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The latest Home Office immigration statistics, including those for entry clearance visas, are published in the release Immigration Statistics January to March 2013, which is available from the Library of the House and on the Department’s website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many representations about the ending of a relationship with someone who has permission to enter or remain in the UK as a partner of a British citizen her Department received in each year from 2008 to date.

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Mr Harper: A complete set of data of all types of representations regarding the ending of relationships between British citizens and their partners with limited leave to enter or remain is not held centrally. The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Legal Costs

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on external legal advice (a) between 7 May 2010 and 4 September 2012 and (b) since 4 September 2012.

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James Brokenshire: The Home Department’s spend on external legal advice for financial years (FY) 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and the first quarter of 2013-14 is set out in the following table:

External legal advice

Financial year	Spend (£)
2010-11	6,331,000
2011-12	8,622,000
2012-13	16,584,000
2013-14	2,176,000[d 1]

1. This data is for the first quarter of financial year 2013-14

Members: Correspondence

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the longest period of time the Minister for Immigration has taken to respond to a letter from an hon. Member since May 2010;

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(2) what the average length of time the Minister for Immigration has taken to respond to letters from hon. Members is.

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Mr Harper: Since May 2010, 217 working days has been the longest time taken for an Immigration Minister to reply to a hon. Member.

For letters already sent, on average it has taken 36 working days for the current Minister for Immigration to respond to hon. Members.

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she intends to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Slough of 18 March

2013 regarding the answer of 4 February 2013, Official Report, column 23-4W, on entry clearances.

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Mr Harper: I wrote to the hon. Member on 24 July 2013.

Northcote House

Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department used the facilities at Northcote House, Sunningdale Park, Berkshire in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13; and if she will make a statement.

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James Brokenshire: Following a review of learning and development across Government the National School of Government, which delivered training on the Sunningdale Park site, closed in March 2012. Data on which individuals may have used the site were not retained.

Offences against Children: Lancashire

Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what support her Department has offered to the victims of organised grooming and sexual exploitation of children in Lancashire.

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Damian Green: In Lancashire, the Home Office has provided £20,000 per year from 2011-12 until 2014-15 to part fund an Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA) post that is attached to the SAFE Centre (Sexual Assault Referral Centre) based at Royal Preston Hospital. This centre has a children’s wing where support as well as medical examination is provided from the outset. The ISVA post provides support and advocacy to victims or rape and sexual violence and the signposting to counselling services as required on a case by case basis by the victim.

Police

Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the division of responsibilities between the Metropolitan and City police forces on cyber crime and fraud; and what assessment she has made of work on building capacity in other police force areas.

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James Brokenshire [holding answer 18 July 2013]: The National Cyber Crime Unit within the new National Crime Agency will be the national lead on cyber crime. Responsibilities previously undertaken by the Metropolitan Police Service Police Central e-Crime Unit are being transferred into the National Cyber Crime Unit which is already operating in shadow form ahead of the National Crime Agency becoming fully operational October 2013.

The City of London police will continue to act as the national police lead on fraud, and will work closely with the new Economic Crime Command in the National Crime Agency which will coordinate and direct activity to tackle fraud, bribery and corruption across all the agencies involved in tackling economic crime. The creation of the National Crime Agency will strengthen the national capability to tackle serous and organised crime, including on cyber crime and fraud. To support this stronger national capability and provide specialist support to local forces the Home Office is providing £26 million to improve regional policing capabilities in England and Wales, including on fraud and cyber.

Funding from the National Cyber Security Programme is also being used to deliver cyber training for police forces.