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774365

registered interest
date	20/10/2017
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 estimate she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on waiting times at passport control for passengers entering the UK from EU Member States.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	108923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>We are considering a range of options for the UK’s future immigration system and will be outlining further details of the new system later in the year.</p><p>Government departments are working together across a range of complex issues to develop our future approach at the border. These options will be kept under review in light of negotiations with the EU.</p><p>We actively monitor workflows at the border to ensure sufficient resources are in place to meet demand and will continue to do so throughout negotiations and as the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 25/10/2017 15:28:12 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

774050

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: 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 proportion of income from priority visa application fees is spent on UK Visas and Immigration staffing resources relating to the processing of such visas.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	108830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold information on the staffing costs associated with the processing of visa applications where the applicant has paid the optional priority visa service fee. The cost of processing visa applications varies by application type, as set out in the published unit costs and fees table, which can be accessed via the link below</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/606616/Unit_cost_table_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/606616/Unit_cost_table_2017.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/10/2017 15:31:43 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

774051

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
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, what proportion of (a) priority and (b) non-priority visa applications at each visa application centre were completed within the 12-week UK Visa and Immigration service standard in the most recent year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	108858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>Information on performance against service standards is published as part of the transparency data at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-august-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-august-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The latest data shows that for 2017 Q1, 96.5% of straightforward applications were completed within Service standards.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/10/2017 15:31:00 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

774055

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 1 exceptional talent visas for the arts were (a) applied for, (b) accepted and (c) rejected in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	108848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The specific information you have requested is not currently published.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/10/2017 14:25:05 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

774057

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
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, what proportion of settlement and non-settlement visa applications have required applicants to submit additional documents in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those applications have been resolved within (a) 15, (b) 60 and (c) 90 working days.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	108835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p>Published data on visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at the following address: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a> (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas &amp; Immigration’).</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/10/2017 14:25:59 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

774058

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
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, how many priority visa applications that were not resolved within the 12-week UK Visas and Immigration service standard received (a) no refunds, (b) partial refunds and (c) full refunds in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	108860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/10/2017 14:26:53 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

774061

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Scotland
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 in Scotland were granted permanent residence and settlement in (a) 2012, (b) 2013, (c) 2014, (d) 2015 and (e) 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South West
tabling member printed	Joanna Cherry
uin	108733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>The available information published on the total number of permanent residence documents issued and grants of settlement is published in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, April – June 2017, European Economic Area (EEA) table ee_02 and Settlement table se_02 available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 25/10/2017 15:58:46 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4419 label Biography information for Joanna Cherry

774062

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
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, if she will review the cap on the number of places available to transfer children to the UK under the Dubs scheme.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	108687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office consulted extensively with local authorities over several months to reach the specified number of children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. This included a national launch event and over 10 regional events in England, as well as Scotland and Wales. There are already over 4,000 unaccompanied asylum seeking children in local authority care in the UK, and some local authorities host a disproportionate number of children. These children all need support, as do the British children in our care system.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ensure the specified number of children to be transferred is a true reflection of the responses to that consultation, the Government increased the specified number from 350 to 480 following the notification of an administrative error as part of collating the figures.</p><p> </p><p>The Government welcomes all offers from local authorities with capacity to look after unaccompanied asylum seeking children which we will to fulfil our existing commitments, including ensuring a fairer distribution of unaccompanied asylum seeking children between local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/10/2017 14:24:23 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

774067

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason permanent residence cards have been deemed to be invalid once the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	108672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>Permanent Residence cards confirm the acquisition of a permanent right to reside in the UK under European law. In future, the Free Movement Directive will no longer apply and the migration and status of EU nationals will be subject to UK law.</p><p> </p><p>We have put forward a fair and serious offer to the EU, giving EU citizens who have arrived before a specified date, the opportunity to acquire UK settled status after five years’ continuous residence thus enabling them to carry on with their lives as before.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/10/2017 14:16:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

773071

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
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, what information the Government holds on the number of people over the age of 18 who own a passport in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	108548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office would only record the address details of a UK passport holder at the point of application.</p><p>It is, therefore, not possible to confirm how many individuals hold a UK passport in any parliamentary constituency or local authority area within the UK.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 25/10/2017 15:29:52 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith