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1663659

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Horticulture: Seasonal Workers
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 Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors: sponsor a seasonal worker, published in April 2023, what (a) monitoring and (b) enforcement is in place to ensure that (i) piece rate targets set to workers on the horticultural seasonal worker visa scheme are reasonable and (ii) workers are (A) treated fairly by their employer and (B) not penalised for failing to work at the fair piece rate.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	201513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>UKVI have implemented a specific seasonal workers team as recommended by the 2022 ICIBI report. They have interviewed an extensive number of migrant workers this year and requested evidence of pay rates from the scheme operators. These visits, often undertaken with GLAA, seek evidence of salary paid to ensure requirements are met. Any breach of Sponsor guidance identified is dealt with as per published Sponsor Guidance.</p><p>As such, UKVI can take action against a Sponsor licence when it is identified workers are being incorrectly paid or there is a failure to comply with employment law.</p><p>UKVI have inspected and assured the complaints procedures put in place by the operators for workers to report treatment and conditions on farms.</p><p>Regular engagement with the licensed scheme operators is in place and UKVI assure that the operators monitor conditions on farms.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 201512 201514 question first answered 20/10/2023 11:22:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1655821

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Ethiopia
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 support Ethiopian applicants for family reunion.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	196312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>We recognise that some people displaced may wish to join family in the UK, and where those family members do not have a current UK visa, they can apply for one via one of our standard visa routes, which remain available, and applications can be submitted at the nearest Visa Application Centre. Guidance on how to apply for a family visa can be found at:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration" target="_blank"> Family visas: apply, extend or switch: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, close family members of individuals who are in the UK with permission to stay as a refugee may be eligible to apply under the family reunion arrangements. Details can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-for-uk-visa-family-joining-refugee-form-appendix-4-vaf4a" target="_blank">Application for UK visa (family joining refugee): appendix 4 VAF4A - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 16:40:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1652519

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Lone Parents: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an equality impact assessment of the potential impact of the no recourse to public funds condition on single mothers.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	193805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government published an overarching Equality Impact Assessment on the Compliant Environment measures, of which the NRPF is part, earlier this year: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcompliant-environment-overarching-equality-impact-assessment%2Fcompliant-environment-overarching-equality-impact-assessment-accessible&amp;data=05%7C01%7CTanvir.Hussain3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cce864e4613af42e95e8308db83c56084%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638248655965337867%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xF5EQn9BcXEIVYpmOhOkceKo3yTyuti7FWuzHX%2F%2BHyA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Compliant environment: overarching equality impact assessment (accessible) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/07/2023 12:40:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1644176

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
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 report by the UK Commission on Bereavement entitled Bereavement is everyone's business, published in October 2022, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) reviewing death registration processes and (b) extending the remit of the Tell Us Once service to include the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	189337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>For Civil Registration in England &amp; Wales, remote registration assisted both the bereaved and the registration service during the Covid pandemic with positive feedback received. To continue this, a change to primary legislation is required and the Data Protection and Digital Information (no2) Bill before Parliament seeks to enable this.</p><p>There are currently no plans to extend the Tell Us Once Service to the prive sector.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/06/2023 15:40:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1626718

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: Pregnant Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women who were held in migrant detention while pregnant miscarried or experienced a still birth each year (a) before the implementation of the 72-hour detention limit in 2016 and (b) after the implementation of that limit.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	184482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the total number of pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate each quarter is published in table PWD_01 of the ‘Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2022’. This data is only available from July 2016 and goes up to the end of September 2022. For data prior to 2010, see the archived Detention tables.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 184483 question first answered 19/05/2023 09:39:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1626719

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: Pregnant Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the ten years up to and including 2016, how many midwife appointments on average did (a) pregnant women held in migrant detention centres and (b) pregnant women in the wider UK population have in the course of their pregnancy.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	184483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the total number of pregnant women detained in the immigration detention estate each quarter is published in table PWD_01 of the ‘Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2022’. This data is only available from July 2016 and goes up to the end of September 2022. For data prior to 2010, see the archived Detention tables.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 184482 question first answered 19/05/2023 09:39:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1613122

registered interest
date	21/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Housing: 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 the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of those regulations on (a) potential savings for Government contractors and (b) costs incurred by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	182175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>We recognise that Local Authorities incur costs by providing services and wraparound support to asylum seekers. That is why we introduced grant funding to Local Authorities last year, to recognise their financial contribution. This amounted to £3,500 per new dispersed bedspace delivered, and we are trialling an increase in funding of up to £6,500 per new bedspace this year.</p><p>We assess that this change will deliver significant savings for the taxpayer as it will support Government contractors to provide alternative accommodation to hotels.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/05/2023 16:35:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1608251

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
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 oral statement by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs to the House on 28 March on Afghan Resettlement Update, what data her Department holds on the accommodation of those Afghan nationals who are part of the 24,500 who have relocated in the UK but who are not part of the around (a) 8,000 in bridging hotels and (b) 9,000 in settled homes.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	175470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Bridging accommodation is available to those who need it. A number of people have not needed to use it for a variety of reasons. For example, they may be the immediate family of a British national who owns a property in the UK, they have been able to stay with other family or friends or they have taken steps to secure their own private rented accommodation.</p><p>The published operational data on Afghanistan including information on temporary accommodation and settled accommodation is viewable at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Further data on accommodation may be included in future operational data releases. The next of which is on the 25 May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/04/2023 09:19:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1602447

registered interest
date	08/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
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 make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in ensuring the (a) reliable and accurate reporting of and (b) reduction of modern slavery in company supply chains since it came into force.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	161431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires businesses with a turnover of £36m or more to report annually on the steps taken to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>Compliance with section 54 is high. Following a Home Office commission, the Business &amp; Human Rights Resource Centre completed an audit of compliance with Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act. The high-level findings of this audit were published on 17 September 2020 in the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s annual report (available here): <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Findependent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLucy.Hewins%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1028007e46e44c63302408db257cd41b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638144990277887363%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=inWLlcZHEd7ro110ykJTm73UXOA0HYAaaNm1x1oCbXw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020</a>).</p><p> </p><p>To further increase compliance with section 54, the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F919937%2FGovernment_response_to_transparency_in_supply_chains_consultation_21_09_20.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLucy.Hewins%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1028007e46e44c63302408db257cd41b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638144990277887363%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=POzWQcYTi1m8r%2B%2BndPJJUGjGMxvSc6Awugo0qklxMBI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Government response to the Transparency in Supply Chains consultation</a>, published on 22 September 2020, committed to taking forwards an ambitious package of measures to strengthen the Act’s transparency legislation, including: extending the reporting requirement to public bodies with a budget of £36 million or more; mandating the specific reporting topics statements must cover; and requiring organisations to publish their statement on the new Government registry.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed to introduce financial penalties for organisations who fail to meet their statutory obligations to publish annual modern slavery statements. These measures require primary legislation and will be introduced when parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2021, the Government launched the modern slavery statement registry as a key tool to monitor and improve compliance with Section 54. Since launch, over 9,800 modern slavery statements covering over 32,800 organisations have been voluntarily submitted.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/03/2023 17:45:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1586285

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	Refugees: Ukraine
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 make a comparative assessment of the level of support her Department provides to Ukrainian people coming to the UK under the (a) Ukraine Family Scheme and (b) Homes for Ukraine scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	146750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>Ukrainian nationals who arrive in the UK through both the Homes for Ukraine and the Ukraine Family Scheme are permitted to work and have access to public funds and services, including those offered by Local Councils.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/02/2023 14:44:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton