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1605450

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Naturalisation
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 changing the requirement for naturalisation applicants to have been in the UK for five years before the qualifying period, in the context of people's inability for people to travel during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	169331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 introduced the power to allow the Secretary of State to waive the requirement for an applicant to be in the UK at the start of the residential qualifying period for naturalisation. Published guidance sets out when discretion would normally be exercised and covers absence due to the pandemic. Guidance also makes it clear that we would apply the same approach to extended period of absences from the UK due to covid restrictions.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 169332 question first answered 23/03/2023 10:09:04 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1605451

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Naturalisation
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 changing the requirement for naturalisation applicants via the spousal route to have been in the UK for three years before the qualifying period, in the context of people's inability to travel during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	169332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 introduced the power to allow the Secretary of State to waive the requirement for an applicant to be in the UK at the start of the residential qualifying period for naturalisation. Published guidance sets out when discretion would normally be exercised and covers absence due to the pandemic. Guidance also makes it clear that we would apply the same approach to extended period of absences from the UK due to covid restrictions.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 169331 question first answered 23/03/2023 10:09:04 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1601971

registered interest
date	07/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
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 provide the details of the last three (a) dates when and (b) locations where she last met with (i) individuals who arrived in the UK on small boats and (ii) charitable or non-governmental organisations who provide support services to asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	160311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>All meetings held by the Home Secretary in her Ministerial capacity are routinely released in quarterly Departmental transparency returns. The latest transparency returns can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-ministers-hospitality-data" target="_blank">Home Office: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/03/2023 11:21:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1586822

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
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 impact on the processing time for applications of the decision to extend the standard processing time for family visa applications made outside the UK from 12 to 24 weeks.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	147060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>The bulk of resource has now returned to the route, along with an additional investment of new staff.</p><p>We are keeping the service standard level under review.</p><p> </p><p>Information on family visa processing times for applications made outside of the UK can be found here: Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>Information on family visa processing times for applications made inside of the UK can be found here: Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 147064 question first answered 23/02/2023 13:02:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1586823

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
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 reinstating the (a) priority and (b) super priority services for family visa applications
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	147061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>From mid-March 2022, UKVI temporarily suspended Priority visa services for new family overseas visa applications, in order to temporarily deploy resource to process applications made in response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>On 09 January 2023, UKVI re-introduced Priority visa services for customers with an outstanding family overseas visa application.</p><p>On 20 February 2023 UKVI re-introduced Priority visa services for customers with a new overseas family visa application.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Super Priority Visa service is not available for overseas Family visa applications. It was not available prior to the suspension of Priority Visa services.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 147062 question first answered 23/02/2023 13:01:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1586825

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Standards
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 impact on the processing times for applications of the decision to suspend the (a) priority and (b) super-priority services for visa applications on the processing times for applications.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	147062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>From mid-March 2022, UKVI temporarily suspended Priority visa services for new family overseas visa applications, in order to temporarily deploy resource to process applications made in response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>On 09 January 2023, UKVI re-introduced Priority visa services for customers with an outstanding family overseas visa application.</p><p>On 20 February 2023 UKVI re-introduced Priority visa services for customers with a new overseas family visa application.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Super Priority Visa service is not available for overseas Family visa applications. It was not available prior to the suspension of Priority Visa services.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 147061 question first answered 23/02/2023 13:01:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1586826

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria will be used to assess when to end the temporary suspension of the (a) priority and (b) super-priority services for new visitor visa applications
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	147063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no suspensions for priority and super priority visit visa services across the globe.</p><p>UKVI will always seek to offer optional priority services where the security and logistical circumstances allow.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/02/2023 17:48:22 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1586827

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
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 return the processing time for family visa applications made outside the UK from 24 to 12 weeks
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	147064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>The bulk of resource has now returned to the route, along with an additional investment of new staff.</p><p>We are keeping the service standard level under review.</p><p> </p><p>Information on family visa processing times for applications made outside of the UK can be found here: Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>Information on family visa processing times for applications made inside of the UK can be found here: Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 147060 question first answered 23/02/2023 13:02:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1584265

registered interest
date	31/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Scotland
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 effect of the Government’s immigration policies on Scotland’s (a) population and (b) labour shortages.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	903500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>Our points-based system – with a wide range of eligible occupations spanning many economic sectors - works for the whole of the UK by welcoming people to fill skills gaps, support our public services and boost our economy.</p><p>As noted in the Migration Advisory Committee annual report, immigration policy cannot be a complete solution to population movements within the UK or labour shortages. The Scottish Government has policy levers to address these issues more effectively.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/02/2023 16:51:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1545299

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Fraud
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 protect people from online scams.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	95874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>Online fraud is a pernicious crime that can cause devastating financial and emotional harm to victims. The Government has been working with partners in the public and private sectors to keep the public safe and bring these fraudsters to justice.</p><p>The National Cyber Security Centre are leading the way combatting online scams through their Suspicious Email Reporting Service which allows members of the public to forward any suspicious emails and potential phishing scams more effectively and easily to law enforcement. Since its inception in April 2020, it has already led to over 15 million reports and the removal of over 105,000 scams across 192,000 URLs (as of October 2022).</p><p>We have also introduced the Online Safety Bill, an ambitious and forward-looking piece of legislation that will tackle online harms including fraud and fraudulent advertising. DCMS is leading further work on an Online Advertising Programme. This will consider further regulation of online advertising, including for fraud. In March 2022, DCMS published their consultation which has now closed, and the Government will publish its response in due course.</p><p>We have been working with industry on a voluntary basis. On 21<sup>st</sup> October 2021, the newly relaunched Joint Fraud Taskforce published three voluntary charters to combat fraud in the accountancy, retail banking and telecommunications sectors. We have seen progress with one UK mobile operator reporting a 97% decline in scam texts over a nine-month period.</p><p>We continue to encourage the public to report fraud to Action fraud and to forward any suspicious emails to report@phishing.gov.uk and suspicious texts to 7726, free of charge.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 29/11/2022 17:53:56 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady