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1673646

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	Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Seized Articles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) e-cigarette and vaping and (b) tobacco products were seized at UK borders in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	4231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>On point a, Border Force does not hold data on eCigarettes and vaping in an easily accessible format.</p><p>Border Force regularly publishes data on tobacco products seized at the UK border.</p><p>The latest transparency returns can be found at the link here; Border Force transparency data: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBFSecretariat%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cee9c7fad26944220b9f608dbf0e4e6ff%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638368638135483044%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CVp4HAMcf2VGQgTMYoYzqTx87uUhxthJyN1taMKB5Wc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/12/2023 16:55:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1651889

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
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, if she will review her Department’s use of hotel accommodation to help improve the suitability of accommodation offered to asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	193421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The United Kingdom has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and other support whilst their application for asylum is being considered as set out in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The United Kingdom has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and other support whilst their application for asylum is being considered as set out in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The enduring solution is to stop the illegal, dangerous, and unnecessary small boat crossings that are overwhelming our asylum system. The Home Office is working tirelessly, alongside other government departments, to reduce the Government’s dependency on hotels for contingency accommodation through a package of long-term and short-term measures.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Asylum Accommodation service providers identify suitable accommodation and ensure that it conforms to the accommodation standards and provision set out in Schedule 2 of the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts (AASC). The Statement of Requirements, available via the link below, sets out the full details of our contractual obligations:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdata.parliament.uk%2FDepositedPapers%2FFiles%2FDEP2018-1112%2FAASC_-_Schedule_2_-_Statement_of_Requirements.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C5e6d5c5bfb44494ab67908db52093aed%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638193971807310448%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=bMVyR1sTTK8B9OqTMGxv90cXfwX%2BMMdYHD%2BEmROCTS0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-1112/AASC_-_Schedule_2_-_Statement_of_Requirements.pdf(opens in a new tab)</a>.</ins></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/07/2023 15:45:44 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2023 10:30:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 88809 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1648483

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
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 awaiting an initial decision were lodged one year or longer ago; and how many asylum applications had not received an initial decision at the end of each month of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	191633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 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 System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum applications awaiting initial 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>’. Please note that data is broken down by duration awaiting decision of ‘6 months or less’ and ‘more than 6 months’. Additionally, data is published quarterly and reflect the number of people awaiting a decision as at the end of the period, rather than the total throughout the period.</p><p>Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relate to the year ending March 2023.</p><p>Data for the year ending June 2023 is scheduled to be published on 24 August 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><p>Alternatively, operational data on the total awaiting asylum initial decision WIP can be found in table ASY_02 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q1-2023" target="_blank">Immigration and protection data</a>’ published as part of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">Migration transparency data</a>’ release. This data includes further breakdown of duration awaiting decision (less than 3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months and 12 months+) and refers to applications made after 1<sup>st</sup> October 2006.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/07/2023 16:40:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1648241

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the funding of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda she plans to report as Official Development Assistance.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	191443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The funding for the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is separate from, and additional to, the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/07/2023 16:38:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1643871

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
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, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Question 188086 on Asylum: Applications, how many of these applicants (a) have received support from the Overseas Development Aid budget and (b) continue to receive support from the Overseas Development Aid budget.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	189064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not categorise data on ODA spend in such a way that is possible to answer this question. All ODA spend is calculated in line with the OECD DAC rules.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/06/2023 15:24:19 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1642391

registered interest
date	06/06/2023
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 and what proportion of asylum claims made before the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 came into force have been decided on.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	188086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum claims before and after the Nationality and Borders act came into force are published in table Asy_10 of 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%2F1157139%2Fasylum-summary-mar-2023-tables.ods&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSamantha.Fulton%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C7c90001e7fd54d584b6a08db673bdb06%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638217279003129824%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VZUZfCjvQKQ5UY7dZ5bdg25KaR8aJbInGPLln8GDkd8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>.</p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to snapshot data as at the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2023. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.</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 12/06/2023 14:50:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1599652

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
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, whether her Department has included provisions in the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract for when demand exceeds the supply that has been budgeted for; and what steps her Department took to negotiate and agree the new funding and performance indicators relating to that contract.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	153917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has provisions in the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract for when demand exceeds the supply that has been budgeted for. This is in the form of a Contract Change Note (CCN) where the authority may require, and the provider may request, a change within the contract.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/03/2023 17:40:46 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1599653

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migration: Forecasts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what processes her Department has in place for forecasting irregular migration flows; and in what way her Department shares those forecasts with other departments.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	153918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office assesses migration trends and plans for different projections flows through irregular migration systems based on different plausible scenarios.</p><p>Plans, including the scenarios, are regularly shared with the Ministry of Justice and Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and, as required, with other government departments.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 08/03/2023 11:10:10 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1599654

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
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, whether her Department has taken steps to claim back VAT paid on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	153919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office doesn’t directly pay for hotels for asylum seekers and therefore doesn’t claim back VAT.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/03/2023 17:11:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1599655

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	International Aid Transparency Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to resume reporting to the International Aid Transparency Initiative.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	153920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office are currently working to bring our published IATI reports up-to-date. Once this process is complete, we will look to recommence reporting our current spend on a regular basis.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/03/2023 17:09:10 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill