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1645320

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme: Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time civil servants above Grade 7 have worked on the Windrush compensation scheme in each financial quarter since the scheme was established.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	190000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this data in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/06/2023 13:09:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1664631

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
	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 a recent assessment of the adequacy of hotel accommodation provided for asylum seekers.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	202484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>Where there is substantive and reliable evidence that procurement would not be suitable, then it will not proceed.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is making every effort to reduce our reliance on hotels through alternative forms of accommodation to limit the burden on the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/10/2023 09:20:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1650062

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department collects on the religious affiliations of asylum seekers.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	192427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D01 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish asylum applicants by religion. Whilst we hold information regarding the religion of asylum claimants, this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as it would require a manual trawl of case records to retrieve.</p><p>A claimant’s religion will be established during the asylum registration process. Depending on the nature of the claim, further information regarding a claimant’s religion may be requested during a substantive asylum interview.</p><p>For further information, please see: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1134648%2FScreening_and_routing.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohanna.Straatman%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C279d4f938a3644579e3808db7d533eca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638241568712951386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xEnv%2FMwp3ZjW9XeBt%2B95J8%2FqTjwfr2vGBe%2FOtHZh2Qw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Screening and routing.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> and <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1083449%2FAsylum_interview.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohanna.Straatman%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C279d4f938a3644579e3808db7d533eca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638241568712951386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=K%2Bt1Dh7FeqzhF5TOYCRPP9RAyMkJX9gZ1kVKjgq%2FLcU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum interview.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 192428 question first answered 11/07/2023 16:23:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1650067

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2023
	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 asylum applications have been submitted by people identifying as Muslim; and if she will provide a breakdown of those figures by sect.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	192428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D01 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish asylum applicants by religion. Whilst we hold information regarding the religion of asylum claimants, this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as it would require a manual trawl of case records to retrieve.</p><p>A claimant’s religion will be established during the asylum registration process. Depending on the nature of the claim, further information regarding a claimant’s religion may be requested during a substantive asylum interview.</p><p>For further information, please see: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1134648%2FScreening_and_routing.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohanna.Straatman%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C279d4f938a3644579e3808db7d533eca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638241568712951386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xEnv%2FMwp3ZjW9XeBt%2B95J8%2FqTjwfr2vGBe%2FOtHZh2Qw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Screening and routing.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> and <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1083449%2FAsylum_interview.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohanna.Straatman%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C279d4f938a3644579e3808db7d533eca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638241568712951386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=K%2Bt1Dh7FeqzhF5TOYCRPP9RAyMkJX9gZ1kVKjgq%2FLcU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum interview.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 192427 question first answered 11/07/2023 16:23:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1664441

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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, whether he Department has (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned from external consultants modelling of the potential impact of a reduction of the backlog of asylum applications on the number of people applying to (i) come to and (ii) stay in the UK via a refugee family reunion application.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	202294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s refugee family reunion policy provides a safe and legal route to bring families together.</p><p>We are committed to improving and speeding up processing times for family reunion applications.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/10/2023 12:58:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1649310

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: River Tees
	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 Department's policy to site an accommodation barge on the River Tees to accommodate asylum seekers.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	191916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.</p><p>We do not publicly comment on individual sites which may or may not be utilised. When a site becomes available and meets the requirements of our accommodation contract, we will follow our engagement process and notify local authority officials and other stakeholders in advance of using the location.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 191917 191918 question first answered 05/07/2023 12:03:40 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1649311

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: River Tees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether exiting statutory powers are in place to direct the Tees Port Authority to site an accommodation barge on the River Tees.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	191917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.</p><p>We do not publicly comment on individual sites which may or may not be utilised. When a site becomes available and meets the requirements of our accommodation contract, we will follow our engagement process and notify local authority officials and other stakeholders in advance of using the location.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 191916 191918 question first answered 05/07/2023 12:03:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1649312

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: River Tees
	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 assessment of the potential impact of accommodating additional asylum seekers on an accommodation barge in Teesside on (a) hospitals, (b) GPs, (c) dentists and (d) other local services.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	191918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.</p><p>We do not publicly comment on individual sites which may or may not be utilised. When a site becomes available and meets the requirements of our accommodation contract, we will follow our engagement process and notify local authority officials and other stakeholders in advance of using the location.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 191916 191917 question first answered 05/07/2023 12:03:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1656691

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Wrestling
	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 were (a) received and (b) granted for people seeking an (i) International Sportsperson visa and (ii) Creative Worker (Temporary Work) visa so they could participate in wrestling performances in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
	uin	197135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on visas in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc364092e9b554b7a322408dbad3cf14b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638294249469626987%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WRMgCF77hiZEWPsyCBVgkDyPr2QMm1ORGU83FKnBbxA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on international sportspersons and temporary worker visas are published in tables ‘Vis_D01’ for applications and ‘Vis_D02’ for outcomes of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1178033%2Fentry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-jun-2023.xlsx&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc364092e9b554b7a322408dbad3cf14b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638294249469783202%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=j50ngRgomI5jZmsOUMxgtGAxTgYFNXimNDEqEdzddsw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed datasets</a>, as part of the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc364092e9b554b7a322408dbad3cf14b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638294249469783202%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LnvSyxO2HCij4GgDx5LRU2W7TXpzLNKi975SwV6EB0Q%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to year ending June 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fsearch%2Fresearch-and-statistics%3Fkeywords%3Dimmigration%26content_store_document_type%3Dupcoming_statistics%26organisations%255B%255D%3Dhome-office%26order%3Drelevance&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc364092e9b554b7a322408dbad3cf14b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638294249469783202%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=n7DYonSoxKWp1E5BRUod8k7qVpAFHlw24F5KiitO06w%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>Wrestling in the UK is governed by the British Wrestling Association and holders of International Sports Persons visas may enter the UK to coach and compete in competitions.</p><p> </p><p>Those performers appearing in the UK in professional exhibitions may apply under the Creative Worker (Temporary Worker) visa route.</p><p> </p><p>However, the published data does not record the applicant’s sport.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/09/2023 08:23:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1669616

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
	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 proportion of hotels previously used to house asylum seekers have stopped being used for this purpose in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	1698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis, with the next quarterly figures due to be released at the end of November 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 1699 question first answered 21/11/2023 15:16:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel