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1672016

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were (a) granted and (b) denied for people visiting the UK for the purpose of donating stem cells in each year from 2010 to 2022.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	3067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not record the reasons for the visit visa in a reportable format and to obtain the information requested could not be done without disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/11/2023 12:15:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1672018

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
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, if he will make it his policy to include (a) information on and (b) opt in forms for (i) organ, (ii) stem cell and (iii) blood donation with passport application forms.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	3069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>In September the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office jointly announced that, during the next year, adults applying to renew their passport online will be signposted to the NHS Organ Donor Register. We will continue to work with the NHS Blood and Transplant Service to look further at how the passport application process might help raise awareness of how to register an organ donation decision in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/11/2023 11:12:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1649377

registered interest
date	30/06/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing biometric residence permit holders to use e-gates at passport control.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	191964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>To be eligible for entry via an e-gate at present, a traveller must hold a machine-readable biometric passport. Biometric residence permits are not compatible.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Government has an ambitious vision for the future UK border, in which most people crossing the border will experience an e-gate style arrival, using automation as their only point of contact. We continue to look at options for expanding the use of e-gates to cohorts of passenger not currently able to use them.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/07/2023 16:50:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1627020

registered interest
date	11/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: ICT
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 have taken steps to resolve IT issues relating to applicants' biometrics being received onto the Home Office computer system; and whether her Department have identified other IT issues relating to immigration and nationality applications.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	184749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not have the information in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/05/2023 16:17:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1627140

registered interest
date	11/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps the Government has taken to support asylum seekers in the UK who are (a) living in relative poverty, (b) affected by mental health issues and (c) homeless.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	184752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government is under a legal obligation to provide support to all asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute.</p><p>The level of the weekly allowance is reviewed annually to ensure it meets the essential living needs of asylum seekers. From 21 December 2022, the government increased the main rate of asylum support that is provided under sections 4 and 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to £45 per week on an interim basis. Asylum seekers also have access to free NHS care, which includes mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/05/2023 11:07:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1610538

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many IT issues were recorded by visa application processing teams in her Department in the last (a) six months, (b) 12 months and (c) five years; and how many visa applications were affected by these IT issues.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	180671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The information requested could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:34:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1606305

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department decided which news organisations to invite to join her recent visit to Rwanda; and whether she made an assessment of the potential impact of the Government Communication Service Propriety Guidance on the organisations invited.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	171573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>Due consideration of the GCS guidelines is undertaken in Home Office communications.</p><p>All news organisations were kept informed of the progress of the visit regardless of whether they attended or not.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/03/2023 14:15:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1602447

registered interest
date	08/03/2023
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, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in ensuring the (a) reliable and accurate reporting of and (b) reduction of modern slavery in company supply chains since it came into force.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	161431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires businesses with a turnover of £36m or more to report annually on the steps taken to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>Compliance with section 54 is high. Following a Home Office commission, the Business &amp; Human Rights Resource Centre completed an audit of compliance with Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act. The high-level findings of this audit were published on 17 September 2020 in the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s annual report (available here): <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Findependent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLucy.Hewins%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1028007e46e44c63302408db257cd41b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638144990277887363%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=inWLlcZHEd7ro110ykJTm73UXOA0HYAaaNm1x1oCbXw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020</a>).</p><p> </p><p>To further increase compliance with section 54, the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F919937%2FGovernment_response_to_transparency_in_supply_chains_consultation_21_09_20.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLucy.Hewins%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1028007e46e44c63302408db257cd41b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638144990277887363%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=POzWQcYTi1m8r%2B%2BndPJJUGjGMxvSc6Awugo0qklxMBI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Government response to the Transparency in Supply Chains consultation</a>, published on 22 September 2020, committed to taking forwards an ambitious package of measures to strengthen the Act’s transparency legislation, including: extending the reporting requirement to public bodies with a budget of £36 million or more; mandating the specific reporting topics statements must cover; and requiring organisations to publish their statement on the new Government registry.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed to introduce financial penalties for organisations who fail to meet their statutory obligations to publish annual modern slavery statements. These measures require primary legislation and will be introduced when parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2021, the Government launched the modern slavery statement registry as a key tool to monitor and improve compliance with Section 54. Since launch, over 9,800 modern slavery statements covering over 32,800 organisations have been voluntarily submitted.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/03/2023 17:45:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1585452

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Iran
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for a visitor visa made by Iranian relatives of British citizens were rejected by her Department in the last 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	142845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on Visitor visa applications, grants, and refusals for Iranian nationals are published in tables Vis_D01 and Vis_D02, respectively, of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/managed-migration-datasets#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk" target="_blank">Entry clearance visa application and outcomes detailed datasets</a>’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>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 23/02/2023 13:48:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1540141

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Exchanges: Passports
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 impact of the new requirements for EU children visiting the UK on school exchanges to have a passport on the number of British children (a) from state schools, (b) with low-socioeconomic status and (c) from all backgrounds participating in school exchanges.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	80925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>As part of the changes to the Immigration Rules in September 2021, we no longer accept national identity cards as a valid travel document from EU, EEA and Swiss visitors to the UK. Almost a year’s notice was provided for this change to allow groups to plan ahead and obtain passports where they do not already have them before they travel.</p><p>We have always expected people who visit the UK, including children visiting as part of a school group, from outside the EU (including close allies such as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) to hold a passport and we now expect those visiting from EU countries to do the same.</p><p>The experience at the UK border since the change has been positive, with EU, EEA and Swiss citizens making the switch to using their passport for travel. Using a passport also means most EU nationals making a short visit can also use e-gates where available for a quicker and easier arrival experience. There are no plans to change our approach.</p><p>An impact assessment was undertaken of this change. There are no plans to make an assessment of the effect of this policy on the number of British school children involved in school exchanges.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 80926 question first answered 15/11/2022 17:08:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson