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1562802

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
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, whether she is taking steps to prevent people claiming asylum in the UK if they could have claimed asylum elsewhere.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Rachel Maclean
uin	902858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>Individuals should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach – that is the fastest route to safety.</p><p>Our policies reflect this, including the process whereby an asylum claim may be declared inadmissible to the UK asylum system if the claimant was previously present in, or has a connection to, a safe third country where it would have been reasonable to expect them to claim asylum.</p><p>The differentiation policy, which differentiates the entitlements afforded to refugees, is intended to dissuade migrants from making dangerous journeys to the UK and instead claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/12/2022 15:55:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean

1562812

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Glasgow Central of 30 June 2022 with reference ZA29473.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	113276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office will issue a response shortly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/01/2023 14:47:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1562834

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Seasonal Workers
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 15 December 2022 to Questions 105495 and 105505 on Visas: Seasonal Workers and 105507 on Agriculture: Seasonal Workers, whether his Department has put accountability structures in place to respond to Scheme Operators who terminate workers' contracts early without offering alternative work placements.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	113406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2023 answer text <p>The sponsor licence regime places a broad range of responsibilities on Scheme Operators to ensure that the rights of migrant workers are protected.</p><p>We keep these protections under close ongoing review and the route has seen improvements to its worker welfare protections throughout its lifetime. This includes the announcement on 16 December that the Government will introduce rules ensuring seasonal workers are guaranteed a minimum number of paid hours each week, alongside increased compliance capacity to monitor welfare.</p><p>The Home Office cannot compel a private organisation to continue sponsoring workers it does not wish to sponsor. We do however expect the Scheme Operators to maximise the work opportunities for participating seasonal workers and we will continue to monitor this situation closely.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/01/2023 10:29:34 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1562875

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
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 decision makers in her Department were fully trained to make decisions on unaccompanied asylum seeking children’s claims as of 19 December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	113422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>e Home Office takes our duty of care towards children and young people extremely seriously, and we prioritise applications from children and young people.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish the data requested. However we are able to provide data on the number of initial decisions on asylum applications from unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), which can be found in the latest Immigration statistics, year ending September 2022: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2022/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement" target="_blank">List of tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p>UASC generally enter the care system to be accommodated and supported by a local authority as looked after children. The Home Office budget provides significant support to local authorities in this area in addition to existing local Government funding. The latest published statistics from the Department for Education, for the year ending 31 March 2022, show there were 5,540 UASC being cared for in England alone, an increase of 34% from the previous reporting year. This does not include the high intake seen this summer.</p><p>The Home Office has a comprehensive training programme and mentoring framework in place for all asylum decision makers. Decision makers who specifically deal with children’s claims complete an additional training on Keeping Children Safe and have an additional period of mentoring.</p><p> </p><p>Our aim is for Asylum Casework to have 2,500 caseworkers by August 2023, with around 10% dedicated to children's casework and we have recruitment plans in place to ensure we reach those numbers.</p><p> </p><p>The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (NABA) came into force on 28 June 2022. In accordance with NABA, all new asylum claims made on or after 28 June 2022 will be considered and processed under the new legislation, whilst existing claims will be worked through under previous legislation and asylum policies.</p><p> </p><p>The Asylum Casework team are working to reintroduce service standards and are aligning with changes being introduced through the NABA. Our intention to reintroduce service standards aligns with the recommendation from the recent Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s (ICIBI) published report - An inspection of asylum casework (November 2021). The re-induction will also include children’s asylum claims.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 113423 113424 113425 113426 113427 113428 question first answered 11/01/2023 17:42:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1552598

registered interest
date	16/12/2022
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 Prime Minister's Answer to the hon. Member for Halton during his oral statement on Illegal Immigration on 13 December 2022, Official Report, column 902, what the evidential basis was for saying that the initial asylum backlog is approximately 117,000.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	112046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office records information relating to asylum applications on case working systems. Information derived from these systems – including data on the number of asylum cases awaiting an initial decision – are published in the quarterly <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics</a>. The latest data show that there were 117,400 applications awaiting an initial decision at the end of September 2022.</p><p>The underlying data 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>’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. Please note, the data show a snapshot as at the last day of each quarter, rather than the number of asylum applications awaiting a decision over the entire quarter. Additional information can be found in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9/user-guide-to-immigration-statistics" target="_blank">User Guide to: Immigration Statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/01/2023 09:48:39 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1552701

registered interest
date	16/12/2022
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, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Afghans under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme who have permanent settled accommodation that meets their family's needs; when her Department expects those people under that scheme will be placed in such accommodation; and whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that such accommodation is available to those being accommodated under that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	112176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>The recent update to the published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">'Afghan Resettlement: Operational Data'</a>, shows that, at 4<sup>th</sup> November 2022:</p><ul><li>22,833 individuals from Afghanistan have been brought to safety in the UK (since the end of June 2021).</li><li>7,572 of these have now moved into suitable settled accommodation, another 779 people have been matched to a home and are waiting to move in.</li></ul><p>Work is underway to assure information relating to all the individuals resettled under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) and the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) on case working systems. Once this work concludes, further statistics on both schemes - including the number of people resettled under each - will be included in the published Immigration Statistics.</p><p>The Government continues to work at pace, in collaboration with over 350 local authorities across the UK, to meet the demand for housing. Alongside this, we are reaching out to landlords, developers, and the wider private rented sector to encourage further offers of properties.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/01/2023 09:57:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1552708

registered interest
date	16/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Southampton Itchen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overnight stays in Southampton Itchen have asylum seekers spent in (a) dispersed accommodation, (b) overflow dispersed accommodation, (c) contingency hotel, (d) stage one overnight initial accommodation or (e) accommodation made by spot booking since November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	112124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2022 answer text <p>Statistics relating to supported asylum seekers temporarily residing in contingency accommodation are published as Immigration Statistics under the S98 population tables and the latest published immigration statistics also detail the number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets(opens in a new tab)</a>. Data is published on a quarterly basis, with the latest information published 24 November 2022. The next quarterly figures are due to be released in February 2023.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of these statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated in specific accommodation. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/12/2022 14:26:19 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1552710

registered interest
date	16/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of asylum seekers the Dolphin Hotel in Southampton has housed since it began providing temporary accommodation; and what the average occupancy rate was.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	112125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2022 answer text <p>Occupancy levels are recorded at a specific point in time and vary daily. Statistics relating to asylum seekers temporarily residing in contingency accommodation are published as Immigration Statistics under the S98 population tables. These statistics can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</a>. Data are published on a quarterly basis, with the latest information published 24 November 2022. The next quarterly figures are due to be released in February 2023.</p><p>The Home Office has no power to hold asylum seekers, including children, in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 112127 question first answered 30/12/2022 14:24:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1552711

registered interest
date	16/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Southampton Itchen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of how long hotels will be used to temporarily house asylum seekers in Southampton, Itchen constituency.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	112126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office aims to gradually end the use of hotels and move asylum seekers to less expensive and more suitable dispersed accommodation.  The Department has established a programme of work to actively encourage the three private providers of asylum accommodation and Local Authorities to support the procurement of sufficient dispersed accommodation. The Home Office will shortly bring forward a range of alternative sites such as disused holiday parks, former student halls, and surplus military sites.</p><p>Each potential accommodation site is assessed for its suitability, including the availability of public services within the local area. Our providers have a strong record of running contingency sites effectively with minimal impact on the local area and population. We actively engage and collaborate with relevant stakeholders including NHS partners to understand and act on any concerns appropriately as the site operates.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 112129 112131 question first answered 30/12/2022 14:22:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1552712

registered interest
date	16/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any asylum seekers have absconded from the Dolphin Hotel in Southampton since the hotel was adopted by the Home Office.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	112127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2022 answer text <p>Occupancy levels are recorded at a specific point in time and vary daily. Statistics relating to asylum seekers temporarily residing in contingency accommodation are published as Immigration Statistics under the S98 population tables. These statistics can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</a>. Data are published on a quarterly basis, with the latest information published 24 November 2022. The next quarterly figures are due to be released in February 2023.</p><p>The Home Office has no power to hold asylum seekers, including children, in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 112125 question first answered 30/12/2022 14:24:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith