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1506556

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Regional Airports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to help keep (a) Doncaster Sheffield Airport and (b) other regional transport hubs open.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	51423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is strongly committed to regional airports. They provide key transport links to our local communities, support thousands of jobs in the regions and act as key gateways to international opportunities.</p><p>The Government recognise the importance of Doncaster Sheffield Airport to the region. We remain committed to a continued aviation future for the airport and continue to engage with and encourage stakeholders to develop a locally led solution to support this outcome.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/09/2022 12:33:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1469664

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken is for UK Visas and Immigration to process a visa application.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	16837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>UKVI offers a range of service levels for applications which include Standard service (15 working days), Priority service (5 working days), and Super Priority service (next day) after a customer has provided their biometrics.</p><p> </p><p>UKVI made a decision to prioritise the Ukraine Schemes following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Resources are now being returned to focus on visa routes impacted by these prioritisation decisions which will reduce average processing times in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to prioritise any urgent compelling or compassionate cases across all workstreams and are working to reduce the current processing times as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>For Standard applications lodged outside the UK, the current average processing time is as follows:</p><ul><li>Visitors – <strong>6 weeks</strong></li><li>Students – <strong>5 weeks</strong></li><li>Work – <strong>5 weeks</strong></li><li>Joining Family – <strong>up to 24 weeks</strong></li></ul><p>Further information can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> and this is regularly updated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For Standard applications lodged inside the UK, the current average processing times are not published though all routes are currently within the published service standards which are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Switching/Extending a Student, Family, Ancestry, Work, Visitor, or Graduate Visa – <strong>8 weeks</strong></li><li>Switching/Extending a Hong Kong British National (Overseas) Visa – <strong>12 weeks</strong></li><li>Applying for Settlement - <strong>within 6 months</strong></li></ul><p> </p><p>Further information is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-inside-the-uk#priority-services--get-a-faster-decision" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 16:24:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1469666

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of cases initiated with the Passport Office were resolved within (a) two weeks, (b) four weeks, (c) eight weeks, (d) 12 weeks and (e) more than 12 weeks in each year between 2018 and 2022.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	16838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>Between March and May, 98.5% of UK applications processed were completed within ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 16:07:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1469669

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visa applications initiated with UK Visas and Immigration were resolved within (a) two weeks, (b) four weeks, (c) eight weeks, (d) 12 weeks and (e) more than 12 weeks in each year between 2018 and 2022.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	16839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on which applications are resolved within two weeks, four weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks or more than 12 weeks. To capture this data would exceed cost threshold.</p><p>It does publish data of its performance against its service level agreement, which can be found on the GOV.UK webpage: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 16841 question first answered 21/06/2022 16:09:52 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1469670

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications initiated with the Passport Office were resolved within (a) two weeks, (b) four weeks, (c) eight weeks, (d) 12 weeks and (e) more than 12 weeks in the calendar year 2022.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	16840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Prior to 6 April 2021, the published processing times for standard applications from the UK were six weeks for over-16s applying for their first British passport, and three weeks for all other application types. <strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Since this date, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>Between March and May 2022, 98.5% of UK applications processed were completed within ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 15:58:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1469671

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visa applications initiated with UK Visas and Immigration were resolved within (a) two weeks, (b) four weeks, (c) eight weeks, (d) 12 weeks and (e) more than 12 weeks in the calendar year 2022.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	16841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on which applications are resolved within two weeks, four weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks or more than 12 weeks. To capture this data would exceed cost threshold.</p><p>It does publish data of its performance against its service level agreement, which can be found on the GOV.UK webpage: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 16839 question first answered 21/06/2022 16:09:52 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1422811

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, when her Department plans to publish the review into Tier 1 Investor visas, announced on 26 March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	124970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>On 17 February the Home Secretary laid a Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules closing the Tier 1 (Investor) route to new entrants with immediate effect.</p><p>The review of historic applications under the route is being finalised and it is our aim to publish it in the near future.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/02/2022 16:56:10 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 52625 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1345602

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent progress she has made with the Secretary of State for Defence on implementing the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	902531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy was implemented on 1 April this year.</p><p>We are working closely with the Ministry of Defence to accelerate the relocation of locally employed staff, and their families, from Afghanistan. A charter flight carrying 117 individuals arrived safely at the end of June, with more to follow this month.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/07/2021 16:03:09 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1302645

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
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 publish details of the two internet service providers that are reported to be conducting trials with her Department and National Crime Agency with the intention to collect Internet Connection Records.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	168827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The acquisition and retention of Internet Connection Records (ICRs) is provided for in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. ICRs are subject to restrictions set out in the Act and can only be acquired for the specific investigative purposes set out in Section 62.</p><p>Acquisition of ICRs in the vast majority of cases is subject to independent authorisation by the Office for Communications Data Authorisations. The use of communications data is subject to the oversight of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPC).</p><p>It is longstanding government policy not to disclose the specific communications data (CD) acquired by public authorities or retained by telecommunications operators under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) and its predecessors. This would include details of any data to be acquired or retained and the details of any Telecommunications Operators involved in any trial.</p><p>It would be operationally and commercially sensitive to disclose the funding allocations for a trial or any other use of investigatory powers.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 168828 168829 168830 question first answered 18/03/2021 16:28:50 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1302646

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the legal basis is for the trials recording the Internet Connection Records of their customers, including any relevant sections of applicable legislation.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	168828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The acquisition and retention of Internet Connection Records (ICRs) is provided for in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. ICRs are subject to restrictions set out in the Act and can only be acquired for the specific investigative purposes set out in Section 62.</p><p>Acquisition of ICRs in the vast majority of cases is subject to independent authorisation by the Office for Communications Data Authorisations. The use of communications data is subject to the oversight of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPC).</p><p>It is longstanding government policy not to disclose the specific communications data (CD) acquired by public authorities or retained by telecommunications operators under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) and its predecessors. This would include details of any data to be acquired or retained and the details of any Telecommunications Operators involved in any trial.</p><p>It would be operationally and commercially sensitive to disclose the funding allocations for a trial or any other use of investigatory powers.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 168827 168829 168830 question first answered 18/03/2021 16:28:50 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis