Results 1-20 of 54 for iraq speaker:Liam Byrne

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Overseas Students (8 Jul 2008)

Liam Byrne: ... 1 1 — 0 2 Iceland — 1 — 1 2 India 17,591 19,891 22,129 23,293 82,904 Indonesia 864 671 694 672 2,901 Iran 1,303 1,654 2,064 2,316 7,337 Iraq 130 255 320 447 1,152 Ireland — 1 0 0 1 Israel 813 1920 663 316 3,712 Italy — — — 1 1 Ivory Coast 213 103 159 131 606 Jamaica...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Entry Clearances (7 Jul 2008)

Liam Byrne: I have been asked to reply. Our embassies in Amman and Beirut have been designated as the visa-issuing posts for Iraqi nationals (although visit visa applications may be lodged at any UK visa-issuing post around the world). Given the current security situation, there is no prospect of expanding the limited visa service currently available in Iraq in the foreseeable future. We will, however,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Iraq (30 Jun 2008)

Liam Byrne: holding answer 19 June 2008 Since we announced our intention to help those who served our forces in Iraq families have begun arriving in the UK, with more to come this summer. They are given housing, English lessons, financial support and have a case worker who helps them to resettle and access health and education services. Accommodation is provided through a variety of providers who...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Iraq (12 Jun 2008)

Liam Byrne: Information on the reasons for grants of asylum is not collated centrally. Establishing how many Iraqi citizens were granted asylum as a result of their work for the UK forces could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Under the separate scheme of assistance for locally engaged Iraqi staff, published by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in...

Written Answers — Home Department: Work Permits: Health Professions (3 Jun 2008)

Liam Byrne: ..., peoples Republic of 135 Pakistan 75 Sri Lanka 35 Australia 35 Egypt 35 Bangladesh 20 Nigeria 20 Syrian Arab Republic 20 Myanmar 15 Sudan 15 Malaysia 15 Iraq 10 United States of America 10 Iran 10 Romania 5 Singapore 5 Trinidad and Tobago 5 Ghana 5 Total 910 Nurse India 3,060 Philippines 1,580 ...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration: Iraq (29 Apr 2008)

Liam Byrne: Information on the number of Iraq nationals granted asylum in the United Kingdom is published in the annual Statistical Bulletin Asylum Statistics United Kingdom. Provisional figures for 2007 are published in the Quarterly Asylum Statistics Fourth Quarter 2007. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearance: Employment (23 Apr 2008)

Liam Byrne: ...holder of certificate of identity or document of identity) (1)— Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China 40 India 1,395 Indonesia 35 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 75 Iraq 5 Israel 20 Jamaica 45 Japan 130 Jordan 25 Kampuchea (1)— Kazakhstan 20 Kenya 150 Kuwait 5 Kyrgyzstan 5 Latvia (1)— Lebanon 20 ...

Written Answers — Home Department: Foreigners: Sports (17 Mar 2008)

Liam Byrne: ...Congo Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Gambia Georgia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Guyana Haiti India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ivory Coast Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Liberia Libya Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Moldova Mongolia Morocco...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (11 Mar 2008)

Liam Byrne: ... 685 Ghana 620 Somalia 600 Poland 580 China 570 Iran 470 Sierra Leone 415 India 395 Lithuania 380 Uganda 375 Croatia 360 Angola 345 Albania 345 Iraq 295 Algeria 270 Czech Republic 255 Ukraine 250 Bangladesh 235 Rwanda 230 Ivory Coast 220 Tanzania 210 Romania 190 Congo 170 Eritrea 165 Burundi 160...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration: Foreign Workers (11 Mar 2008)

Liam Byrne: holding answer 6 March 2008 The proportion of Iraqi citizens of Kurdish ethnicity employed by the Ministry of Defence in Iraq, who have applied for indefinite leave to enter the UK on an exceptional basis outside the immigration rules, is not known.

Written Answers — Home Department: Resettlement: Iraq (11 Mar 2008)

Liam Byrne: As of 25 February no locally engaged staff seeking indefinite leave to enter from Iraq have yet submitted an application for entry clearance to UKvisas.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Resettlement (5 Mar 2008)

Liam Byrne: I have been asked to reply. No Iraqi citizens formerly employed by the Ministry of Defence have yet been granted indefinite leave to enter the UK from the Middle East under the criteria for the Locally Engaged Iraqi staff assistance scheme. Therefore the Government have not provided air transport to assist their movement to the UK. All formerly employed staff who are accepted for resettlement...

Written Answers — Home Department: Border and Immigration Agency: Middle East (3 Mar 2008)

Liam Byrne: ...1 October 2007 1 November 2007 1 December 2007 1 January 2008 27 February 2008 Afghanistan 1 1 1 1 1 Bahrain 1 1 1 1 1 Dubai 6 6 6 6 6 Israel 0 0 0 0 0 Iraq 0 0 0 0 0 Iran 5 5 5 5 4 Jordan 4 4 4 5 5 Kuwait 1 1 1 1 1 Lebanon 1 1 1 1 1 Oman 1 1 1 1 1 Qatar 1 1 1 1 1 Saudi Arabia 1 2 2 2 2...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration: Armed Forces (25 Feb 2008)

Liam Byrne: ...2008, of those staff who have contacted Her Majesty's Government, 293 people are eligible to apply for residence in the United Kingdom by virtue of providing assistance to the UK armed forces in Iraq. None have yet been granted residence. 93 have chosen not to opt for resettlement, and a further five have withdrawn their interest in resettlement. One has been refused. Of the remainder, 103...

Written Answers — Home Department: Work Permits (18 Feb 2008)

Liam Byrne: ...; Estonia 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Georgia 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 (1)— (1)— 5 Ghana 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 (1)— 0 5 Honduras 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Iraq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1)— (1)— Israel (1)— 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1)— Jamaica 0 (1)— (1)— 0 (1)— (1)— 0 (1)— 0 5...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Skilled Workers (28 Jan 2008)

Liam Byrne: ...8212; Honduras (1)— Hong Kong (British) 15 Hong Kong (Chinese) 10 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (1)— India 18,285 Indonesia 45 Iran 220 Iraq 55 Israel 130 Jamaica 655 Japan 90 Jordan 105 Kazakhstan 30 Kenya 235 Korea North (Democratic Peoples Rep of) 5 Korea South (Rep of Korea) 85 Kuwait 5 ...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Asylum Seekers (13 Dec 2007)

Liam Byrne: ...now at its lowest level since not 1997 but 1993. He was also right to say that many patterns of change in the asylum system reflect what is going on in the real world. Four countries—Eritrea, Iraq, Iran and Somalia—accounted in the last quarter for about 30 per cent. of applications in the countries of the EU, and 33 per cent. in the UK. Those changes reflect what is going on...

Written Answers — Home Department: Entry Clearances: Employment (11 Dec 2007)

Liam Byrne: ... Iceland 0 0 0 (2)— 0 0 (2)— India 95 315 1,020 2,280 2,395 2,710 8,815 Indonesia 0 (2)— (2)— 5 10 10 30 Iran 5 20 20 25 20 25 115 Iraq 5 15 15 10 10 5 55 Israel 5 30 30 50 40 35 185 Jamaica 5 10 15 10 15 15 75 Japan 5 5 15 25 20 20 85 Jordan (2)— 5 5 5 10 10 35 ...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Iraq and Afghanistan (3 Dec 2007)

Liam Byrne: Information on initial decisions and appeals for nationals of Iraq and Afghanistan for October 2006 to September 2007 and each of the previous last six years are shown in the following tables. This is the latest data for which information has been published. Appeal determinations do not necessarily relate to initial decisions made in the same period. Information on asylum applications,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Applications (30 Oct 2007)

Liam Byrne: ...in the UK awaiting consideration over each of the listed periods as of 31 May 2007 for the timescales and nationalities shown( 1) 6 to < 12 months 12 to < 24 months 24 months and over Iraq 450 475 150 Afghanistan 100 250 150 Somalia 75 150 375 Total 625 875 675 (1) Figures are rounded to the nearest 25. Note: This table includes applications...