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1645633

registered interest
date	19/06/2023
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, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2023 to Question 186685 on Asylum: Children, if her Department will monitor the number of (a) families and (b) individuals in housed in House in Multiple Occupancy properties.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	190102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office will not be placing unaccompanied minors in HMO properties and will continue to monitor the numbers of families and individuals placed in HMO properties in accordance with contractual requirements set out in the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts (AASC).</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/06/2023 11:34:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1645634

registered interest
date	19/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Interviews
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 June 2023 to Question 186690 on Asylum: Interviews, what steps she is taking to monitor (a) progress in the Streamlined Asylum Process and (b) the accuracy of the forecast budget.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	190103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The commitment made by the Prime Minister on 13 December 2022 is to clear the backlog of legacy initial asylum decisions relating to claims made before 28 June 2022, by the end of 2023.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking immediate action to speed up asylum processing whilst maintaining the integrity of the system. This includes simplifying guidance, reducing interview length and streamlining processes. The Streamlined Asylum Process plays an important role in achieving this.</p><p> </p><p>We have already doubled our decision makers over the last 2 years. We are continuing to increase this further with large campaign already underway. This will take the headcount of our expected number of decision makers to 2,500 by September 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The aim is to clear the initial decision backlog of asylum legacy cases by the end of 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/06/2023 15:15:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1645287

registered interest
date	16/06/2023
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 are awaiting approval; and what the average waiting time was for an asylum application in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	189944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>Information regarding how many asylum claims are awaiting a decision, broken down in terms of how many have been waiting for more or less than 6 months, until the end of March 2023, is published in the Asy_D03 tab of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">Asylum applications, decisions, and resettlement detailed datasets’</a> online.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is unable to state the average time taken to process asylum claims because this information is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/06/2023 11:56:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1645317

registered interest
date	16/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme: Applications
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 average time taken to complete an application for the Windrush compensation scheme in the most recent period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	189998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has no published data to answer this question and the information is not readily available in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/06/2023 13:07:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1645318

registered interest
date	16/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of the total budget for the Windrush compensation scheme has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	189999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2023 answer text <p>There is no cap on the amount of compensation the Windrush Compensation Scheme will pay out. The Government is determined to right the wrongs for affected members of the Windrush generation and will ensure that all funding requirements are met.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/06/2023 13:08:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1645320

registered interest
date	16/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time civil servants above Grade 7 have worked on the Windrush compensation scheme in each financial quarter since the scheme was established.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	190000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this data in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/06/2023 13:09:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1645369

registered interest
date	16/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme: Reform
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 made an assessment of the implications for her Department's policies of the report entitled Reforming the Windrush Compensation Scheme published by Justice in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	190011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The victims of the Windrush scandal suffered terrible injustices, and this Government remains steadfast in our commitment to do everything in our power to right the wrongs. We are determined to ensure everyone who was affected receives every penny of the compensation to which they are entitled. We are making significant progress towards achieving this aim, and we have now paid or offered more than £72.5 million in compensation.</p><p> </p><p>Since its launch, the Home Office has continued to listen and respond to feedback from affected communities and stakeholders about how the Scheme operates and its accessibility. The changes we made to the Scheme in December 2020 and August 2022, mean people receive significantly more money more quickly. Last year we published redesigned claim forms and refreshed casework guidance, with the aim of reducing the time taken to process claims and improving individuals’ experiences of applying to the Scheme. We also made changes to the Homelessness category and created a new category, ‘Living Costs’, to compensate close family members for certain contributions to a primary claimant’s living costs. These significant and positive policy changes were made following consultation with claimants and stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/06/2023 11:55:06 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1645010

registered interest
date	15/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
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 set timescales for (a) the processing of applications and (b) making travel arrangements for Afghans who are entitled to resettle in the UK and are housed in hotels in Pakistan.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	189776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>The resettlement of eligible Afghans remains a top priority for this government. As of the end of March 2023, around 24,600 vulnerable people have been brought to the UK. This figure includes British nationals evacuated under Operation Pitting.</p><p>It is vital that those arriving have somewhere suitable to stay once they are in the UK. We continue to process applications but will only facilitate arrivals from third countries under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) and Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) where suitable accommodation can be secured ahead of arrival, including where individuals are able to find their own accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/06/2023 14:21:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1645051

registered interest
date	15/06/2023
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, how many and what proportion of unaccompanied asylum seeking children who went missing from hotel accommodation remain unaccounted for.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	189803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>We take the safety of those in our care seriously. We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in hotels are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All contingency sites have security staff on site 24/7 and providers liaise closely with local police to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable residents.</p><p>As of 05 June, there were 154 young people missing.</p><p>If any child goes missing, including an accompanied asylum seeking child, the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed. A multi-agency, missing persons meeting is chaired by the local authority to establish the young person's whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe. Similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p><p>The Home Office continue to work with the police and local authorities to ensure the children in our care are safe. The police are responsible for locating any missing children.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/06/2023 14:20:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1645066

registered interest
date	15/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many claims for compensation under the Windrush compensation scheme have been awarded as of 15 June 2023.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	189879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>Information relating to the number of claims that have been paid compensation through the Windrush Compensation Scheme is included in Windrush Compensation Scheme Transparency Data, together with the Windrush Schemes Fact Sheet, both of which are published regularly.</p><p>The latest Transparency data for the Compensation Scheme was published on 1 June 2023, which covers the period up to the end of April 2023. Data covering the period of May 2023 up to 15 June 2023 has not been published yet.</p><p>The requested information can be found on Tab WCS_03 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/windrush-compensation-scheme-data-april-2023" target="_blank">Windrush Compensation Scheme data: April 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The latest Windrush Schemes factsheet is available here: <a href="https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2023/06/01/windrush-schemes-factsheet-april-2023/" target="_blank">Windrush Schemes Factsheet – April 2023 - Home Office in the media (blog.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/06/2023 15:20:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare