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857722

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas have been refused under section 322 (5) of her Departments Immigration Rules for minor tax errors.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	131623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>The specific information that has been requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.</p><p>Information on the number of applications and decisions (i.e. grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed cases) is published quarterly in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/03/2018 18:02:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

846226

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 adequacy of availability of Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) Visas.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	128906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) route demonstrates our commitment to continuing to attract top international talent in the digital technology, science and arts sectors. On 11 January, we doubled the number of places available to applicants from 1000, to 2000, and are confident that this is sufficient to meet demand at this time. We will continue to monitor take up of the route.</p><p>All visa applications are subject to appropriate checks by the Home Office and we reserve the right to refuse applications where they fall for refusal under our general grounds for refusal. This includes where we believe applicants are attempting to abuse the immigration system or where an applicant’s previous character and conduct is not conducive to the public good.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 128909 question first answered 27/02/2018 12:08:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

846230

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 (a) extent of and (b) reasons for the rise in the refusal rate for Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) Visa applications.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	128909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) route demonstrates our commitment to continuing to attract top international talent in the digital technology, science and arts sectors. On 11 January, we doubled the number of places available to applicants from 1000, to 2000, and are confident that this is sufficient to meet demand at this time. We will continue to monitor take up of the route.</p><p>All visa applications are subject to appropriate checks by the Home Office and we reserve the right to refuse applications where they fall for refusal under our general grounds for refusal. This includes where we believe applicants are attempting to abuse the immigration system or where an applicant’s previous character and conduct is not conducive to the public good.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 128906 question first answered 27/02/2018 12:08:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

833880

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proprotion of visa applications have been categorised as non-straightforward by the UKVI unit in the past 3 years.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	125638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The information on the number of visa applications categorised as non-straightforward is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/02/2018 10:57:41 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

837531

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 2 February 2018 to Question 125638, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of visa applications classified as non-straightforward.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	126650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration continually reviews its operation to improve performance and accountability. Customer feedback, including complaints, are taken into account to ensure we offer value for money; which includes improving the services we offer, the quality of the decisions we make and the provision of an excellent customer service.</p><p>Visa applications are considered to be non-straightforward (identified as complex) when an Entry Clearance Officer determines that additional information is required in order for a decision to be made and that these enquiries will take longer than the published service standard.</p><p>The circumstances that call for this action are varied. For example it may be necessary for the officer to make enquiries of an external organisation or wait for the applicant to clarify details stated on their application or submit additional evidence.</p><p>Where an application has been classified as complex and cannot be concluded within published services standards, we will write to the customer to inform them that it will not be decided within the service standard and what will happen next.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/02/2018 15:18:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

838444

	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	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the criteria are for visa applications to be designated as (a) complex, (b) non-straightforward and (c) outside service standards; and how many such applications have been so designated in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	127266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Visa applications are considered to be complex when an Entry Clearance Officer determines that additional information is required in order for a decision to be made.</p><p>There are no set standards for processing non-straightforward (identified as complex) by the caseworker. However, if an application is complex and expected to take longer than the standard processing timescale, UKVI will write to the customer within the standard processing time and explain what will happen next.</p><p>The published information on processing times for complex/ non straightforward visa applications is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/02/2018 12:08:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

838446

	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	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff have been employed to process visa applications in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	127268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration regularly reviews its capacity plans and resources and redeploys staff where necessary to help meet and maintain service standards for individual services or routes.</p><p> </p><p>However, to provide the number of officials usually employed to process visa applications across the business in each of the last ten years would require a manual check through resourcing databases, and would encounter disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Data on staffing within UK Visas &amp; Immigration is published online at:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#staffing-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#staffing-data</a></p><p> </p><p>For information, UKVI figures are published quarterly on gov.uk from 2014 at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search?q=border-and-immigration-cross-cutting-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search?q=border-and-immigration-cross-cutting-data</a></p><p> </p><p>Previous to this, UKBA data can be found in the Annual Report &amp; Accounts –</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/120048/annual-report-201011.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/120048/annual-report-201011.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/143619/annual-report-2011-12.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/143619/annual-report-2011-12.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/02/2018 12:05:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

838447

	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	Visas
	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 has been for each type of visa application in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	127269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Published data on visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a> (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas &amp; Immigration’).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/02/2018 12:04:47 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

834054

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 assess the number of financial administrative mistakes with regards to visa application renewals that have been made by her Department in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Edmonton
	tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
	uin	125811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration continually reviews its operation to improve performance and accountability. Customer feedback, including complaints, are taken into account to ensure we offer value for money; which includes improving the services we offer, the quality of the decisions we make and the provision of an excellent customer service. When we are informed of errors we work promptly to rectify them.</p><p>More widely, we have assurance regimes which aim to increase consistent quality and identify good and weak practice within the department. We utilise three regimes; operational oversight, independent business reviews and third party reviews, in conjunction with the wider Home Office, in order to develop and ensure best practice.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2018 16:27:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

838576

	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	Visas
	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 6 February to Question 125811 on Administrative Mistakes, how many financial administrative mistakes her Department has made in relation to visa application renewals in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Edmonton
	tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
	uin	127396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/02/2018 12:07:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor