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1611623

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Biometrics
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 policy that biometric tests are not mandatory for people seeking legal and safe entry to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	181167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>In most circumstances we require biometrics, in the form of a facial image and fingerprints, from everyone who applies for a visa or a biometric residence permit, including people using safe and legal routes to come to the UK. Moreover, the UK’s forthcoming Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme will also require applicants to provide their biometrics as part of the application form, starting with facial images from the offset, until there is a technological solution which will allow applicants to self-upload fingerprints of the required quality.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 16:54:06 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611624

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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 increase the number of places in Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 3.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	181168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>Under the first stage of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) Pathway 3, we are offering resettlement places to up to 1,500 eligible individuals from the three identified cohorts which are British Council contractors, GardaWorld contractors and Chevening alumni.</p><p>We recognise there are many vulnerable individuals who remain in Afghanistan and the region. However, it is important we take into account the capacity of the UK to resettle people is not unlimited and difficult decisions have to be made on who will be prioritised for resettlement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 16:59:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611650

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Questionnaires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to guidelines on Streamlined asylum processing published on 23 February 2023, what steps her Department took to inform the offices of hon. Members of plans to require current asylum claimants to complete an Asylum Claim Questionnaire within 20 working days or potentially have their claim treated as withdrawn; for what reason her Department did not directly contact the offices of all hon. Members in advance of the announcement of those requirements; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of those requirements on the ability of asylum claimants to receive appropriate and timely support from their local Member of Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	181502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>Extension requests to complete the questionnaire can be submitted and all relevant circumstances will be considered on a case-by-case basis when deciding whether someone’s asylum claim should be withdrawn.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2023 13:10:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1611652

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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 plans to house asylum seekers on a boat in the River Mersey at Wirral Waters.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	181196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on individual sites or proposals that may or may not be used for asylum accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:50:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1611653

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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 she has had recent discussions with Peel Ports on the potential housing of asylum seekers on a boat at its Wirral Waters development.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	181197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on individual sites or proposals that may or may not be used for asylum accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:35:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1611677

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Illegal Migration Bill: Legal Opinion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which individuals have provided external legal advice to the Government on the Illegal Migration Bill.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	181221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Any legal advice received by the Home Office is subject to legal professional privilege and, as such, we do not comment on legal advice that may or may not have been sought or received.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:28:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1611710

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
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 updated country advice for visa decision makers for applications from Sudanese nationals following the recent outbreak of conflict in that country.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	181254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>We are monitoring the situation in Sudan carefully.</p><p>New or updated country specific advice for asylum decision makers will be based on the usual process.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:58:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1611724

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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, how many and what proportion of Biometric Residence Permits issued in January 2023 have been subsequently reissued to correct errors in visa conditions.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	181268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 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 24/04/2023 17:15:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1611770

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's data entitled Factsheet: Small boat crossings since July 2022, published 2 November 2022, how many of the Albanian nationals who crossed the English Channel in small boats from May to September 2022 have since returned to Albania.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	181314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on returns by nationality in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on returns of Albanian nationals are published in table Ret_D01 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets#returns" target="_blank">Returns detailed datasets’</a>.</p><p>Please note this data relates to all returns, not just returns of individuals who arrived via small boat. Data on the method of arrival of people returned is not published.</p><p>Further information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relates to the end of September 2022.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:30:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1611775

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Journalism
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 viability of a pilot emergency visa scheme for journalists whose lives are under threat from authoritarian governments.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	181319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>A person can already apply to come to the United Kingdom under the &quot;representative of an overseas business&quot; route if they are an employee of an overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organisation posted on a long-term assignment to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 16:31:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock