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1108599

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What assessment his Department has made of the effect on low-paid workers of the minimum income requirements for non-EEA residents to bring family members to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	910144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The level of the minimum income threshold was set after considering advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee. The Supreme Court has endorsed the lawfulness of this approach and agrees that the minimum income requirement strikes a fair balance between the interests of UK citizens wishing to sponsor a non-EEA spouse and of the community in general.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/04/2019 15:53:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1585096

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much were fire and rescue service budgets in each year since 2015 broken down by (a) local authority, (b) region and (c) nation for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	141566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2023 answer text <p>Fire and Rescue is a devolved matter, and therefore the response to this PQ relates to England only. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is responsible for publishing the Final Local Government Finance Settlement. This is the annual determination of funding to local government (including fire), which is approved by the House of Commons. The settlement includes the Core Spending Power for each local authority. Separately, DLUHC on an annual basis publish local authority revenue expenditure data. The latest finance settlement and expenditure data can be found in the links below:</p><p>Final local government finance settlement: England, 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p>Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2021 to 2022 individual local authority data - outturn - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/02/2023 11:09:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1623359

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Noise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many road users have been (a) stopped and (b) investigated for (i) breaking the legal noise limits and (ii) using illegal modified exhausts in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	182386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold all the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on fixed penalty notices issued and other outcomes for motoring offences, including noise offences.</p><p>These data are available as part of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-other-pace-powers-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2022" target="_blank">Police Powers and Procedures: Other Pace</a>’ bulletin.</p><p>This information can be found in table FPN_03 of the motoring offences <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1118166/fixed-penalty-notices-and-other-motoring-offences-statistics-police-powers-and-procedures-year-ending-31-december-2021.ods" target="_blank">data tables</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/05/2023 11:46:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1226006

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	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 potential merits of increasing flexibility on when and where overseas students can (a) apply for their visa to study in the UK and (b) take their English language tests.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	76086
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>From October students will be able to apply for a visa up to six months in advance of the course start date listed on their Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies. This is an extension on the current period of three months.</p><p>Students who require a Secure English Language Test (SELT) must obtain a SELT from an approved provider. A SELT test can be obtained from any of the test centres listed in the below list of approved test centres:-https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-applying-for-uk-visa-approved-english-language-tests</p><p>Higher Education Providers (HEP) with a track record of compliance are able to self-assess the English ability of their students at degree level or above. As part of the Covid-19 concessions, we extended this to also permit HEPs to self-assess the English ability of students on pre-sessional courses.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 76087 question first answered 28/07/2020 08:11:17 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1226007

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
	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 potential merits of extending flexibilities on English language tests to students on pre-degree further education courses to encourage student visa applications.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	76087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>From October students will be able to apply for a visa up to six months in advance of the course start date listed on their Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies. This is an extension on the current period of three months.</p><p>Students who require a Secure English Language Test (SELT) must obtain a SELT from an approved provider. A SELT test can be obtained from any of the test centres listed in the below list of approved test centres:-https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-applying-for-uk-visa-approved-english-language-tests</p><p>Higher Education Providers (HEP) with a track record of compliance are able to self-assess the English ability of their students at degree level or above. As part of the Covid-19 concessions, we extended this to also permit HEPs to self-assess the English ability of students on pre-sessional courses.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 76086 question first answered 28/07/2020 08:11:17 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1366352

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Educational Visits: Immigration Controls
	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 potential impact of the UK's new immigration rules on the number of school trips from the EU to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	70295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>As part of the changes to the Immigration Rules in September 2021, we no longer accept national identity cards as a valid travel document from EU, EEA and Swiss visitors to the UK.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment was undertaken of this change.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/11/2021 16:45:44 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1379461

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Schools: EU Countries
	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 15 November 2021 to Question 70295 on Schools: EU Countries, what were the results of the impact assessment of the potential impact of the UK's new immigration rules on the number of school trips from the EU to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	76781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2021 answer text <p>Further to the answer given on 15 November 2021, the Impact Assessment can be viewed here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1016572/ID_cards_removal_-_Impact_Assessment_-_2021.pdf" target="_blank">Impact Assessment (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/11/2021 14:32:44 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1421447

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UKVI MP Account Management cases are currently outstanding past the 20 working day response target.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	121867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of Hon. Members written correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Performance has been impacted by a very significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, including the unprecedented amount of correspondence about the situation in Afghanistan. Ministers and officials have also had to instigate a remote process for drafting and signing correspondence during the period of COVID-19 restrictions.</p><p>The Department recognises it has not been able to meet service standard in some cases but has implemented an action plan to clear backlogs and drive up performance. The Department has recruited additional resources and expects to return to answering Hon. Member’s correspondence within service standard by the end of March 2022.</p><p>Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q3-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q3-2021</a></p><p>This includes data up to and including the end of quarter 3 - 2021.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/02/2022 11:52:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1462113

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure same sex partners can register as the mothers of their child on birth certificates.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>Civil registration in the UK is a devolved matter and there are separate systems in place for Scotland and Northern Ireland.</p><p>In England and Wales, a birth entry records the name of the child’s mother and, where certain conditions can be met as set out in law, the name of a second female parent.</p><p>There are currently no plans in England and Wales to change how a mother, father or parent is recorded in birth entries or on birth certificates.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/05/2022 11:53:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1472065

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Airports
	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 the potential merits of providing seasonal visas to address staff shortages in UK airports.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	22496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>We note similar issues with recruitment are being reported at Airports within the EU and the USA, which indicate this would be an ineffective approach compared to focusing on other issues affecting recruitment in the sector, such as the pay and conditions offered to key workers.</p><p>Several roles in the aviation sector are already eligible to be recruited via the Skilled Worker visa.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/06/2022 11:34:25 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse