Written questions

Afzal Khan

1,993 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Jan 2018 · Home Office

UK Border Force

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a special volunteer force to support Border Force.

18 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid in compensation as a result of its unauthorised sharing of asylum information since 2010.

18 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of unauthorised sharing of asylum information there have been in her Department in each year since 2010.

16 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the level of public support for removing students from the Government's net migration target.

16 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken a societal or cultural cost-benefit analysis on removing non-EU students from their Government's net migration target.

16 Jan 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Telecommunications: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the letter sent to her by the chair of Ofcom regarding the Communications Acts 2003, 27(6), if she will make it her policy to extend the Communications Acts 2003, 27(6)

11 Jan 2018 · Attorney General

Electronic Tagging

To ask the Attorney General, when the Serious Fraud Office investigation into the G4S and Serco electronic monitoring contracts which was initiated in 2013 is due to conclude.

10 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide details of the different stages of the procurement process for the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract; and when she plans to award that contract.

10 Jan 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the Government plans to publish its response to the Leveson Inquiry.

10 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timescale is for appointing commissioners to the Commission for Countering Extremism.

10 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications were received for the post of Lead Commissioner for the Commission for Countering Extremism and when that appointment will be made.

10 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unsuccessful student visa applications have been overturned on appeal in each of the last five years; and what was the average time taken between receiving the initial application and overtur

9 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to collect data on the (a) ethnicity, (b) race and (c) religion of people recorded as encountered in immigration enforcement operations.

9 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Undocumented Migrants: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that a migrant facing deportation from the UK has adequate opportunity to receive legal aid in support of their case.

9 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Brook House Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve conditions at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.

9 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's monitoring procedures for legal compliance by private firms delivering immigration-related services.

9 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made for the adequacy of the performance of UK Visas and Immigration in regard to the (a) number of initial decisions not appealed, (b) number of initial decisions o

9 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's report, Asylum Migration and Integration Fund, List of Actions allocated funding, published in July 2017, which actions will continue to receive funding; and whether

9 Jan 2018 · Home Office

Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was paid by non-EU applicants for student visas; and what the average cost to the public purse was to process those applications in each of the last seven years.

14 Dec 2017 · Home Office

Stop and Search: Airports and Ports

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will direct Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary to review (a) the use by the police of powers in Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2007 to stop and search people at ports and airports

14 Dec 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ritual Slaughter: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his policy on recognising animals as sentient beings encroaches on the rights of religious minorities to slaughter animals in accordance with Muslim and Jewish faith traditions

14 Dec 2017 · Home Office

Armed Conflict: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is Government policy that UK citizens who are suspected of committing criminal offences while fighting abroad will be dealt with by UK courts.

14 Dec 2017 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Burma: Rohingya

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to send an expert team to gather evidence on sexual violence as a weapon of war against Rohingya women in Myanmar, and other possible crimes.

6 Nov 2017 · Department for International Development

Syria: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of humanitarian airdrops in Eastern Ghouta in the event that the Assad regime continues to block UN land access for aid provision.