Oral Question: Asylum-Repatriation

28 April 2014

Frank Field : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her Department’s total budget for assisted voluntary returns projects is for the current financial year, and what has been the total budget for such projects in each of the last five years.

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Oral Answers to Questions-Student Visas

Nicholas Soames: Does my hon. Friend accept that although of course we warmly welcome students from all over the world to our excellent universities, they must leave when they are meant to do so? May I suggest that he encourages the universities themselves to play a greater part in seeing to it that that happens?

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Written Answer-Overseas Students

3 April 2014

Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex, Conservative)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to record the departure of non-EU students as they leave the UK at the end of their studies.

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Written Answer-Human Trafficking

1 April 2014

Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) men and (b) women who are victims of human trafficking are nationals of non-EEA countries have received return and reintegration assistance through the Assisted Voluntary Returns for Irregular Migrants programme since April 2011; and how much was so made available to those trafficked from (i) inside and (ii) outside the EU.

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