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1465234

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
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 Rwanda policy for asylum seekers, whether the Government provides funding to Care4Calais; what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recent comments made by Care4Calais on her Rwanda policy for asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	7893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>There is no record of Care4Calais as a grant recipient for the Home Office.</p><p>There is a global migration crisis, and we must look to new world leading solutions to tackle this issue. We are fully committed to the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda. It fully complies with international and national law and we will defend it robustly.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/05/2022 15:57:17 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1464982

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hillsborough Families' Experiences Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has provided a full response to Bishop's review of Hillsborough families' experiences.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	6779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office is coordinating the Government’s overarching response to the Bishop’s report and has been working closely with its partners in the relevant government departments and organisations to carefully consider all of the points of learning in it.</p><p>It is important that the Hillsborough families are given the opportunity to share their views on the Government’s proposed response and we hope to be in a position to conduct that engagement and publish a full response soon.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 26/05/2022 15:35:27 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1465074

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
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 oral statement of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department on 18 May 2022, on Foreign National Offender Removal Flights, Official Report, column 687, in respect of each of the 112 individuals originally included on the flight manifest, whether each of those individuals were on the flight when it departed; what criminal convictions each of those individuals had; and for what reasons certain individuals did not depart on that flight.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	6734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>This Government’s priority is keeping the people of this country safe, and we make no apology for seeking to remove dangerous foreign criminals. Foreign national offenders (FNOs) who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.</p><p>We do not comment on individual cases. However, convicted criminals guilty of heinous crimes, including manslaughter, rape, robbery, child sex offences, drug offences and violent crime, and persistent offenders, were not deported on 18 May 2022. These are extremely serious offences which have a real and lasting impact on victims and communities.</p><p>All those returned are provided with the opportunity to raise claims prior to their removal. But where representations are made at the last minute, despite the offender having ample opportunity to raise these at an earlier stage, and the claim cannot be resolved in time for the flight’s departure, it can act as a barrier to removal.</p><p>We are doing everything possible to reduce legal challenges and to increase the numbers of FNOs being removed. Our New Plan for Immigration, underpinned by the Nationality and Borders Act, is the first major reform of the system in decades and will end the merry-go-round of last-minute legal challenges that stop us removing those with no right to be in the country.</p><p>The Government is committed to removing FNOs with no legal basis to be here and since January 2019 we have returned over 10,000 people from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/05/2022 16:04:08 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

1465084

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women detained in Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre have been deported as of 23 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	6908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes statistics on immigration detention 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=05%7C01%7CAlison.Murrell%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ceff6e51a35964e567fd808da3d82d30d%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637889929332817829%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Rowi6t5mQMvMfc5fpFo3DAtaZseTElCBfueDKYK70hI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release (opens in a new tab)</a>’. This includes data on people:</p><ul><li>Entering detention by initial place of detention in table Det_02a of 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%2F1054673%2Fdetention-summary-dec-2021-tables.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAlison.Murrell%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ceff6e51a35964e567fd808da3d82d30d%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637889929332817829%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Y%2BA4GEQaVMIsbCtYgIn74d2eIHgXKOicFJaMD2uAJoY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Detention summary tables (opens in a new tab)</a>’.</li><li>Leaving detention by last place of detention published in table Det_04c of 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%2F1054673%2Fdetention-summary-dec-2021-tables.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAlison.Murrell%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ceff6e51a35964e567fd808da3d82d30d%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637889929332817829%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Y%2BA4GEQaVMIsbCtYgIn74d2eIHgXKOicFJaMD2uAJoY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Detention summary tables (opens in a new tab)</a>’ and by reason for leaving detention in table Det_D03 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Freturns-and-detention-datasets%23immigration-detention&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAlison.Murrell%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ceff6e51a35964e567fd808da3d82d30d%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637889929332817829%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=40IQFZhc1132W71ZU33xnVu%2FWQ%2B23hUUsfYm7%2BFeGpE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">detention detailed datasets(opens in a new tab)</a>.</li><li>In detention by current place of detention in table Det_03a of 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%2F1054673%2Fdetention-summary-dec-2021-tables.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAlison.Murrell%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ceff6e51a35964e567fd808da3d82d30d%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637889929332817829%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Y%2BA4GEQaVMIsbCtYgIn74d2eIHgXKOicFJaMD2uAJoY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Detention summary tables (opens in a new tab)</a>’.</li></ul><p>Data on those entering detention, by place of detention, relate to the place of initial detention. An individual who moves from one part of the detention estate to another will not be counted as entering any subsequent place of detention. Last place of detention does not show where an individual spent their time in detention. In some cases, an individual may have spent a period of time detained elsewhere before being moved to their last place of detention.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/05/2022 09:58:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1464519

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
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, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that passport applications for those who need to travel urgently for compassionate reasons are prioritised.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	5469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office has always prioritised the cases of those who need a passport urgently on compassionate grounds, such as in the event of a death or serious illness of a friend or relative overseas. Anyone who believes they meet this criteria should contact the Passport Adviceline.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/05/2022 13:35:11 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1464582

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what risk assessment her Department plans to undertake of asylum seekers' vulnerabilities including (a) disabilities, (b) sexual orientation, (c) gender reassignment status, (d) mental trauma, (e) mental health and (f) physical health when determining eligibility for relocation to Rwanda.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	5436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office will continue to ensure that the welfare and dignity of all claimants forms a central platform of our decision-making processes.</p><p>An individualised assessment of each eligible person’s circumstances will be undertaken prior to any decision to relocate them to Rwanda. We would not relocate someone where it would be unsafe or inappropriate to do so.</p><p>Any vulnerabilities will be taken into consideration and every individual who is eligible for removal under this policy will be able to make representations where they are concerned the country in question would not be safe for them.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 25/05/2022 13:03:23 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1464583

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of public opinion towards the Rwanda Asylum Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	5437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>Last year the Government launched an extensive and wide-reaching public consultation with stakeholders, relevant sectors and members of the public, including those with lived experiences, to inform the New Plan for Immigration. The findings from 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%2F1005042%2FCCS207_CCS0621755000-001_Consultation_Response_New_Plan_Immigration_Web_Accessible.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLucy.Tuson%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C5a81d931a4df41d0b83108da3a5e480e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637886473847064302%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=1EuHgMjXyCPJJz1xtcv6V8NR%2FSx%2BRnTx24C3%2BZSinWg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">consultation</a> were carefully considered and the Government response was published on 22 July 2021.</p><p> </p><p>A <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyougov.co.uk%2Ftopics%2Fpolitics%2Farticles-reports%2F2021%2F06%2F09%2Fbritons-tend-think-governments-new-plan-immigratio&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLucy.Tuson%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C5a81d931a4df41d0b83108da3a5e480e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637886473847064302%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ToaNrjrLsOc5DUrAUAEO6VeMOklNLp%2F3IMhz%2F3VDuHw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">YouGov poll</a> carried out last year found the majority of people (64%) thought the Government’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’ policies are fair and many agree that how someone enters the country should be taken into account in their asylum application.</p><p> </p><p>Our Nationality and Borders Act has received Royal Assent last month and at the heart of this approach is fairness. The Act allows us to put in provisions to deter illegal entry to the UK, remove those with no right to be in the UK, and make the system more effective so that we can better protect and support those in genuine need of asylum.</p><p>YouGov conducted an independent poll on 14 April, the day that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda was announced. The question posed was as follows:</p><p><em>The Government has proposed a deal where some people who have entered Britain and applied for asylum will be flown to Rwanda, in Africa, for their asylum applications to be processed. Do you support or oppose this proposal?</em></p><p>This snap poll indicated that 35% of the public supported the partnership, 42% opposed it, and a further 23% were unsure.</p><p>Source: YouGov poll of 2943 GB adults on 14 April 2022.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/05/2022 10:02:04 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1464586

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Jamaica
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the value for money of the Jamaica deportation charter flight on 8 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	5382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>This Government’s priority is keeping the people of this country safe, and we make no apology for seeking to remove dangerous foreign criminals. Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.</p><p>Charter flight operations there are an important means to return disruptive individuals or where they are limited scheduled routes, particularly during the global Coronavirus pandemic. We manage the charter programme flexibly, balancing it with the use of scheduled flights to best respond to operational needs.</p><p>The endless merry go round of late legal claims – which are often unfounded or without merit – can result in people being removed from flights at the last minute.</p><p>Our New Plan for Immigration will stop the abuse of the system and expedite the removal of those who have no right to be here.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/05/2022 16:56:53 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1464587

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Africa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of exempting people from African commonwealth countries, who are (a) taught in English throughout their education or (b) have English as an official language of their country from English language testing requirements for Home Office applications.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	5425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes a list of Majority English Speaking Countries (MESC) for immigration purposes. Immigration applicants who are nationals of those countries meet the English language requirement without having to provide further proof. For a country be included on the MESC list, the Home Office must have evidence over half the population in that country speak English as a first language.</p><p>If a country meets this criterion, it means it is more likely than not any individual applicant from that country can speak English with the level of fluency required to integrate in the UK, complete the course they are coming to study, or undertake the job they are coming to do.</p><p>The fact a country’s official language is English is not sufficient justification to include it on the MESC list, as this does not necessarily correlate with more than half of the population of the country speaking English as a first language. We do not currently have evidence any African commonwealth country meets the requirement to be included on the MESC list.</p><p>We do not have any plans to recognise secondary school-age qualifications taught outside of the UK as proof of English language ability, but there are a variety of methods applicants can use to meet the English language requirement instead. These include:</p><ul><li>having shown they meet the requirement in a previous immigration application</li><li>passing a Secure English Language Test at an approved test centre</li><li>holding a degree-level qualification which was taught in English</li><li>having their chosen university or other Higher Educational Institution self-certify their level of English ability, or</li></ul><p>having a GCSE, A-level, Scottish National Qualification at level 4 or 5 or, Scottish Higher or Advanced Higher, in English following education at a UK school begun when they were under-18.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/05/2022 13:31:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1464590

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 21 April 2022 to Question 54123, how many times Dungavel IRC has been used to process clandestine arrivals by boat since 14 April 2022.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Anne McLaughlin
uin	5427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>We operate the immigration removal estate in a flexible manner and in line with the Short Term Holding Facility (STHF) Rules 2018 and the Detention Centre Rules 2001, as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In order to support the management of the arrival of migrants by boat, we have temporarily accommodated people under the provisions of the STHF Rules 2018, in a small number of immigration removal centres (IRCs) including Dungavel House. Dungavel IRC is only considered when capacity is exceeded at other facilities, or contingencies are exhausted. Since 14 April 2022 Dungavel IRC has not operated as a STHF to accommodate clandestine migrant arrivals.</p><p> </p><p>There have been no occasions since 14 April 2022 when capacity has been exceeded in any IRC.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 5428 question first answered 24/05/2022 16:56:04 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4437 label Biography information for Anne McLaughlin