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1565823

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce a closing date for applications to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	120896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce a closing date for the Windrush Compensation Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/01/2023 14:54:46 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1565853

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) relevant stakeholders on the appointment of a migrants commissioner; and what is the timeline for their appointment.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	120991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>A range of options have been considered for delivering the Windrush recommendations, including discussions with external stakeholders. The Home Office is taking steps to be more transparent to ensure that the department is as open as possible to all types of scrutiny, both internal and external. <del class="ministerial">This requires a fundamental cultural shift in our attitude to people with different views on policy and those who make a complaint when something goes wrong.</del></p><p>We will keep the Home Affairs Select Committee updated on the progress of all the Wendy Williams recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/01/2023 18:01:29 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2023 10:11:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 48638 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1565893

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to respond to (a) written parliamentary questions and (b) correspondence from Members of Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	120901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is working to improve our performance in answering written parliamentary questions. For details on this continuous improvement I refer the Hon Member to the letter sent from Home Office to the Procedure Committee dated 21 June 2022 https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/23223/documents/169558/default/.</p><p>The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of Hon. Member’s written correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Performance against target has been impacted by an unprecedented increase in MPs queries prompted by successive global cases and a surge in HM Passport Office applications following the pandemic.</p><p>The Home Office has since implemented a correspondence recovery plan and as a result, the Home Office is due to return to its 20-day service standard in the week commencing 16 January 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/01/2023 15:30:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1565984

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to correspondence of (a) 10 November and (b) 12 December from the Hon. member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of my constituent Mark Kippax.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	120930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>MPAM/0474236/22 – The Home Office responded to the hon. Member’s correspondence on 12 January 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/01/2023 14:00:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1566001

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Industrial Disputes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken (a) to conduct an audit of positive results from the Warnings Index and Border Crossings systems during industrial action taken by members of the PCS Union in December 2022 and (b) to ascertain how many positive results were deemed to be a breach of the Border Force operating mandate during this same period; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	120940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office’s priority is to deliver a safe and secure border and we will never compromise on this including during any period of Industrial Action. Border Force maintain 100% of the checks for all scheduled arriving passengers into the UK during periods of industrial action and this will be continued during any future periods of strike action.</p><p>Border Force’s robust contingency plans keep our citizens safe and our borders secure. Non-striking Border Force staff, with the full range of appropriate powers, are continuing to complete their vital roles, including stopping and detaining passengers where appropriate, supported by military personnel and civil servant volunteers.</p><p>Border Force has a national assurance framework that is designed to ensure adherence to policy and guidance and identify any inconsistency in practice or process across all operational areas.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/01/2023 17:42:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1566015

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of passport applications were not processed within 10 weeks in each calendar month of 2022.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	121112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>Since April 2021, His Majesty’s Passport Office has advised people to allow up to 10 weeks when applying for their passport using the standard service in the UK.</p><p>Of the standard UK applications resulting in a printed passport in the week ending 15 January 2023, 99.2% had been processed within ten weeks. HM Passport Office processed over one million more applications in 2022 than in any previous year.</p><p>Published processing times for overseas applications vary, starting from 11 weeks.</p><p>The total volume of printed passports for each calendar month in 2022 where the application was not processed within ten weeks, is shown in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Printed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total printed within 10 weeks</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume over 10 weeks*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Over 10 weeks</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jan-22</strong></p></td><td><p>387,869</p></td><td><p>378,639</p></td><td><p>9,230</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Feb-22</strong></p></td><td><p>639,388</p></td><td><p>632,044</p></td><td><p>7,344</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mar-22</strong></p></td><td><p>858,037</p></td><td><p>851,133</p></td><td><p>6,904</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Apr-22</strong></p></td><td><p>904,634</p></td><td><p>890,190</p></td><td><p>14,444</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May-22</strong></p></td><td><p>975,367</p></td><td><p>944,307</p></td><td><p>31,060</p></td><td><p>3.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jun-22</strong></p></td><td><p>862,946</p></td><td><p>798,531</p></td><td><p>64,415</p></td><td><p>7.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul-22</strong></p></td><td><p>696,054</p></td><td><p>603,996</p></td><td><p>92,058</p></td><td><p>13.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug-22</strong></p></td><td><p>572,517</p></td><td><p>485,465</p></td><td><p>87,052</p></td><td><p>15.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep-22</strong></p></td><td><p>498,579</p></td><td><p>453,971</p></td><td><p>44,608</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct-22</strong></p></td><td><p>443,409</p></td><td><p>418,415</p></td><td><p>24,994</p></td><td><p>5.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov-22</strong></p></td><td><p>472,237</p></td><td><p>454,496</p></td><td><p>17,741</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec-22</strong></p></td><td><p>272,520</p></td><td><p>263,307</p></td><td><p>9,213</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,583,557</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,174,494</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>409,063</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5.39%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> * Data for priority services is recorded as performance against the respective service level only (1 day for Premium, 7 days for Fast Track), with the end-to-end processing time not being held in a reportable format. Passports printed under a priority service are therefore excluded.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 18:02:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1565493

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugee or Person in Need of International Protection (Qualification) Regulations 2006
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, whether she has plans to (a) revoke, (b) replace or (c) retain the Refugee or Person in Need of International Protection (Qualification) Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	119963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The Refugee or Persons in Need of International Protection Regulations 2006 were revoked by Section 30 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022. Many of the key concepts of the Refugee Convention are now defined in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, ensuring Home Office decision-makers and the courts alike have the clarity they require to consistently apply them in the UK asylum system.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/01/2023 15:14:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1565545

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Lessons Learned Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy to implement all the recommendations of the report by Wendy Williams entitled Windrush Lessons Learned Review, published on 19 July 2018.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	120143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>Since the injustices of Windrush came to light, there has been a concerted effort across the Home Office to right the wrongs suffered by those affected. This work continues and the department is making sustained progress delivering on the recommendations of the Lessons Learned Review and the commitments made in the Comprehensive Improvement Plan (2020).</p><p>Wendy Williams acknowledged that our ambition to achieve genuine cultural change requires ongoing reflection and a commitment to constant improvement. The Home Office keeps HASC updated on progress against the recommendations and will continue to do so.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/01/2023 14:35:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1565617

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration and Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the success rate is of visa and immigration applications when Members of Parliament intervene to help a constituent.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	119985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>Each case is considered on its individual merits. Where a Member contacts the Home Office, it will address the issues raised and aim to respond within 20 working days.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/01/2023 14:37:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1565627

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration and Visas: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the success rate is of visa and immigration appeal applications to the Home Office (a) with Members of Parliament intervening and (b) without Members of Parliament intervening.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	119986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The information sought is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/01/2023 14:11:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern