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written question – answered on 26 July 2010.

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  • Animal Experiments

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when each of the overseas establishments approved by her to export dogs for use in scientific procedures to the UK was last inspected...

  • Animal Experiments

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her policy is on the testing of household products on animals.

  • Animal Experiments: Licensing

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many licences her Department has issued allowing the use of the mouse/rat bioassay (MBA/RBA) method to detect marine biotoxins in...

  • Asylum

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what mechanisms are in place to provide guidance on the application of immigration rules to those people granted refugee status from 2005 who...

  • Asylum

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effects on the costs of asylum support of the change in the number of people granted asylum in the last...

  • Asylum

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to process asylum applications made prior to 2010.

  • Asylum: Deportation

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers awaiting deportation are in prison.

  • British Nationality

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time to process an application for naturalisation was in the latest period for which figures are available.

  • British Nationality: Citizenship

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether second-generation descendants of former residents of the British Indian Ocean Territory are entitled to British citizenship.

  • Citizenship

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which road traffic offences the UK Border Agency will normally disregard in considering an application for UK citizenship; what guidance the...

  • Crime

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the attrition rate for (a) theft, (b) burglary of a dwelling and (c) offences of domestic violence was in each of the last 10 years...

  • Detainees: Torture

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will review the way in which survivors of torture designated for removal are treated by the United Kingdom Border Agency in removal...

  • English Language

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 9 June 2010, Official Report, columns 11-12WS, on English language requirement, whether she...

  • Entry Clearances

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations her Department has received on its decision to refuse entry to the UK to members of the Iroquois lacrosse team...

  • Entry Clearances

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department under what circumstances her Department considers representations from hon. Members on the refusal of visitor visas; and if she will make a...

  • Entry Clearances

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to ensure that representations from hon. Members on refusals of visitor visas are referred to the relevant entry...

  • Entry Clearances

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the relevant entry clearance manager is directed to review a visitor visa case when representations are made by hon. Members to the...

  • Entry Clearances

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many spouse visas her Department issued to people entering the UK from Pakistan in each of the last five years.

  • Entry Clearances: Married People

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many spouse visas her Department issued to people coming from each foreign country other than Pakistan in each of the last five years.

  • Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal migrants identified in the last 12 months were sponsored by institutions (a) accredited by the British Council and (b)...

  • Entry Clearances: Skilled Workers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) migrants and (b) dependants of migrants were given leave to enter the UK under (i) the highly skilled migrants programme and...

  • Entry Clearances: Skilled Workers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which 20 non-EU nationalities have received the most work permits for (a) doctors and (b) nurses under the points-based immigration system...

  • Foreign Nationals: Licences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what additional background checks the Security Industry Authority is entitled to make in respect of foreign nationals applying for licences;...

  • Human Trafficking

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many factors are taken into account in assessing whether an individual has been trafficked.

  • Human Trafficking

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria the police use to decide whether an individual has been trafficked.

  • Illegal Immigrants: Employment

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants have been found to be employed by fishing vessels registered to each UK fishing port in each of the last 12...

  • Immigrants: English Language

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made on the establishment of English language test centres for immigrants.

  • Immigration

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers she has to revoke an individual's indefinite leave to remain granted following marriage to a British citizen in circumstances in...

  • Immigration: Hungary

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment her Department has made of the likely effect on the level of immigration to the UK of the decision of the Hungarian...

  • Immigration: Work Permits

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permits have been granted in respect of each occupation in each year since the inception of the points-based immigration system.

  • Immigration: Work Permits

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many grants of settlement have been made on the basis of employment with a work permit in (a) each year since 1997 and (b) each quarter...

  • Immigration: Work Permits

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permits have been issued to non-UK nationals in each quarter since 1 January 2005.

  • Members: Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to reply to the letter to her dated 20 May 2010 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr A. Khan.

  • Members: Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the UK Border Agency plans to respond to the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay's letter of 17 June 2010 on his constituent Mr R. Zhang.

  • Members: Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she plans to respond to the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay's letter of 15 June 2010 on his constituent Mr M. Tizora.

  • Police: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which elements of the proposed £135 million police expenditure reductions (a) were and (b) were not contained in the £545 million...

  • UK Border Agency International Group

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) guidance and (b) directions Ministers in her Department issue to the UK Border Agency International Group; if she will place in...

  • UK Border Agency: Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the UK Border Agency spent on legal costs for High Court cases in each of the last three years.

  • UK Border Agency: Immigration Appeals

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of immigration appeals UK Border Agency staff attended in each year since 2005; and what proportion of immigration appeals...

  • Visas: Married People

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers she has to revoke a spouse or partner visa in circumstances in which an individual who has the visa has been violent towards...

  • Visas: Northern Ireland

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what mechanism is in place to ensure that non-EU nationals living in the Republic of Ireland comply with visa requirements when travelling to...

  • Visas: Pakistan

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications there were for visas to enter the UK from Pakistan in each year since 1997; and how many such applications were refused...

  • Visas: Pakistan

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time taken to process applications for visas to enter the UK (a) from overseas and (b) from Pakistan was in the latest...

  • Work Permits

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there are limits on the number of hours a week that an individual on a working visa can work.