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1546346

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
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 estimate the number of individuals with section 3C leave under the Immigration Act 1971 whose (a) employment has been (i) terminated or (ii) refused and (b) benefit claim has been (i) suspended or (ii) rejected in the last year as a result of incorrect application of rules on immigration status; and what steps she is taking to reduce these numbers.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	98711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>Employers are not obliged to tell the Home Office when they terminate or refuse employment, and there are many reasons why a claim to benefits may be suspended or rejected.</p><p>Consequently, it is not possible to provide the estimates requested.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/12/2022 14:40:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1546347

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Immigration Enforcement has procedures for (a) notifying and (b) requesting permission from relevant organisations for enforcement operations (i) within and (ii) outside (A) Transport for London and (B) other rail stations.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	98712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>Enforcement Operations conducted in areas under the control of the British Transport Police (BTP) within rail stations and Transport for London (TfL) locations are completed in cooperation with the BTP and / or TfL in line with the procedures set out on Partnership Working which can be accessed at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1060073/Partnership_working.pdf" target="_blank">Partnership working.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Enforcement operations completed in the public areas outside a rail station or Transport for London locations, which are not under the control of the BTP are completed in line with the public operational enforcement procedures without notification unless the risk assessment deems this necessary. The procedures for enforcement operations in public areas can be accessed at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/947346/enforcement-visits-v3.0ext.pdf" target="_blank">Enforcement visits casework guidance (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> and <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/878701/enforcement-planning-assessments-v3.0-ext__002_.pdf" target="_blank">enforcement-planning-assessments-v3.0-ext__002_.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/12/2022 14:33:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1546349

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
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 letter of 18 November 2022 to all hon. and Rt hon. Members on Use of Hotels for Asylum Seekers, if she will place in the Library a copy of a sample factsheet and briefing pack on asylum, asylum support and accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	98768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>Accommodation costs including costs associated with the provision of goods and services related to accommodation are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>.</p><p>The copy of the factsheet and briefing pack will be a live document and will be reviewed regularly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 98769 question first answered 05/12/2022 12:16:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1546351

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 letter of 18 November 2022 to all hon. and Rt hon. Members on Use of Hotels for Asylum Seekers, what goods or services are (a) supplied and (b) procured by her Department from third parties to provide support to asylum seekers; who supplies those goods and services; at what cost those goods and services are supplied; and to which budget lines those costs fall.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	98769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>Accommodation costs including costs associated with the provision of goods and services related to accommodation are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>.</p><p>The copy of the factsheet and briefing pack will be a live document and will be reviewed regularly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 98768 question first answered 05/12/2022 12:16:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1546355

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
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, what (a) recent steps she has taken and (b) steps she plans to take to help ensure that asylum accommodation does not have persistent black mould in it in the period since the death of Awaab Ishak in Rochdale; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	98772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>The welfare and safety of all vulnerable asylum seekers in our care is of the utmost importance to the Home Office, and we expect the highest standards from our accommodation providers. Our accommodation providers are contractually obliged to provide adequate accommodation and to conduct regular quality assurance checks across the asylum estate. Accommodation providers complete due diligence checks and all accommodation must be statutorily and regulatory compliant before they are selected. Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. This is supplemented by weekly, monthly and quarterly governance meetings.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office also has a Contract Assurance team which conducts a range of activities to ensure accommodation providers deliver to the required standards. All contingency accommodation sites are inspected by the team. Dispersal accommodation is also inspected on an intelligence led basis. Properties are checked against the high standards set by the contract. Providers are required to take immediate action to address any issues that are found.</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. Home Office officials review the issues and feedback received via Migrant Help to help understand the health of the service and address any problems, for example, by targeting inspections of properties about which issues have been raised</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 98773 98774 question first answered 02/12/2022 14:49:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1546356

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: 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 the contracts her Department holds with asylum accommodation providers include (a) provisions and (b) key performance indicators concerning the (i) identification and (ii) effective treatment of black mould in that accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	98773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>The welfare and safety of all vulnerable asylum seekers in our care is of the utmost importance to the Home Office, and we expect the highest standards from our accommodation providers. Our accommodation providers are contractually obliged to provide adequate accommodation and to conduct regular quality assurance checks across the asylum estate. Accommodation providers complete due diligence checks and all accommodation must be statutorily and regulatory compliant before they are selected. Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. This is supplemented by weekly, monthly and quarterly governance meetings.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office also has a Contract Assurance team which conducts a range of activities to ensure accommodation providers deliver to the required standards. All contingency accommodation sites are inspected by the team. Dispersal accommodation is also inspected on an intelligence led basis. Properties are checked against the high standards set by the contract. Providers are required to take immediate action to address any issues that are found.</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. Home Office officials review the issues and feedback received via Migrant Help to help understand the health of the service and address any problems, for example, by targeting inspections of properties about which issues have been raised</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 98772 98774 question first answered 02/12/2022 14:49:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1546357

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
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, whether her Department is aware of any serious incidents of black mould affecting the health of residents in asylum accommodation; and what processes her Department has to ensure monitoring arrangements are in place to assess standards in accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	98774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>The welfare and safety of all vulnerable asylum seekers in our care is of the utmost importance to the Home Office, and we expect the highest standards from our accommodation providers. Our accommodation providers are contractually obliged to provide adequate accommodation and to conduct regular quality assurance checks across the asylum estate. Accommodation providers complete due diligence checks and all accommodation must be statutorily and regulatory compliant before they are selected. Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. This is supplemented by weekly, monthly and quarterly governance meetings.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office also has a Contract Assurance team which conducts a range of activities to ensure accommodation providers deliver to the required standards. All contingency accommodation sites are inspected by the team. Dispersal accommodation is also inspected on an intelligence led basis. Properties are checked against the high standards set by the contract. Providers are required to take immediate action to address any issues that are found.</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. Home Office officials review the issues and feedback received via Migrant Help to help understand the health of the service and address any problems, for example, by targeting inspections of properties about which issues have been raised</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 98772 98773 question first answered 02/12/2022 14:49:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1546416

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
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 recent steps to help tackle the backlog of spousal visa applications.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	98904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As such earlier this year the service standard for family entry clearance applications was changed from 60-days to 120-days as a direct result.</p><p> </p><p>The bulk of resource has now returned to the route, along with a recent additional investment of new staff.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/12/2022 08:48:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1546417

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
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 spousal visa applicants who paid for a priority service received a decision within the priority timescale in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	98905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The transparency data includes a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldFamily.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C68baeb4cb470480dc90608da47a2e699%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637901062213241689%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pD9T%2Bmx2%2FMyxOHRWsrOirYLvh1pmqYgqjTuQnf%2FAjH0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/12/2022 08:46:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1546439

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Age Assurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee will publish a report on proposed scientific measures to determine the age of asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	98813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>In December 2021, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Home Office set up an independent Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee to provide her with independent scientific and associated ethical advice, recommendations for best practice, and advice relating to issues raised by key stakeholders on the implementation of scientific methods of age assessment.</p><p> </p><p>We have always been clear that any decision to implement scientific methods of age assessment would be subject to independent scientific advice. No official decisions have been made about what and how scientific methods would be implemented.</p><p> </p><p>The potential costs of implementing any scientific methods will also be considered alongside scientific advice regarding potential methods recommended by the committee before making a decision on what methods to implement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 98822 question first answered 06/12/2022 08:50:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock