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1140818

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date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Sudan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on risks to individuals from the Darfur or Nuba ethnicities in Sudan.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	280369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it. Each case is carefully considered on its individual facts and merits in ac-cordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).</p><p>Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw.</p><p>Our assessment of the situation in Sudan is set out in the relevant country policy and information notes, which are available on the Gov.uk website.</p><p>Where someone establishes a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country they are normally granted protection and are not expected to return there.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:35:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1140819

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff have worked in the Country of Origin Information Team in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	280370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of staff in the Country Policy and Information Team as at 1<sup>st</sup> April for each year since 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>As at</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>No of staff</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2014</em></p></td><td><p><em>16</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2015</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2016</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2017</em></p></td><td><p><em>15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2018</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2019</em></p></td><td><p><em>19</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:57:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1140822

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Post Office: Biometric Residence Permits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to announce a decision on extending the biometric residence permit collection service with Post Office Ltd.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	280258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The contract with the Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit (BRP) collection service started on 29 August 2014. The service commenced in February 2015 and became fully operational on 1 August 2015.</p><p>The current BRP Collection contract is due to end on 31 July 2019. It is our intention to take up the final 1-year extension option which allows the service to run until 31 July 2020.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:20:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1140839

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU citizens (a) have been and (b) will be prevented from obtaining settled status due to the technical inability of the settlement scheme app to convert pre-settled status into settled status.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	280173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it. Each case is carefully considered on its individual facts and merits in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Our assessment of the situation in Sudan is set out in the relevant country policy and information notes, which are available on the Gov.uk website.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Where someone establishes a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country they are normally granted protection and are not expected to return there.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No EU citizens have been or will be prevented from obtaining settled status due to the technical inability of the EU Settlement Scheme app to convert pre-settled status to settled status. The online process which will allow an applicant to convert their pre-settled status to settled status is on track to be available from the end of July 2019. Currently, applicants who have obtained pre-settled status can make a fresh application to the scheme by contacting the Settlement Resolution Centre.</ins></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:38:07 question first ministerially corrected 26/07/2019 12:01:28 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes previous answer version 131307 answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

1140843

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Sudan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the viability of return to Sudan for people from Darfur or Nuba ethnicities.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	280177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it. Each case is carefully considered on its individual facts and merits in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).</p><p>Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw.</p><p>Our assessment of the situation in Sudan is set out in the relevant country policy and information notes, which are available on the Gov.uk website.</p><p>Where someone establishes a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country they are normally granted protection and are not expected to return there.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:47:35 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

1140861

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for administrative review have been made to the EU Settlement Scheme; how many of those applications were (a) successful and (b) successful due to new evidence or an error by the caseworker in the original decision.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	280266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>In the period up to 31 May 2019, the last point at which data was assured, 368 applications were received for administrative review of decisions made on applications under the EU Settlement Scheme. Of these:</p><p>• 30 administrative review applications were rejected, e.g. because no EU Settlement Scheme application had been received;</p><p>• in all the remaining 253 cases, the applicant was challenging a grant of pre-settled status rather than settled status, of which:</p><p>o 22 of these grants of pre-settled status were upheld following the administrative review; and <br>o 231 of these grants of pre-settled status were overturned, and the applicant was instead granted settled status following administrative review. In these cases, the applicant had generally accepted a grant of pre-settled status when making their application and then provided additional evidence of their eligibility for settled status with their application for administrative review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:26:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1141037

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	101 Calls
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 calls to the 101 service were (a) answered in under 30 seconds, (b) answered between 30 to 60 seconds, (c) answered between 60 seconds and 120 seconds, (d) answered between 120 and 180 seconds, (e) answered between 180 and 300 seconds (f) answered between 300 and 600 seconds (g) answered after 600 seconds, (h) unanswered in each of the last three years for which information is available; and how many calls there were in total in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	280458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect data on the 101 service, this is an operational decision for individual forces.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/07/2019 09:23:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1141092

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contingency plans he has for the repatriation of UK defendants from the EU in the event the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement and is therefore no longer party to the European Arrest Warrant procedure.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	280335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>In a No Deal scenario and the absence of access to the European Arrest Warrant, the UK will operate the European Convention on Extradition with EU Member States.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/07/2019 09:21:59 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1141117

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department used to calculate the £250 cost for nationality status letters issued by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	280357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The fee of £250 to make an application for a nationality status letter is set at the estimated unit cost to process the application.</p><p>The Home Office publish a summary of how estimated unit costs are calculated and include this narrative as a footnote to the table published on Gov.UK, which can be found by the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:25:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1141122

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gurpal Virdi
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 GOLD Group on Operation GIANNA overseeing the Metropolitan Police Department of Professional Standards investigation into allegations in relation to Gurpal Virdi, how many participants in the GOLD Group had the rank or role of (a) Deputy Commissioner, (b) Deputy Assistant Commissioner, (c) Commander, (d) Chief Superintendent, (e) Superintendent, (f) Detective Chief Inspector, (g) Detective Inspector, (h) Detective Sergeant, (i) member of SCD2 Sapphire, (j) member of the Department of Media and Communications and (k) member of the Department of Legal Services; whether representatives of the Crown Prosecution Service were ever present; how many meeting were held; which attendees asked whether there was any evidence that Gurpal Virdi was present at the arrest of the complainant in autumn 1986; which attendees asked whether there was evidence taken from PC Markwick on the arrest for which he was the officer in charge; which attendees asked why evidence was not sought from PC Mady on the arrest of the complainant in spring 1987; what assessment he has made of the equity of the only review of the investigation being conducted by the Department of Professional Standards into its original investigation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	280115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>Oversight and review of investigations conducted by professional standards departments are operational matters for forces and, where appropriate, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Such decision making is in-dependent of government.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/07/2019 09:20:08 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley