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1360565

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department’s provision for Afghans seeking asylum in the UK following the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	903775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>This country has a proud history of providing sanctuary to those in need. Our swift and generous response to the crisis in Afghanistan is no exception.</p><p>The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy has relocated around 7,000 Locally Employed Staff and their family members since late June, while the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme will provide up to 20,000 people at risk with a safe and legal route to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 18/10/2021 15:14:12 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1351021

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Security Guards: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with representatives of the security sector on the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on the (a) recruitment levels and (b) deployment of licensed security guards.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	40960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>As required by the Private Security Industry Act 2001, the Security Industry Authority (SIA) regulates the private security industry and issues licences for certain roles in the sector.</p><p>Both the Home Office and the SIA recognise the impact the pandemic has had on licence-holders and the private security industry, particularly in the hospitality sector and night-time economy.</p><p>The SIA confirms that the number of active SIA Door Supervisor licence-holders is currently higher than it has ever been. As of 2 August 2021, there were 286,571 Door Supervisor licence-holders compared with 270,307 at the end of the 2019/20 financial year.</p><p>The number of Door Supervisor applications received by the SIA in the FY 2020/21 was also higher than previous years, standing at 118,458, compared with 114,340 in 2019/2020. ­­­­­­­This trend has continued so far this financial year, with 45,056 applications received in the period April-July 2021 compared with 33,074 in the same period last year.</p><p>Given these encouraging numbers following the changes to training in April 2021, and the work that the SIA has done with training providers’ awarding bodies to ensure that training can be delivered through a mixture of self-study, virtual classrooms, and face-to-face training in Covid-19 secure environments, the SIA is confident that there is, and will continue to be, a strong pool of licence holders that security companies and buyers of security can draw on.</p><p>The SIA has engaged with the UK Door Security Association, the Night Time Industries Association, and the sector to consider concerns and keep capacity issues regarding active licences under review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 40961 question first answered 10/09/2021 09:16:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1351022

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Security Guards: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that there are sufficient numbers of licensed security guards to enable the (a) hospitality, (b) nightlife and (c) events sectors to reopen safely after the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	40961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>As required by the Private Security Industry Act 2001, the Security Industry Authority (SIA) regulates the private security industry and issues licences for certain roles in the sector.</p><p>Both the Home Office and the SIA recognise the impact the pandemic has had on licence-holders and the private security industry, particularly in the hospitality sector and night-time economy.</p><p>The SIA confirms that the number of active SIA Door Supervisor licence-holders is currently higher than it has ever been. As of 2 August 2021, there were 286,571 Door Supervisor licence-holders compared with 270,307 at the end of the 2019/20 financial year.</p><p>The number of Door Supervisor applications received by the SIA in the FY 2020/21 was also higher than previous years, standing at 118,458, compared with 114,340 in 2019/2020. ­­­­­­­This trend has continued so far this financial year, with 45,056 applications received in the period April-July 2021 compared with 33,074 in the same period last year.</p><p>Given these encouraging numbers following the changes to training in April 2021, and the work that the SIA has done with training providers’ awarding bodies to ensure that training can be delivered through a mixture of self-study, virtual classrooms, and face-to-face training in Covid-19 secure environments, the SIA is confident that there is, and will continue to be, a strong pool of licence holders that security companies and buyers of security can draw on.</p><p>The SIA has engaged with the UK Door Security Association, the Night Time Industries Association, and the sector to consider concerns and keep capacity issues regarding active licences under review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 40960 question first answered 10/09/2021 09:16:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1349139

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nationality and Borders Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to engage people with lived experience of (a) being refugees and (b) seeking asylum in the UK in the development of the Nationality and Borders Bill.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	37492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government undertook a 6 week consultation, including on those areas set out in the Nationality and Borders Bill. That consultation included engagement with those with lived experiences of the asylum system<em>. </em></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/09/2021 10:32:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1349154

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Zimbabwe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what impact the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's advice to avoid all but essential travel to Zimbabwe will have on her policies on the deportation of asylum seekers to that country.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	37493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s travel advice to British nationals is not the correct legal test for determining whether or not a person qualifies for international protection or whether to remove a foreign national from the UK who has no right to remain here.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/09/2021 10:30:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1348089

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: 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 asylum claims in the UK were (a) made by and (b) granted to EU nationals in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	35719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of asylum applications lodged in the UK and the initial decisions on asylum applications are published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>, breakdowns by year and nationality are available. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to Q1 (Jan-Mar) 2021</p><p><br> Additionally, the Home Office publishes further data on asylum and resettlement in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987777/asylum-summary-mar-2021-tables.ods" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/07/2021 16:36:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1285297

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
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 to help ensure that asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries can (a) quarantine effectively and (b) proceed with their asylum claim during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p>The Home Office have a statutory duty to accommodate any asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute. Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free, fully furnished accommodation while their applications for asylum are considered. The Accommodation providers recognise the challenge of managing COVID 19 within our accommodation estate and are working closely with Public Health England (PHE) on how their guidance on social distancing and self-isolation is properly applied, while ensuring that people can continue to access essential services.</p><p>The accommodation is provided for free to those asylum seekers in receipt of asylum support and we do not recoup costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151753 question first answered 22/02/2021 16:22:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1285298

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to seek to recoup the cost of hotel quarantine from asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p>The Home Office have a statutory duty to accommodate any asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute. Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free, fully furnished accommodation while their applications for asylum are considered. The Accommodation providers recognise the challenge of managing COVID 19 within our accommodation estate and are working closely with Public Health England (PHE) on how their guidance on social distancing and self-isolation is properly applied, while ensuring that people can continue to access essential services.</p><p>The accommodation is provided for free to those asylum seekers in receipt of asylum support and we do not recoup costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151752 question first answered 22/02/2021 16:22:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1285300

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to deny entry to the UK to asylum seekers arriving at the UK border from red list countries during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p> </p><p>We have a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation, and as such the Home Office will continue to provide accommodation in which asylum seekers can self-isolate to stop to spread of Covid.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494157222%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=wAzzL9aHv7qbqRMFYSv1SuCLd6iBTPgRsfJvM%2BKm27k%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics quarterly release</a>. Data on the number of asylum applications in each quarter, broken down by nationality is published in table Asy_D01 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=cuQOsmZ1wIgb8jopWeydsUlrm3IgnIPg1Zik1j4gFCQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum detailed datasets</a>. The latest data are to the end of September 2020, with data to the end of December 2020 due to be published on 25<sup>th</sup> February 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F937206%2Fasylum-summary-sep-2020-tables.xlsx&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=htJughjYKCP3EFluAxjUEFYn2Dqk5W1VowOXTSwZeD0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum.</p><p> </p><p>The published data does not show the country from which the asylum seeker left when they began their journey (or through which country or countries the asylum seeker subsequently travelled) in order to reach the UK, or when they arrived in the UK. Some asylum seekers may have been in the UK (or another country) for some time before claiming asylum. An individual with a particular nationality may not have actually been in that country for a significant length of time prior to claiming asylum. It is therefore not possible to say from the available data whether or not the individual has recently travelled from a ‘red list’ country.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151755 question first answered 22/02/2021 09:46:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1285305

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of asylum seekers from countries on the red list who have arrived at the UK border since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	151755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p> </p><p>We have a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation, and as such the Home Office will continue to provide accommodation in which asylum seekers can self-isolate to stop to spread of Covid.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494157222%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=wAzzL9aHv7qbqRMFYSv1SuCLd6iBTPgRsfJvM%2BKm27k%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics quarterly release</a>. Data on the number of asylum applications in each quarter, broken down by nationality is published in table Asy_D01 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=cuQOsmZ1wIgb8jopWeydsUlrm3IgnIPg1Zik1j4gFCQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum detailed datasets</a>. The latest data are to the end of September 2020, with data to the end of December 2020 due to be published on 25<sup>th</sup> February 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F937206%2Fasylum-summary-sep-2020-tables.xlsx&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=htJughjYKCP3EFluAxjUEFYn2Dqk5W1VowOXTSwZeD0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum.</p><p> </p><p>The published data does not show the country from which the asylum seeker left when they began their journey (or through which country or countries the asylum seeker subsequently travelled) in order to reach the UK, or when they arrived in the UK. Some asylum seekers may have been in the UK (or another country) for some time before claiming asylum. An individual with a particular nationality may not have actually been in that country for a significant length of time prior to claiming asylum. It is therefore not possible to say from the available data whether or not the individual has recently travelled from a ‘red list’ country.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 151754 question first answered 22/02/2021 09:46:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady