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1547423

registered interest
date	01/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy that asylum applicants granted of refugee status whilst in contingency asylum accommodation have a local connection to the local authority area where that contingency accommodation is situated.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	101003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>All asylum claims are considered on a case by case basis and in line with published policy so that individuals who need protection and are granted asylum can start to integrate and rebuild their lives.</p><p>We are committed to speeding up the decision making process, so that we can remove those with no right to be here and focus our finite resources on those in geniune need.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 101002 question first answered 08/12/2022 17:44:06 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1547427

registered interest
date	01/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Homes for Ukraine Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long on average it takes for applications to the Ukrainian Sponsorship Scheme to be processed.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	100903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the average processing times for an application under the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.</p><p>Applications for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme are processed as quickly as possible whilst ensuring that the appropriate checks and safeguarding measures are in place.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/12/2022 14:27:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1546885

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the average length of time which individual hotels are used to temporarily house asylum seekers; and whether her department sets target dates to vacate these hotels.
tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
uin	99826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>Successive years of record numbers crossing the Channel has placed our immigration system under substantial pressure. The use of contingency accommodation is a temporary solution to ensure that we meet our statutory obligation to house destitute asylum seekers.</p><p> </p><p>The length of stay in the contingency hotel accommodation is determined by a number of factors such as overall demand and availability of suitable dispersal accommodation. The government is committed to reducing the flow of people through deepening cooperation with France, implementing the Nationality and Borders Act, and signing returns agreements. The average length of stay in our contingency hotels is 6 to 12 months due to the current accommodation and capacity challenges. The Full Dispersal model, announced on 13 April 2022, aims to reduce, and ultimately, end the use of hotels by allowing the Home Office to procure dispersal properties within the private rental sector in all Local Authority areas across England, Scotland and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 99828 question first answered 08/12/2022 17:56:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

1546937

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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, whether she has received a report from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration on her Department's management of family reunion applications between 1 January 2022 to 30 September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	99872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>A final inspection report on her department’s management of family reunion applications between 1 January 2022 to 30 September 2022 has not been issued formally by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) to the Secretary of State.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 08/12/2022 17:46:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1547039

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long her Department intends to use the two hotels in the South Staffordshire District Council area to temporarily house asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
uin	99828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>Successive years of record numbers crossing the Channel has placed our immigration system under substantial pressure. The use of contingency accommodation is a temporary solution to ensure that we meet our statutory obligation to house destitute asylum seekers.</p><p> </p><p>The length of stay in the contingency hotel accommodation is determined by a number of factors such as overall demand and availability of suitable dispersal accommodation. The government is committed to reducing the flow of people through deepening cooperation with France, implementing the Nationality and Borders Act, and signing returns agreements. The average length of stay in our contingency hotels is 6 to 12 months due to the current accommodation and capacity challenges. The Full Dispersal model, announced on 13 April 2022, aims to reduce, and ultimately, end the use of hotels by allowing the Home Office to procure dispersal properties within the private rental sector in all Local Authority areas across England, Scotland and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 99826 question first answered 08/12/2022 17:56:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

1545870

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2022 to Question 84895 on Asylum: Housing, how many complaints have been escalated to her Department by category in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	97541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>We expect high standards from all of our providers under the terms of the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contracts (AASC). We regularly engage with them to discuss any issues that arise and ensure best practise is always followed. Providers’ performance is monitored closely by dedicated staff in each contract area, who are in daily contact with them. Where performance falls short of the required standard, failures are recorded and can result in the award of points and, ultimately, service credits being applied.</p><p> </p><p>This is supplemented by a formal governance process which includes quarterly Strategic Review Management Boards and monthly Contract Management Groups. Service credits and subsequent improvement plans are discussed and monitored as part of this process.</p><p> </p><p>Asylum seekers can raise specific issues or concerns about their accommodation through the 24/7 Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service operated via Migrant Help. The AIRE contract has introduced a more independent and transparent oversight of standards through clearer complaints mechanisms for service users and supporting data that allows more intelligent targeting of performance improvement.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/12/2022 11:34:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1546167

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Albania
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the rates of approval for asylum claims made by people from Albania are different in the UK to those of other countries in Europe.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
uin	97785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>Other countries in Europe have legal migration routes that may impact the number of asylum claims lodged and subsequently granted. For example, Germany pursued a Western Balkan strategy which included issuing of 250,000 work visas from 2016-2020 and subsequently saw a 90% reduction in total asylum claims from the region across 2015-2017, from 120,882 first time applications in 2015 to 10,915 in 2017. Asylum grant rates can fluctuate for a number of different reasons, for example prioritisation of certain case types, including those more vulnerable for safeguarding or health-related reasons, and changes in country situations. Within a nationality, the grant rate can also vary. For example, despite the overall grant rate for Albanians in the year ending September 2022 being 51%, for Albanian adult men the grant rate was 13% and for Albanian women and children it was 88% (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2022/how-many-people-do-we-grant-protection-to" target="_blank">How many people do we grant protection to? - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>).</p><p>The domestic UK case law of <a href="https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2016-ukut-92" target="_blank"><strong>TD and AD (Trafficked women) CG [2016] UKUT 92 (IAC)</strong></a> sets out the current approach to assess asylum claims from Albanian females who claim to be a victim of trafficking. It details the likelihood of risk on return, vulnerability factors that must be taken into account, and whether there is sufficiency of protection in Albania. Other European countries are not bound by this, or any other UK case law.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/12/2022 12:18:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby

1546187

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2022 to Question 75953, how many complaints were registered against Clearspring Ready Homes in each month between 01 December 2021 and 30 November 2022 in relation to that company's provision of accommodation for asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	97637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>We expect high standards from all of our providers under the terms of the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contracts (AASC). We regularly engage with them to discuss any issues that arise and ensure best practise is always followed. Providers’ performance is monitored closely by dedicated staff in each contract area, who are in daily contact with them. Where performance falls short of the required standard, failures are recorded and can result in the award of points and, ultimately, service credits being applied.</p><p> </p><p>This is supplemented by a formal governance process which includes quarterly Strategic Review Management Boards and monthly Contract Management Groups. Service credits and subsequent improvement plans are discussed and monitored as part of this process.</p><p> </p><p>Asylum seekers can raise specific issues or concerns about their accommodation through the 24/7 Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service operated via Migrant Help. The AIRE contract has introduced a more independent and transparent oversight of standards through clearer complaints mechanisms for service users and supporting data that allows more intelligent targeting of performance improvement.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 97638 question first answered 21/12/2022 11:38:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1546189

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2022 to Question 84895 on Asylum: Housing, how many complaints were received by her Department about Clearspring Ready Homes; and if she will publish a breakdown of those complaints by category.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	97638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>We expect high standards from all of our providers under the terms of the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contracts (AASC). We regularly engage with them to discuss any issues that arise and ensure best practise is always followed. Providers’ performance is monitored closely by dedicated staff in each contract area, who are in daily contact with them. Where performance falls short of the required standard, failures are recorded and can result in the award of points and, ultimately, service credits being applied.</p><p> </p><p>This is supplemented by a formal governance process which includes quarterly Strategic Review Management Boards and monthly Contract Management Groups. Service credits and subsequent improvement plans are discussed and monitored as part of this process.</p><p> </p><p>Asylum seekers can raise specific issues or concerns about their accommodation through the 24/7 Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service operated via Migrant Help. The AIRE contract has introduced a more independent and transparent oversight of standards through clearer complaints mechanisms for service users and supporting data that allows more intelligent targeting of performance improvement.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 97637 question first answered 21/12/2022 11:38:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury