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1673621

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
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 the recent technical issue with the processing and issuing of Biometric Resident Permits has been; what steps his Department is taking to resolve that issue; and what estimate he has made of when that work will be complete.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	4240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>Incidences of technical issues preventing BRP card production are extremely low, and no systemic issues have been identified.</p><p>Where individual card requests do fail, operational case working teams and IT Support endeavour to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.</p><p>For any case that cannot be resolved immediately, the Employer Checking and Landlord Checking Services are available to provide support to customers to verify their immigration status and permission to work and rent properties in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/12/2023 16:41:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1673215

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
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, how many Biometric Residence Permits were issued within 10 days of a person receiving their decision confirming their refugee status since 1 August 2023.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	3929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The waiting times for biometric residence permits (BRP) are dictated by the BRP production and delivery processes.</p><p>We aim to deliver a BRP within 7 working days of the immigration decision. BRPs are produced at the secure delivery facility (Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA)) within 48 hours of the production request being made and are collected by our secure delivery partner the same day. Our secure delivery partner (FedEx) aims to attempt to deliver the BRPs within 48 hours of receipt of the BRPs. This equates to a minimum of 5 working days from date of production request being made to delivery of the BRP. We have added an additional 2 working days to the timeline advised to applicants to allow us to resolve any production issues.</p><p>Since 1st April 2022, DVLA have produced all BRPs within 48 hours of the production request, with 99.5% being produced within 24 hours. Since 1st April 2022, our Secure Delivery Partners, FedEx and Royal Mail Group have attempted to deliver over 99% of BRPs within 48 hours, and delivered over 80% of BRPs successfully on first delivery attempt.</p><p>Information on incorrect or returned deliveries is not publicly available, and so we are unable to answer this question.</p><p>Statistics regarding the individual production time of each BRP from the time a decision is made is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 3930 question first answered 06/12/2023 16:17:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1673216

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
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, how many Biometric Residence Permits have been reported as not received by those with newly granted refugee status since 1 August 2023.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	3930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The waiting times for biometric residence permits (BRP) are dictated by the BRP production and delivery processes.</p><p>We aim to deliver a BRP within 7 working days of the immigration decision. BRPs are produced at the secure delivery facility (Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA)) within 48 hours of the production request being made and are collected by our secure delivery partner the same day. Our secure delivery partner (FedEx) aims to attempt to deliver the BRPs within 48 hours of receipt of the BRPs. This equates to a minimum of 5 working days from date of production request being made to delivery of the BRP. We have added an additional 2 working days to the timeline advised to applicants to allow us to resolve any production issues.</p><p>Since 1st April 2022, DVLA have produced all BRPs within 48 hours of the production request, with 99.5% being produced within 24 hours. Since 1st April 2022, our Secure Delivery Partners, FedEx and Royal Mail Group have attempted to deliver over 99% of BRPs within 48 hours, and delivered over 80% of BRPs successfully on first delivery attempt.</p><p>Information on incorrect or returned deliveries is not publicly available, and so we are unable to answer this question.</p><p>Statistics regarding the individual production time of each BRP from the time a decision is made is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 3929 question first answered 06/12/2023 16:17:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1668004

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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, if she will make an estimate of the number of Biometric Residence Permit cards that have been wrongly issued in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The information is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/11/2023 15:46:46 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1666879

registered interest
date	24/10/2023
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, whether her Department has made an assessment of the capacity to produce biometric residence permits to meet the Streamlined Asylum Process.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	204027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>We have agreed daily capacity limits that are sufficient to meet our demands for BRPs and have allowed for additional capacity to meet any surges in demand. Our service level agreement is to produce 100% of all BRPs within 48 hours of a request being received. Currently 100% of BRPs are produced within 48 hours and 99.7% within 24 hours.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 204029 question first answered 26/10/2023 09:17:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1666880

registered interest
date	24/10/2023
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 the average time from a decision being made on a biometric residence permit to that permit being delivered is.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	204028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>All BRPs are produced within 48 hours and 99.1% of all BRPs are delivered within 48 hours of collection.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/10/2023 09:11:46 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1666881

registered interest
date	24/10/2023
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 estimate she has made of the monthly production capacity for biometric residence permits.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	204029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>We have agreed daily capacity limits that are sufficient to meet our demands for BRPs and have allowed for additional capacity to meet any surges in demand. Our service level agreement is to produce 100% of all BRPs within 48 hours of a request being received. Currently 100% of BRPs are produced within 48 hours and 99.7% within 24 hours.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 204027 question first answered 26/10/2023 09:17:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

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

1646101

registered interest
date	20/06/2023
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, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a temporary measure to allow new UK citizens to re-enter the UK from overseas travel using their Indefinite Leave to Remain Biometric Residence Permit while they await the issue of a UK adult passport.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	190476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>There are no plans to allow new UK citizens to use a biometric residence permit (BRP) to enter the UK while they wait for the issue of a UK passport. BRPs can only be held and used by foreign nationals who are subject to immigration control. When they become British citizens the BRP card is cancelled, and holders are required to return their BRP card to UK Visas and Immigration.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/06/2023 08:01:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1610537

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	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, whether her Department is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that errors on biometric residence permits are not replicated on (a) travel documents and (b) driving licences.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	180670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>We strive to continuously improve our decision-making quality across all Immigration routes to minimise any potential errors. Where we are notified of an error on a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) we aim to correct the BRP within 5 working days to minimise inconvenience to the customer and prevent errors being replicated on a) travel documents and b) driving licences.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:34:04 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq