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1379071

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of removing the non-administrative costs of British citizenship application fees.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	75979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on citizenship applications and grants at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-june-2021#citizenship" target="_blank">Immigration statistics data tables, year ending June 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>An incomplete payment is just one of a number of reasons which could lead to an application being rejected and included under the ‘<em>rejected applications’</em> heading in Table 4.</p><p>The Home Office does not have accessible management information on applications rejected in Wales specifically, as a result of being unable to pay the non-administrative costs of citizenship fees.</p><p>Fees are regularly reviewed and set within the parameters agreed by Parliament in section 68 of the Immigration Act 2014.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 75980 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:49:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1379072

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of eligible applicants in (a) Wales and (b) the rest of the UK who cannot make an application for British citizenship as a result of being unable to pay the non-administrative costs.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	75980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on citizenship applications and grants at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-june-2021#citizenship" target="_blank">Immigration statistics data tables, year ending June 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>An incomplete payment is just one of a number of reasons which could lead to an application being rejected and included under the ‘<em>rejected applications’</em> heading in Table 4.</p><p>The Home Office does not have accessible management information on applications rejected in Wales specifically, as a result of being unable to pay the non-administrative costs of citizenship fees.</p><p>Fees are regularly reviewed and set within the parameters agreed by Parliament in section 68 of the Immigration Act 2014.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 75979 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:49:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1367417

registered interest
date	09/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle delays to (a) interviews and (b) asylum decisions for asylum seekers processed by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	72437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office is pursuing a wide range of programmes which will transform our systems and processes alongside a number of business improvement initiatives to speed up decision making, reduce the time people spend in the system and reduce the numbers who are awaiting an interview where required or a decision.</p><p>Additionally to transformation, in response to the raising number of asylum claims and delays, we are working to increase decision makers as well as providing improved training and career progression opportunities to aid retention of staff. This investment in our people will speed up processing times and increase the throughput of asylum decisions.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/11/2021 12:39:09 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1367592

registered interest
date	09/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of passports applied for under the 1 Week Fast Track scheme were delivered within one week in each of the 12 months to 31 October 2021.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	72592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>There is no integration of the system used for passport application processing and the one used by third-party suppliers for delivery services. This means whilst Her Majesty’s Passport Office is able to monitor performance on a case-by-case basis for customer service purposes, there is no accurate measure of whole service performance to the point of delivery.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of the Fast Track service, passports will be delivered on or before the seventh day following an appointment before 12.30pm, or the eighth day for appointments after this time. Passports printed under the Fast Track service are delivered to customers the following day through a 24-hour service level.</p><p> </p><p>The data attached shows the volume of passports printed under the Fast Track service within 144 hours (six days) of the application being submitted. Due to COVID-19, the Fast Track service was suspended until April 2021, with exceptions primarily on compassionate grounds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/11/2021 11:54:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name 72592 attachment.png title volume of passports printed under the Fast Track s
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore