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1403133

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
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	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of the Government's immigration policies on acute labour shortages.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	905044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>My Officials and I work closely with colleagues across Government to coordinate the Government’s response to labour market issues, including potential skills and labour shortages.</p><p>The UK Government’s focus is on ensuring immigration policies are considered alongside and as part of our strategy for the UK Labour market, not as an alternative to investing in training for our domestic workforce or to offering our key workers the rewarding packages they deserve.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/01/2022 15:49:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1403136

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
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	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of the Government's immigration policies on acute labour shortages.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	905048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>My Officials and I work closely with colleagues across Government to coordinate the Government’s response to labour market issues, including potential skills and labour shortages.</p><p>The UK Government’s focus is on ensuring immigration policies are considered alongside and as part of our strategy for the UK Labour market, not as an alternative to investing in training for our domestic workforce or to offering our key workers the rewarding packages they deserve.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/01/2022 15:56:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1403137

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the financial thresholds for family visas.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	905050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The minimum income requirement was implemented in July 2012, following advice from the Migration Advisory Committee.</p><p>It is intended to ensure financial independence and encourage integration, although several concessions were introduced in response to the impacts of Covid-19.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/01/2022 16:00:44 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1403138

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
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	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of the Government's immigration policies on acute labour shortages.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Ms Anum Qaisar
uin	905052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>My Officials and I work closely with colleagues across Government to coordinate the Government’s response to labour market issues, including potential skills and labour shortages.</p><p>The UK Government’s focus is on ensuring immigration policies are considered alongside and as part of our strategy for the UK Labour market, not as an alternative to investing in training for our domestic workforce or to offering our key workers the rewarding packages they deserve.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/01/2022 16:04:43 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4917 label Biography information for Ms Anum Qaisar

1402244

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Common Travel Area
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to write the Common Travel Area into domestic UK law.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	102770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The Common Travel Area (CTA) is an administrative arrangement between the UK and Ireland, as well as the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey.</p><p>It allows British and Irish citizens to travel freely between the UK and Ireland and reside in either jurisdiction. It also facilitates the enjoyment of associated rights and privileges including the right to work, to study and to access social security benefits and health services.</p><p>We have always been clear on the shared commitment to protect the rights of our citizens in each other’s state and this is already underpinned by domestic legislation, which will be updated as necessary to ensure the agreed CTA rights and privileges are properly reflected.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/01/2022 14:46:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1402259

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what urgent steps she is taking to issue Biometric Residence Permits to Afghan nationals in the UK with pending job offers.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	102639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>Those who arrived in the UK were granted limited leave to enter with access to public funds and employment. Communications have been issued advising individuals of next steps to progress permanent residence in the UK. Amongst the information provided, those communications confirm individuals’ rights to employment on their current leave. We have made arrangements to ensure prospective employers and landlords can contact the Home Office to confirm individuals’ right to take employment and rented accommodation prior to them receiving a Biometric Residence Permit.</p><p>The Home Office has established a dedicated caseworking team, which is working jointly with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Ministry of Defence. This team will contact those here in the UK under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy and those moving onto the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, in order to assist them to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain status.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/01/2022 14:34:27 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 43821 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1402375

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel Requirements: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to provide passenger locator forms in languages other than English.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	102653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The rapidly changing landscape of international travel health measure requirements has placed considerable pressure on maintaining the technical development of the Passenger Locator Form; therefore, translation of the form has not been possible.</p><p> </p><p>Each language added to the system increases the technical development time required, meaning the system could not be accurately maintained given the pace of policy changes as we have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>We have though introduced a guide to support the completion of the PLF which has been translated into 22 languages and is available on GOV.UK. An animated video to support guidance on how to complete the Passenger Locator Form is also in production. This will be placed on GOV.UK and social media platforms.</p><p> </p><p>We will look to introduce translation of the PLF in the future, however this will be dependent on a long-term stable policy for it across the 4 nations of the United Kingdom given the devolution of public health regulations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/01/2022 14:43:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1402393

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deprived of their British citizenships in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020, under Section 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	102655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>Figures for numbers of conducive deprivation orders, which are made under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, have been published as part of the HM Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Four reports have been published to date in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020 which provide the number of deprivation of citizenship orders made up until the end of 2018.</p><p>The Home Office also intends to publish the figures of those deprived under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act in 2019 and 2020 in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/01/2022 14:35:53 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 43819 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1401915

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: British National (Overseas)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the BN(O) visa scheme to enable any persons from Hong Kong who have at least one parent who is a British national (overseas) to apply for the British National (Overseas) visa.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	101721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The BN(O) route is an unprecedented and generous offer reflecting the UK’s historic and moral commitment to the people of Hong Kong who chose to retain their ties to the UK by taking up BN(O) status. We are sympathetic to the circumstances of this cohort and are looking at whether more can be done to support them.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/01/2022 14:44:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1401413

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes against Humanity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to prevent the UK from acting as a safe haven for people accused of crimes against humanity that do not hold British citizenship or residency.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	100621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK is committed to upholding international law and to ensuring the UK does not provide a safe haven for those involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity.</p><p>The Immigration Rules provide for the mandatory refusal or cancellation of permission to enter or stay in the UK for those whose presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good, for example because of their conduct, character, associations or other reasons. A foreign national may also be excluded from the UK on the basis that it is conducive to the public good.</p><p>Whilst we have a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, we will deny the benefits of refugee status to those who have committed serious crimes, are a danger to the community, or who are a threat to national security. Those refused refugee status who cannot be removed because doing so would breach our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, may be granted shorter more restrictive leave, subject to regular review, until they can be removed at the earliest opportunity. They may also have conditions placed on residence, employment and study and be required to report until they can be removed.</p><p> </p><p>The UK can also sanction individuals for human rights abuses using powers in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.</p><p>For those foreign nationals who have gained British citizenship, Section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 provides for the deprivation of that citizenship where it is conducive to the public good, and would not make an individual stateless. Deprivation of citizenship where it is conducive to the public good is taken where it is in the public interest on the grounds of involvement in terrorism, espionage, serious and organised crime, war crimes or unacceptable behaviour. Unacceptable behaviour could include activity such as inciting terrorist acts.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/01/2022 14:38:31 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 43127 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson