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1138793

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment he has made of the effect on asylum seekers of his Department's policy on the right to work.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	911932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government fully appreciates that this is an important and complex issue which we need to consider in further detail.</p><p>That is why the Home Secretary has committed to review the policy.</p><p>We are continuing productive discussions with key partners, listening carefully to the arguments and considering the evidence put forward on this issue</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/07/2019 16:10:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1105402

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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 plans he has for the UK's future immigration system.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	uin	910147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>In December 2018, the Government set out its proposals for a future immigration system in its White Paper “The UK’s future Skills-based Immigration System.” <br>The new system will be focused on those with the skills this country needs, who will bring the most benefit to the United Kingdom. The system will support the UK economy, and our public services, while enabling us to control migration.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/04/2019 16:23:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

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

1044958

	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	Migrant Workers: Health Professions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What plans his Department has to maximise opportunities for qualified EU health workers to work in the NHS after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
	tabling member printed	Jamie Stone
	uin	908665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>I appreciate the valuable contribution that non-UK workers make to our NHS.</p><p>The Immigration White Paper emphasised that we will encourage the highly skilled and those that make a valuable contribution to our country to come and work in the UK.</p><p>But we need a balanced approach, because it is not a sustainable strategy to rely on recruiting overseas staff, and the long-term aim is that we train our own health professionals in this country.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/01/2019 16:56:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4612 label Biography information for Jamie Stone

1141011

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	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 asylum-seekers crossed the Channel between November 2018 and January 2019 inclusive; and of those how many (a) were returned to France for processing of their asylum applications, (b) have been granted asylum in the UK and (c) have applications being processed in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Peter Heaton-Jones
	uin	280440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has published data on the number of migrants who crossed the Channel between November 2018 and January 2019.This information can be found at the link below:<br><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/19-03-05-Letter-from-Sir-Philip-Rutnam-KCB-Permanent-Secretary-Home-Office-Migrant-boats-in-the-channel.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/19-03-05-Letter-from-Sir-Philip-Rutnam-KCB-Permanent-Secretary-Home-Office-Migrant-boats-in-the-channel.pdf</a></p><p><br>The department does not routinely publish breakdowns of asylum claims by method of arrival or type of claim. This information is recorded but not in a format that can easily be retrieved and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p><br>The Home Office does publish data on the number of applications for asylum in the UK, in its quarterly Immigration Statistics release, the latest release published 24th May 2019. The number of asylum applications for main applicants by country of nationality, made since January 2019 can be found in table as_01_q for main applicants:<br>Latest edition available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p><p>Since January, more than 50 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/07/2019 15:18:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4524 label Biography information for Peter Heaton-Jones

1140819

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	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 staff have worked in the Country of Origin Information Team in each year since 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	280370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of staff in the Country Policy and Information Team as at 1<sup>st</sup> April for each year since 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>As at</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>No of staff</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2014</em></p></td><td><p><em>16</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2015</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2016</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2017</em></p></td><td><p><em>15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2018</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>1 April 2019</em></p></td><td><p><em>19</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:57:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1140818

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Sudan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on risks to individuals from the Darfur or Nuba ethnicities in Sudan.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	280369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it. Each case is carefully considered on its individual facts and merits in ac-cordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).</p><p>Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw.</p><p>Our assessment of the situation in Sudan is set out in the relevant country policy and information notes, which are available on the Gov.uk website.</p><p>Where someone establishes a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country they are normally granted protection and are not expected to return there.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:35:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1141117

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department used to calculate the £250 cost for nationality status letters issued by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	280357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The fee of £250 to make an application for a nationality status letter is set at the estimated unit cost to process the application.</p><p>The Home Office publish a summary of how estimated unit costs are calculated and include this narrative as a footnote to the table published on Gov.UK, which can be found by the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:25:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1140861

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	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 administrative review have been made to the EU Settlement Scheme; how many of those applications were (a) successful and (b) successful due to new evidence or an error by the caseworker in the original decision.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	280266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>In the period up to 31 May 2019, the last point at which data was assured, 368 applications were received for administrative review of decisions made on applications under the EU Settlement Scheme. Of these:</p><p>• 30 administrative review applications were rejected, e.g. because no EU Settlement Scheme application had been received;</p><p>• in all the remaining 253 cases, the applicant was challenging a grant of pre-settled status rather than settled status, of which:</p><p>o 22 of these grants of pre-settled status were upheld following the administrative review; and <br>o 231 of these grants of pre-settled status were overturned, and the applicant was instead granted settled status following administrative review. In these cases, the applicant had generally accepted a grant of pre-settled status when making their application and then provided additional evidence of their eligibility for settled status with their application for administrative review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:26:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1140822

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Post Office: Biometric Residence Permits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to announce a decision on extending the biometric residence permit collection service with Post Office Ltd.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	280258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The contract with the Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit (BRP) collection service started on 29 August 2014. The service commenced in February 2015 and became fully operational on 1 August 2015.</p><p>The current BRP Collection contract is due to end on 31 July 2019. It is our intention to take up the final 1-year extension option which allows the service to run until 31 July 2020.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:20:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows