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1611881

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Youth Mobility Scheme: EU Countries and Latin America
	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 potential merits of extending the Tier 5 Youth Mobility Scheme to (a) further European countries and (b) South and Central American countries.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
	tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
	uin	181425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>We remain open to negotiating Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) arrangements with other countries and territories. However, as each YMS is subject to a bilateral, reciprocal agreement which also provides benefit to UK nationals, with the detail negotiated and agreed between the relevant parties, we are unable to disclose the status of negotiations as they occur. Further details of additional YMS agreements will be announced once they are concluded.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/04/2023 11:44:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1611710

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
	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 updated country advice for visa decision makers for applications from Sudanese nationals following the recent outbreak of conflict in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	uin	181254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>We are monitoring the situation in Sudan carefully.</p><p>New or updated country specific advice for asylum decision makers will be based on the usual process.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:58:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1611775

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Journalism
	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 made an assessment of the viability of a pilot emergency visa scheme for journalists whose lives are under threat from authoritarian governments.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	181319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>A person can already apply to come to the United Kingdom under the &quot;representative of an overseas business&quot; route if they are an employee of an overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organisation posted on a long-term assignment to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:31:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1611770

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	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, with reference to her Department's data entitled Factsheet: Small boat crossings since July 2022, published 2 November 2022, how many of the Albanian nationals who crossed the English Channel in small boats from May to September 2022 have since returned to Albania.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	181314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on returns by nationality in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on returns of Albanian nationals are published in table Ret_D01 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets#returns" target="_blank">Returns detailed datasets’</a>.</p><p>Please note this data relates to all returns, not just returns of individuals who arrived via small boat. Data on the method of arrival of people returned is not published.</p><p>Further information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relates to the end of September 2022.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:30:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1611787

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office response to report on re-inspection of family reunion applications, published on 21 February 2023, and the accepted recommendation from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) to dedicate staffing resource to urgently address the work in progress (WIP) prioritising family reunion applications from children separated from both parents, how many full time equivalent decision maker posts (a) are already in place for family reunion applications and (b) will be created to implement that recommendation.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	181331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for the Home Department has fully accepted all the recommendations made in the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration regarding family reunion applications.</p><p>Following the recommendations made, the department has already undertaken a review of its’ resourcing for consideration of Family Reunion visa applications, and we are currently in the process of increasing number of decision makers to speed up processing times.</p><p>Since 2015 we have granted approximately 45,000 family reunion visas to the family members of refugees. We prioritise all applications where the application has been made by an unaccompanied child, under the age of 18. We will also prioritise applications where there is an evidenced urgent or compelling reason to do so.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 16:48:40 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1611789

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office response to report on re-inspection of family reunion applications, published on 21 February 2023, and the accepted recommendation from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) to introduce criteria for expediting applications based on vulnerability, when this criteria will be incorporated into family reunion policy guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	181333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Family Reunion guidance was published on 12 April 2023. This introduced a prioritisation process which includes the expedition of all applications from unaccompanied children. Requests for prioritisation from applicants or their representatives will be determined by a manager, who will undertake a holistic consideration of the applicant’s circumstances.</p><p>We are committed to improving and speeding up processing times for all family reunion applications.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 13:05:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1611792

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office response to report on re-inspection of family reunion applications, published 21 February 2023, and the accepted recommendation from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration to implement a mechanism to triage family reunion applications after biometrics have been submitted and before the decision-making stage, when the dedicated team to work on this will be in place.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	181336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has fully accepted all the recommendations made in the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration regarding family reunion applications.</p><p>Following the recommendations made, the Home Office has already undertaken a review of resourcing for consideration of Family Reunion visa applications, and have a dedicated resource to identify, for example, unaccompanied children and prioritise their applications.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 13:02:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1611794

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: 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 help ensure family reunion applications made by people from Iran at risk of persecution are processed in a timely way.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	181338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>It is our long established policy to prioritise applications where there is a particularly urgent or compelling reasons to do so.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 16:56:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1611623

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Biometrics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy that biometric tests are not mandatory for people seeking legal and safe entry to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	181167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>In most circumstances we require biometrics, in the form of a facial image and fingerprints, from everyone who applies for a visa or a biometric residence permit, including people using safe and legal routes to come to the UK. Moreover, the UK’s forthcoming Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme will also require applicants to provide their biometrics as part of the application form, starting with facial images from the offset, until there is a technological solution which will allow applicants to self-upload fingerprints of the required quality.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 16:54:06 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611624

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
	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 increase the number of places in Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 3.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	181168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>Under the first stage of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) Pathway 3, we are offering resettlement places to up to 1,500 eligible individuals from the three identified cohorts which are British Council contractors, GardaWorld contractors and Chevening alumni.</p><p>We recognise there are many vulnerable individuals who remain in Afghanistan and the region. However, it is important we take into account the capacity of the UK to resettle people is not unlimited and difficult decisions have to be made on who will be prioritised for resettlement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 16:59:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon