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830366

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Tech City UK: Skilled Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 1 visas have been approved for people working at Tech City for people of each gender; from what country of origin those visas have been approved; and for the purposes of working in which regions of the UK have these visas been approved.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	124932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Tech City UK is a designated competent body who consider and endorse applications from talented individuals in the digital technology sector applying under the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent scheme. The individuals granted an endorsement do not take up employment with Tech City UK</p><p>Transparency data on the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Scheme is 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><br>The latest data was published on the 30 November 2017, and provides all published data relating to Tech City UK.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 30/01/2018 12:03:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

828670

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support is available to a child that receives a Conclusive Grounds decision in the National Referral Mechanism.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea East
	tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
	uin	124327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the needs and vulnerabilities of trafficked children and the importance of providing the appropriate support to address them. All local agencies (including local authorities and the police) have statutory duties to safeguard children as part of their local responsibilities, regardless of their backgrounds or experiences. The revised ‘Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery’ statutory guidance for local authorities (2017) sets out the steps that local authorities should take to plan for the provision of support where the child is an unaccompanied asylum seeking child and/or may have been a victim of trafficking or modern slavery. <br>To further support trafficked children, the Government implemented Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTA) in three Early Adopter Sites (Greater Manchester, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and nationally in Wales) from 30 January 2017. Children who are the responsibility of local authorities within the Early Adopter Sites are provided with an ICTA when they are initially identified as potentially trafficked. This provision is in addition to the range of existing support available to them through the local authority. The Government has also funded training for foster carers, support workers and Independent Advocates to increase their understanding of the specific needs of trafficked children and how to support them.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 16:47:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

830011

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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 assessment her Department has made of trends in the average time taken to process asylum applications.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	124731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has a Service Standard to make an initial asylum decision within 182 days of the date of claim, which the Department has met for the last consecutive 39 months.</p><p>Despite this we are aware of the number of older cases in the system. These are more complex cases which generally have barriers that prevents an initial asylum decision being made. These barriers are often varied and require time to clear.</p><p>The Home Office is aware of the number of older cases and has plans in place to reduce the number of cases older than six months. These include a staff retention strategy to ensure it retains its highly skilled asylum decision makers, further expansion of digital processes to increase caseworking flexibility and the creation of a new team in Bootle which has been specifically established to tackle the older cases in the asylum system. This team has been designed to establish and roll out best practise in the management of older cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 16:20:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

830258

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has applied to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for any contingency funding relating to the UK leaving the EU for (a) 2018 and (b) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	124919
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>We have agreed with HMT additional funding of £60m to support planning and implementation work relating to the UK leaving the EU for (a) 2017-18. Requirements for (b) 2018-19 are still under discussion with HMT and announcements will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 16:19:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

828642

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Employment
	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 10 January 2018 to Question 120539 on Immigrants: Employment, what steps her Department is taking to simplify the employer checking service for (a) perspective employees and (b) employers.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	124304
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has rolled out biometric residence permits to persons subject to immigration control to make it easier for them to evidence their status and simpler for employers to check their right to work.</p><p>We remain committed to simplifying the system of right to work checks for migrants and employers, including through the development of automated checking tools.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 16:17:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

828877

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the named worker system for immigration applications was stopped; and what assessment her Department has made of the effect of that change on the quality of communication with applicants.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	124494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The department 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>Customers are able to contact the Border, Immigration and Citizenship System about their cases through customer contact centres, and members are able to contact the department through MP account management teams.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 16:15:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

829852

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Marriage Certificates
	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 has made an assessment of the suitability of (a) the Registration of Marriage Bill [Lords], (b) the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill and (c) the Registration of Marriage (No. 2) Bill to act as legislative vehicles to allow the Government to change the law in order to allow a mother's details to be recorded on marriage certificates; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	124619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Any change to the content of the marriage entry to include mothers’ names would ideally also bring forward reform to how marriages are registered to introduce efficiencies and create a more secure system for the maintenance of marriage records. This would require changes to primary legislation.</p><p>The Registration of Marriage Bill [ Lords ] and the Registration of Marriage (No 2) Bill seek to make these changes to current legislation, in particular to the Marriage Act 1949. Details relating to the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Bill have not yet been published.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 16:12:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

830382

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Doctors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has received representations on doctors from overseas being prevented from working in the NHS on account of immigration rules relating to their salaries; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	124948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>We have received representations concerning the recruitment of overseas doctors under Tier 2 (General), our main immigration work route for non-EEA workers. The minimum salary thresholds were set following consultation with the independent Migration Advisory Committee and are based on pay scales published by the NHS – and have not been recently changed.</p><p>When we receive more applications than the number of places available in any given month, priority is given – through the award of points– first to occupations in UK shortage as identified by the independent Migration Advisory Committee, then to PhD-level occupations, and followed by economically valuable jobs paying higher salaries.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 16:09:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

830130

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees resettled under mandate resettlement were (a) immediate family members of sponsors in the UK and (b) extended family members in the past three years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	124810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Mandate plays an important part in facilitating the resettlement of refugees in various locations across the world. There is no specific quota or target for the number of people resettled via Mandate. The referral of cases (and the corresponding numbers of arrivals) under Mandate is dependent on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identifying cases which meet its criteria. This criteria can be found in the UNHCR Resettlement Handbook under the UK’s country chapter available at <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/40ee6fc04.html" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/40ee6fc04.html</a><br>We publish a breakdown of arrivals under our resettlement schemes as part of the Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release, which was most recently updated on 30 November, however we do not publish a disaggregation of those resettled to immediate or extended family members.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 124809 question first answered 29/01/2018 16:06:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

830127

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the eligibility criteria is for people to qualify under the mandate resettlement scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	124809
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Mandate plays an important part in facilitating the resettlement of refugees in various locations across the world. There is no specific quota or target for the number of people resettled via Mandate. The referral of cases (and the corresponding numbers of arrivals) under Mandate is dependent on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identifying cases which meet its criteria. This criteria can be found in the UNHCR Resettlement Handbook under the UK’s country chapter available at <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/40ee6fc04.html" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/40ee6fc04.html</a><br>We publish a breakdown of arrivals under our resettlement schemes as part of the Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release, which was most recently updated on 30 November, however we do not publish a disaggregation of those resettled to immediate or extended family members.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 124810 question first answered 29/01/2018 16:06:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman