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1045490

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the effect a seasonal agricultural workers scheme would have on small labour providers.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	210555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Seasonal Workers Pilot will test the effectiveness of our immigration system at alleviating seasonal labour shortages during peak production periods, whilst looking at the wider impacts of such a scheme.</p><p><br>The pilot will start in the spring of this year and will run until the end of December 2020. It will be fully evaluated.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 210556 question first answered 29/01/2019 15:22:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

1045491

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to provide feedback to labour providers on the effectiveness of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Pilot Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	210556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Seasonal Workers Pilot will test the effectiveness of our immigration system at alleviating seasonal labour shortages during peak production periods, whilst looking at the wider impacts of such a scheme.</p><p><br>The pilot will start in the spring of this year and will run until the end of December 2020. It will be fully evaluated.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 210555 question first answered 29/01/2019 15:22:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

1046100

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum applications that were submitted (a) three years ago, (b) two years ago and (c) within the last 12 months are awaiting a decision.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	211292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data, in its quarterly Immigration Statistics release, on the number of asylum applications lodged in each year, broken down by outcome, including cases with a decision, or appeal outcome, not known as at May 2018 (time of publication), in table as_06 (Asylum, volume 2)</p><p>Latest edition available at:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/758195/asylum2-sep-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/758195/asylum2-sep-2018-tables.ods</a></p><p><br>The next update of this table is due in August 2019.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2019 14:35:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

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

1045635

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	English Language: Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the consistency between B1 English tests carried out at different centres.
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	210708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Consistency between B1 English tests is ensured by the testing providers (Trinity College London and IELTS SELT Consortium).</p><p>These Concessionaires provide this service through a concessionary agreement with the Home Office.</p><p>During the procurement of the concessions both suppliers provided evidence of how their tests mapped across to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) scale and this was independently assessed as part of the procurement. It is also part of the Concessionaires responsibility (under the concession) to ensure that their tests continue to map across to the CEFR.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2019 15:29:48 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1045524

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time support staff in his Department work on (i) visa applications and (ii) asylum applications (A) in 2019 and (B) in 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	210581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 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>However, to provide the number of decision-making staff and support staff who were employed to process visa and asylum applications in 2019 and 2009 it would require a manual check through resourcing databases and would encounter disproportionate costs.</p><p>Data on staffing within UK Visas &amp; Immigration is published online at:</p><p><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> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 210582 question first answered 29/01/2019 15:27:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1045525

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time decision-making staff deal with (i) visa applications and (ii) asylum applications (A) currently and (B) in 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	210582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 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>However, to provide the number of decision-making staff and support staff who were employed to process visa and asylum applications in 2019 and 2009 it would require a manual check through resourcing databases and would encounter disproportionate costs.</p><p>Data on staffing within UK Visas &amp; Immigration is published online at:</p><p><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> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 210581 question first answered 29/01/2019 15:27:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1019791

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of (i) EU and (ii) EEA nationals that will have the right to reside permanently in the UK; and (b) number UK citizens that will have the right to reside permanently in EU Member states after March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	198842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>a) The impact assessment for the EU Settlement Scheme estimates that between 3.5m and 4m EEA nationals (excluding Irish nationals) will be eligible to apply for the scheme by the end of the Implementation Period in December 2020.</p><p><br>The IA is published at: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/875/impacts." target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/875/impacts. </a></p><p><br>b) The Home Office does not hold this information. The Office for National Statistics has published estimates of the number of UK nationals who are resident in other EU countries at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/livingabroad/april2018" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/livingabroad/april2018</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2019 15:56:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1037959

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Offenders
	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 number of foreign national offenders from an EU-27 member state have been prevented from entering the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	206314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Border Force prevents travel of known terrorists and serious criminals prior to their arrival in the UK with the use of API and PNR data received from carriers. Through advanced analysis of data and intelligence Border Force devises electronic rules to target persons of interest that can be shared with Border 5 partners and other government departments overseas, to secure borders not only in the country of potential risk, but globally to mitigate any threat.</p><p><br>One of Border Force’s priorities is the management of the Pre-Departure Checks Scheme (PDCS) which is designed to deny boarding to high risk in-dividuals identified by the Security Services and Home Office Special Cases Directorate.</p><p><br>The Authority to Carry Scheme has been in operation since 2015; this ena-bles Border Force to offload a passenger pre-departure, including those passengers that have Exclusion Orders, Deportation Orders or travelling on an invalid document.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2019 15:44:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1047685

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration and Nationality: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) indefinite leave to remain, (b) naturalisation and (c) asylum were lost by his Department in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	212299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The information on the number of applications for Indefinite Leave to Remain, naturalisation and asylum which have been lost is not recorded in a manner which can be reported on, and to do so would require a trawl through immigration databases which could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2019 16:29:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms