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1548921

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: 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 UKVI Visa applications have not been processed within the 3-week service standard since 1 January 2022; what proportion of UKVI Visa applications have not been processed within the 3-week service standard since 1 January 2022; what the average wait time for UKVI Visa applications is; and how many UKVI Visa application cases are outstanding past the 3-week service standard deadline.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	104408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>Information relating to the processing times of visas can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/12/2022 16:21:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1548923

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports: Lost Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were lost by the Passport Office in each year since 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	104409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>The data held for secure delivery services does not break down losses by passports only.</p><p>The table below shows the passports and supporting documents confirmed as lost in the possession of providers of secure delivery services as a percentage of applications received in each year from 2018:<br></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UK</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Overseas</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of passports and supporting documents lost </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of passports and supporting documents lost* </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>0.006%</p></td><td><p>0.020%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>0.002%</p></td><td><p>0.017%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>0.002%</p></td><td><p>0.013%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p>0.009%</p></td><td><p>0.036%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022 </strong></p></td><td><p>0.006% **</p></td><td><p>0.030% ***</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* The data held does not distinguish between items confirmed as ‘lost’, and those that declared as ‘stolen’.</p><p>** Data currently held from 1 January to 30 September.</p><p>*** Data currently held from 1 January to 31 October.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/12/2022 11:16:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1548924

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	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 what proportion of Family Visa applications from outside the UK have not been processed within the 24-week standard processing time since January 1 2022; what is the current average wait time for these visa applications; and how many of these visa applications are currently outstanding past standard processing time deadline.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	104410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>Numbers and proportions of Family Visa applications from outside the UK not processed within the 24-week standard processing times have not yet been published for this period. They will be published as part of transparency data in due course.</p><p>Average decision wait times or data on the number or proportion of family visa applications which have taken more than 24 weeks to process, do not form part of any current transparency data and are not published.</p><p>The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldFamily.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C68baeb4cb470480dc90608da47a2e699%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637901062213241689%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pD9T%2Bmx2%2FMyxOHRWsrOirYLvh1pmqYgqjTuQnf%2FAjH0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/12/2022 16:19:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1535569

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the graduate visa route, introduced in 2021, remains his Department's policy objective.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	69755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>Our offer to international students is extremely competitive and ensures that we continue to attract the best and brightest students from around the world.</p><p>The Government’s International Education Strategy set out a target of attracting 600,000 international Higher Education students to the UK by 2030, which we have achieved almost a decade early.</p><p> </p><p>The public also rightly expects us to control immigration and ensure we have a system that works in the UK’s best interests.</p><p> </p><p>As the Growth Plan set out, the Government is looking at how immigration contributes to growth and will set out further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 69756 question first answered 02/11/2022 11:01:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 29600 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1535570

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	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 impact of capping the number of graduate visas on the UK’s economy.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	69756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>Our offer to international students is extremely competitive and ensures that we continue to attract the best and brightest students from around the world.</p><p>The Government’s International Education Strategy set out a target of attracting 600,000 international Higher Education students to the UK by 2030, which we have achieved almost a decade early.</p><p> </p><p>The public also rightly expects us to control immigration and ensure we have a system that works in the UK’s best interests.</p><p> </p><p>As the Growth Plan set out, the Government is looking at how immigration contributes to growth and will set out further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 69755 question first answered 02/11/2022 11:01:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 29597 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1518853

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports: Postal Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports handled by the Passport Office have been lost in the post in each year since 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	58932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2022 answer text <p>The data is not held in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/10/2022 14:27:44 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1519028

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dahua Technology and Hikvision: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using or procuring (a) Hikvision or (b) Dahua surveillance technologies.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	59172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive administrations, it is not government policy to comment on the security arrangements of government buildings. Specific details regarding the make and model of security systems procured and used by the Government are withheld on national security grounds.</p><p>The National Cyber Security Centre and the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure provide guidance on the use of IP-connected cameras and cyber-connected physical security systems.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 19/10/2022 09:19:32 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat previous answer version 24434 answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1519267

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the yearly change was in numbers of staff working in the Passport Office from (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-2017, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-2019, (e) 2019-2020, (f) 2020-21 and (g) 2021-22.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	59969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2022 answer text <p>The table below shows the data held for full-time equivalent staffing numbers at His Majesty’s Passport Office on 31 March, for each year from 2015:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4,376</p></td><td><p>4,059</p></td><td><p>3,879</p></td><td><p>3,680</p></td><td><p>3,620</p></td><td><p>3,947</p></td><td><p>3,704</p></td><td><p>4,466</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/10/2022 14:34:16 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1519303

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total budget for the Passport Office (a) was in financial year 2021-22 and (b) is in financial year 2022-23.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	59972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The annual budget of the Passport Office is published every year as part of Customer Services Capability within the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>For financial year 2021-22, refer to pages 128-129, published as part of the Statement of Outturn against Parliamentary Supply (SOPS), in the 2021-22 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts. See:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1090460/Home_Office_ARA_21-22_Final_-_Gov.uk.pdf" target="_blank">Home_Office_ARA_21-22_Final_-_Gov.uk.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p>With regards to the 2022-23 budget, you can find the information required in the published Main Supply Estimates. Refer to page 84 (page 87 on the PDF reader). See:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1084761/E02762396_HC_396_HMT_Main_Supply_Estimates_22-23_WEB.pdf#:~:text=2022-23%20Main%20Supply%20Estimates%206.%20The%20total%20resource,881.8%20billion.%20This%20spending%20is%20broadly%20consistent%20with" target="_blank">Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23 – Main Supply Estimates (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 18/10/2022 15:58:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1507513

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Lost Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications of situations where HM Passport Office has lost supporting documents for first-time adult British passport applications, withdrawn these applications and asked the applicant to bear the costs of resubmitting a new application and applying for new supporting documents; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	53479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2022 answer text <p>While the loss of documents by HM Passport Office is rare, any losses are taken extremely seriously.</p><p> </p><p>It is HM Passport Office's policy to reimburse any reasonable out of pocket expenses as a result of any error, which includes the replacement of lost documents. Where it has been determined that a passport application has been withdrawn in error, the customer will be invited to submit a replacement application at no further cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/10/2022 07:49:09 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse