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1673129

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
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, how long his Department expects to keep open the second stage of Pathway 3 referrals for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	3742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>The resettlement of eligible Afghans remains a top priority for this government. As of September 2023, around 24,600 vulnerable people affected by the events in Afghanistan have been brought to safety. This includes the first individuals to be relocated under Pathway 3 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS).</p><p>In the second stage of Pathway 3, our commitment to work with international partners and NGOs to welcome wider groups of Afghans still stands. We are not able to open for referrals at this present time for the second stage of Pathway 3 but further information will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/11/2023 16:34:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

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

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

1672158

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Northern 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 passports were issued from HM Passport Office in Belfast in the last three years; and how many and what proportion of these passports were issued to people declaring that they held an Irish passport.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	3133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Passport applications are distributed across offices throughout the UK. The data for the volume of passports issued following a successful application by office, and the data for the number of applications processed by office, is not held in a reportable format.</p><p>The data for applications where the holding of a non-British passport has been declared is not broken down by the issuing country of that passport, and is therefore not held in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/11/2023 17:23:21 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1672233

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
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 take steps to support Sudanese nationals who were given six-month Leave Outside The Rules and whose visas are expiring to extend their leave to remain.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	3158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>Where a person who has been given leave outside the rules but is unable to return home they should apply for an extension of leave. Further information about applying for an extension can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-to-extend-stay-in-the-uk-flrhro." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-to-extend-stay-in-the-uk-flrhro.</a></p><p>Each case will be assessed on its merits. If they are unable to afford the fee then a fee waiver application can be made. Details about fee waivers can be found at: <a href="https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/product/fee-waiver." target="_blank">https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/product/fee-waiver.</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/11/2023 11:11:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1672356

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's average response time to correspondence from Birmingham, Hall Green constituents.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Tahir Ali
uin	3339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>We do not hold data about response times for correspondence from individual customers. The information could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/11/2023 10:21:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4747 label Biography information for Tahir Ali

1672449

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
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, with reference to the Answer of 14 November 2023 to Question 1202 on Members: Correspondence, if he will make an assessment of the status of the technical issue as of 22 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	3305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Having reviewed the system we are satisfied that this error is not part of a wider systemic issue.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of all requests for Biometric Residence Permits are successfully processed, however, the case in question was part of a very small number of failures, usually because of a data entry error rather than a system issue. We are taking steps (like postcode lookup and enhanced operational guidance) to further enhance data quality to drive down the small number even further.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/11/2023 12:04:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle