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947285

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	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 estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the private pilot of the new application process for the EU Settlement Scheme due to begin in the North West on 28 August 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	167895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2018 answer text <p>£170 million has been allocated this year for the further development and delivery of the EU Settlement Scheme. This includes building and testing the elements of scheme functionality which will be used during the private beta phase.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 07/09/2018 17:35:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

711103

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of parents were under (a) Direct Pay and (b) Collect and Pay schemes in each year of the operation of the (i) Child Support Agency and (ii) Child Maintenance Service.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	67888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>i) For the Child Support Agency, the requested information relates to Maintenance Direct and the Collection Service as the service types for the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Proportions (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Collection Service<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Maintenance Direct</p></td><td><p>Collection Service</p></td><td><p>Maintenance Direct</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2003<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>903,600</p></td><td><p>91,500</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2004</p></td><td><p>921,500</p></td><td><p>86,100</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2005</p></td><td><p>960,700</p></td><td><p>93,500</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2006</p></td><td><p>1,020,600</p></td><td><p>112,800</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2007</p></td><td><p>1,048,700</p></td><td><p>132,300</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2008<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>1,083,200</p></td><td><p>153,900</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2009</p></td><td><p>1,079,700</p></td><td><p>165,300</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2010<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>981,000</p></td><td><p>169,800</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2011</p></td><td><p>971,600</p></td><td><p>174,100</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2012</p></td><td><p>1,159,800</p></td><td><p>172,000</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2013</p></td><td><p>1,196,400</p></td><td><p>181,900</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>1,206,500</p></td><td><p>185,000</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>1,151,300</p></td><td><p>181,500</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>1,081,900</p></td><td><p>138,600</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>1) Figures are provided from 2003 onwards as figures before this date do not include off system cases and it would be disproportionate cost to try and attain these figures.</p><p>2) Figures from April 2008 onwards reflect the performance of cases off system and cases where a payment has been made manually as well as cases on the computer systems.</p><p>3) A drop in the caseload from March 2010 can be attributed to the removal of suspended cases on the CSCS computer system</p><p>4) Figures for the Collection Service include all the caseload except Maintenance Direct cases not just those with a current liability.</p><p> </p><p>More details can be found on page 4 of the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics which can be accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/592860/csa-quarterly-summary-statistics-december-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/592860/csa-quarterly-summary-statistics-december-2016.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>ii) For the Child Maintenance Service, the requested information is only available since August 2014 and is provided in the Table below for each year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mar-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mar-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Collect &amp; Pay</p></td><td><p>28,600</p></td><td><p>51,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Direct Pay</p></td><td><p>60,100</p></td><td><p>120,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Proportions (%)</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Collect &amp; Pay</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Direct Pay</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>More details can be found on page 8 of the Child Maintenance Scheme quarterly summary of statistics which can be accessed online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/585260/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-nov-2017-experimental.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/585260/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-nov-2017-experimental.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The figures are case based, note that a parent may have more than one case and may have cases on both Direct Pay and Collect and Pay schemes.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/03/2017 15:29:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1105603

	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	Architecture: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to meet with representatives of the architecture profession to discuss architects' concerns on the Immigration White Paper.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	237576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>he Government published the White Paper ;The UK’s future skills-based immigration system (Cm 9722) on 19 December 2018. The White Paper is the start of a new conversation and we have launched a year-long engagement programme to take the views of stakeholders across the UK to hear their priorities, concerns and ideas before policies and processes are finalised and the new system comes into force from January 2021. We are determined to ensure that the future system is efficient and able to respond to users’ needs.</p><p>We have already delivered around 30 events reaching well over 500 stakeholders, for example, business and employer representatives, including the Confederation of Business Industry, the Federation of Small Businesses, as well as those from the health and social care sector, the hospitality industry and the construction and automotive industries. We are holding discussions with sectors and also across the UK, and have already held events in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with events in Wales being scheduled for April This is in addition to our continued engagement and negotiations with the EU and international partners.</p><p>As part of this engagement, we have established a range of advisory groups to enable detailed discussions with private, public and voluntary sector employers and industry representatives. Membership details of these groups will be published on gov.uk shortly.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/04/2019 16:13:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

683104

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Motability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 17 January 2017 to Question 59783 and 59784, on personal independence payment: motability, what the (a) estimated cost was to his Department of answering those Questions, (b) maximum amount his Department will spend on an Answer, (c) average cost to his Department per Answer and (d) maximum and minimum amount spent on answering a Question was in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	62739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>a)</p><p>In order to answer the hon. Member’s question 59783, “how many people who were previously in receipt of the enhanced personal independence payment and qualified for the Motability scheme have since been reassessed and lost their Motability vehicle”, would require the linking together of several complex datasets and quality assurance of the results. It is estimated that this would take in excess of 5 working days and would therefore exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested by the hon. Member’s question 59784, “how many people who were previously in receipt of the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance and qualified for the Motability scheme, have been reassessed and lost their Motability vehicle”, is not included in datasets underpinning routine publication of benefit statistics. It is estimated that, to access the original datasets and carry out the necessary quality assurance, would take in excess of 5 working days and similarly would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.</p><p> </p><p>b) and c)</p><p>The disproportionate cost threshold of £850 and the average cost of written parliamentary questions of £164 were determined by HM Treasury and notified to Parliament by written statement by the Economic Secretary to the Treasury on 8 February 2012. <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-02-08/debates/12020833000014/ParliamentaryQuestions?highlight=disproportionate%20cost%20threshold#contribution-12020833000033" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-02-08/debates/12020833000014/ParliamentaryQuestions?highlight=disproportionate%20cost%20threshold#contribution-12020833000033</a></p><p> </p><p>d)</p><p>The information requested is not held.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2017 15:40:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

626733

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Children: Tottenham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Tottenham constituency (a) are entitled to claim child benefit and (b) have experienced payment arrears due to non-resident parents not paying full or any child maintenance within the last 12 months; and what the total value of these unpaid arrears is.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51451
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>a) The number of people entitled to claim Child Benefit in Tottenham constituency is not available. However, the number of families who received Child Benefit in the constituency can be found in Table 6 from Child Benefit statistics geographical analysis: August 2015: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-benefit-statistics-geographical-analysis-august-2015" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-benefit-statistics-geographical-analysis-august-2015</strong></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>b) In the 12 months to June 2016, 450 cases with the Child Support Agency in the Tottenham constituency have experienced new payment arrears due to a non-resident parent either not paying any child maintenance or not paying in full.</p><p> </p><p>The total value of arrears on cases in the Tottenham constituency stood at £5,461,264. This is for all cases, and not just those with arrears that have built up in the 12 months to June 2016, and includes arrears from the whole life of the case.</p><p> </p><p>Information on geographical breakdowns on the Child Maintenance Scheme is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><br>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>2) Monetary values are rounded to the nearest pound.</p><p>3) Cases have been allocated to a parliamentary constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care or non-resident parent for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems and cases managed off system to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/11/2016 17:11:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1019791

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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 estimate he has made of the (a) number of (i) EU and (ii) EEA nationals that will have the right to reside permanently in the UK; and (b) number UK citizens that will have the right to reside permanently in EU Member states after March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	198842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>a) The impact assessment for the EU Settlement Scheme estimates that between 3.5m and 4m EEA nationals (excluding Irish nationals) will be eligible to apply for the scheme by the end of the Implementation Period in December 2020.</p><p><br>The IA is published at: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/875/impacts." target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/875/impacts. </a></p><p><br>b) The Home Office does not hold this information. The Office for National Statistics has published estimates of the number of UK nationals who are resident in other EU countries at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/livingabroad/april2018" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/livingabroad/april2018</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2019 15:56:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

984866

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long they spent at the border in each of those visits.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	177812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>a) Ministers have travelled between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Details of Ministers’ overseas travel are published quarterly and are available on GOV.UK.</p><p>b) Details of business expenses incurred by senior officials include domestic and international travel. This information is also published quarterly and is available on GOV.UK.</p><p>The information requested for all officials in my Department is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/10/2018 16:30:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

601175

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in the North East received child maintenance through the (a) Child Support Agency and (b) Child Maintenance Service in 2015-16; and how many of those families were (i) single-parent families, (ii) low-income families, (iii) survivors of domestic violence and (iv) workless households.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	48694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>a) Child Support Agency</p><p>We are unable to give a figure on how many total cases have received a payment in 2015-16 via the Child Support Agency as this is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However we can provide a position at the beginning and end of the year 2015-16.</p><p>As at March 2015 there were 75,500 live cases being managed by the Child Support Agency in the North East.</p><p>As at March 2016 there were 69,100 live cases being managed by the Child Support Agency in the North East.</p><p>Further breakdowns for single parent families, low income families, survivors of domestic families and workless families are not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>b) Child Maintenance Service</p><p>We are not yet in a position to release geographical breakdowns on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when data become available and fully quality assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p>Notes:</p><p>1- Figures rounded to nearest 100.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/10/2016 14:40:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

890504

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Windrush helpline is staffed by people who are directly employed by her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	137392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Yes, the helpline is staffed by people directly employed by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 30/04/2018 15:03:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1051495

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Iran
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Iranian citizens able to apply for visas to visit the UK at the Visas and Immigration Centre in Tehran.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	214474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Yes, Iranian citizens are able to apply for visas to visit the UK at the Visas Application Centre in Tehran.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 18:45:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz