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Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Kuwait (15 May 2013)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Kuwaiti Bidoons have claimed asylum in the UK in each of the last five years for which records are available.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: China (13 May 2013)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received on the policy of the Chinese government towards practitioners of Falun Gong; what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the Falun Gong movement in the UK; and what recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterparts regarding the treatment of practitioners of Falun...

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Amendment) (23 April 2013)

Sarah Teather: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to require the Secretary of State to review levels of asylum support annually; to require him to lay before Parliament a draft up-rating order to increase levels of asylum support in line with changes made to mainstream benefits in years when the general level of prices has increased during the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Crimes of Violence: Females (25 March 2013)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to paragraphs 46 to 48 of the Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls action plans, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the implementation of the recommended actions; and what specific role the Gender Champion at the UK Border Agency will have with respect to such actions.

Written Answers — Health: Mental Health: Young People (25 March 2013)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to ask the Office for National Statistics to update its report from 2004 Mental Health of Children and Young People based on the 2011 Census.

Written Answers — Justice: Immigration: Judicial Review (14 March 2013)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 30 January 2013, Official Report, column 845W, on judicial review, how many of the applications for permission to apply for judicial review in immigration or asylum cases related to immigration or asylum applications that, at the time of application, had not received a final decision by the UK Border Agency.

Written Answers — Education: Primary Education (6 March 2013)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education for how many maintained primary schools in England which have received a grading of inadequate in a section 5 Ofsted inspection since the introduction of the new inspection framework in September 2012, his Department has undertaken to find a preferred sponsor for academy conversion (a) at the request of the governing body and (b) at the suggestion...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Topical Questions (5 March 2013)

Sarah Teather: I recently visited Gaza as part of a cross-party delegation with Interpal. While there I was alarmed to witness, on three different occasions, the shooting at and intimidation of Palestinian fishing boats that appeared to be clearly inside the six-mile limit agreed by the ceasefire. Earlier, the Secretary of State roundly condemned, as is right and proper, the firing of rockets into Israel,...

Written Answers — Education: Primary Education (5 March 2013)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many maintained primary schools in England have received a section 5 Ofsted inspection since the introduction of the new inspection framework in September 2012; and how many such schools have received a grading of (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) satisfactory, (d) adequate and (e) inadequate.

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: The Minister will perhaps recognise that the rates vary according to the children’s age and tail off significantly at 16, where it would be expected that those children would be in full-time education, especially given the Government’s own policy to encourage everybody to be in education beyond 16. I have discussed the German constitutional court case with him in private. I do not...

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: I am aware that the Minister does not have much time, but does he recognise, particularly in the case of Zimbabwe, that people were left in a situation where the courts would not return them because it was unsafe, and for a prolonged period of time they were left on very tiny amounts of support?

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: The hon. Gentleman will recall that his hon. Friend the Member for Scunthorpe said that, under section 4, people cannot buy condoms.

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: That is not relevant to the point I just made.

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I am pleased to have secured this debate, and it is good to see a number of colleagues here, although perhaps not as many as I had hoped; maybe everyone is in Eastleigh this morning. [Interruption.] Perhaps not quite everyone. It is good to see the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Nic Dakin). He served on the recent cross-party...

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The people who came to speak to us were asking to be treated as human beings, to be allowed to support themselves and to have enough to support their family. They did not whinge, and they were often extremely grateful for what this country has given to enable them to flee to safety from countries that are war-torn or in which they faced persecution. The...

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: I suspect the hon. Gentleman’s question refers to unaccompanied asylum seekers. Am I correct?

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: The inquiry specifically addressed children who are with their families and who are supported by section 95 and section 4, but there is another question about the vulnerability of unaccompanied asylum seekers and the fact that often all support ends at 18. Many of us will remember, and those of us with children or nieces and nephews will recognise, that an 18-year-old is incredibly vulnerable...

[Philip Davies in the Chair] — Asylum Support (Children and Young People) (27 February 2013)

Sarah Teather: Is the hon. Gentleman talking about unaccompanied asylum seekers?