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1171491

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	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 calls the helpline for EU citizens applying for settled status received in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	4360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>We do not currently publish data on calls into the Settlement Resolution Centre. We do ensure that resource allocated is maximised to allow our dedicated teams to answer and support as many callers as possible to assist them through the EU Settlement scheme process. Our current average answer time is 25 seconds. (January 2020)</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 07/02/2020 15:28:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1171068

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2020
	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 she has to consult with groups representing (a) medical research, (b) science and (c) the NHS in advance of reforms to the immigration system.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	3772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office have conducted a large-scale engagement programme with businesses, communities and local governments on the future border and immigration system. More than 150 events reaching over 2,400 stakeholders have been held, including representatives from the medical, research and NHS sectors. Advisory Groups have also been established to consider specific aspects of the new system and Ministers continue to regularly engage with sector groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 07/02/2020 15:25:55 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1172098

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any child has been referred to Prevent on the basis of their (a) involvement with Extinction Rebellion, (b) attendance at school strikes for climate and (c) attendance at any other protest.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	5480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>This information would be held by the Police, who are operationally independent of the Home Office. The Home Office does not hold data on individuals referred to Prevent.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 07/02/2020 14:28:15 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1173959

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the EU Settlement Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	9084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>The EU Settlement Scheme makes it straightforward for EU citizens and their family members to obtain the UK immigration status they need in order to stay here, guaranteeing their rights in UK law. Those resident here by 31 December 2020 have until 30 June 2021 to apply. Applicants only need to complete three key steps – prove their identity, show that they live in the UK and declare any criminal convictions.</p><p> </p><p>The scheme is working well: according to the latest internal figures, more than 2.8 million applications have been received. The latest published statistics for the scheme are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 06/02/2020 14:50:14 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1175698

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud: 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 were employed by Action Fraud to investigate crime in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	11449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>Action Fraud is the national reporting facility for fraud and cybercrime. Action Fraud does not have any investigatory powers and does not conduct investigations themselves. The role of investigations and enforcement remains with local police forces.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 06/02/2020 14:47:53 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1175633

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Prevent strategy does not unfairly target racial and religious minorities.
	tabling member constituency	Luton North
	tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
	uin	11665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>The Prevent programme is fundamentally about safeguarding and supporting vulnerable individuals to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.</p><p> </p><p>Prevent is about safeguarding people who are at risk of radicalisation. Prevent does not target a specific faith or ethnic group - it deals with all forms of extremism.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 06/02/2020 14:06:45 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1173407

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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, what security mechanisms are in place to ensure data belonging to an individual granted settled or pre-settled status and stored by her Department under the EU Settlement Scheme cannot be (a) tampered with, (b) stolen and (c) accessed without the individual’s consent.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	8461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office takes the security and integrity of all our data extremely seriously. Our staff are security cleared, and controls applied to data such that only those who have a valid business need to access data can do so.</p><p> </p><p>Security audits are performed to ensure controls and processes are followed, and The Home Office monitors systems for abuse and misuse.</p><p> </p><p>We engage independent third parties, accredited by the National Cyber Security Centre, to perform tests upon our networks and systems, to test cybersecurity controls.</p><p> </p><p>The online service for those granted under the EU Settlement Scheme allows an individual to share their immigration status with an employer or third party, and in keeping with GDPR legislation, this process is initiated by the individual with their consent.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 04/02/2020 15:29:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1173473

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	International Military Services: Iran
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 20 November 2018 to Question 185141, whether any of the Iranian delegation detained in 2013 when coming to discuss IMS Ltd's debt remain incarcerated in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	8410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>It is longstanding policy not to disclose details of records which may be held in relation to individuals’ arrival in the United Kingdom, as to do so would not be in the interests of national security.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 04/02/2020 15:16:57 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1173829

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what qualifications or criteria are required for Border Force personnel working in (a) ports and (b) airports; and whether those qualifications or criteria applied to the recruitment of agency staff, in the last twelve months.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	8968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Border Force have recruited nationally for permanent staff at various grades in the last twelve months. The educational qualifications and other criteria required will be dependent on the grade being recruited.</p><p>However, the basic criteria for all recruitment of permanent staff into Border Force must be:</p><ul><li>Be a UK national; evidence of which, will be required.</li><li>Hold a full and valid passport;</li><li>Be at least 18 years old as you will be required to work between midnight and 4am which is not legal unless you are 18.</li><li>Depending on location and grade have a full and valid driving license</li></ul><p>The agency staff are temporary staff which Border Force engaged for an administrative purpose should the UK have left the EU in a no deal scenario. Their intended role was not consistent with that of a permanent Border Force Officer and the agency staff received training appropriate to the duties to be carried out.</p><p>The criteria for eligibility to apply for agency staff was the consistent with the criteria set out above for permanent recruitment, with the exception that there was no academic qualifications required due to level of responsibilities to be undertaken</p><p>All agency staff were interviewed (assessed) and selected upon suitable demonstration of the following skills:</p><ul><li>excellent interpersonal and communication skills;</li><li>a strong sense of personal ethics and integrity;</li><li>they enjoy interacting with colleagues, members of the public and external stakeholders;</li><li>the ability to build relationships and thrive working as part of a team;</li><li>a desire to develop.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 03/02/2020 18:03:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1173828

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Recruitment
	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 were recruited by her Department in the last twelve months to work on preparations for the UK leaving the EU; and what the Border Force budget has been for (a) additional permanent staff members and (b) agency workers in each financial year since 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	8967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The department has been continually assessing the resourcing levels required to prepare for EU Exit across all possible scenarios, developing contingency plans in line with government policy. It is not possible to provide the number of staff who have been recruited to work on preparations for the UK leaving the EU as staff are generally engaged across a range of workstreams, which will include business as usual activity as well as EU Exit preparations, across all scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last 12 months the department has adapted to the different scenarios in preparation for the UK leaving the EU and our staffing numbers have fluctuated to meet these demands.</p><p>The latest published staffing and finance figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2018-2019 on page 85 at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019</em></a></p><p>The previous published staffing and financial figures for Border Force since 2015 to 2018 can be found at the following links:</p><p><em>2015-2016: </em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</em></a></p><p><em>2016-2017: </em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017</em></a></p><p><em>2017-2018: </em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018</em></a></p><p><em>2018-2019: </em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019</em></a></p><p> </p><p>Excluding EU Exit, Border Force’s gross resource budget for 2019-20 is £488m. This includes an income target of £19m, which means a net allocation of £469m.</p><p>Border Force has received a total of c.£182m for EU Exit preparations in 2019/20. (£141m Resource and £41M Capital)</p><p>Border Force originally received funding, based on a Deal, of £100m; this funding was to fund recruitment for full customs compliance by the end of 2020. The recruitment and training for this uplift of permanent staff has completed bringing the Border Force FTE to over 8,700 from 7,700 in March 2018.</p><p>The additional £41m Resource funding provided throughout 2019-20 enabled further recruitment with Border Force expecting to reach c9,300 FTE by March 2020.</p><p>Border Force received a total £82.1m for EU Exit preparations in 2018/19 (£72.1m Resource and £10m Capital)</p><p>Border Force received a total of £3.2m for EU Exit preparations in 2017/18 (£1.7m Resource and £1.5m Capital)</p><p>Budgets for 20-21 cannot be confirmed as they remain subject to final confirmation.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 03/02/2020 18:01:31 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams