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1667972

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum and Visas: Appeals
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 time taken to implement (a) visa and (b) asylum appeals that were accepted at tribunal stage was in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of successful appeals and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 353 354 question first answered 15/11/2023 16:26:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1667973

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum and Visas: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the most common causes of gaps in the time between (a) visa or asylum appeals being approved at tribunal and (b) those decisions being implemented.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of successful appeals and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 352 354 question first answered 15/11/2023 16:26:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1667975

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum and Visas: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to implement visa and asylum appeals that are overturned by the tribunal court.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of successful appeals and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 352 353 question first answered 15/11/2023 16:26:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1657827

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Short-term Holding Facilities: Drugs
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 publish her Department's risk assessment for its policy of seizing medicines in short-term holding centres.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	197513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>We take the welfare of people in our care extremely seriously and we continue to improve our short-term holding facilities. Individual risk assessments are conducted on all individuals entering a detention facility. Suitability for detention is assessed on a case-by-case basis with consideration of appropriate escalation points to safeguard individuals with vulnerabilities, including on prescribed medication.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/09/2023 13:36:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1625706

registered interest
date	03/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Officers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional immigration officers have been appointed in each year between January 2018 and March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	183780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2023 answer text <p>For security reasons, we would not disclose this level of detail about our workforce. The overall number of officers employed by both Immigration Enforcement and Border Force is at page 107 of the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts: HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk).</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/05/2023 15:58:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1625707

registered interest
date	03/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Officers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional immigration officers are undergoing training in order to expand the current staffing level.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	183781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2023 answer text <p>For security reasons, we would not disclose this level of detail about our workforce. The overall number of officers employed by both Immigration Enforcement and Border Force is at page 107 of the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1000127%2FHO_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2020-21_FINAL_AS_CERTIFIED__accessible_.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CHOParliamentaryQuestions%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ccc21b9682ddd4bce109308db50950e92%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638192373337144051%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XwFqdurEDFSLbJUWGHRMtYkO0jdO86e3kBPPpNg%2BX9U%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/05/2023 14:11:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1608680

registered interest
date	29/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Afghan asylum seekers housed in UK hotels will be offered permanent accommodation (a) in the same area as those hotels and (b) which is suitably sized for the size of their party.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	176764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is working with 350 local authorities across the UK to meet the demand for housing and will continue to do so. Over 9,000 people have been supported into settled accommodation (This breaks down as c.8,500 moved into homes with an additional c.500 matched but not yet moved).</p><p> </p><p>Further statistics on individuals resettled or relocated under the Afghan schemes have now also become available in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics, year ending December 2022</a> release.</p><p> </p><p>Consideration of family size is an important factor when assisting guests with their housing needs. All guests are encouraged to work with our Home Office Liaison Officers (HOLOs) and council support staff at their hotel when searching for a property, who will support them to identify suitable, affordable homes.</p><p> </p><p>We have always been clear with guests that there is no guarantee that any hotel moves or settled accommodation allocation will be in the same area as where they are now.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/04/2023 13:37:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1586317

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
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, what recent discussions she has had with police forces in areas experiencing disappearances of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from hotels on (a) investigating the disappearances and (b) helping to prevent future disappearances; and what steps she is taking with the impacted hotels to help to prevent future disappearances.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	147171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The rise in the number of small boat crossings has placed significant pressures on local authority care placements for young people. The safety and wellbeing of those in our care is our primary concern. Out of necessity, and with the best interests of the child in mind, we have had no alternative but to temporarily use hotels to give unaccompanied children a roof over their heads whilst local authority accommodation is found.</p><p>We take the safety and welfare of those in our care seriously and the Home Office has robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure those in our accommodation are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority. The National Transfer scheme (NTS) has seen 3,148 children transferred to local authorities with children's services between 1 July 2021 and 30 September 2022. This compares to 739 children transferred in the same time period in the previous year. We are providing local authorities with children's services with an additional £15,000 for every eligible young person they take into their care from a dedicated UASC hotel, or the Reception and Safe Care Service in Kent, by the end of February 2023.</p><p>For any young person that goes missing from an unaccompanied asylum seeking child (UASC) hotel, the local authority will convene a multi-agency forum including local police forces and the Home Office to seek to locate the child and ensure their safety, following the 'missing persons protocol', led by our directly engaged social workers. The MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed for any looked after child who goes missing from a care setting, including the UASC hotels. Similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/02/2023 16:02:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1582066

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with local authorities on the risk of child refugees (a) disappearing and (b) being kidnapped from hotels run by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	135490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The wellbeing, welfare and security of children and minors in our care is an absolute priority. Robust safeguarding procedures are in place to ensure all children and minors are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with local authorities.</p><p>Officials hold regular meetings with local authorities to arrange the placement of young people via the National Transfer Scheme, to consider strategic improvements to the processes and procedures and in response to the concern around young people going missing from hotels.</p><p>We continue to consult multi-agency partners and subject matter experts to ensure our processes and procedures are robust and evolve as new trends or risks emerge. Local police forces are engaged in ongoing activity where a child fails to return to a hotel and this data is shared across the police national computer as it would be in any case where a child goes missing</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/02/2023 14:27:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1565853

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) relevant stakeholders on the appointment of a migrants commissioner; and what is the timeline for their appointment.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	120991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>A range of options have been considered for delivering the Windrush recommendations, including discussions with external stakeholders. The Home Office is taking steps to be more transparent to ensure that the department is as open as possible to all types of scrutiny, both internal and external. <del class="ministerial">This requires a fundamental cultural shift in our attitude to people with different views on policy and those who make a complaint when something goes wrong.</del></p><p>We will keep the Home Affairs Select Committee updated on the progress of all the Wendy Williams recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/01/2023 18:01:29 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2023 10:11:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 48638 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West