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1536767

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in Northern Ireland are without an initial decision as of 26 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	73156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The information is not held in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/11/2022 11:26:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1536773

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in Northern Ireland are under investigation for third party interest.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	73157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish this data and such information although recorded across various systems on individual cases, it is not held in a readily available, extractable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/11/2022 11:11:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1536777

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in Northern Ireland have been assessed as a potential victim of human trafficking.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	73158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes statistics regarding asylum, which can be found here</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics regarding the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of asylum seekers who have been referred into the National Referral Mechanism are not published.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/11/2022 11:07:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1536391

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum and 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 progress her Department has made on improvements in service standards to visa and asylum applications; and whether it is on target to meet its goal to return to a 20 day service standard by March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	72476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The latest decision waiting times for visa applications made inside the UK are published on Gov.uk.</p><ul><li><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDanielle.Beresford1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C03bd9453ce264b095dc608dab825e2cc%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638024770093272884%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=A6atxF%2B0IFluoqRfrGltWZdLveeSc%2FfGH4tR0PMoVOE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK</a></li><li><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-inside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDanielle.Beresford1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C03bd9453ce264b095dc608dab825e2cc%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638024770093429102%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EaCBPCSOPNK5w6ndJ1nur8gu4ohaBsLVoDLdDRRLPXg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK</a></li></ul><p>Individuals may wait longer for a decision if their application is not straightforward, and more information is required. Where priority and super-priority visas have been applied for, these will remain at the head of the decision-making queue. The Home Office are working hard to ensure that service standards are met across all visa application routes.</p><p>The Home Office does not currently have a service standard to decide initial asylum claims. A new accelerated service standard is being developed and we are testing the impact of several coordinated initiatives, including enhanced screening, case triage, centralised workflow and streamlined decision templates.</p><p>We have already made progress in prioritising older claims, high harm cases, those cases with extreme vulnerability, children and new flow cases following the introduction of the Nationality &amp; Borders Act, whilst those in receipt of support are a priority for caseworkers considering legacy cases.</p><p>Whilst we are unable to offer specific timescales to individuals at this time, we are working hard to reintroduce service standards in line with the Nationality and Borders Act to improve the level of service we provide to those who claim asylum.</p><p>The number of asylum decision makers in the Home Office has increased from 614 in 2021/22 to 1,073, an increase of 75% with ongoing recruitment strategies in place to retain and increase the number of asylum decision makers.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 72478 question first answered 03/11/2022 12:29:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1536395

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional staff her Department has a hired to work on asylum and visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	72478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The latest decision waiting times for visa applications made inside the UK are published on Gov.uk.</p><ul><li><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDanielle.Beresford1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C03bd9453ce264b095dc608dab825e2cc%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638024770093272884%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=A6atxF%2B0IFluoqRfrGltWZdLveeSc%2FfGH4tR0PMoVOE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK</a></li><li><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-inside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDanielle.Beresford1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C03bd9453ce264b095dc608dab825e2cc%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638024770093429102%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EaCBPCSOPNK5w6ndJ1nur8gu4ohaBsLVoDLdDRRLPXg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK</a></li></ul><p>Individuals may wait longer for a decision if their application is not straightforward, and more information is required. Where priority and super-priority visas have been applied for, these will remain at the head of the decision-making queue. The Home Office are working hard to ensure that service standards are met across all visa application routes.</p><p>The Home Office does not currently have a service standard to decide initial asylum claims. A new accelerated service standard is being developed and we are testing the impact of several coordinated initiatives, including enhanced screening, case triage, centralised workflow and streamlined decision templates.</p><p>We have already made progress in prioritising older claims, high harm cases, those cases with extreme vulnerability, children and new flow cases following the introduction of the Nationality &amp; Borders Act, whilst those in receipt of support are a priority for caseworkers considering legacy cases.</p><p>Whilst we are unable to offer specific timescales to individuals at this time, we are working hard to reintroduce service standards in line with the Nationality and Borders Act to improve the level of service we provide to those who claim asylum.</p><p>The number of asylum decision makers in the Home Office has increased from 614 in 2021/22 to 1,073, an increase of 75% with ongoing recruitment strategies in place to retain and increase the number of asylum decision makers.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 72476 question first answered 03/11/2022 12:29:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna