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1329931

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	For what reason her Department continues to monitor asylum seekers' usage of Aspen Cards.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	901027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Aspen cards are prepaid debit cards used to provide financial support to destitute asylum seekers. Their use is recorded and will be investigated where there are safeguarding concerns, for example to help locate a person who has gone missing, or potential breaches of the conditions of support to which the recipients have agreed, such as to prevent fraud.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/06/2021 16:05:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1329934

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to support non-UK (a) veterans and (b) armed forces dependants with regularising their immigration status.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	901018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>I am immensely proud that brave servicemen and women from around the world want to call the UK their home after their service.</p><p>The Government has launched a public consultation on how we recognise their contribution by not only smoothing the pathway to residency and citizenship, but also by waiving the fee for doing so after 12 years of service.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/06/2021 15:50:23 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1329937

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress she has made on resolving the immigration status of overseas students who have been falsely accused of cheating in English language tests.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	901022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>I am grateful to the Rt. Hon Gentleman for this question, I know he has been a staunch advocate on this issue.</p><p>As the Rt. Hon member is aware there is an important Upper Tribunal judgment pending on this matter and it is right to wait for the outcome of that. But we have been reviewing our approach in the meantime and I will meet the Hon. Member once that review is complete.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/06/2021 15:56:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1329938

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to stop illegal immigration across the English Channel.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Mrs Natalie Elphicke
uin	901023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>The danger to life from Channel crossings and the criminality behind it is simply unacceptable.</p><p>Journeys are often illegally-facilitated and totally unnecessary; France and other EU countries are safe with fully functioning asylum systems.</p><p>We are working tirelessly to make this route unviable.</p><p>We are introducing legislation to fix our broken asylum system and create a fairer and firmer system.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/06/2021 15:58:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4795 label Biography information for Mrs Natalie Elphicke

1329939

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
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: Shipping
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that British shipyards can compete in procurement processes for UK Border Force vessels.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Bob Seely
uin	901024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Earlier this year, the Secretary of State for Defence announced a refresh of the National Shipbuilding Strategy. This will outline the Government’s plans for shipbuilding programmes and how it intends to set the conditions for a globally successful, innovative and sustainable national shipbuilding enterprise.</p><p>Naturally, the Home Office and specifically Border Force is fully engaged with the strategy refresh as part of its programme to renew our maritime capabilities.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/06/2021 15:59:48 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4681 label Biography information for Bob Seely

1328212

registered interest
date	26/05/2021
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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the Home Department of 25 May 2021, column 81WH on the Asylum Dispersal System, if she will publish a list of the local authorities which have adopted voluntary dispersal agreements.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	7733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support</a> (opens in a new tab) Data is published on a quarterly basis, with the latest information published 27 May 2021.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of these statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated in dispersal accommodation for the first time in each quarter in each of the last two years, by local authority. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 7734 question first answered 07/06/2021 08:42:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1328215

registered interest
date	26/05/2021
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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the Home Department of 25 May 2021, column 81WH on the Asylum Dispersal Scheme, if she will publish the 40 local authorities which have adopted the voluntary dispersal agreements but have providers unable to find suitable properties for the Asylum Dispersal System.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	7734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support</a> (opens in a new tab) Data is published on a quarterly basis, with the latest information published 27 May 2021.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of these statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated in dispersal accommodation for the first time in each quarter in each of the last two years, by local authority. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 7733 question first answered 07/06/2021 08:42:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1327747

registered interest
date	25/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to provide safe and legal routes to the UK for unaccompanied child refugees.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	7231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government committed to review safe and legal routes to the UK, and has a statutory duty to conduct a public consultation on family reunion for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the EU. We are meeting our statutory duty by completing a comprehensive consultation and engagement process as part of the wider consultation on the New Plan for Immigration, which closed on 6 May 2021. We will consider the consultation responses carefully.</p><p>The UK already provides a number of routes for children to reunite with family members in the UK under our Immigration Rules. We have also published guidance that signposts these existing routes at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overview-of-family-reunion-options-in-the-immigration-rules" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overview-of-family-reunion-options-in-the-immigration-rules</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/06/2021 08:55:33 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq