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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the ferry port in Portsmouth in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the ferry port in Portsmouth in the last year.
To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government does not comment on port specific statistics.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Portsmouth checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Portsmouth checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
The requested information has not been released as it is Border Force policy
not to release port-specific staff numbers on grounds of national security.
Exit checks were abolished by the last government. This Government is committed
to reintroducing exit checks by April 2015 on scheduled commercial
international air, sea and rail routes.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Hull checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Hull checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
The requested information has not been released as it is Border Force policy
not to release port-specific staff numbers on grounds of national security.
Exit checks were abolished by the last government. This Government is committed
to reintroducing exit checks by April 2015 on scheduled commercial
international air, sea and rail routes.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Dover checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Dover checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
The requested information has not been released as it is Border Force policy
not to release port-specific staff numbers on grounds of national security.
Exit checks were abolished by the last government. This Government is committed
to reintroducing exit checks by April 2015 on scheduled commercial
international air, sea and rail routes.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the ferry port in Hull in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the ferry port in Hull in the last year.
To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government does not comment on port specific statistics.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the ferry port in Dover in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the ferry port in Dover in the last year.
To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government does not comment on port specific statistics.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the shuttle tunnel in Folkestone checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the shuttle tunnel in Folkestone checking people leaving the UK in the last year.
The requested information has not been released as it is Border Force policy
not to release port-specific staff numbers on grounds of national security.
Exit checks were abolished by the last government. This Government is committed
to reintroducing exit checks by April 2015 on scheduled commercial
international air, sea and rail routes.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the shuttle tunnel in Folkestone in the last year.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped from leaving the UK by officials at the shuttle tunnel in Folkestone in the last year.
To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government does not comment on port specific statistics.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign students at schools and colleges that have lost their right to sponsor such students were removed from the UK in each of the last four years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign students at schools and colleges that have lost their right to sponsor such students were removed from the UK in each of the last four years.
Immigration removal statistics do not capture the category in which those
removed originally came to the UK. Since 2010, UK Visas and Immigration have
removed more than 860 education institutions from the register of those
licensed to recruit international students to the UK. Students whose sponsors’
licence has been revoked must find a new licensed sponsor or leave the UK
within 60 days of notification.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many schools and colleges that have had their right to sponsor overseas students removed have been subject to criminal proceedings in each of the last four years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many schools and colleges that have had their right to sponsor overseas students removed have been subject to criminal proceedings in each of the last four years.
The information requested is not recorded in this way.
Immigration Enforcement prosecutes individuals rather than schools
and companies who have had their right to sponsor overseas students
removed.
It would be a disproportionate cost to disaggregate information on the number
of individuals prosecuted for this offence from all of those prosecuted.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-EU students who were given visas to study in the UK failed to leave the UK after their studies had ended in each of the last four years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-EU students who were given visas to study in the UK failed to leave the UK after their studies had ended in each of the last four years.
In 2012, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) changed its methodology to
provide a better indicator of how many people leaving the UK first came here as
students. The ONS uses this data to estimate that in the year to September
2014, 133,000 non-EU students came to the UK to study for more than 12 months
while only 48,000 left - a difference of 85,000. This is partly because
students are able to extend their Tier 4 visa or switch into another
immigration route in-country, and so remain in the UK. Therefore student
emigration or the lack of it is a key driver of overall net migration.
The Immigration Act 2014 has provided new powers to implement exit checks,
which the last Labour government scrapped in 1998. The data collected by exit
checks will provide the most comprehensive picture we have ever had of whether
those who enter the UK leave when they are supposed to. The Act will also stop
migrants using public services to which they are not entitled, reduce the factors which
encourage people to come to the UK and make it easier to remove people who
should not be here.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how her Department plans to promote alternative methods to procedures on animals and disseminating information thereon in accordance with Article 47 (4) of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
[164282]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how her Department plans to promote alternative methods to procedures on animals and disseminating information thereon in accordance with Article 47 (4) of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
[164282]
Home Office Inspectors play a key role in the promotion of alternative methods to procedures on animals and disseminating information. All project licence applications are referred to inspectors who analyse the information provided, referring to colleagues or other experts, as necessary, to ensure appropriate application of the 3Rs at the inception of the project. Applications are also scrutinised by licensed establishments before submission. The establishment holder has a responsibility, under the legislation, (standard condition 1) to ensure that regulated activities are carried out in a manner consistent with the principles of the 3Rs. Visits by Inspectors to licensed establishments enable them to scrutinise ongoing programmes of work, advise those working, under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) on the application of best practice with respect to the 3Rs: replacement, reduction and refinement.
The Inspectors also have an outreach commitment which includes presenting at and attending meetings to promote the requirements of ASPA, with an emphasis on recognition of where the 3Rs might be applied and facilitating links between research groups to carry these forward from both strategic and practical perspectives.
The commitment to work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research is being delivered through a science-led programme led by the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs). Their ARRIVE guidelines are intended to improve the reporting of animal research. Previous work by the NC3Rs showed that many publications lacked key information, which could limit their value in informing future scientific studies and policy. The Home Office is promoting the guidelines to project licence holders.
The NC3Rs has also launched its new Evaluation Framework, the first ever attempt to systematically benchmark the impact of 3Rs programmes. As well as enabling robust evaluation of the Centre's work to replace, reduce and refine animal use, the Evaluation Framework has the potential to complement the Home Office annual statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals and become a barometer of the application of the 3Rs in the UK.
The coalition has made a commitment to work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research; an ambitious, but essential and achievable goal that encompasses the 3Rs. The programme will exert influence both domestically and at an international level. The delivery of the commitment involves Government Departments and agencies, the Home Office Inspectorate, the research community in both academia and industry, and others with relevant animal welfare interests. Of key importance is the involvement of the NC3Rs. We envisage making a statement in the autumn to present our action plan and announce progress to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding her Department has committed to continuing the development and validation of alternative approaches to procedures on animals in 2013 and beyond in accordance with Article 47 (1) of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
[164283]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding her Department has committed to continuing the development and validation of alternative approaches to procedures on animals in 2013 and beyond in accordance with Article 47 (1) of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
[164283]
The Home Office has made a payment of £250,000 to the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) for each year since it was founded. In line with the coalition agreement to work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research we are committed to continuing the development and validation of non-animal alternatives.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any national laboratories have been nominated to assist the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods in the validation of alternative methods in line with Article 47 (2) of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
[164264]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any national laboratories have been nominated to assist the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods in the validation of alternative methods in line with Article 47 (2) of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
[164264]
None of the establishments licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 have been nominated to assist the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods in the validation of alternative methods in line with Article 47 (2) of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
While there is significant experience and expertise in the UK, until we know what the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods requires investigating, the tests to be validated and how funded, we are unable to determine which of the establishments to nominate or suggest that they nominate themselves. We continue to closely monitor the situation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what assessment she has made of recent allegations of poor practice in animal welfare issues made by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection; and if she will make a statement;
[152411]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what assessment she has made of recent allegations of poor practice in animal welfare issues made by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection; and if she will make a statement;
[152411]
The use of living animals in scientific procedures which may cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm is strictly regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. We are determined to ensure animal research is carried out humanely and only when necessary and any reports suggesting that individuals or establishments are falling short of the high standards required by the 1986 Act are taken extremely seriously.
Home Office inspectors are investigating the allegations of cruelty and bad practice at Imperial College and will make recommendations on any action to be taken as a matter of urgency.
(2) if she will set up an independent investigation into the concerns raised by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection about wrongdoing during animal experiments at Imperial College London.
[152412]
Mr Mike Hancock:
(2) if she will set up an independent investigation into the concerns raised by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection about wrongdoing during animal experiments at Imperial College London.
[152412]
Mr Mike Hancock:
The use of living animals in scientific procedures which may cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm is strictly regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. We are determined to ensure animal research is carried out humanely and only when necessary and any reports suggesting that individuals or establishments are falling short of the high standards required by the 1986 Act are taken extremely seriously.
Home Office inspectors are investigating the allegations of cruelty and bad practice at Imperial College and will make recommendations on any action to be taken as a matter of urgency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy to end the import of the offspring of wild-caught monkeys, known as F1 generation, from Mauritius.
[126928]
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy to end the import of the offspring of wild-caught monkeys, known as F1 generation, from Mauritius.
[126928]
I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Department.
The Government currently has no plans to end the use of F1 generation macaques under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, whether sourced from Mauritius or elsewhere. At present, about two-thirds of macaques used in the United Kingdom under the 1986 Act are the offspring of captive-bred animals (F2 animals). The remainder are F1.
European directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes sets out dates from which member states must, in due course, ensure that only F2 non-human primates may be used and provides for a feasibility study to be carried out to confirm those dates. Provision is also made in directive 2010/63/EU for an examination of the feasibility of moving towards sourcing non-human primates from self-sustaining colonies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what reports he has received and what his policy is on Noveprim Ltd, an overseas primate breeding supplier to UK laboratories approved by his Department, killing monkeys for being the wrong size; and if he will make a statement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what reports he has received and what his policy is on Noveprim Ltd, an overseas primate breeding supplier to UK laboratories approved by his Department, killing monkeys for being the wrong size; and if he will make a statement.
[126927]
I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Department.
We received correspondence from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection on 1 November 2012 about the trade in long-tailed macaques for research from Mauritius. We are considering the points raised in the correspondence and will respond shortly.
The Home Office has no remit to approve or accredit overseas primate breeding centres. However, currently, the use of any non-human primate under a project licence issued under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which has been obtained from an overseas source requires prior approval which is given only if the conditions at the breeding centre are acceptable to the Home Office at that time.