Gareth Thomas

15 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Borders: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training and assistance the UK Border Force provides to transport carriers and port operators who are required to collect Advance Passenger Information to identify false documents; and if she wil

15 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who overstayed their visa have been identified leaving the UK in each month since 8 April 2015; and if she will make a statement.

15 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Borders: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many persons of interest have been found to have left the UK when it has not been possible to check and act upon Advance Passenger Information in real-time since April 2015; and if she will make a

15 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Borders: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Advance Passenger Information was checked and acted upon in real-time for passengers leaving the UK in the latest period for which figures are available; and if she will make a stat

9 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Credit Reference Agencies: Standards

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to require the Financial Conduct Authority to require credit rating agencies to improve their reporting of an individual's credit record; and if he will make a statement.

9 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Credit Reference Agencies: Fines

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fines have been levied on credit rating agencies (a) in total and (b) for inaccurate reports of individuals' credit records; and if he will make a statement.

9 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Credit Reference Agencies: Standards

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to require regular audits of the accuracy of records held by credit ratings agencies on UK nationals' credit history; and if he will make a statement.

9 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Credit Reference Agencies: Standards

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when Ministers or senior officials of his Department last met with credit ratings agencies to discuss the accuracy of the credit record histories of UK nationals; and if he will make a statement.

9 Jun 2016 · HM Treasury

Credit Reference Agencies: Standards

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the level of accuracy of the credit records held by credit reporting agencies; and if he will make a statement.

8 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce compulsory advanced notification for (a) commercial and (b) pleasure craft of arrival in the UK; and if she will make a statement.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Migrants: Identity Cards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of migrants staying in the UK for more than three months did not have an ID card containing both their photograph and fingerprints in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Visas: Fingerprints

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visa applicants to each visa application centre were fingerprinted before they travelled to the UK in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions of people involved in providing transport for illegal immigrants there have been in the each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Travel Restrictions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been refused permission to board flights to the UK as a result of checks carried out by airlines in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the programme managed by Capita to identify and remove overstayers; when the contract with Capita for that programme is due for renewal; whether sh

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

UK Border Force: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how may airport liaison officers have been deployed to each location in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many clandestine entrants of each nationality were identified within the UK in each of the last 10 years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers received (a) one, (b) between two and four and (c) more than five fixed penalty fines for illegally employing immigrants in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many airlines are required to copy passengers' documents, on how many flight routes, before the passenger is allowed to board.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions there have been of applicants for asylum who have arrived without documents and concealed their identity to frustrate removal in each of the last 10 years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of flights identified as high-risk where Border Force officials have not attended in the last 12 months; when the automated system for airports to check the ci

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Boats

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department had with the Royal Yacht Association on solutions to practical difficulties preventing pleasure craft from providing advance notification of arrival in the UK; a

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people entering or leaving the UK by air had pre-boarding electronic checks in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the decision to introduce a 30-day deadline to travel once a family reunion visa has been issued; and if she will make a statement.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to her Department was of the van-based advertising campaign advising illegal immigrants to go home, launched in Autumn 2013; and if she will make a statement.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the general aviation risk assessment tool form has been amended in response to the recommendations made in the report by the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, An Inspection of Genera

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of failed asylum seekers who have been removed or voluntarily deported were (a) overstayers and (b) illegal entrants in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of overstayers have subsequently been granted leave to remain due to their family or private life in the UK in each of the last seven years.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overstayers have (a) been removed and (b) voluntarily deported as a result of action taken by Capita in each month since October 2012; and if she will make a statement.

7 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether changes have been made to the way evidence of illegal entry is recorded in response to the recommendations made in the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, An