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874765

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date	29/03/2018
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 welfare records are kept for asylum seekers that have been granted asylum.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	135066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold dedicated ‘welfare records’ for asylum seekers or refugees, however information concerning health conditions or safeguarding matters will be recorded on the applicant’s case file as their asylum claim progresses and retained in accordance with data protection regulations, including following a grant of refugee status.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/04/2018 10:47:16 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

874768

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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, how many asylum cases that commenced before 2010 remain outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	135069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of the number of older cases in the system. These are more complex cases which generally have barriers preventing an initial asylum decision being made. Barriers are often varied and require time to clear.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has plans to reduce the number of outstanding undecided asylum claims and the speed at which they are processed. Plans include a staff retention strategy to ensure it retains its highly skilled asylum decision makers, further expansion of digital processes to increase caseworking flexibility and the creation of a new team in Bootle; specifically established to tackle older asylum cases. The new team has been designed to establish new ways of working and roll out best practise in the management of older cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 135070 question first answered 16/04/2018 10:47:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

874769

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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, how many asylum cases have remained outstanding for over five years in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017; and what steps her Department are taking to reduce those numbers.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	135070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of the number of older cases in the system. These are more complex cases which generally have barriers preventing an initial asylum decision being made. Barriers are often varied and require time to clear.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has plans to reduce the number of outstanding undecided asylum claims and the speed at which they are processed. Plans include a staff retention strategy to ensure it retains its highly skilled asylum decision makers, further expansion of digital processes to increase caseworking flexibility and the creation of a new team in Bootle; specifically established to tackle older asylum cases. The new team has been designed to establish new ways of working and roll out best practise in the management of older cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 135069 question first answered 16/04/2018 10:47:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

874772

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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, how many asylum cases that were sent to the Migration Refusal Pool were returned to the Home Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	135073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Asylum cases are not sent to the Migration Refusal Pool (MRP). The MRP consists of non-asylum cases, where records indicate that an individual has made an unsuccessful application to remain in the UK and is therefore awaiting return to their country of origin.</p><p> </p><p>The cases of failed asylum seekers are not managed as part of the MRP, as these cases are managed separately by UK Visas and Immigration and Immigration Enforcement. The number of failed asylum seekers subject to removal action is published as part of the Home Office transparency arrangements and can be found at table ASY-03:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 135074 question first answered 16/04/2018 10:47:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

874773

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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, how many and what proportion of asylum cases sent to the Migration Refusal Pool were returned to the Home Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	135074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Asylum cases are not sent to the Migration Refusal Pool (MRP). The MRP consists of non-asylum cases, where records indicate that an individual has made an unsuccessful application to remain in the UK and is therefore awaiting return to their country of origin.</p><p> </p><p>The cases of failed asylum seekers are not managed as part of the MRP, as these cases are managed separately by UK Visas and Immigration and Immigration Enforcement. The number of failed asylum seekers subject to removal action is published as part of the Home Office transparency arrangements and can be found at table ASY-03:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 135073 question first answered 16/04/2018 10:47:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz