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1078954

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date	27/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yew Fook Sam
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria were used by the Home Office to determine that Yew Fook Sam is not gay.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL14077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has a long and proud history of granting asylum to those who need our protection, in accordance with our obligations under the Refugee Convention. Each claim is carefully considered on its individual merits; however we cannot comment on individual cases.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/03/2019 14:53:26 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1078955

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Malaysia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria they use to determine whether it is safe to deport LGBT asylum seekers to Malaysia.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL14078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw.</p><p>Guidance on how the Home Office considers claims from Malaysian nationals, and how we consider claims based on sexual orientation more generally, is available on the Gov.UK website.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/03/2019 14:56:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1078983

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many non-UK Commonwealth nationals serving in the UK armed forces have (1) applied for their families to settle with them in the UK in each of the last ten years, and (2) been refused such permission.
tabling member printed	Lord Luce
uin	HL14104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested from centrally collated statistical databases as we do not hold data on sponsors. This information could only be obtained by a manual case by case review to collate the data which would be disproportionately expensive.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/03/2019 14:54:44 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	908 label Biography information for Lord Luce

1078985

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the criteria by which applications for the families of non-UK Commonwealth nationals serving in the UK armed forces to settle in the UK are decided.
tabling member printed	Lord Luce
uin	HL14105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>Family members of any member of the UK Armed Forces, regardless of the nationality of the service person, can apply for settlement in the UK under the Immigration Rules contained in Appendix Armed Forces.</p><p>The eligibility criteria for family members of members of the Forces are set out in full online in Appendix Armed Forces:<br>https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-armed-forces</p><p>This makes clear that to be eligible for settlement in the UK requires the following criteria to be met. Partners of members of the Forces must have completed a period of 60 months limited leave under Appendix Armed Forces – sometimes called the “probationary period”. Partners and over-18 children must demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the English language and knowledge about life in the UK. Their sponsor in the Forces must meet the appropriate minimum income thresholds to sponsor a partner or children, and the applicant must not fall for refusal on suitability grounds.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/03/2019 15:05:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	908 label Biography information for Lord Luce