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1656874

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: 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 potential implications for her Department's policies of the report by Public Health Scotland entitled Evaluating the impact of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland, published on 27 June 2023.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	196562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government maintains an interest in the impact of minimum unit pricing in Scotland and will consider the findings from the outcome report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 197516 question first answered 07/09/2023 11:28:36 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1586636

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	Joint Combating Drugs Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often the Joint Combating Drugs Unit has met since its establishment; and whether she plans to publish the outcomes of those meetings.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	147350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The Joint Combating Drugs Unit is a cross-government unit responsible for driving, co-ordinating and overseeing delivery of the Drug Strategy. It comprises full-time civil servants who are seconded from key government departments.</p><p>The Drug Strategy includes commitments owned by the six drug strategy departments (the Department of Health and Social Care, the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Department for Education and the Home Office) to be delivered over the strategy’s 10-year timeframe.</p><p>The Joint Combating Drugs Unit will monitor progress with these and as the Combating Drugs Minister, a cross-government role with overarching accountability for delivery of the ambitions and outcomes in the strategy, I will present an annual report to Parliament. I will also work with the Senior Responsible Owners of local Combating Drugs Partnerships to provide the appropriate support and challenge on local cross-system performance while departments will retain oversight of their delivery partners and specific programmes.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 147351 question first answered 27/02/2023 16:20:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1586637

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	Joint Combating Drugs Unit
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 effectiveness of the Joint Combating Drugs Unit.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	147351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The Joint Combating Drugs Unit is a cross-government unit responsible for driving, co-ordinating and overseeing delivery of the Drug Strategy. It comprises full-time civil servants who are seconded from key government departments.</p><p>The Drug Strategy includes commitments owned by the six drug strategy departments (the Department of Health and Social Care, the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Department for Education and the Home Office) to be delivered over the strategy’s 10-year timeframe.</p><p>The Joint Combating Drugs Unit will monitor progress with these and as the Combating Drugs Minister, a cross-government role with overarching accountability for delivery of the ambitions and outcomes in the strategy, I will present an annual report to Parliament. I will also work with the Senior Responsible Owners of local Combating Drugs Partnerships to provide the appropriate support and challenge on local cross-system performance while departments will retain oversight of their delivery partners and specific programmes.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 147350 question first answered 27/02/2023 16:20:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1437820

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Interviews
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time for scheduling of an asylum substantive interview was over the past five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	134076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not currently report on the average time that is taken between the date of an asylum claim to the date of a substantive asylum interview taking place. However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics: <a href="http://List%20of%20tables%20-%20GOV.UK%20(www.gov.uk)." target="_blank">List of tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p> </p><p>The Home Office currently have several specialist decision-making units, including a unit progressing older asylum claims. We are also working to increase the number of decision makers, shorten and improve asylum casework training and consolidation. This investment in our people will speed up processing times and increase the throughput of asylum decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The decision-making route remains the same for all asylum applications however we have created additional hubs to provide a greater ownership, improved consistency, and management of the cohorts to ensure quick decisions can be made.</p><p>The Asylum Transformation programme is working to transform the asylum system and continue to streamline and simplify processes to speed up decision making to increase efficiency and output. The development and delivery of changes to the asylum process across the end-to-end asylum system include the increased use of technology, improved screening and accelerated decision-making procedures to drive delivery efficiency.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 134077 question first answered 31/03/2022 15:34:07 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 56456 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1437822

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 make decisions on asylum claims that are older than three years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	134077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not currently report on the average time that is taken between the date of an asylum claim to the date of a substantive asylum interview taking place. However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics: <a href="http://List%20of%20tables%20-%20GOV.UK%20(www.gov.uk)." target="_blank">List of tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p> </p><p>The Home Office currently have several specialist decision-making units, including a unit progressing older asylum claims. We are also working to increase the number of decision makers, shorten and improve asylum casework training and consolidation. This investment in our people will speed up processing times and increase the throughput of asylum decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The decision-making route remains the same for all asylum applications however we have created additional hubs to provide a greater ownership, improved consistency, and management of the cohorts to ensure quick decisions can be made.</p><p>The Asylum Transformation programme is working to transform the asylum system and continue to streamline and simplify processes to speed up decision making to increase efficiency and output. The development and delivery of changes to the asylum process across the end-to-end asylum system include the increased use of technology, improved screening and accelerated decision-making procedures to drive delivery efficiency.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 134076 question first answered 31/03/2022 15:34:07 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 56457 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1437460

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
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 the average processing time is for family visas.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	133265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Average processing times do not form part of any current transparency data and are not published.</p><p>Information on our immigration routes with service standards and whether they have been processed against these standards is available as part of our transparency data, at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=04%7C01%7CVandCSheffield.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C4a113ec6f70b400a841b08d9fd0489bd%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637819018188220753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=kUEnSvgvSUDNeBSwVb8O87T82D6USvco0mKHJxV5ISI%3D&amp;reserved=0#_blank" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/03/2022 10:11:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1422771

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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 economic impact assessment her Department has undertaken in respect of the Nationality and Borders Bill.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	125434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The Nationality and Borders Bill is part of our New Plan for Immigration, delivering the most comprehensive reform of the asylum system in decades.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has and will continue to conduct relevant assessments as plans are developed to operationalise the policies being delivered through the Bill, including assessments of cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 23/02/2022 18:08:31 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 52627 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1422772

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
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 plans to take steps to simplify immigration law for (a) practitioners and (b) the public.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	125435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office is already taking steps to simplify immigration law, simplifying the Immigration Rules and consolidating primary legislation as part of its Simplification Programme of work.</p><p>This Programme of work is part of our response to the Law Commission’s recommendations on Simplifying the Immigration Rules and recommendation in the Windrush Lessons Learned report to consolidate immigration law.</p><p>Since autumn 2020, over 30 immigration routes have been simplified and more are reviewed and simplified with each major rules change.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/02/2022 17:57:57 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1360223

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	Drugs: Misuse
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 implications for his policies of the funding recommendation in part 2 of the Government’s Independent Review of Drugs by Dame Carol Black.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	57299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling substance misuse and working with Dame Carol Black to ensure high quality services are in place to support people dependent on drugs.</p><p>On 27 July we published an initial response to Part 1 and Part 2 of Dame Carol Black’s review, outlining the urgent action needed to turn the tide on drug-related deaths and get more people access to higher quality services. As part of this response, the government committed to publishing a new drug strategy which will respond in full to Dame Carol’s recommendations.</p><p>The strategy will build on the £148m package the Government announced in January, which included <em>£80m for drug treatment services right across England</em>. The strategy will present our whole of government approach to drive down drug supply and demand, including support for people through treatment and recovery.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/10/2021 16:13:11 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

758991

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 have included reference to sexuality or gender identity in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	9634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation. Work is ongoing to assure the quality of the data for publication in line with reporting standards</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/09/2017 16:43:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden