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1131692

registered interest
date	12/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Turkey
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 reverse his decision of March 2018 to close the permanent residency route under the Ankara Agreement for Turkish nationals who have set up businesses in the UK and are seeking indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	263838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The Upper Tribunal concluded, in the case of Aydogdu, that there was no legal basis under the Ankara Agreement for the previous route to indefinite leave to remain (ILR) for Turkish nationals who have set up businesses in the UK.</p><p><br>The Home Office therefore closed the route in March 2018 and, though not obliged to do so, introduced a route via the domestic Immigration Rules to enable Turkish business persons and their family members to obtain ILR where certain criteria are met.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/06/2019 10:15:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1122736

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Commonwealth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will remove visa charges for Commonwealth UK Armed Forces personnel and their immediate families when applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	247139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to remove visa fees for Commonwealth armed forces personnel, or their immediate family members.</p><p>Fee concessions on the grounds of nationality are only available to meet legal or international convention obligations. It would be unfair if certain applicants or routes benefited from free applications or reduced fees, at the expense of others.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/04/2019 13:34:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1122157

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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, how many applications for visit visas his Department received from Iranian nationals in each of the last four years; and how many of those applications were refused.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	245911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>Applications for visit visas are considered against Appendix V of the Immigration Rules and on a case by case basis. Detailed information on how UK Visas and Immigration makes decisions on visitor cases is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance</a></p><p>Information on total entry clearance visas (the majority of which are visitor visas) broken down by nationality and outcome (grants, refusals, withdrawals, lapsed) is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 ta-ble vi_02_q at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/04/2019 12:06:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1110365

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Innovator Visa applicants were granted endorsements by official endorsing bodies since the introduction of the Innovator Visa.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	242208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Tier 1 Innovator visa was launched on 29th March 2019. It has not yet been in operation for a long enough time period for any meaningful data to be collected.</p><p>A full list of authorised endorsing bodies is published on gov.uk at the following location:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator</a></p><p>It is a matter for endorsing bodies to decide if they will only endorse applicants to their own programmes and how to publicise their processes for obtaining Innovator visa endorsement. The Home Office has published guidance for endorsing bodies on how to assess applications at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 242209 242210 242211 242212 question first answered 11/04/2019 09:08:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1110366

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Innovation
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 the names of endorsing bodies for applications to the Innovator Visa programme.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	242209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Tier 1 Innovator visa was launched on 29th March 2019. It has not yet been in operation for a long enough time period for any meaningful data to be collected.</p><p>A full list of authorised endorsing bodies is published on gov.uk at the following location:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator</a></p><p>It is a matter for endorsing bodies to decide if they will only endorse applicants to their own programmes and how to publicise their processes for obtaining Innovator visa endorsement. The Home Office has published guidance for endorsing bodies on how to assess applications at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 242208 242210 242211 242212 question first answered 11/04/2019 09:08:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1110372

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to ensure that all endorsing bodies for the Innovator Visa have published guidance that informs applicants of how to apply for an endorsement required for the Visa.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	242210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Tier 1 Innovator visa was launched on 29th March 2019. It has not yet been in operation for a long enough time period for any meaningful data to be collected.</p><p>A full list of authorised endorsing bodies is published on gov.uk at the following location:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator</a></p><p>It is a matter for endorsing bodies to decide if they will only endorse applicants to their own programmes and how to publicise their processes for obtaining Innovator visa endorsement. The Home Office has published guidance for endorsing bodies on how to assess applications at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 242208 242209 242211 242212 question first answered 11/04/2019 09:08:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1110378

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants to the Innovator Visa programme will be required to apply for the existing accelerator programmes of the listed endorsing bodies.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	242211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Tier 1 Innovator visa was launched on 29th March 2019. It has not yet been in operation for a long enough time period for any meaningful data to be collected.</p><p>A full list of authorised endorsing bodies is published on gov.uk at the following location:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator</a></p><p>It is a matter for endorsing bodies to decide if they will only endorse applicants to their own programmes and how to publicise their processes for obtaining Innovator visa endorsement. The Home Office has published guidance for endorsing bodies on how to assess applications at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 242208 242209 242210 242212 question first answered 11/04/2019 09:08:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1110379

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Innovator Visas have been granted since the launch of the programme in March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	242212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Tier 1 Innovator visa was launched on 29th March 2019. It has not yet been in operation for a long enough time period for any meaningful data to be collected.</p><p>A full list of authorised endorsing bodies is published on gov.uk at the following location:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-innovator</a></p><p>It is a matter for endorsing bodies to decide if they will only endorse applicants to their own programmes and how to publicise their processes for obtaining Innovator visa endorsement. The Home Office has published guidance for endorsing bodies on how to assess applications at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 242208 242209 242210 242211 question first answered 11/04/2019 09:08:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1088484

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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, whether he has visited an immigration removal centre since his appointment as Home Secretary.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	232066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary and Home Office Ministers conduct visits, and host meetings, on the whole spectrum of Home Office business regularly. It is our policy not to provide details of such visits.</p><p><br>Information on ministers’ meetings is released quarterly as part of Government transparency and accountability data and is available at:</p><p /> <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-july-to-september-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/03/2019 17:26:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1084450

registered interest
date	08/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times he has visited immigration detention centres since his appointment as Secretary of State for the Home Department; and which immigration detention centres he has so visited.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	230099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary and Home Office Ministers conduct visits, and host meetings, on the whole spectrum of Home Office business regularly. It is our policy not to provide details of such visits.</p><p>Information on ministers’ meetings is released quarterly as part of Government transparency and accountability data and is available at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-july-to-september-2018</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2019 14:36:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq