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1138174

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing child citizenship fees for children born or raised in the UK to avoid any future immigration complications.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	275702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office keeps its fees for immigration and nationality under regular review and changes to individual charges need to be made with a view to maintaining the overall purpose of the fees and charging legislation.</p><p>An assessment of the impact of all border, immigration and citizenship (BIC) fees was published as an associated document to the Immigration and</p><p>Nationality Fees (Regulations) 2018.</p><p>The Home Office constantly strives to achieve the right balance between ensuring that individuals are able to obtain status in the UK and access appropriate services, without adding burden to the taxpayer.</p><p>Applying for British nationality is not mandatory and many individuals who have settlement/ indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status choose not to apply. This is because, in addition to lawful permanent residence in the UK, a person with indefinite leave to remain has full access to the UK labour market, education and healthcare.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/07/2019 14:39:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1121484

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the cost to local authorities of citizenship registration for children applying for British citizenship under the EU Settlement Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	244120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has put in place a comprehensive vulnerability strategy to ensure that the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) is accessible for all, including children in care.</p><p><br>The Home office has been engaging with relevant stakeholders such as the Department for Education, Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Children’s Services to assess the needs of this group and ensure they are supported.</p><p><br>For England, Scotland and Wales local authorities (LAs) and for Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trusts (HSCTs) will have responsibility in ensuring that applications are made on behalf of all looked after children for whom they have full parental responsibility and who are EEA citizens or family members and to assist with accessing services with status once granted.</p><p>If the child is cared for under shared care provisions, then it is LAs and HSCTs responsibility to ensure that the child, and their carers, are aware of the need to make an application to the EUSS, signposting and pointing them to practical support where needed.</p><p>LAs and HSCTs also have continuing duties to support care leavers and therefore have the responsibility to identify those eligible to apply to EUSS and to ensure that they make an application. Making an application to EUSS for those who are eligible and to keep an adequate record of applications and status granted should form part of the necessary pathway planning for care leavers ordinarily carried out by LAs and HSCTs in the discharge of their duties.</p><p>A child does not require consent from an adult in order to apply and can make their own application. However, children who have failed to make an application by the deadline as a result of a parent or guardian having failed to submit an application on their behalf would meet the criteria for being permissible to submit a late application.</p><p>It is not possible to apply for British citizenship under the EUSS. There is no requirement for any local authority to make an application for British citizenship on behalf of a looked after child: EEA and Swiss children, and the non-EEA children of EEA and Swiss citizens, can obtain the status they need to remain in the UK by making a free application to the EUSS. As there is no need for LAs or HSCTs to make applications for citizenship there is no reason why any of the costs of doing so should be incurred, unless the LA or HSCT voluntarily chooses to do so.</p><p>Obtaining identity documents should be a familiar process for LAs and HSCT due to these documents being required in other circumstances.</p><p><br>The Home Office has introduced a range of support including up to £9 mil-lion grant funding for voluntary and community organisations, assisted digital support and support via the EU Settlement Scheme Resolution Centre.</p><p><br>A New Burdens Assessment has also been produced in collaboration with key stakeholders representing local authorities and children’s social services to ensure they are funded to identify and support eligible EEA children and family members in care.</p><p><br>The EUSS has been designed to be streamlined and user-friendly, and the majority of applicants will be able to apply without the need for general advice from a lawyer on rights to enter or remain required as a result of the Bill.</p><p>As the scheme is free to apply and simple to navigate, it is not anticipated that applicants will need legal aid but it will be available to some particularly vulnerable individuals. Legislation will also be introduced to bring immigration matters for separated migrant children into the scope of legal aid, meaning this group will get support in securing their immigration rights. Legal aid may also be available through the Exceptional Case Funding scheme where a failure to provide legal aid would breach, or risk breaching, ECHR or enforceable EU law rights.</p><p>The Home Office has created and issued guidance about the EUSS to help LAs and HSCTs understand their responsibilities for supporting looked after children and care leavers and how to apply. The EUSS has been designed to be as simple as possible, but we have committed to working with applicants, and those supporting them, to ensure they obtain the status they need where required. The guidance is clear that where necessary, because of case complexity, or if there is any doubt about how to proceed, that the LA or HSCT may consider obtaining independent legal advice, in line with their own organisation’s processes and policies.</p><p><br>Some of the voluntary and community organisations who receive support from the grant funding will also be able to provide legal advice.</p><p>Swiss citizens continue to enjoy the same rights and status as EEA citizens while the UK remains a member of the EU. Like EEA citizens, they can protect those rights and obtain a permanent UK immigration status by applying to the EUSS by 31 December 2020.</p><p>In the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal eligible EEA and Swiss citizens, and their family members, resident in the UK by the date that the UK leaves the EU, will have until 31 December 2020 to make an application to the EUSS. However, the Government has confirmed that it will take a proportionate approach to those that miss the deadline and make provision for those with a good reason for missing it to apply later. A child whose parent or guardian fail to make an application on their behalf would meet this criteria.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 244111 244112 244113 244114 244115 244116 244117 244119 244121 question first answered 24/04/2019 12:05:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1110179

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money received by the Government from applications for citizenship for children in 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	242012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not record fees received from applications by British-born children separately to a unique account code within our accounting software, and therefore does not have sufficiently detailed management information to breakdown income into any component categories, for example by spouse/partner/child applications</p><p><br>Amounts received from Visa/Citizenship applications are not differentiated between the various categories in which they are received. We do not have a separate code or field for children’s nationality applications. Our ledger will not allow us to provide this level of detail.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/04/2019 08:46:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1110007

	registered interest
	date	05/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to refund profits made from failed citizenship applications for children.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	241382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office keeps its refund policy under review. We have committed to considering the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders, Immigration and Citizenship’s recommendations (made in his review entitled “An Inspection of the Home Office Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System’s policies and practises relating to charging and fees”) on refunds associated with refused nationality and settlement applications in the context of the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/04/2019 12:10:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1043688

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 18 have been denied UK citizenship in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	210012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The available published information on the total number of decisions to refuse applications for British citizenship are published in Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, year ending September 2018, Citizenship tables cz_09 (Refusals of citizenship by reason) available from</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2019 14:43:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1006941

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the fee was for submitting an application to register a child as British in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	191248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Child registration fees from 2012 to 2018 are detailed within the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>DATE</p></td><td><p>FEE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year 2018-19</p></td><td><p>£1,012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year 2017-18</p></td><td><p>£973</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year 2016-17</p></td><td><p>£936</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year 2015-16</p></td><td><p>£749</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year 2014-15</p></td><td><p>£669</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year 2013-14</p></td><td><p>£673 1st child,<br> £505 each subsequent child</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year 2012-13</p></td><td><p>£551 1st child,<br> £276 each subsequent child</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/11/2018 18:25:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

964844

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have had an application for British citizenship refused due to not fulfilling good character requirements in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	169466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The available published information on the total number of decisions to refuse applications for British citizenship where the applicant is found to be not of good character are published in Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2018, Citizenship tables cz_09 (Refusals of citizenship by reason) available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/09/2018 18:40:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

937786

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to support people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds with the cost of applications for child citizenship.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	162603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>We do not currently waive application fees for children to register as British citizens, but, where a child is in care, the Local Authority concerned may pay the fee if they consider it to be in the child’s best interests. Over the course of the summer, I will be considering what further support the Home Office could provide to children applying to register for British citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/07/2018 16:58:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

838202

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much parents with no recourse to public funds must pay to establish that their children are UK nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	127100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>A child born in the UK will be a British citizen if at the time of the birth one or more of their parents is settled or a British citizen. Evidence of these facts is sufficient to establish that a child is British.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/02/2018 11:15:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle