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996983

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress the Government has made on placing vulnerable Syrian families in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	907309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We are on track to meet the Government’s commitment to resettle 20,000 refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme by 2020.</p><p>Over 12,800 refugees who have fled the Syrian conflict have now been resettled since the scheme began, and they are being supported by more than 280 local authorities across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/10/2018 16:56:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

996987

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans his Department has to change passport control procedures at ports and airports in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	907314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government remains of the view that a deal between the UK and the EU is in the best interests of both sides, and we are continuing to work to reach an agreement.</p><p>At the same time, we are obviously taking a responsible approach and are preparing plans for all outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/10/2018 17:05:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

993573

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2018 to Question 180674 on Home Office: staff, how many units within UK Visas and Immigration process post-decision casework; and what category of application each unit processes.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	182725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>There are 6 units (this is based on a unit as a whole not individual teams) within UK Visa and Immigration that complete post decision casework. List below –</p><p><br>• Asylum<br>• Administrative Review<br>• Refused Case Management<br>• Family Human Rights Unit<br>• European &amp; Settlement Casework<br>• International</p><p>Each unit is responsible for processing all categories of post decision casework relevant to their business areas, these include the following –</p><p><br>• Administrative reviews<br>• Appeals implementation<br>• Appeals review<br>• Varying conditions of leave<br>• Further submissions<br>• Reconsideration of decisions<br>• Supplementary decisions<br>• Curtailment<br>• Family reunion<br>• Further representations</p><p>These units are located in the following locations –</p><p><br>• Liverpool<br>• Newcastle<br>• Manchester<br>• Sheffield<br>• Croydon<br>• Beijing<br>• Bogota<br>• Manila<br>• Riyadh<br>• Warsaw<br>• Istanbul<br>• Pretoria<br>• Chennai<br>• Abu Dhabi<br>• Amman<br>• New Delhi</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 182726 question first answered 26/10/2018 12:40:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

993574

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2018 to Question 180674 on Home Office: staff, where each unit that processes post-decision casework in UK Visas and Immigration is located.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	182726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>There are 6 units (this is based on a unit as a whole not individual teams) within UK Visa and Immigration that complete post decision casework. List below –</p><p><br>• Asylum<br>• Administrative Review<br>• Refused Case Management<br>• Family Human Rights Unit<br>• European &amp; Settlement Casework<br>• International</p><p>Each unit is responsible for processing all categories of post decision casework relevant to their business areas, these include the following –</p><p><br>• Administrative reviews<br>• Appeals implementation<br>• Appeals review<br>• Varying conditions of leave<br>• Further submissions<br>• Reconsideration of decisions<br>• Supplementary decisions<br>• Curtailment<br>• Family reunion<br>• Further representations</p><p>These units are located in the following locations –</p><p><br>• Liverpool<br>• Newcastle<br>• Manchester<br>• Sheffield<br>• Croydon<br>• Beijing<br>• Bogota<br>• Manila<br>• Riyadh<br>• Warsaw<br>• Istanbul<br>• Pretoria<br>• Chennai<br>• Abu Dhabi<br>• Amman<br>• New Delhi</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 182725 question first answered 26/10/2018 12:40:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

993589

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Borders: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2018 to Question 173617 on Asylum: Dunkirk, what programmes the Government is funding to improve security at the shared border in northern France.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	182822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Working closely with French partners over the last 4 years, the UK has in-vested almost €150M to enhance border security in Northern France. This work has included physical security measures at all three Juxtaposed ports of Calais, Dunkirk and Coquelles (Eurotunnel), consisting of a com-bination of high security fencing, lighting, CCTV and perimeter detection technologies. Alongside this there has been the installation of secure parking areas for HGV’s and coaches to protect them and to ensure the fluidity of the approach roads.</p><p>The Sandhurst Treaty, signed by the Prime Minister in January 2018, demonstrates the ongoing enhanced joint action by the UK and France to manage our shared border and tackle organised immigration crime. This includes a commitment from the UK to invest an additional £44.5m to pro-tect the shared border. Part of this is being spent to reinforce the security measures in and around smaller ports in northern France, including Dunkirk and Ouistreham near Caen. The Sandhurst Treaty funding has also been used to establish the Joint Information and Coordination Cen-tre (‘CCIC’), which will facilitate cooperation between law enforcement bodies on combatting illegal migration.</p><p>The UK has established the Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce which brings together officers from Border Force, the National Crime Agency, Immigration Enforcement and the Crown Prosecution Service. The Taskforce seeks to use every opportunity, whether that be in source countries, countries migrants travel through or in Europe to identify and tackle organised crime groups involved in organised immigration crime.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/10/2018 12:42:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

993639

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student study visas were refused in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	182844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of study entry clearance visas granted, and refused, is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/10/2018 12:37:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

993672

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of a net reduction in low-skilled immigration on the viability of industries reliant on low-skilled labour.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	182792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to make an economic assessment of the UK’s future immigration needs. We have always been clear that the future immigration system will be based on evidence and we will publish a White Paper setting out plans for the future immigration system later this year.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/10/2018 12:56:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

993726

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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: Stoke on Trent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish a list of properties in Stoke-on-Trent that were considered as alternative locations for the Stoke-on-Trent Reporting Centre.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	182860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Our estates partners were commissioned to identify an alternative site for reporting functions in Stoke that provided adequate access to the public, security and accommodation that would enable us to provide a good level of service to the reporting population. Our partners were unable to locate any such suitable premises in the local area.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/10/2018 12:33:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

992685

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived to the UK under the Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	182235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>We remain fully committed to delivering our commitment to transfer the specified number of 480 children under Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 and are working very closely with participating States, to deliver the scheme in line with their national laws.</p><p>Over 220 children are already in the UK. We will not provide a running commentary on numbers and will publish the details once all children are in the UK.</p><p>We are working very closely with participating States and partners to deliver the scheme in line with their national laws. Relocation of children to the UK is also dependent on the availability of appropriate local authority care placements.</p><p>The Sandhurst Treaty, signed between the UK and France in January 2018, includes a number of measures to strengthen our cooperation on unaccompanied asylum seeking children. This includes a £3.6m development fund to identify projects to support transfers of eligible children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 and the Dublin III Regulation.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/10/2018 15:59:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

992848

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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, with reference to the Oral contribution of 21 June 2018 by the Minister for Immigration on the EU Settlement Scheme, Official Report, column 508, what provisions he plans to put in place for victims of trafficking and modern slavery to help them prove their residency in order to obtain Settled Status.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	182184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Statement of Intent published on 21 June 2018, the EU Settlement Scheme will adopt a flexible approach to evidence of both identity and residence.</p><p>The published caseworker guidance includes a broad range of evidence that caseworkers can accept to establish the applicant’s claimed period of residence in the UK. This includes confirmation from another Government department or agency, such as the National Crime Agency which oversees the National Referral Mechanism for victims of trafficking and modern slavery.</p><p>The Home Office will also accept alternative evidence of identity and nationality where the applicant is unable to obtain or produce the required document due to circumstances beyond their control or due to compelling practical or compassionate reasons. This could include where passports or national identity cards have been confiscated by organised criminal gangs involved in trafficking.</p><p>Furthermore, arrangements are being developed for a range of support to be offered by the Home Office and third parties such as community groups and charities. These include direct support arrangements to assist vulnerable individuals throughout the application process, through tailored telephone advice and support, attendance at one of our assisted digital centres, or where necessary, officials visiting the individual at home.</p><p>With regard to application fees, there are currently no plans to waive fees for victims of trafficking and modern slavery, unless the victim is a child in local authority care. The application fee has been set below the cost of a UK passport and applicants have until 30 June 2021 to make the necessary arrangements to enable them to apply.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 182185 182186 question first answered 25/10/2018 15:48:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield