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825432

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which criteria are applied by UK Visas and Immigration staff when judging a visa application to be non-straightforward; and what service standards govern the (a) processing of such applications and (b) updating the applicant on the status and progress of their application.
tabling member constituency	Filton and Bradley Stoke
tabling member printed	Jack Lopresti
uin	123573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Visa applications are considered to be complex when an Entry Clearance Officer determines that additional information is required in order for a decision to be made. <br>There are no set standards for processing non-straightforward (identified as complex) by the caseworker. However, if an application is complex and expected to take longer than the standard processing timescale, UKVI will write to the customer within the standard processing time and explain what will happen next</p><p>The published information on processing times for visa applications is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 15:40:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3989 label Biography information for Jack Lopresti

825514

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of unauthorised sharing of asylum information there have been in her Department in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	123652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of incidents of unauthorised sharing of asylum information and the amount of compensation paid by the department for unauthorised sharing of asylum information is not held in a format which is reportable.</p><p>It is contrary to Home Office policy to disclose information on individual asylum cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123653 question first answered 23/01/2018 15:49:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

825515

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid in compensation as a result of its unauthorised sharing of asylum information since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	123653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of incidents of unauthorised sharing of asylum information and the amount of compensation paid by the department for unauthorised sharing of asylum information is not held in a format which is reportable.</p><p>It is contrary to Home Office policy to disclose information on individual asylum cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123652 question first answered 23/01/2018 15:49:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

825519

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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
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 potential merits of establishing a special volunteer force to support Border Force.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	123657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office is in the process of taking advice on a range of options from other law enforcement bodies such as police forces, which have successfully deployed well-trained, high calibre Special Constables for many years, to examine whether a Special Volunteer force within Border Force would provide benefits and bolster existing activity. No decision has been made on whether BF specials should proceed to a pilot.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 07:23:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

825556

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter of the hon. Member for Edinburgh East of 14 November 2017; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure that MPs' offices are able to access their account manager team at UK Visas and Immigration.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	123690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The hon. Member’s letter of 14 November 2017 was received and a response will be issued as soon as possible.</p><p>MPs’ offices have a number of ways to contact their MP Account Management (MPAM) team; by phone, email or letter. Additionally if phone lines are engaged they have been given the MP Account Manager’s personal mobile number for urgent queries and also advised to email to book a call back from the MPAM team.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 15:52:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

825585

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the immigration detention estate cost the public purse in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	123719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Detention costs are published in the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts and they can be found via the following links</p><p><strong>FY2016/17 - page 115</strong>:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627853/ho_annual_report_and_accounts_2016_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627853/ho_annual_report_and_accounts_2016_2017.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>FY2015/16 - page 132</strong>:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539638/HO_AR_16_gov.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539638/HO_AR_16_gov.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>FY2014/15 – page 124</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441282/HO-AR15_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441282/HO-AR15_web.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>FY2013/14 – page 110</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 16:48:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

825603

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detainees: Ilois
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information she holds on the number of people of Chagossian descent who have been (a) detained in immigration detention centres or (d) deported from the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	123731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 07:23:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

824413

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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, whether her Department has carried out modelling on potential changes in migration numbers caused by the savings and salary thresholds for spousal visa applications being raised or lowered.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	123214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The savings and salary thresholds for spousal visa applications are dictated by the minimum income requirement. It was set following advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee and considering the Policy Equality Statement published on 13 June 2012. In February 2017, the Supreme Court upheld the lawfulness of the minimum income requirement under the family Immigration Rules, including in terms of equalities impacts and in light of the published Policy Equality Statement.</p><p>Any future amendment to the minimum income requirement would be subject to thorough equality and impact analysis and a further Policy Equality Statement will be published.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 16:28:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

824414

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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, whether her Department plans to introduce a maximum waiting time for a reply to applications for indefinite leave to remain under the ten-year settlement route.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	123215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The current maximum waiting time for a straightforward application for indefinite leave to remain under the ten-year settlement route is six months, there are currently no plans to change this.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 16:30:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

824428

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
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 twelfth report of 2016-17 of the Home Affairs Committee, Asylum accommodation published on 17 January 2017, HC 637, whether there are plans to enable councils to provide independent oversight of the condition of asylum seeker housing.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on the 18th January 2018, UIN 122556.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 15:47:35 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel