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1193761

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date	06/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Action Fraud
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 3 February 2020 to Question 3275 on Action Fraud, what steps her Department is taking to increase the capacity of Action Fraud to meet increased demand.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	43831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>The City of London Corporation (as the Police Authority for the City of London Police) commissioned an independent review by Sir Craig Mackey QPM into the standards, culture and management of Action Fraud. The finding and recommendations of that review were published on 24<sup>th</sup> January: <a href="https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/Pages/police-authority.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/Pages/police-authority.aspx</a></p><p>Working with the City of London Corporation, the NCA and Home Office, the City of London Police will address Sir Craig’s recommendations regarding Action Fraud and the NFIB.</p><p>In addition, as part of the 20/21 police funding settlement, City of London Police received additional funding to allow them to recruit additional staff for the Action Fraud call centre. Despite the current challenging circumstances, work has continued to recruit and develop remote training for these additional staff at pace.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/05/2020 10:37:43 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1193762

registered interest
date	06/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will suspend the no recourse to public funds clause during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	44050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office is working closely with other government departments, including the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Department of Health and Social Care to support people, including migrants with NRPF, through this crisis.</p><p>Many of the wide-ranging Covid-19 measures the government has put in place are not public funds and therefore are available to migrants with NRPF. The Government has published advice and information about the support available to migrants living here, including where they are subject to NRPF. This information covers statutory sick pay, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-get-support-if-youre-a-migrant-living-in-the-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-get-support-if-youre-a-migrant-living-in-the-uk</a></p><p>Migrants with leave under the Family and Human Rights routes can apply to have the NRPF restriction lifted by making a ‘change of conditions’ application if there has been a change in their financial circumstances. The Home Office has recently digitised the application form to make sure it is accessible for those who need to remain at home, and applications are being dealt with compassionately.</p><p>Local authorities may provide basic safety net support, regardless of immigration support, if it is established that there is a genuine care need that does not arise solely from destitution, for example, where there are community care needs, migrants with serious health problems or family cases where the wellbeing of a child is in question.</p><p>The Government has allocated more than £3.2 billion to local authorities in England, and additional funding under the Barnett formula to the devolved administrations, to help them respond to Covid-19 pressures across all the services they deliver, including services helping the most vulnerable.</p><p>In addition, on the 8th April the Chancellor announced an additional £750m package of support for charities across the UK to ensure they can continue their vital work during the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p>In light of the support available, we do not believe it is necessary to suspend the NRPF condition. We will keep the situation under review and consider further measures if needed.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/05/2020 16:51:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1193763

registered interest
date	06/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: NHS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will grant indefinite leave to remain for all foreign nationals working in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	44051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Government has announced we will extend the visas for a range of healthcare professionals working for the NHS and independent health and care providers, where their current visa expires before 1 October. This offer also applies to their families. The 12-month extension is automatic and free of charge and those benefitting will not have to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Secretary has confirmed we will grant immediate Indefinite Leave to Remain to families of eligible NHS health workers who die as a result of contracting Coronavirus.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has announced we will extend the visas for a range of healthcare professionals working for the NHS and independent health and care providers, where their current visa expires before 1 October. This offer also applies to their families. The 12-month extension is automatic and free of charge and those benefitting will not have to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Secretary has confirmed families and dependants of the health workers applicable for this automatic visa extension, who sadly pass away due to contracting the Covid-19 virus, will be offered immediate Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK, without a requirement to pay a fee. </ins></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/05/2020 17:01:07 question first ministerially corrected 13/05/2020 12:44:47 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 20790 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1193056

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an area-based assessment of the correlation between numbers of residents having no recourse to public funds and the largest numbers of deaths involving covid-19; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	43577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government has already commissioned work from Public Health England to consider the impact of various factors such as ethnicity, obesity, age, gender and geographical location and how these may have an impact on someone’s susceptibility to the virus. We will consider whether further work is necessary. .</p><p>Everyone who contracts Covid-19 will be treated for free, regardless of their immigration status. NHS trusts have been advised that no immigration checks are required for those undergoing testing or treatment for Covid-19. The Government therefore urges anyone who needs medical care for Covid-19 to seek it.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/05/2020 15:52:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1193183

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Business: Crime Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to provide additional support to Business Crime Reduction Partnerships during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	43674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>Provisional data from police forces in England and Wales shows a reduction in crime during the Coronavirus outbreak and, as a result, the Government has no plans to provide additional support to Business Crime Reduction Partnerships during the covid-19 outbreak.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/05/2020 16:56:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1193202

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel Restrictions: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) Minister and (b) officials in her Department were provided with SAGE (a) advice and (b) modelling on the potential effect of introducing restrictions at the UK borders on the spread of covid-19 in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	43659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser participates in SAGE and regularly updates Home Office ministers and officials on all aspects of SAGE relating to their departmental interests.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/05/2020 15:54:06 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1193206

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the provisional management information on the number of arrivals at the UK border from 23 March to 5 May 2020.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	43661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>The next Quarterly Immigration Statistics will be published on 21st May and Home Office statisticians are considering the additional information that can be provided as part of this national statistics publication, including data relating to the impact of Covid-19.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/05/2020 16:54:41 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1193215

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set asylum support at 70 per cent of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	43752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>We are currently reviewing the level of the cash allowances, as we do each year, to ensure that these meet the essential living needs of asylum seekers. The level of the cash allowances is not linked to Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/05/2020 16:53:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1193236

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to permanently exempt (a) NHS staff and (b) the families of NHS staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	43715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>We welcome the vital contribution NHS staff from across the globe make to our healthcare system.</p><p>The Government has recently announced a series of measures for key health workers on the frontline fighting coronavirus. Visas will be automatically extended for 12 months free of charge and there will be no Immigration Health Surcharge for the extension. These measures apply to NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics, and we have recently expanded this offer to cover more key NHS frontline health workers, including those working in eligible occupations in the independent health and care sector. This will also apply to their family members. The automatic extension offer will be for those whose visas expire between 31 March and 1 October. We estimate around 3,000 healthcare professionals, plus their families, will benefit.</p><p>Going forward, it is right those who come to the UK contribute to the NHS whose services they can access from when they arrive. Income from the Immigration Health Surcharge goes directly back into the NHS to help provide vital and lifesaving services.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/05/2020 08:32:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1193247

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prevent Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the timetable announced by her Department in April 2019 for appointing an Independent Reviewer of Prevent remains in place; and whether the independent review of that strategy will be completed by August 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	43671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government decided to appoint the next Independent Reviewer of Prevent, following Lord Carlile stepping down, by a full and open competition. The recruitment competition was launched on 27 April 2020. Applications for this post will be open until 11pm on 1 June 2020 and the successful candidate will be announced in due course. For more information on this recruitment please see <a href="https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/appointment/independent-reviewer-of-prevent/" target="_blank">https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/appointment/independent-reviewer-of-prevent/</a>.</p><p>A full and open process will take several months, and we want to ensure that the new Reviewer has sufficient time to complete the Review. We are aware that this is likely to have implications for the Reviewer’s ability to meet the existing legislative timescale for completing the Review (12 August 2020), and we are taking steps to address this. Further details will be provided to Parliament at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>Once the Reviewer has been appointed, that person will agree revised terms of reference and have the discretion to decide how to conduct the Review.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 43672 question first answered 13/05/2020 10:47:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle