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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

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

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

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

824602

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	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications that were sponsored by an NHS Trust or hospital were rejected by her Department in each of the first three quarters of 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	123403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/01/2018 17:06:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

824639

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	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average duration of detention for detained migrants was in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	123440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Figures for Q4 2017 will be released on 22 February 2018. Information on the length of detention of people leaving and in detention is available in tables dt_06_q and dt_11_q of the detention tables in the latest releases of ‘Immigration Statistics, July to September 2017’, available from the Home Office website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662536/detention-jul-sep-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662536/detention-jul-sep-2017-tables.ods</a>.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/01/2018 17:37:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

823375

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: 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 families have been reunified under her Department's policy on family reunification of refugees in each of the last three years; and if she will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	122858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on entry clearance visa grants in the Family: Other category are published in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2017’, Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q, available from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017.</p><p>The “Family: Other” category consists of: <br>• Family reunion: pre-existing family members (partners, minor children) of a person with refugee leave or humanitarian protection, who has not yet obtained British citizenship;<br>• From July 2012: dependants who are not partners or children of those with refugee leave or humanitarian protection;<br>• From July 2012: parents with access rights to a child.</p><p>There are a small number of applications for family reunion where leave is granted in exceptional circumstances outside the Immigration Rules which are not included in the Family: Other category.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/01/2018 17:46:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

823398

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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, if her Department will undertake a review of leave to remain procedures and error rates.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	122879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration continually reviews its operation to improve performance and accountability. Customer feedback, including complaints, are taken into account to ensure we offer value for money; which includes improving the services we offer, the quality of the decisions we make and the provision of an excellent customer service. When we are informed of errors we work promptly to rectify them.</p><p>More widely, we have assurance regimes which aim to increase consistent quality and identify good and weak practice within the department. We utilise three regimes; operational oversight, independent business reviews and third party reviews, in conjunction with the wider Home Office, in order to develop and ensure best practice.</p><p>Data on performance against service standard in relation to replies to customer complaints for UKVI, Immigration Enforcement and Border Force can be found at table MP 03 at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-november-2017 </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/01/2018 17:45:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

823447

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had on introducing a clear limit on the length of time people can be held in immigration removal centres; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	122925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce a fixed time limit on immigration detention as this would only encourage detainees to refuse to cooperate with immigration and asylum processes until they reached the point at which they had to be released from detention and thus avoid their enforced removal from the UK. Published Home Office policy is clear, however, that detention is only used for the shortest period necessary, during which time any health and welfare needs detained persons may have are met through the provision of appropriate services</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/offender-management" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/offender-management</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 122928 question first answered 22/01/2018 17:42:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

823448

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres
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 effectiveness of safeguards to ensure that (a) vulnerable people diagnosed with a mental health condition and (b) victims of torture are not held in immigration removal centres.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	122926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Detention is an important part of a firm but fair immigration system, helping to ensure that those with no right to remain in the UK are returned to their home country if they will not leave voluntarily. There is an underpinning presumption in immigration policy that a person will not be detained. Immigration detention is used sparingly and for the shortest period necessary.</p><p>When a vulnerable individual is considered for immigration detention, that consideration takes place in line with the adults at risk in immigration detention policy. The policy came into force in September 2016 and was part of the Government’s response to Stephen Shaw’s review of the welfare of vulnerable people in immigration detention. Victims of torture and individuals suffering from a mental health condition are amongst the groups of individuals who are protected by this policy.</p><p>Each case is decided on its own merits, on the basis of available evidence. Vulnerable individuals are detained only when immigration control factors – removability, public protection and compliance with immigration law – in their particular case outweigh the evidence of their vulnerability.</p><p>All detention decisions are subject to review by the Home Office Detention Gatekeeper, which is an internally independent function.</p><p>It is not possible for an individual to be detained having been assessed as unsuitable for detention by the Detention Gatekeeper, whether it be on grounds of mental health, as a victims of torture or a victim of modern slavery.</p><p>The Government considers that the adults at risk policy is an effective safeguard against the inappropriate detention of vulnerable people.</p><p>Once detained the Home Office has additional safeguards in place to ensure that vulnerable people do not remain in detention longer than is necessary or appropriate. Since February 2017 Case Progression Panels have been internally reviewing cases every three months to ensure case progression towards return.</p><p>From the 15 January 2018, the Secretary of State has a duty to refer individuals to the independent Immigration and Asylum Tribunal for consideration of bail four months from the point of detention of the last Tribunal consideration of bail and every four months thereafter. This duty does not extend to individuals detained for deportation or on national security grounds.</p><p>The follow up to the independent review by Stephen Shaw CBE into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons started on 4 September 2017. As part of this stocktake Mr Shaw will be assessing the implementation of all of his earlier review recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/01/2018 17:43:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra