§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many letters have been sent to Community nationals in the United Kingdom advising them that they are no longer considered to be exercising treaty rights and should therefore leave the United Kingdom since 1 February 1998. [72865]
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many EU nationals are estimated to have been exercising treaty rights in the United Kingdom during the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72871]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe information available relates to the number of nationals of other European Union countries who were usually resident in the United Kingdom in autumn 1998. There were some 870,000 such persons, of whom 450,000 were citizens of the Irish Republic.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what was the average time for consideration of applications for residence documents or evidence of residence made by third country family members of EU nationals exercising treaty rights in the United Kingdom during the period 1 February 1998 to date; [72870]
(2) what was the average time for consideration of applications for residence documents for EU nationals exercising treaty rights in the United Kingdom during the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72869]
§ Kate HoeyThe information sought is not recorded in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for(a) residence permits and (b) leave to remain as the spouse of an EEA national exercising treaty rights, were refused on the basis that the marriage was one of convenience over the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72875]
§ Kate HoeyFrom 1 February to 31 August 1998, 216 applications for residence documents on the basis of marriage to an European Economic Area (EEA) national were refused. The reasons for refusal are not separately categorised. The granting of leave to remain relates to applications made under the Immigration Rules and does not apply to requests for residence documents by the spouses of EEA nationals exercising treaty rights.
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§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the length in time of residence documents or endorsements given to third country national spouses of EC nationals exercising treaty rights who have been granted indefinite leave to remain. [72855]
§ Kate HoeyWhere a European Economic Area (EEA) national has been granted indefinite leave to remain, the third country national spouse may apply either for leave to remain under the Immigration Rules on the basis of marriage to a person present or settled in the United Kingdom or for a residence document in accordance with European Community law. In the former case, the applicant, if successful, would be granted 12 months' leave to remain in the first instance; in the latter case, the third country national spouse may apply for a residence document which, if issued, would have the same validity as any extant residence permit issued to the EEA spouse. If the EEA spouse no longer holds a valid residence permit, one would be issued with five years' validity as the basis for the issue of a residence document of the same validity to the third country national.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many EU nationals were refused entry to the United Kingdom on the grounds of(a) public policy, (b) public security and (c) public health during the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72866]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe available information relates to European Union nationals who were refused leave to enter because their exclusion from the United Kingdom was deemed conducive to the public good or because they were medically undesirable. A provisional total of 46 persons in the first of those categories were removed between February and December 1998. During the same period, no European Union nationals were recorded as having been refused and removed on health grounds.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measure has been implemented in the United Kingdom to give effect to the decision of the European Court of Justice in the case of Vander Elst [1994] ECR 1–3803 to the effect that third country national employees of service providers based in another member state are entitled by Community law to exercise on behalf of their employers the right to provide services in the United Kingdom. [72873]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienEffect is given to implementing this judgment through instructions that third country national employees of service providers established in another member state are not required to obtain work permits when they are sent to provide services in the United Kingdom.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for residence permits were made by EU nationals exercising treaty rights in the United Kingdom in the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72861]
§ Kate HoeyFrom 1 February to 31 August 1998, 1,424 applications for residence permits were received.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for residence documents and endorsements by third country national spouses of Community nationals exercising treaty rights562W were refused entry on the basis that he considered the marriage to be one of convenience during the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72872]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienI regret the information requested is not available in the form requested.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for residence documents by third country national family members of EU nationals exercising treaty rights were made in the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72877]
§ Kate HoeyFrom 1 February to 31 August 1998, 2,608 applications for residence documents by third country national family members of European Union nationals exercising treaty rights were received.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for residence documents by EU nationals exercising treaty rights in the United Kingdom were granted in the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72857]
§ Kate HoeyBetween 1 February and 31 August 1998 (the latest date for which figures are available), 894 residence permits were issued to European Union nationals exercising Treaty rights.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many residence documents and evidence of residence were granted to third country national family members of EU nationals exercising treaty rights in the United Kingdom during the period 1 February 1998 to date. [72864]
§ Kate HoeyFrom 1 February to 31 August 1998, 1,596 residence documents were issued to third country national family members (spouses and other family members) of European Union nationals.