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1580581

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the correspondence with the hon. Member for Glasgow Central of 5 January 2023, reference ZA24239, what the oldest allowed appeal awaiting processing is as of 25 January 2023; and how many allowed appeals are awaiting processing.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	132402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of successful appeals and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Where an appeal has been allowed in favour of the appellant, and is not subject to onward appeal, we take all reasonable steps to implement the allowed appeal in a timely manner.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 11:58:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1580591

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
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 applications that were submitted before January 2018 are awaiting a decision as of 25 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	132407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum applications awaiting a decision can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.</p><p> </p><p>Please note the Home Office does not publish this data by application date. It shows a snapshot of the last day of the quarter. The latest data relates to applications awaiting a decision as at 30 September 2022. Data as at 31 December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 11:53:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1580645

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hove
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to recent reports of the abduction of unaccompanied children from a Home Office residence in Hove, what urgent steps her Department is taking to ensure the (a) safety and (b) welfare of children who (i) are missing, (i) were missing but have been found and (c) are living at that residence.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	132558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The rise in dangerous small boats crossings means there are significant challenges on providing local authority care places for unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC). Out of necessity and with the best interests of the child in mind, we have accommodated UASC on an emergency and temporary basis in hotels while placements with local authorities have been vigorously pursued. This work is led by dedicated team leaders and support workers who provide 24/7 supervision</p><p>We take our safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure UASC in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All children receive a welfare interview which includes questions designed to identify potential indicators of trafficking or safeguarding issues and subsequent safeguarding plans are put in place.</p><p>Records are kept and monitored of children leaving and returning to the hotel. Support workers will accompany children off site on activities and social excursions, or where specific vulnerabilities are identified.  The Home Office has no power to hold children in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p><p>When a young person goes missing the ‘missing persons protocol’ is followed and led by our directly engaged social workers. Missing After Reasonable Steps (MARS) is a new protocol which enables children’s homes and supported accommodation placements to have more ownership over the missing episodes of children within their care.</p><p>We engage with the local police and work in conjunction with the Local Authorities (LA) children’s services to invoke a missing child multi agency strategy meeting chaired by children’s services.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 17:59:39 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1580839

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average processing times are for Refugee Family Reunion applications inside the rules.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	132511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>All applications for refugee family reunion are made on the same visa application form. It is only when an application has been considered that it can be established whether the application falls within the criteria of the Rules or not.</p><p>Information regarding processing times is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>We are committed to improving and speeding up processing times for family reunion applications. We are reviewing processes to streamline decision making to enable us to provide a better service to our customers. We always prioritise applications where there is an evidenced urgent or compelling reason to do so.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 132512 question first answered 30/01/2023 11:56:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1580840

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average processing times are for Refugee Family Reunion applications outside the rules.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	132512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>All applications for refugee family reunion are made on the same visa application form. It is only when an application has been considered that it can be established whether the application falls within the criteria of the Rules or not.</p><p>Information regarding processing times is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>We are committed to improving and speeding up processing times for family reunion applications. We are reviewing processes to streamline decision making to enable us to provide a better service to our customers. We always prioritise applications where there is an evidenced urgent or compelling reason to do so.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 132511 question first answered 30/01/2023 11:56:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1580867

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many National Crime Agency officers were working on the issue of missing child asylum seekers as of 25 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	132324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>For security reasons, we do not disclose how many staff are working on an issue at a given time. The National Police Chiefs Council, Home Office Immigration and Border Force are focused on the missing child asylum seekers. The Home Office is working closely with policing and local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 17:44:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1580173

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
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 the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees on missing asylum-seeking minors.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	131189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office engages with a range of internal and external stakeholders in relation to the provision of support and accommodation to destitute asylum seekers, through a variety of channels.</p><p> </p><p>There have not been any bilateral discussions between the Home Office and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on missing asylum seeking children.</p><p> </p><p>UNHCR do attend the Strategic Engagement Groups which, together with the associated sub-groups, are the Home Office’s principal engagement forums with external asylum and resettlement Non-Government Organisations and voluntary sector stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 15:59:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1580240

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Myanmar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Myanmar nationals claimed asylum in the UK in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	131299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum applications by nationality can be found in table Asy_D01 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 15:52:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1580253

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Home Office spent on employing caseworkers to make conclusive grounds decisions in the National Referral Mechanism in financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23 to date.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	131309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The Single Competent Authority (SCA) and the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority (IECA) are currently recruiting a large number of new decision makers across the UK to increase capacity for NRM decision-making and reduce decision making timescales<ins class="ministerial">. </ins><del class="ministerial">; this brings additional resource pressures initially (for training and upskilling) but will have substantial long-term benefits for decision making timescales.</del></p><p>The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) does not publish payments made to victims of modern slavery and this does not currently form part of the published NRM statistics.</p><p>All victims who consent to receiving support will receive this via the Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC) in England and Wales which is delivered by The Salvation Army. Details of the MSVC Contract can be found in a redacted version of the contract requirements here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F974794%2FMarch_2021_-_Modern_Slavery_Statutory_Guidance__EW__Non-Statutory_Guidance__SNI__v2.1_.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSCAFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1df98c91565a46b0727408dafebb99ac%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638102378924848126%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=JOPE%2B0AOOysTFpdmfUUQEL7UGSWCUoukqsiIuwcLvQo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Modern Slavery: Statutory Guidance for England and Wales (under s49 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015) and Non-Statutory Guidance for Scotland and Northern Ireland (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p>All victims who consented to support under the previous Victim Care Contract <del class="ministerial">were also</del> <ins class="ministerial">are</ins> eligible for financial support under the same policy and a redacted version of the previous contract requirements can be found here (<a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e03ceb15-27ad-4bad-b8ae-43dbc1e9481e" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e03ceb15-27ad-4bad-b8ae-43dbc1e9481e</a>).</p><p>As of September 2019, following a CG decision, financial support needs for those in support are considered in a Recovery Needs Assessment (RNA) as part of a holistic assessment of recovery need, as per the published RNA policy.”</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 13:31:50 question first ministerially corrected 30/01/2023 15:28:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 51058 answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines answering member 4816
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1580254

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on subsistence payments for people awaiting a conclusive grounds decision in the National Referral Mechanism for Modern Slavery in financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23 to date.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	131310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The Single Competent Authority (SCA) and the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority (IECA) are currently recruiting a large number of new decision makers across the UK to increase capacity for NRM decision-making and reduce decision making timescales.</p><p>The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) does not publish payments made to victims of modern slavery and this does not currently form part of the published NRM statistics.</p><p> </p><p>All victims who consent to receiving support will receive this via the Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC) in England and Wales which is delivered by The Salvation Army. Details of the MSVC Contract can be found in a redacted version of the contract requirements here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F974794%2FMarch_2021_-_Modern_Slavery_Statutory_Guidance__EW__Non-Statutory_Guidance__SNI__v2.1_.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSCAFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1df98c91565a46b0727408dafebb99ac%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638102378924848126%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=JOPE%2B0AOOysTFpdmfUUQEL7UGSWCUoukqsiIuwcLvQo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Modern Slavery: Statutory Guidance for England and Wales (under s49 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015) and Non-Statutory Guidance for Scotland and Northern Ireland (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>All victims who consented to support under the previous Victim Care Contract are eligible for financial support under the same policy and a redacted version of the previous contract requirements can be found here: (<a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e03ceb15-27ad-4bad-b8ae-43dbc1e9481e" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e03ceb15-27ad-4bad-b8ae-43dbc1e9481e</a>).</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2023 14:35:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips