Written Answer – Births to Foreign Born Parents in London

2 December 2016

Asked by  Rt Hon. Sir Nicholas Soames on 22 November 2016 To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) number and (b) proportion of births was where one or both parents were foreign-born in (i) London and (ii) each Greater London borough in the most recent year for which figures are available. […]

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Written Question-Illegal Immigrants

22 July 2015

Asked by Frank Field MP (Labour, Birkenhead)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of wider use of identity documentation to assist in the detection of illegal immigrants living in the UK.

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Written Answer-Domestic Violence- Immigrants

5 March 2015

Frank Field (Labour, Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Destitution Domestic Violence concessions were granted to individuals on a UK partner visa whose relationship has broken down because of domestic violence in each of the last three years; and how many individuals granted a DDV concession were later […]

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Written Question-British Nationality

15 January 2015

Asked by Sir Nicholas Soames (Conservative, Mid Sussex) To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce legislative proposals to prevent anyone who has entered or stayed illegally in the UK being granted British citizenship.   Answered by: James Brokenshire (Minister of State for Immigration, Conservative, Old Bexley & Sidcup)   Applicants […]

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Written Answer-Entry Clearances

27 October 2014

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 general visas have been (a) made available and (b) issued since the introduction of a cap on those visas in 2010.

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Written Answer-Universal exit checks

24 October 2014

Nicholas Soames-To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made towards introducing universal exit checks at UK borders.

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Written Answer- Entry Clearances

16 December 2013

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to improve the tourist visa application process.

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Written Answer-Overseas Students

10 December 2013

Frank Field: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the nationality was of the 49,000 non-EU students who had been in the UK for at least 12 months for the purposes of study and were identified in the International Passenger Survey as departing the UK in the year ended December 2012.

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Written Answers – Births in Greater London

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the (a) number and (b) proportion of births where one or both parents were foreign-born was in (i) London and (ii) each Greater London borough in the most recent year for which figures are available.

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Written Answers-Entry Clearances

8 November 2013

Nicholas Soames-To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visitor visas were issued in each of the last five years; and how many holders of such visas over-stayed.

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