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1535732

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students
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 an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the number of international students at UK universities on the UK's future position in the Higher Education Policy Institute soft-power index.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	71242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>Our offer to international students is extremely competitive and ensures that we continue to attract the best and brightest students from around the world.</p><p>The Government’s International Education Strategy set out a target of attracting 600,000 international Higher Education students to the UK by 2030, which we have achieved almost a decade early.</p><p> </p><p>The public also rightly expects us to control immigration and ensure we have a system that works in the UK’s best interests.</p><p> </p><p>As the Growth Plan set out, the Government is looking at how immigration contributes to growth and will set out further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/11/2022 13:40:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1535753

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
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, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2022 to Question 62757 on Members: Correspondence, for what reason the percentage of hon. Members written correspondence completed within his Department's service standard timescales reduced from 61 per cent in Q4 2021 to 30 per cent in Q2 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	71018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of Hon. Member’s written correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Performance against target has been impacted by an unprecedented increase in MPs queries following the Afghan evacuation, Ukraine crisis and HM Passport Office application surge.</p><p>We now have an operational plan to fully recover our position and I will shortly be writing to all Members setting these plans in more detail including timescales for delivery.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71019 question first answered 28/10/2022 11:13:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1535754

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
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, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2022 to Question 62757 on Members: Correspondence, when his Department expects to meet its Q4 2019 response rate of completing 98 per cent. of hon. Members' correspondence received in a Quarter within service standard timescale.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	71019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of Hon. Member’s written correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Performance against target has been impacted by an unprecedented increase in MPs queries following the Afghan evacuation, Ukraine crisis and HM Passport Office application surge.</p><p>We now have an operational plan to fully recover our position and I will shortly be writing to all Members setting these plans in more detail including timescales for delivery.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71018 question first answered 28/10/2022 11:13:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1535880

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Albania
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the modern slavery variant of the ILLEN or RED form was completed for any of the Albanian nationals removed from the UK on 12 October?
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	71305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on individual cases.</p><p>All those arriving in the UK by small boat, regardless of nationality, are given the opportunity to raise any protection claims. No one has been removed whilst they had a pending claim for protection or as a potential victim of modern slavery.</p><p>The Albanian police representative working with the Home Office to tackle organised crime groups have no role in UK immigration decisions or the return of individuals to Albania.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71306 71307 question first answered 28/10/2022 11:08:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1535881

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Albania
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any representatives of the Albanian police were present for the handling of Albanian nationals selected for removal on 12 October.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	71306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on individual cases.</p><p>All those arriving in the UK by small boat, regardless of nationality, are given the opportunity to raise any protection claims. No one has been removed whilst they had a pending claim for protection or as a potential victim of modern slavery.</p><p>The Albanian police representative working with the Home Office to tackle organised crime groups have no role in UK immigration decisions or the return of individuals to Albania.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71305 71307 question first answered 28/10/2022 11:08:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1535882

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Albania
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the role the Albanian police played during the removal of Albanian nationals on 12 October; and whether the Albanian police had direct contact with those Albanian nationals.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	71307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on individual cases.</p><p>All those arriving in the UK by small boat, regardless of nationality, are given the opportunity to raise any protection claims. No one has been removed whilst they had a pending claim for protection or as a potential victim of modern slavery.</p><p>The Albanian police representative working with the Home Office to tackle organised crime groups have no role in UK immigration decisions or the return of individuals to Albania.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71305 71306 question first answered 28/10/2022 11:08:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1535946

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visa extensions from people with limited leave to remain in the UK were pending on 25 October (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	70950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office Transparency data sets out how the department is performing against its service standard, which can be found on the GOV.UK webpage: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> This will cover the period for 25 October 2021. The period for 25 October 2022 has not been published yet.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/10/2022 11:05:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1536033

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
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 assessment he has made of the risk posed to Afghan climate activists still in Afghanistan; and for what reason those at risk have not been included in the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	71327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>Those at-risk in Afghanistan and the region are eligible for resettlement through one of the three referral pathways laid out in the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) policy statement. The ACRS scheme is designed to support those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values, as well as vulnerable people, such as women and girls at risk, and members of minority groups.</p><p>Our referral process is designed to be fair and equitable to those it identifies to be in need. 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>Under Pathway 2 of the ACRS, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) completes referrals based on their assessments of protection needs and vulnerabilities. We are pleased to have welcomed the first family to the UK under Pathway 2 of the ACRS. We will continue to receive referrals to the scheme in coming years.  <br> <br> Statistics on Afghan resettlement schemes and programmes - including the number of people resettled - will be included in the published Immigration Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71328 71329 question first answered 28/10/2022 10:04:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1536034

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
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, how many people have arrived in the UK under Pathway 2 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	71328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>Those at-risk in Afghanistan and the region are eligible for resettlement through one of the three referral pathways laid out in the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) policy statement. The ACRS scheme is designed to support those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values, as well as vulnerable people, such as women and girls at risk, and members of minority groups.</p><p>Our referral process is designed to be fair and equitable to those it identifies to be in need. 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>Under Pathway 2 of the ACRS, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) completes referrals based on their assessments of protection needs and vulnerabilities. We are pleased to have welcomed the first family to the UK under Pathway 2 of the ACRS. We will continue to receive referrals to the scheme in coming years.  <br> <br> Statistics on Afghan resettlement schemes and programmes - including the number of people resettled - will be included in the published Immigration Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71327 71329 question first answered 28/10/2022 10:04:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1536036

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
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, how Afghan activists at risk due to their environmental activism can travel to the UK to seek refuge.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	71329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>Those at-risk in Afghanistan and the region are eligible for resettlement through one of the three referral pathways laid out in the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) policy statement. The ACRS scheme is designed to support those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values, as well as vulnerable people, such as women and girls at risk, and members of minority groups.</p><p>Our referral process is designed to be fair and equitable to those it identifies to be in need. 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>Under Pathway 2 of the ACRS, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) completes referrals based on their assessments of protection needs and vulnerabilities. We are pleased to have welcomed the first family to the UK under Pathway 2 of the ACRS. We will continue to receive referrals to the scheme in coming years.  <br> <br> Statistics on Afghan resettlement schemes and programmes - including the number of people resettled - will be included in the published Immigration Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 71327 71328 question first answered 28/10/2022 10:04:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome