution made by Polish immigrants to the United Kingdom economy and society since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Government regulates commercial companies providing evidence required in immigration applications and that such companies are not open to corruption.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average annual salary of a UK Visas and Immigration asylum caseworker is; and how many asylum decisions such a caseworker makes on average in one year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions a Home Office immigration refusal decision was withdrawn by the Home Office on or immediately prior to an appeal hearing date in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum c
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the appropriateness of the current number of female officers in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that women in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre on suicide watch are only supervised by female officers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that women detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre can obtain feminine hygiene products without contact with male guards.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Red incidents and (b) Amber incidents have occurred at each Immigration Removal Centre in each of the last four years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the Gold Suite has been opened at each Immigration Removal Centre in England and Wales in the last year; and what the nature was of each incident that caused it to be opened.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the Exchequer of the asylum and immigration system once fee income has been deducted has been in each of the last seven years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time staff are employed in the Older Live Cases Unit.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contract or temporary employees are employed in the Older Live Cases Unit; and what proportion of the overall staff count are contract or temporary employees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Haslar spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for wh
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to support the adoption of a target to enhance global co-operation to facilitate orderly, safe, responsible migration and mobility of people, including through imp
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on the incorrect 0870 telephone number being given out to applicants seeking advice on their applications with UK Visas and Immigration; and if she will ma
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which completed reports from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration have been submitted for publication but had not yet been published on 17 June 2014; and what the (a) date of sub
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an 0300 telephone line is available for people wishing to make enquiries of UK Visas and Immigration.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will arrange for the hon. Member for Walsall North to receive a reply to her letter to the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration, of 1 May 2014 on behalf of a constituent, CTS ref M5845/14
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 June 2014
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the International Passenger Survey for estimating migration flows; and if he will make a statement.