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Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): Everyone in the House recognises the valuable role that carers play in society. There is an opportunity to provide discretionary housing payments when that is appropriate, but where was the hon. Lady when such a system was introduced in the private sector? Why did we not hear the argument that there should be exemptions for carers in the private sector? It is one rule then and one rule now.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Kevin John Foster (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Minister agree that a list of strict criteria would undermine the whole point of having discretionary housing payments in the system? Does he also agree that it is interesting to hear the false anger of Labour Members, given that their party introduced this system for tenants on housing benefit in the private sector?
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. If it were, I would have ruled thus, and it was not, so I did not—we will leave it at that. I am always grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his advice, even if it is proffered from a sedentary position but, in this instance, it suffers from the material disadvantage of being wrong.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): I meet residents all the time because as well as being a Minister I am, like the hon. Gentleman, a constituency MP. We have trebled our funding to support victims of domestic abuse to £40 million a year, and arrears in housing have actually fallen for the past four years.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): I disagree. In August 2014 16% had registered to look to move. Remember, those 1.7 million people—247,000 families—in overcrowded accommodation need people to move in order to give them the same chance as those people had. It is the right thing to do.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
James Jacob Gilchrist Berry (Conservative, Centre-right): On fairness, taxpayers will think it is fair that they subsidise social housing rent so that people living in social housing pay about 30% of market rent, in some cases. They do not think it is fair that they subsidise at 30% of market rent people having spare rooms that they do not use or do not need. If, as I suspect, the Minister is unable to give a definitive list of all the cases where people may need a spare room, surely that shows that our discretionary system is the best system and one that we must continue with.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman seems to object to allowing people the opportunity to buy their own home. We are not all from gifted backgrounds and people should have an opportunity to do that. That, in turn, will raise the funds to create new housing.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Robert Edward Jenrick (Conservative, Centre-right): The amount we spend on housing benefits rose by 50% in the last years of the Labour Government. We now spend more on housing benefit than we spend on secondary education, and that sum is equivalent to 50% of the Ministry of Defence budget, yet there is a chronic shortage of social housing. Does the Minister agree that no reasonable, competent Government would not be trying to find fair and just solutions to both those problems?
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): The money spent on housing benefit was £24.4 billion. Without our reforms it would have been £26 billion per year. The Opposition are calling on us to scrap the whole of the spare room subsidy policy. That would be an extra £2.5 billion in their ever-growing black hole.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
David Mowat (Conservative, Centre-right): When the Labour party introduced the spare room subsidy for the private sector, there was no discretionary housing payment to go with it. Have we made an assessment of whether we could extend discretionary housing payment to the spare room subsidy introduced by Labour?
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The hon. Gentleman says that he has lost his voice, which saddens me. The least that we owe the hon. Gentleman is a degree of quietude so that we might detect what he has to say.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Other
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not sure whether we can get all that information by the end of today, but I am happy to see how quickly we can get as much of it as possible to the hon. Gentleman.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): We are not ignoring the ruling; we are appealing it. We are doing that because we feel that discretionary housing payment is the correct way to do it. Reforms take time to come in, as I said earlier. Housing benefit cost £24.4 billion this year. Had we not brought in reforms, every single one of which was opposed by the Labour party, it would have cost £26 billion this year.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman (Conservative, Centre-right): In Fareham we have over 1,000 people on the housing waiting lists, including young families with children. Will the Minister provide a breakdown per constituency of how many people are on housing waiting lists, so that we can better understand the extent of this problem?
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Justin Paul Tomlinson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend. I hope she will excuse me if I cannot provide that breakdown instantly for every constituency. We are making efforts, through our combined package of £20 billion-worth of measures, to increase housing supply and help to get those people out of those overcrowded properties and off those waiting lists into appropriate accommodation.
Under-occupancy Penalty — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Housing
Stephen Daniel Double (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Minister agree that not only is the discretionary housing payment the right way to address this issue, but the fact that so many local authorities are not spending their full allocation is evidence that the Government are fully resourcing this matter?
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Civil Rights
Tobias Martin Ellwood (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sorry about the last comments. The hon. Lady and I have discussed these issues in the House, in Westminster Hall and, indeed, privately. I hope she will recognise that the words that have been written—I think by The Independent, which used a Google translator system to take some Arabic words and turn them into English—were not what I said at all. Let me make it very clear: we have now issued a press release confirming exactly what I said—an overview of what I raised at some of the meetings. I can assure her that at every single meeting I had, at every level, I raised human rights issues across a spectrum of matters that this House debates on a regular basis.
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Civil Rights
Tobias Martin Ellwood (Conservative, Centre-right): May I first pay tribute to the work that the hon. Gentleman does in this area? He raises these important issues of human rights—not least for Christians, but for others as well—on a regular basis. He is absolutely right to say that Christians are not receiving the same level of support or, indeed, rights in parts of the middle east. These are things we raise on a regular basis. If I may, I will speak to the hon. Gentleman offline to talk in more detail about this, because that would be more appropriate.
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Other
Tobias Martin Ellwood (Conservative, Centre-right): I am calling for it; I want it; I think it is very important. It is not, however, in my gift. I understand that it is the responsibility of the three Committee Chairmen, one of whom is smiling, whose brief is internationally facing. It is for them. [Interruption.] I stand corrected; the Leader of the House is in his place. It is vital that the Committee is up and running as soon as possible. If there is one positive outcome from today, it is, I hope, that this Committee will emerge as soon as possible royal assent
NHS and Social Care Commission — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Other
Eleanor Fulton Laing (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of clarification, the right hon. Gentleman is doing just fine on timing. I appreciate that he has taken a lot of interventions, and people who intervene know that, later in the debate, their speeches will be shorter as a result of their interventions. He is doing nothing wrong, and he may proceed.
NHS and Social Care Commission — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Other
Sarah James (Wollaston) (Conservative, Centre-right): In this place, we sometimes push issues into commissions, which debate them endlessly and come to no agreement. I would say the urgency of this issue demands that the leaders of all political parties sit down together and agree.
NHS and Social Care Commission — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Mixed Topics
Sarah James (Wollaston) (Conservative, Centre-right): In many instances around the country, the use of care co-ordinators and the existence of a single point of contact are not only providing better care for individuals, but saving money for the whole system by avoiding the need for admissions and allowing people to go home early. We should focus on the good examples, and on how services can be made available in a more co-ordinated way.
NHS and Social Care Commission — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrew William Murrison (Conservative, Centre-right): Earlier in his remarks my right hon. Friend talked about having a discussion within the confines of the Palace of Westminster. He appears to be moving in that direction again. Does he agree that there is a need for a more iterative process with the public at large? A commission of the sort that the right hon. Member for North Norfolk has proposed might go some way towards that.
Southeastern Rail Services — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful for that assurance, but will my hon. Friend also undertake to provide my colleagues and me with a timeframe for that process in due course, along with the precise details of how it is to be achieved? All too often, Southeastern has made promises, but the deadline for delivery has been extended.
Southeastern Rail Services — House of Commons, 2016-01-28
Topic: Other
Claire Louise Perry (Conservative, Centre-right): I shall be happy to have that conversation. The hon. Lady probably finds it as frustrating as I do that selective door opening works perfectly well in some parts of the country and not in others. There may well be very good operational reasons for the need for a software change. I will certainly look into the matter.
Draft Investigatory Powers Bill — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Mixed Topics
Stephen Anthony McPartland (Conservative, Centre-right): The United Nations has condemned the Bill, which introduces mass surveillance, as having a chilling effect. Will the Home Secretary be kind enough to clarify how many organisations, including local authorities, and employees would have access to communications data as a result of the draft Bill?
Immigration System — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): The Immigration Act 2014 and related changes have expedited the removal of more than 2,000 foreign national offenders from this country and stopped illegal migrants from having access to services such as bank accounts, driving licences and rented accommodation. The Immigration Bill will go further, enabling the seizure of earnings from illegal workers, further penalising rogue employers and extending the deport first, appeal later principle to more cases.
Immigration System — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the Minister for that answer, but immigration remains one of the top concerns of my constituents. With that in mind, what assessment has the Minister made of the Government’s proposed right-to-rent scheme on those who are here illegally?
Immigration System — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Housing
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right to highlight the issues surrounding right to rent, which we intend to roll out nationally next month. It is a matter of ensuring that property is available only to those with a right to be in this country. We undertook an assessment of the first phase of the scheme in the west midlands. That found that the scheme was operating as intended, which is why we are now rolling it out further.
Immigration System — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): We are certainly looking at several employment sectors that may face such risks, such as construction and care, to which my hon. Friend refers. I have had meetings with representatives from those industries and others to see what further steps can be taken to prevent that from happening, and making sure that employers have adequate awareness of the steps that they can take. We have doubled the maximum penalty for employing an illegal worker to £20,000, and through the new Immigration Bill we intend to tighten those restrictions even further and make it easier to prosecute rogue employers.
Immigration System — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Other
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): I will look carefully at the case that the right hon. Gentleman has raised, specifically at the facts and circumstances which he has drawn to the attention of the House, and I will write to him.
Immigration System — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Nicholas Soames (Conservative, Centre-right): Would my right hon. Friend reconsider the question of ID cards, not only in respect of immigration and the introduction of many digital services for all our individuals and citizens, but particularly in regard to national security and the protection of all our citizens from terrorism? Does he agree that this is now a matter of national security?
Immigration System — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): Many of the issues that we face in relation to deportation involve foreign nationals—obviously, by the nature of the work. We have introduced biometric residence permits, and in her speech last October to the Conservative party conference the Home Secretary referred to the further measures that we are taking so that we can remove those people who do not have authority to be in this country. We are using biometric residence permits and other means to achieve that.
Online Crime — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Questions: What estimate she has made of the number of crimes committed online in 2014-15; and how many of those crimes were (a) recorded, (b) investigated and (c) resulted in a conviction.
John Henry Hayes (Conservative, Centre-right): As I said, when we get to understand the figures more accurately—the measures we have taken to look at these matters in greater detail will allow us to do that—my hon. Friend is absolutely right that we will need to be precautionary in our approach. He is also right that fraud is a significant element of the problem. In dealing with online fraud, we need to measure what is happening, look at what can be done about it and take appropriate action, and that is exactly what we will do.
Contraband: Entry into UK — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): The United Kingdom’s border controls are among the toughest in the world. Border Force works closely with other law enforcement agencies, including the National Crime Agency and the police, to target and disrupt freight, international post, vehicles and vessels attempting to smuggle prohibited and restricted goods, such as firearms and illegal drugs, into the UK.
Contraband: Entry into UK — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Gentleman will be aware, through his experience of being a Home Office Minister, of the steps that are taken by all our various agencies in looking at each potential way in which people may smuggle into this country. We are improving the systems through which general aviation reports are captured in order to ensure that we are tackling non-compliance. We are also working through air traffic control to track flights that fail to report and, through improvements to legislation, take action against those who fail to comply with the requirements. We remain focused on these issues.
Contraband: Entry into UK — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): I cannot comment on the individual case that the hon. Lady mentions, but I can say that we take seriously the issue of our ports, and indeed the juxtaposed ports in northern France. We have maintained 100% screening checks on those coming through. Our introduction of operational and technological improvements has prevented nearly 70,000 illegal entry attempts through those juxtaposed ports.
Net Migration Figures: International Students — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): The independent Office for National Statistics includes international students in its net migration calculations. Like other migrants, international students who stay for longer than 12 months have an impact on communities, infrastructure and services while they are here. We continue to welcome the brightest and best to study at our world-leading institutions. There remains no limit on the number of genuine international students who can come to study in the UK.
Net Migration Figures: International Students — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): It is the Office for National Statistics that provides the figures. It includes international students in its net migration calculations, as does Australia, Canada and the US. We keep such issues under review all the time, but I underline to the hon. Gentleman that changing the way we measure migration would not make any difference to our policy because there is no limit on the number of genuine international students who can come here to study. We certainly remain open to attracting the brightest and the best.
Net Migration Figures: International Students — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Felicia Jane Beatrix Drummond (Conservative, Centre-right): In Portsmouth, there are 4,000 international students from 130 countries. Does my right hon. Friend agree not only that they help the immediate economy, but that the relationship between such foreign students and Britain should last a lifetime and helps the long-term political and economic future of Britain?
Net Migration Figures: International Students — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): No, I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman’s analysis. When we look at the students coming from China, we can see that the numbers have increased by about 9%. The way in which international markets operate can sometimes be quite complex, particularly in countries such as India, where the use of agents can be important. When I go to India later this year, I will certainly underline the clear message that the UK remains an attractive place for students to come to study.
Immigration of Children — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Karen Anne Bradley (Conservative, Centre-right): The circumstances in which a child can come to the UK to join relatives living here are set out in the immigration rules. We keep the rules under review, but believe that they protect the rights of individuals, while ensuring that there is confidence in an immigration system that is fair.
Immigration of Children — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Karen Anne Bradley (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not recognise the length of time the hon. Lady suggests the process takes. We work very closely with the French authorities, but let us bear it in mind that those children are in camps in France, which is part of the European Union. It is important that they are processed properly in that sovereign state.
Immigration of Children — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Karen Anne Bradley (Conservative, Centre-right): Refugees can seek asylum in the first country in which they arrive in the European Union. I cannot comment on an individual case, but it is important to make the point that people should not try to make that journey illegally. We have a relocation programme to bring 20,000 Syrian refugees to this country. I must restate that France is a sovereign country and we must not interfere in its affairs.
Immigration of Children — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Karen Anne Bradley (Conservative, Centre-right): Our current family reunion policy is already more generous than our international obligations require, and we have no plans to widen the criteria under immigration law. We consider each individual on a case-by-case basis, but we have no plans to change the rules.
Immigration of Children — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Questions: The Minister will be aware that 3,500 people died last year trying to reach safety in Europe. Twenty-seven non-governmental organisations and charities wrote to the Prime Minister at the beginning of the year, asking him what the Government would do about extending safe and legal routes to the United Kingdom, and about family reunion. When does the Minister expect a response to be forthcoming, and is it likely to be positive?
Karen Anne Bradley (Conservative, Centre-right): I am proud of the support that this Government are giving to people in the camps and in the region, where we can support far more people for the same amount of money than if they arrived in Europe. We have a relocation policy for 20,000 Syrian refugees, but it is important that we help as many people as possible, and we can do that best in the region. We must not encourage people to get on those boats, because nearly a quarter of people do not get off at the other end and die in the process.
Overseas Student Visas — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
Laurence Anthony Robertson (Conservative, Centre-right): Given that students who come to this country for more than a year are officially classed as immigration, and given the concern about levels of immigration into this country, would it be sensible to give a separate classification to students who come here to study? As we have already heard, those students bring a lot of money to the country, and they extend British influence abroad.
Overseas Student Visas — House of Commons, 2016-01-11
Topic: Immigration
James Peter Brokenshire (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have already indicated, the Office for National Statistics includes international students in its net migration calculations, and like other migrants, international students who stay for longer than 12 months have an impact on communities, infrastructure and services while they are here. I underline that having those numbers there does not bear on our policy.