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1484191

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	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: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to ensure all enquiries to UK Visa and Immigration are actioned and dealt with in a timely manner.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	uin	26845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>For all visa application queries the public should call the Home Office customer helpline. The Home Office service standard is to answer 80% of calls within 30seconds.</p><p>Last week we answered 77% within 30 seconds with an average wait time of 1 minutes 9 seconds.</p><p>We continue to work with our service provider to regularly review their performance to ensure service standards are maintained. We are working with our service provider to increase the number of staff operating the customer helpline. It is envisaged this will enable the service standard to be met in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/07/2022 13:40:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1469198

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2022
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent seasonal agricultural workers being charged recruitment fees; and how many UK recruitment firms have lost their licence for charging such fees illegally.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>A key objective of the Seasonal Workers Scheme is to ensure that migrant workers are protected against modern slavery and other labour abuses, including the charging of recruitment fees. The safety and wellbeing of workers is considered paramount.</p><p>The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) assess overseas labour providers when they apply for a licence to be a part of the Seasonal Workers Scheme. Charging recruitment fees would be a breach of the licensing standards. Any labour provider found to be in breach of the licensing standards is not provided with a licence or would have their licence revoked. To date, no licence holder part of the Seasonal Workers Scheme has been found to be in breach of the standards related to recruitment fees.</p><p>The GLAA is undertaking work in partnership to prevent exploitation of workers. For example, the GLAA and seasonal worker pilot operators are jointly developing an informative video, specifically addressing issues related to recruitment fees. The video is due to be launched in the coming weeks. The GLAA is also developing specific guidance aimed for overseas businesses will also be published shortly. Finally, the GLAA is working with UK embassies to engage more closely with in-country government agencies and ensure local laws and regulations are always met.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 06/07/2022 15:24:56 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1484779

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2022
	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, how many civil servants delivered the training and mentoring programme for new Decision Makers; and whether those civil servants would otherwise have been processing asylum cases themselves as of 29 June.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	27631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office has rolling recruitment campaigns to ensure the number of civil servants delivering the training and mentoring programme for new decision makers are maintained at appropriate levels.</p><p>Those civil servants who deliver training and mentoring are separate to those processing asylum cases and would not be expected to process asylum cases themselves.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/07/2022 13:08:02 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 10726 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1483464

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Climate Change: Immigration
	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 effect of climate change on migration to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	25827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>The UK recognises the need to better understand the complex links between migration, climate change and environmental degradation to inform our policy and action. All Government departments include climate change impact as part of their policy development and analysis where relevant.</p><p> </p><p>Initial analysis is climate change does not cause the direct migration of large groups of people to the UK but instead works in combination with other drivers, influencing individuals’ decisions to migrate and with its main impact being felt through increased pressure on existing trends.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/07/2022 13:30:50 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1472719

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse Act 2021
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to lay regulations to bring section 68 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 into force.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL1191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>We know that controlling or coercive behaviour does not stop at the point of separation. Indeed, it can persist and often increase as the perpetrator seeks to retain control over the victim. That’s why Section 68 of our landmark Domestic Abuse Act amended the definition of ‘personally connected’ which removed the ‘living together’ requirement for the controlling or coercive behaviour offence. This means the offence will apply to intimate partners, ex-partners or family members, regardless of whether the victim and perpetrator live together. In order for the new offence to be effectively implemented and to further support frontline agencies in identifying, investigating and evidencing domestic abuse offences, we are updating the Controlling or Coercive Behaviour Statutory Guidance which will be published later this year.</p><p>On 30<sup>th</sup> April, we launched a public consultation on the updated draft guidance to garner wider views, with the opportunity for all interested stakeholders, including victims and users of support and prevention services, to respond. The consultation will run for eight weeks, closing on 25<sup>th</sup> June. It is important we get this guidance right to best support victims of controlling or coercive behaviour. This wide-reaching public consultation will allow us to produce a robust and comprehensive document which reflects the needs of victims and ensures that professionals can recognise and respond to controlling or coercive behaviour appropriately.</p><p>We are making good progress implementing the Domestic Abuse Act and have already implemented important provisions including the offence of threatening to disclose intimate images; the offence of non-fatal strangulation; new duties for local authorities around the provision of accommodation-based support; and providing automatic eligibility for special measures (e.g. giving evidence from behind a screen) for victims in the family court. We are working at pace to implement the remaining provisions, including the extension of the controlling or coercive behaviour offence.</p><p>As the Government needs to update the Controlling or Coercive Behaviour Statutory Guidance and provide the police and courts with sufficient time to prepare for the implementation of the new offence, Section 68 of the Domestic Abuse Act will be implemented later in 2022. We hope to be able to provide clearer timeframes post-consultation and will keep stakeholders updated throughout this process.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 06/07/2022 15:31:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1483461

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Economic Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on reducing economic crime.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	25824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>The detail of discussions with Cabinet peers are held in confidence. I would, however, like to reassure you that tackling economic crime is a priority for me, and the Home Secretary and I continue to work closely across Government, and with industry, including via our Economic Crime Strategic Board, to address the harm caused by economic crime to the UK.</p><p>In partnership with Treasury colleagues, we are working with the public and private sectors to develop the second Economic Crime Plan. This will set out our collective response for the future to reduce the scale of economic crime. We are also developing an ambitious 10 Year Fraud Strategy. We intend to publish these later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/07/2022 13:15:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 11075 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1483609

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Funds Transfer: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether officials in her Department have provided guidance to the National Police Chiefs Council on reducing authorised push payment fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	25884
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector. The Government is working with industry, including the banking and tech sectors to ensure that victims are protected from these crimes in the first place and are not left out of pocket due to Authorised Push Payment (APP) frauds.</p><p>Since 2016, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and the payments industry have worked together to both prevent payments fraud, and to develop better mechanisms for reimbursing victims of APP fraud. This has included introducing the voluntary <a href="https://www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk/crm-code/" target="_blank">Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM) Code</a> in 2019. Under the Code, signatory payment service providers voluntarily reimburse APP victims. The government recognised and welcomed these developments. However, reimbursement to victims of APP scams remains inconsistent. In the Queens Speech, government announced its intention to enable PSR regulatory action by amending Regulation 90 of the Payment Services Regulations, to clarify that the PSR may use its existing regulatory powers to require mandatory reimbursement in cases of APP scams in designated payment systems.</p><p>Data on the number of offences by location is not currently recorded by fraud type. However, UK Finance publish figures on the number of incidents of APP fraud for the UK each year. In 2020 UK Finance recorded 149,946 incidents of APP fraud (up 22% on 2019). Currently data is not held for the number of victims this relates to, and there may be victims who are targeted more than once. Additionally, please note UK Finance figures are for the UK and include personal and non-personal account reports.</p><p>The Home Office has not provided guidance to the National Police Chiefs Council on reducing authorised push payment fraud. Reducing this kind of fraud is a complex issue, which involves a number of different sectors to work together. That is why, the Home Office relaunched the Joint Fraud Taskforce in Oct 2021. The Joint Fraud Taskforce is a partnership between the private sector, Government and law enforcement to tackle fraud collectively and to focus on issues that have been considered too difficult for a single organisation to manage alone and to drive action to design out Fraud.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/07/2022 13:10:23 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 11070 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1483610

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Funds Transfer: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people affected by authorised push payment fraud committed in (a) the London Borough of Hounslow, (b) London and (c) England in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	25885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector. The Government is working with industry, including the banking and tech sectors to ensure that victims are protected from these crimes in the first place and are not left out of pocket due to Authorised Push Payment (APP) frauds.</p><p>Since 2016, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and the payments industry have worked together to both prevent payments fraud, and to develop better mechanisms for reimbursing victims of APP fraud. This has included introducing the voluntary <a href="https://www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk/crm-code/" target="_blank">Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM) Code</a> in 2019. Under the Code, signatory payment service providers voluntarily reimburse APP victims. The government recognised and welcomed these developments. However, reimbursement to victims of APP scams remains inconsistent. In the Queens Speech, government announced its intention to enable PSR regulatory action by amending Regulation 90 of the Payment Services Regulations, to clarify that the PSR may use its existing regulatory powers to require mandatory reimbursement in cases of APP scams in designated payment systems.</p><p>Data on the number of offences by location is not currently recorded by fraud type. However, UK Finance publish figures on the number of incidents of APP fraud for the UK each year. In 2020 UK Finance recorded 149,946 incidents of APP fraud (up 22% on 2019). Currently data is not held for the number of victims this relates to, and there may be victims who are targeted more than once. Additionally, please note UK Finance figures are for the UK and include personal and non-personal account reports.</p><p>The Home Office has not provided guidance to the National Police Chiefs Council on reducing authorised push payment fraud. Reducing this kind of fraud is a complex issue, which involves a number of different sectors to work together. That is why, the Home Office relaunched the Joint Fraud Taskforce in Oct 2021. The Joint Fraud Taskforce is a partnership between the private sector, Government and law enforcement to tackle fraud collectively and to focus on issues that have been considered too difficult for a single organisation to manage alone and to drive action to design out Fraud.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/07/2022 13:12:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 11073 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1483612

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Funds Transfer: Fraud
	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 holds on the number of victims of authorised push payment frauds.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	25886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector. The Government is working with industry, including the banking and tech sectors to ensure that victims are protected from these crimes in the first place and are not left out of pocket due to Authorised Push Payment (APP) frauds.</p><p>Since 2016, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and the payments industry have worked together to both prevent payments fraud, and to develop better mechanisms for reimbursing victims of APP fraud. This has included introducing the voluntary <a href="https://www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk/crm-code/" target="_blank">Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM) Code</a> in 2019. Under the Code, signatory payment service providers voluntarily reimburse APP victims. The government recognised and welcomed these developments. However, reimbursement to victims of APP scams remains inconsistent. In the Queens Speech, government announced its intention to enable PSR regulatory action by amending Regulation 90 of the Payment Services Regulations, to clarify that the PSR may use its existing regulatory powers to require mandatory reimbursement in cases of APP scams in designated payment systems.</p><p>Data on the number of offences by location is not currently recorded by fraud type. However, UK Finance publish figures on the number of incidents of APP fraud for the UK each year. In 2020 UK Finance recorded 149,946 incidents of APP fraud (up 22% on 2019). Currently data is not held for the number of victims this relates to, and there may be victims who are targeted more than once. Additionally, please note UK Finance figures are for the UK and include personal and non-personal account reports.</p><p>The Home Office has not provided guidance to the National Police Chiefs Council on reducing authorised push payment fraud. Reducing this kind of fraud is a complex issue, which involves a number of different sectors to work together. That is why, the Home Office relaunched the Joint Fraud Taskforce in Oct 2021. The Joint Fraud Taskforce is a partnership between the private sector, Government and law enforcement to tackle fraud collectively and to focus on issues that have been considered too difficult for a single organisation to manage alone and to drive action to design out Fraud.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/07/2022 13:11:48 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 11071 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1472726

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Afghan citizens have arrived in the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme in each month since 1 January.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL1198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>Following the evacuation from Afghanistan, work is underway to ensure information relating to all the individuals relocated is recorded on case working systems. Once this work concludes, statistics on the ACRS and ARAP will be included in future editions of the Immigration Statistics.</p><p>All those brought to the UK under the Afghanistan Citizen Resettlement Scheme and the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy have the right to work, access to education and healthcare and be able to apply for public funds.</p> answering member printed Lord Harrington of Watford grouped question UIN HL1199 HL1200 question first answered 06/07/2022 15:33:25 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans