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1672809

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Music
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department is taking steps to help support the visa applications of (a) artists and (b) other professionals for the WOMEX international music convention in October 2024.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	3618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>Officials from UK Visas and Immigration have already engaged with the organisers of the WOMEX International Music Convention (2024) in August this year. UKVI officials will continue to work with the organisers to support the visa application process for artists and other professionals.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/11/2023 11:09:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1672812

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Republic of Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications from residents of the Republic of Ireland were processed by the Belfast Passport Office in each year between 2017 and 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	3595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The data below shows the volume of passport applications from residents of the Republic of Ireland that were processed by the passport office in Belfast for each year from 2017 to 2019:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>9,812</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>9,401</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>9,936</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Following the introduction of a new passport application processing system that distributes work digitally across all available work locations, the data for the number of applications processed is not broken down by office. The information requested is therefore not held in a reportable format from 2020 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/11/2023 17:28:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1672817

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a specific timeframe for Section 95 applications to be completed.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	3669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office endeavours to complete applications as fast as possible.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/12/2023 17:22:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1672872

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers and Health Professions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have received a health and care worker visa since the establishment of that visa category.
tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
tabling member printed	Matt Hancock
uin	3625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on Entry clearance visas in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on ‘Skilled Worker – Health and Care’ visas granted are published in table Vis_D02 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk" target="_blank">Entry clearance detailed dataset</a>. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to 2023 Q3 (July to September) time period.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/12/2023 17:16:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock

1672874

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bibby Stockholm
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 his Department's policy that victims of (a) torture, (b) modern slavery and (c) trafficking will be housed on the Bibby Stockholm.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	3640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office assesses an individual’s suitability to reside at Portland and will only accommodate single adult males who are considered suitable to reside there. Guidance on the suitability criteria used can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fasylum-accommodation-requests-policy&amp;data=05%7C01%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C7f2161e9c74f4f07b06908dbef642836%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638366985662446951%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jWNOrgoKO40YcB5wkSNKu%2FoMyisBKKU9jeu2RAvvPQE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Allocation of accommodation (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/11/2023 16:39:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1672899

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of (a) system upgrades and (b) maintenance on the time taken to process leave to remain applications.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	3592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office releases weekly upgrades, including maintenance, to the Atlas caseworking system. Such releases are completed without the Atlas caseworking system, or services like BRP production, being down at all and so there is no impact upon caseworking or BRP production.</p><p>Where a maintenance release requires the system to be taken down temporarily, it is done so in quiet periods and for a very short time period, so that caseworking operations are not adversely affected.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 3593 question first answered 29/11/2023 17:27:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1672901

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
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, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of (a) system upgrades and (b) maintenance on the time taken to produce biometric residence permits.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	3593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office releases weekly upgrades, including maintenance, to the Atlas caseworking system. Such releases are completed without the Atlas caseworking system, or services like BRP production, being down at all and so there is no impact upon caseworking or BRP production.</p><p>Where a maintenance release requires the system to be taken down temporarily, it is done so in quiet periods and for a very short time period, so that caseworking operations are not adversely affected.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 3592 question first answered 29/11/2023 17:27:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1672922

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Wind Power: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to reinstate the offshore wind workers concession.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	3676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The government is fully supportive of businesses involved in delivering the UK’s net zero ambitions. The wind farm sector has many roles which meet the requirements of the UK’s main economic migration route, the Skilled Worker route.</p><p>The offshore wind farm worker immigration rules concession ended on 30 April. There are no plans to reinstate the concession given the industry has a visa route available to them to use if they are unable fill vacancies from the domestic workforce.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/11/2023 11:02:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1672679

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Bristol Airport
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 waiting time was to clear Border Force security on arrival at Bristol International Airport in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	3474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>Border Force measures and monitors wait times at all major UK ports to ensure the flow of legitimate travel into UK.</p><p>The latest Border Force transparency data shows that 95% of arrivals to the UK were cleared within the service standard in the second quarter of this year and in July, 90% of passengers surveyed were satisfied with their experience at UK border control. The most recent data is available on Gov.UK; <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fborder-force-transparency-data-q2-2023&amp;data=05%7C01%7CNatasha.Ghafoor1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca22370c762b144bb58ce08dbecc6d8f3%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638364110998528504%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9JJ9ccYv3YgmePtNPWcwe7S5SkCQ%2BdyvE7BZDzDzizY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-q2-2023</a>.</p><p>We do not publish port level wait times for commercial sensitivity as it may provide an unfair advantage to certain ports if others are seen to be performing more badly. The way data is captured is also different across ports so will not be a like for like comparison.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 3475 3476 3477 3478 3479 3480 3481 3482 3491 3492 question first answered 30/11/2023 17:22:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1672680

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: London City Airport
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 waiting time was to clear Border Force security on arrival at London City Airport in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	3475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>Border Force measures and monitors wait times at all major UK ports to ensure the flow of legitimate travel into UK.</p><p>The latest Border Force transparency data shows that 95% of arrivals to the UK were cleared within the service standard in the second quarter of this year and in July, 90% of passengers surveyed were satisfied with their experience at UK border control. The most recent data is available on Gov.UK; <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fborder-force-transparency-data-q2-2023&amp;data=05%7C01%7CNatasha.Ghafoor1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca22370c762b144bb58ce08dbecc6d8f3%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638364110998528504%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9JJ9ccYv3YgmePtNPWcwe7S5SkCQ%2BdyvE7BZDzDzizY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-q2-2023</a>.</p><p>We do not publish port level wait times for commercial sensitivity as it may provide an unfair advantage to certain ports if others are seen to be performing more badly. The way data is captured is also different across ports so will not be a like for like comparison.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 3474 3476 3477 3478 3479 3480 3481 3482 3491 3492 question first answered 30/11/2023 17:22:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight