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1491323

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Julian Assange
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she or her officials have had discussions with their counterparts in the Spanish Government on reported attempts to assassinate Julian Assange.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	42209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office have not had any such discussions with the Spanish Government.</p> answering member constituency Stevenage answering member printed Stephen McPartland question first answered 05/09/2022 12:26:41 answering member 4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1491324

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 24 June 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow Central on Mr Dandena.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	42053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Immigration Minister replied on 29 July 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/09/2022 09:39:43 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1491339

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometrics
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 the (a) accuracy of live facial recognition technology, (b) potential for biased outputs and decision-making from facial recognition technology system operators and (c) the adequacy of criteria for deployment of facial recognition technology.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	41959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government supports the police using new technologies like facial recognition to protect the public. Whether and how they use it is an operational matter for the police in accordance with the legal framework, and they have published the results.</p><p>The College of Policing has published an Authorised Professional Practice, which provides national guidance and addresses the Court of Appeal judgment on <em>Bridges vs South Wales Police</em>. This includes details on how to measure accuracy, the requirement to comply with the public sector equality duty in relation to possible bias, the need for a human decision on whether and how to intervene following an alert for a possible match, and the deployment criteria.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/09/2022 12:15:05 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1491340

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any applicants to the Windrush Compensation Scheme have been apprehended by immigration enforcement since the launch of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	41960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>In response to question UIN: 41960</p><p>Any information provided as part of a compensation claim is solely used for the purpose of assessing that claim. Information provided as part of a compensation claim is held on a separate system, and is not shared outside of the compensation team. Information provided as part of a compensation claim would never be passed on to Immigration Enforcement or used as part of enforcement action.</p><p>Immigration Enforcement have put in place safeguards to ensure members of the Windrush generation are not subjected to enforcement action. Whenever a person is encountered who claims to be a member of the Windrush generation or to be in the UK lawfully, they are referred to the Windrush Help Team to consider their case and, if appropriate, issue documentation under the Windrush (status) Scheme confirming their right to be in the UK. No enforcement action is taken against individuals whose status is under review by the Windrush Help Team, or who have an ongoing Windrush (status) Scheme application.</p><p>Anyone is free to submit a claim to the Windrush Compensation Scheme, irrespective of whether they are actually eligible for compensation. It is possible for a person who is in the UK unlawfully, and who is not a member of the Windrush generation, to submit an unmeritorious compensation claim. They may, rightly, be subject to enforcement action on the basis of information obtained by Immigration Enforcement independently. We do not hold data on how many compensation claimants have later faced enforcement action.</p><p> </p><p>In response to question UIN: 41961</p><p>Since its launch, the Home Office has continued to listen and respond to feedback from affected communities and stakeholders about how the Scheme operates and its accessibility. In response to feedback, we have re-designed the primary claim form to make it easier to complete.</p><p>We have designed the compensation scheme to be as clear and simple as possible, so people do not need legal assistance to make a claim. We have published a redesigned primary claim form which now has a Crystal Mark from the Plain English Campaign, demonstrating our commitment to ensuring the scheme is accessible and as easy to use as possible.</p><p>The new form includes more targeted and closed questions to help people understand and provide the key information we need from them. We believe the new form will improve peoples’ experiences of applying to the scheme and help to speed up the processing of claims by reducing the amount of additional information and evidence we must ask people to provide.</p><p>We have made the evidential threshold as low as possible. Our intent is to ask for the minimum evidence necessary to reduce the burden on individuals, whilst maximising the offers we can make. In doing so we are seeking to strike the right balance between ensuring the scheme is comprehensive and covers the broadest range of circumstances, whilst also making it easy to navigate.</p><p>However, for those who want or need support to make a claim, the Home Office provides free assistance in making applications through our independent claims assistance provider - We Are Digital. The Windrush Compensation Scheme Help Team can also assist individuals should they have questions about the claim form or process.</p><p>We continue to work extensively with communities and stakeholders to raise awareness of the Scheme and encourage affected individuals to apply.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 41961 question first answered 06/09/2022 08:41:28 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1491341

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme
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 the potential for the Windrush Compensation Scheme application form to serve as a barrier to people wishing to apply for compensation with particular regard to (a) its complexity and (b) the nature of information it requires.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	41961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>In response to question UIN: 41960</p><p>Any information provided as part of a compensation claim is solely used for the purpose of assessing that claim. Information provided as part of a compensation claim is held on a separate system, and is not shared outside of the compensation team. Information provided as part of a compensation claim would never be passed on to Immigration Enforcement or used as part of enforcement action.</p><p>Immigration Enforcement have put in place safeguards to ensure members of the Windrush generation are not subjected to enforcement action. Whenever a person is encountered who claims to be a member of the Windrush generation or to be in the UK lawfully, they are referred to the Windrush Help Team to consider their case and, if appropriate, issue documentation under the Windrush (status) Scheme confirming their right to be in the UK. No enforcement action is taken against individuals whose status is under review by the Windrush Help Team, or who have an ongoing Windrush (status) Scheme application.</p><p>Anyone is free to submit a claim to the Windrush Compensation Scheme, irrespective of whether they are actually eligible for compensation. It is possible for a person who is in the UK unlawfully, and who is not a member of the Windrush generation, to submit an unmeritorious compensation claim. They may, rightly, be subject to enforcement action on the basis of information obtained by Immigration Enforcement independently. We do not hold data on how many compensation claimants have later faced enforcement action.</p><p> </p><p>In response to question UIN: 41961</p><p>Since its launch, the Home Office has continued to listen and respond to feedback from affected communities and stakeholders about how the Scheme operates and its accessibility. In response to feedback, we have re-designed the primary claim form to make it easier to complete.</p><p>We have designed the compensation scheme to be as clear and simple as possible, so people do not need legal assistance to make a claim. We have published a redesigned primary claim form which now has a Crystal Mark from the Plain English Campaign, demonstrating our commitment to ensuring the scheme is accessible and as easy to use as possible.</p><p>The new form includes more targeted and closed questions to help people understand and provide the key information we need from them. We believe the new form will improve peoples’ experiences of applying to the scheme and help to speed up the processing of claims by reducing the amount of additional information and evidence we must ask people to provide.</p><p>We have made the evidential threshold as low as possible. Our intent is to ask for the minimum evidence necessary to reduce the burden on individuals, whilst maximising the offers we can make. In doing so we are seeking to strike the right balance between ensuring the scheme is comprehensive and covers the broadest range of circumstances, whilst also making it easy to navigate.</p><p>However, for those who want or need support to make a claim, the Home Office provides free assistance in making applications through our independent claims assistance provider - We Are Digital. The Windrush Compensation Scheme Help Team can also assist individuals should they have questions about the claim form or process.</p><p>We continue to work extensively with communities and stakeholders to raise awareness of the Scheme and encourage affected individuals to apply.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 41960 question first answered 06/09/2022 08:41:28 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1491342

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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 assessment she has made of the level of potential risk that people deported to Rwanda under the Migration and Economic Development partnership will be required to join that country’s armed forces.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	41962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>Rwanda has been recognised globally for their record in welcoming and integrating migrants and asylum seekers, and our own comprehensive assessment found it to be generally a safe and secure country.</p><p> </p><p>Any decision to relocate a person to Rwanda will be made on a case-by-case basis taking into account their individual circumstances and relevant country information.</p> answering member constituency Clwyd South answering member printed Simon Baynes question first answered 07/09/2022 13:50:52 answering member 4800 label Biography information for Simon Baynes
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1491406

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Youth Mobility Scheme
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 assessment of the potential merits of reallocating the number of places available for foreign nationals to enter the UK under Youth Mobility Scheme agreements each year from countries where the level of uptake in the annual allocation is low to countries where that level is high.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	42126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) allocations are set on an annual basis and are written into the Immigration Rules for clarity for individual partner countries.</p><p>The quota is largely based on the number of British nationals being afforded youth mobility visas by said partner country in the preceding year, rather than based on an overall number across all YMS schemes.</p><p>The approach ensures fair allocation for partner countries on the basis of reciprocal offers to young British nationals.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 09:32:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1491407

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Youth Mobility Scheme: EU Countries
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 a comparative assessment of the potential merits of entering into a Youth Mobility Scheme agreement with (a) the EU and (b) individual EU member states on a bilateral basis.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	42127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>We remain open to negotiating Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) arrangements with other countries and territories including the EU or individual nations within it.</p><p>However, as each YMS is subject to a reciprocal agreement which also provides benefit to UK nationals with the detail negotiated and agreed between the relevant parties, we are unable to disclose the status of negotiations as they occur.</p><p>Further details of additional YMS agreements will be announced once they are concluded.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 09:24:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1491408

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Youth Mobility Scheme
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 negotiating and entering into Youth Mobility Scheme agreements with (a) Brazil, (b) Switzerland and (c) the US.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	42128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>We remain open to negotiating Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) arrangements with other countries and territories, where those countries and territories can offer schemes similar to our YMS.</p><p>However, as each YMS is subject to a bilateral, reciprocal agreement which also provides benefit to UK nationals with the detail negotiated and agreed between the relevant parties, we are unable to disclose the status of negotiations as they occur.</p><p>Further details of additional YMS agreements will be announced once they are concluded.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 09:12:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1491409

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Youth Mobility Scheme: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish the guidance on the India Young Professionals Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	42129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The India Young Professionals Scheme has not yet opened, therefore Indian nationals cannot yet apply.</p><p>We are working with the Government of India to ensure a reciprocal scheme for UK Nationals is launched in line with the commitments made by both countries in the Migration and Mobility Partnership agreement, signed in May last year.</p><p>More information about the scheme will be provided on our gov.uk web pages, including details of the ballot process and how to make an application once the scheme has launched.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 09:26:06 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq