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1677005

registered interest
date	11/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2023 to Question 4245 on Asylum, from which organisations he received this evidence.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	6245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office employs professional analysts who provide a wide range of impartial advice to Home Office ministers on the evidence that both they and external organisations produce.</p><p>Current published information on why individuals come to the United Kingdom can be found at: Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2023.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/12/2023 17:51:06 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1673710

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 Minister for Immigration's oral contribution on Monday 27 November 2023, column 536, what the evidential basis is for many people claiming asylum in the UK being economic migrants making spurious claims to game the system.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	4245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>A wide body of evidence points towards key pull factors to the UK including language, diaspora, presence of friends and family, economic opportunity, and availability of education. That is why we have no plans to change right to work provisions and are trebling fines for illegal working.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/12/2023 16:13:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1580821

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 her Departments correspondence with the Hon. Member for Liverpool Walton, reference MPAM/0465470/22, for what reasons her Department did not reach a decision on the asylum case by 16 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	132602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.</p><p> </p><p>There are many factors that can delay and contribute to the length of time to process asylum claims. It is right we take time to work through them carefully.</p><p> </p><p>Our teams are actively working to progress all asylum claims and endeavour to have decisions delivered as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/02/2023 13:31:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1518905

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many asylum decision-makers are currently working in her Department and (b) how this number compares to the number of asylum decision-makers who were working in her Department in each calendar year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	59016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office currently employs c.1074 asylum decision makers. There are recruitment strategies in place, with the aim of increasing staffing and reducing the number of cases awaiting a decision and increasing outputs.</p><p>The Home Office can provide the number of asylum decision makers from year ending 2012 up to year ending 2022. The data shows that we currently have the highest number of asylum decision makers since year ending 2012.</p><p>This data can be found in ASY_04 of the published transparency data:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-q2-2022" target="_blank">Immigration Enforcement data: Q2 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/10/2022 11:03:27 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1437822

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 make decisions on asylum claims that are older than three years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	134077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not currently report on the average time that is taken between the date of an asylum claim to the date of a substantive asylum interview taking place. However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics: <a href="http://List%20of%20tables%20-%20GOV.UK%20(www.gov.uk)." target="_blank">List of tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p> </p><p>The Home Office currently have several specialist decision-making units, including a unit progressing older asylum claims. We are also working to increase the number of decision makers, shorten and improve asylum casework training and consolidation. This investment in our people will speed up processing times and increase the throughput of asylum decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The decision-making route remains the same for all asylum applications however we have created additional hubs to provide a greater ownership, improved consistency, and management of the cohorts to ensure quick decisions can be made.</p><p>The Asylum Transformation programme is working to transform the asylum system and continue to streamline and simplify processes to speed up decision making to increase efficiency and output. The development and delivery of changes to the asylum process across the end-to-end asylum system include the increased use of technology, improved screening and accelerated decision-making procedures to drive delivery efficiency.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 134076 question first answered 31/03/2022 15:34:07 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 56457 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

786418

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 9634, on asylum, (a) when and (b) where the information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexuality or gender identity in each year since 2011 will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	112122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation. Work is ongoing to assure the quality of the data for publication in line with reporting standards.</p><p>The Home Office is also considering the most suitable vehicle for publishing the data.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/11/2017 10:43:46 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

758991

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims have included reference to sexuality or gender identity in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	9634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation. Work is ongoing to assure the quality of the data for publication in line with reporting standards</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/09/2017 16:43:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden