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1184360

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Foreign Nationals: Coronavirus
	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 that foreign nationals will not be regarded as breaking their continuity of residence where their continued absence from the UK results from a restriction on international travel due to covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	28033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2020 answer text <p>Due to travel restrictions because of coronavirus, some individuals may be facing uncertainty in relation to the expiry date of their current visa or leave to remain in the United Kingdom. We are taking steps to ensure foreign nationals will not be regarded as breaking their continuity of residence as a result of coronavirus and related travel restrictions.</p><p>Visas for Chinese nationals which were due to expire between 21st January and 30 March 2020 have already been automatically extended until 31 March 2020. We continue to monitor the situation in all countries and we are keeping this under constant review. A <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-immigration-guidance-if-youre-unable-to-return-to-china-from-the-uk#helpline" target="_blank">d</a>edicated coronavirus immigration helpline <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents#helpline%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents#helpline </a>has been set up for those who wish to discuss their circumstances. The freephone number is 0800 678 1767 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 27588 27592 question first answered 06/04/2020 15:24:39 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1168321

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2019
	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, if she will extend the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme to allow the recruitment of seasonal labour for work in the non-edible horticulture sector.
	tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
	tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
	uin	67
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has committed to continue the Seasonal Workers Pilot and in our election manifesto we set out plans to increase the scheme to 10,000 places following the UK’s exit from the European Union.</p><p>Details will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/01/2020 16:10:06 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1168431

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2019
	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, if she will review the seasonal agricultural workers scheme before the 2020 harvest; and if she will ensure that the parameters of any limit on the number of migrant workers employed under that scheme are based on (a) quantified and (b) evidenced priorities of the (i) farming and (ii) processing sectors.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
	uin	243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has committed to continue the Seasonal Workers Pilot and in our election manifesto we set out plans to increase the scheme to 10,000 places following the UK’s exit from the European Union.</p><p>Details will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/01/2020 16:07:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1173159

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2020
	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 her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme prior to making the decision to expand it.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	7662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>We are satisfied with how the pilot has been operating.</p><p>We are still gathering evidence prior to a full evaluation and the expansion of the pilot will assist this. Our election manifesto set out plans to expand the pilot.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/01/2020 16:40:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1177753

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	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, what estimate her Department has made of the number of failed asylum seekers still living in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Scott Benton
	uin	699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>Information regarding the number of failed asylum seekers still living in the UK can be found on tables OLCU_01, OLCU_04 and ASY_03 of the most recently published Asylum, UK Visa &amp; Immigration Transparency Data:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/02/2020 16:48:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1173138

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum and Visas: Standards
	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) visas and (b) asylum took (i) three to six months, (ii) six to 12 months, (iii) 12 to 24 months and (iv) over 24 months to be completed in each of the last four financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	7598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on how many applications for (a) visas and (b) asylum took (i) three to six months, (ii) six to 12 months, (iii) 12 to 24 months and (iv) over 24 months in each of the last four financial years.</p><p>However, the Home Office does publish data on:</p><ul><li>the percentage of visa applications processed within published service standards, at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a>. Information on UKVI’s service standards is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about-our-services#service-standards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about-our-services#service-standards</a>. In cases where we are unable to meet these service standards, we write to inform the customer.</li><li>the percentage of asylum applications processed within 6 months. This data can be found at Asy_10 of the published Asylum Transparency Data August 2019: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019</a>.</li></ul><p>The Home Office does not publish data on how many applications for (a) visas and (b) asylum from individuals resident in Worsley and Eccles South constituency took (i) three to six months, (ii) six to 12 months, (iii) 12 to 24 months and (iv) over 24 months in each of the last four financial years as this information is not held centrally and to obtain it would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 7599 question first answered 29/01/2020 16:56:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1173139

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum and Visas: Worsley and Eccles South
	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) visas and (b) asylum from individuals resident in Worsley and Eccles South constituency took (i) three to six months, (ii) six to 12 months, (iii) 12 to 24 months and (iv) over 24 months to be completed in each of the last four financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	7599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on how many applications for (a) visas and (b) asylum took (i) three to six months, (ii) six to 12 months, (iii) 12 to 24 months and (iv) over 24 months in each of the last four financial years.</p><p>However, the Home Office does publish data on:</p><ul><li>the percentage of visa applications processed within published service standards, at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a>. Information on UKVI’s service standards is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about-our-services#service-standards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about-our-services#service-standards</a>. In cases where we are unable to meet these service standards, we write to inform the customer.</li><li>the percentage of asylum applications processed within 6 months. This data can be found at Asy_10 of the published Asylum Transparency Data August 2019: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019</a>.</li></ul><p>The Home Office does not publish data on how many applications for (a) visas and (b) asylum from individuals resident in Worsley and Eccles South constituency took (i) three to six months, (ii) six to 12 months, (iii) 12 to 24 months and (iv) over 24 months in each of the last four financial years as this information is not held centrally and to obtain it would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 7598 question first answered 29/01/2020 16:56:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1178772

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: British Nationals Abroad
	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 British National (Overseas) passport holders who (a) applied for asylum in the UK and (b) were successfully granted (i) refugee or (ii) humanitarian protection status between 2015 and 2019.
	tabling member constituency	St Austell and Newquay
	tabling member printed	Steve Double
	uin	15121
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a></p><p>Data on the number of asylum applications from British National (Overseas), and the initial decisions of such applications are published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</a></p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to <em>year ending September 2019</em>. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=release-date-oldest" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=release-date-oldest</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/02/2020 17:31:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4452 label Biography information for Steve Double

1170390

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: 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 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were detained in the UK in 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	2650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>Unaccompanied children are not detained for consideration of their asylum claim.</p><p>On occasion, new information may come to light or new concerns raised, indicating a person who has been detained as an adult may be a child. In such circumstances we would seek to release them into the care of local authority children’s services at the earliest safe opportunity for an age assessment.</p><p>Information on the number of occurrences of people leaving detention by nationality, age, sex, reason for leaving detention and length of detention can be found in table Det_D03 of the detention data tables, which can be found in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics’, available from GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets</a>. The figures do not distinguish between accompanied and unaccompanied children.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/02/2020 13:37:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1178325

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria is used in deciding the rate to be paid to local authorities for the care of unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	2017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>We recognise local authorities undertake incredibly valuable work in looking after vulnerable young asylum seekers and the Home Office is committed to supporting this.</p><p>The Home Office provides funding to local authorities as a contribution to the costs they incur when supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), which is in addition to the money provided through the local government finance settlement.</p><p>The UASC funding review gathered evidence from over 50 local authorities and concluded in May 2019 with a significant increase in the funding: from 1 April 2019, local authorities now receive £114 per UASC per night for each UASC in their care, regardless of their age or when they entered the UK. This represents a 61% increase to the lowest rate that was previously paid. As well as providing a greater contribution to local authorities support costs, these changes addressed feedback from the review that the previous rate structure was overly complex.</p><p>Further consideration is being given to funding rates for local authorities supporting UASC and former UASC care leavers.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/02/2020 17:52:09 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill