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1640476

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process is in place for dispatching visas to people who have been successful in applying for Entry Clearance who were in Sudan but have had to flee due to the outbreak of war.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	186851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>Where our records confirm that a customer’s passport is being held in the Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum, UK Visas and Immigration have contacted all those customers that have been issued or refused visa applications in our VAC in Khartoum and offering them a letter confirming that their passport is securely stored and attaching a digital copy of their passport, that may help support their travel out of Sudan and into a third country.</p><p>Where the passport is held in Nairobi or Pretoria and a named individual (either the applicant or a designated 3<sup>rd</sup> party) is identified to return the passport to outside of Sudan, the passport can be sent (to the named individual) by courier or for collection from another visa application centre. For customers that have been able to exit Sudan, processes are in place to re-direct printing of their visa and endorsement on a Form for affixing a visa (FAV) to another VAC location of their choice for collection.</p><p>UK Visas and Immigration are currently operating within their global customer service standards across all of the main legal migration routes for customers who make an entry clearance application from overseas. If exceptional compelling and compassionate circumstances are raised, these will be considered in the usual way.</p><p>Details of current performance against these customer service standards are updated regularly and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk%23join-family-in-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAngela.Duncan%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1567453132274663eae408db5d2dd101%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638206224319053888%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GVs%2BYZZhc5LYCU%2FG3wKkKXmnyClqMbvXZElULg7tibE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p>Customers are able to contact the UK Visas and Immigration contact centre, telephone: 0300 790 6268, Monday to Thursday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:45pm and Friday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:30pm.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 186852 186853 186854 question first answered 07/06/2023 16:58:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1640477

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
	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 will take to process applications for individuals waiting for a decision on entry clearance from Sudan following the closures of the visa application centres.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	186852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>Where our records confirm that a customer’s passport is being held in the Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum, UK Visas and Immigration have contacted all those customers that have been issued or refused visa applications in our VAC in Khartoum and offering them a letter confirming that their passport is securely stored and attaching a digital copy of their passport, that may help support their travel out of Sudan and into a third country.</p><p>Where the passport is held in Nairobi or Pretoria and a named individual (either the applicant or a designated 3<sup>rd</sup> party) is identified to return the passport to outside of Sudan, the passport can be sent (to the named individual) by courier or for collection from another visa application centre. For customers that have been able to exit Sudan, processes are in place to re-direct printing of their visa and endorsement on a Form for affixing a visa (FAV) to another VAC location of their choice for collection.</p><p>UK Visas and Immigration are currently operating within their global customer service standards across all of the main legal migration routes for customers who make an entry clearance application from overseas. If exceptional compelling and compassionate circumstances are raised, these will be considered in the usual way.</p><p>Details of current performance against these customer service standards are updated regularly and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk%23join-family-in-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAngela.Duncan%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1567453132274663eae408db5d2dd101%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638206224319053888%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GVs%2BYZZhc5LYCU%2FG3wKkKXmnyClqMbvXZElULg7tibE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p>Customers are able to contact the UK Visas and Immigration contact centre, telephone: 0300 790 6268, Monday to Thursday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:45pm and Friday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:30pm.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 186851 186853 186854 question first answered 07/06/2023 16:58:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1640478

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether visa application centres in countries neighbouring Sudan will be able to provide the visas dispatched to the Sudanese embassy and visa application centre in Khartoum following their closures due to the outbreak of war.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	186853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>Where our records confirm that a customer’s passport is being held in the Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum, UK Visas and Immigration have contacted all those customers that have been issued or refused visa applications in our VAC in Khartoum and offering them a letter confirming that their passport is securely stored and attaching a digital copy of their passport, that may help support their travel out of Sudan and into a third country.</p><p>Where the passport is held in Nairobi or Pretoria and a named individual (either the applicant or a designated 3<sup>rd</sup> party) is identified to return the passport to outside of Sudan, the passport can be sent (to the named individual) by courier or for collection from another visa application centre. For customers that have been able to exit Sudan, processes are in place to re-direct printing of their visa and endorsement on a Form for affixing a visa (FAV) to another VAC location of their choice for collection.</p><p>UK Visas and Immigration are currently operating within their global customer service standards across all of the main legal migration routes for customers who make an entry clearance application from overseas. If exceptional compelling and compassionate circumstances are raised, these will be considered in the usual way.</p><p>Details of current performance against these customer service standards are updated regularly and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk%23join-family-in-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAngela.Duncan%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1567453132274663eae408db5d2dd101%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638206224319053888%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GVs%2BYZZhc5LYCU%2FG3wKkKXmnyClqMbvXZElULg7tibE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p>Customers are able to contact the UK Visas and Immigration contact centre, telephone: 0300 790 6268, Monday to Thursday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:45pm and Friday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:30pm.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 186851 186852 186854 question first answered 07/06/2023 16:58:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1640564

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process is in place for individuals asking for information on a family member’s application for entry.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	186854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>Where our records confirm that a customer’s passport is being held in the Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum, UK Visas and Immigration have contacted all those customers that have been issued or refused visa applications in our VAC in Khartoum and offering them a letter confirming that their passport is securely stored and attaching a digital copy of their passport, that may help support their travel out of Sudan and into a third country.</p><p>Where the passport is held in Nairobi or Pretoria and a named individual (either the applicant or a designated 3<sup>rd</sup> party) is identified to return the passport to outside of Sudan, the passport can be sent (to the named individual) by courier or for collection from another visa application centre. For customers that have been able to exit Sudan, processes are in place to re-direct printing of their visa and endorsement on a Form for affixing a visa (FAV) to another VAC location of their choice for collection.</p><p>UK Visas and Immigration are currently operating within their global customer service standards across all of the main legal migration routes for customers who make an entry clearance application from overseas. If exceptional compelling and compassionate circumstances are raised, these will be considered in the usual way.</p><p>Details of current performance against these customer service standards are updated regularly and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk%23join-family-in-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAngela.Duncan%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1567453132274663eae408db5d2dd101%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638206224319053888%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GVs%2BYZZhc5LYCU%2FG3wKkKXmnyClqMbvXZElULg7tibE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p>Customers are able to contact the UK Visas and Immigration contact centre, telephone: 0300 790 6268, Monday to Thursday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:45pm and Friday (excluding bank holidays), 9am to 4:30pm.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 186851 186852 186853 question first answered 07/06/2023 16:58:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1129812

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Company Cars: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reduce the benefit-in-kind tax rate on electric vehicles before 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	259934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>In 2020-21, the government will introduce a 2% company car tax rate for cars with zero emissions. Together with new, reduced rates for plug-in hybrids, these reforms will help the government to meet its environmental objectives.</p><p> </p><p>To provide certainty for company car drivers, employers and employees, the government aims to announce company car tax rates in advance of implementation. Therefore, the government has no plans to introduce these rates ahead of 6 April 2020.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/06/2019 13:27:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood