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1061050

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
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 12 February 2019 to Question number 217557 on undocumented migrants, what estimate he has made of the number of migrants entering the UK illegally in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	221669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Border Force do not routinely publish this level of data on clandestines, as this could compromise immigration controls and impact on national security.</p><p>I refer the Rt. Hon member for Dover to the answer of 12 February which states:</p><p>The Home Office works closely with partners in the UK and overseas to strike people smuggling at source – identifying and dismantling the organ-ised crime groups that facilitate illegal immigration. Additionally, the UK works abroad to reduce factors that may push or force people to attempt such journeys - through creating jobs, tackling modern slavery, providing education and delivering life-saving humanitarian assistance in response to conflicts and natural disasters.</p><p>In November a new UK-France Coordination and Information Centre opened in Calais to strengthen our joint efforts to tackle all kinds of crimi-nality at the border. Border Force is working alongside Police Aux Fron-tieres as part of a 24/7 operation to help prevent illegal attempts to cross the shared border and exchange intelligence between UK and French agencies to combat cross-border criminality.</p><p>Despite our successes in preventing attempts to enter the UK illegally, we are not complacent. We will continue to work closely with our French coun-terparts to maintain border security and keep legitimate passengers and trade moving.</p><p>At juxtaposed controls and ports around the country, Border Force officers use some of the most advanced detection technology available to find and stop migrants attempting to reach the UK illegally.</p><p>We have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security, with all freight vehicles entering the UK screened for people being smuggled into the UK using a range of techniques, which include using carbon dioxide detectors and motion sensors as well as sniff-er dogs to detect clandestine on board lorries.</p><p>We have taken steps to address the possibility that there may be a dis-placement of clandestine migrant activity towards smaller and less fre-quented ports, as enhanced controls at the juxtaposed ports have become increasingly effective.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 16:04:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1061051

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
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 12 February 2019 to Question 217557 on undocumented migrants, what proportion of freight vehicles are screened for people being smuggled into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	221670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Honourable member for Dover to the answer of 12 February which states:<br>We have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security, with all freight vehicles entering the UK screened using a range of techniques, which include using carbon dioxide detectors and motion sensors as well as sniffer dogs to detect clandestine on board lorries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 16:01:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1061063

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant 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 the UK’s future skills-based immigration system White Paper, published in December 2018, Cm. 9722, whether the time-limited transitional measure for low skilled labour will permit successful migrant workers to travel between regions and countries of the UK for the period of their stay where the nature of their work demands it.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	221604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The transitional route will be open to workers from low risk countries at all skill levels and there will be no restrictions on migrants wishing to travel within the UK.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 16:02:50 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

1061066

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how private, public and voluntary sector employers in each constituent part of the UK will be consulted as part of the programme of engagement with sectors as pledged in the December 2018 white paper entitled The UK's Future Skills-Based Immigration System.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	221607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that a wide range of stakeholders across the UK, particularly businesses, have an opportunity to contribute their views on the future immigration system for EU and non-EU citizens alike. We are engaging in all regions and nations of the UK through regional and sector focussed events.</p><p>We are establishing advisory groups that will have detailed discussions with private, public and voluntary sector employers and industry representatives as the policy and system is developed. Engagement will include roundtable discussions with private, public and voluntary sector employers and industry representatives.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 16:08:22 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

1061103

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Holiday Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether officials in UK Visas and Immigration have had annual leave scheduled for April 2019 cancelled.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	221554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>UKVI has not introduced any leave restrictions during April 2019. Business areas will be operating annual leave arrangements in line with Home Office policy.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 15:38:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1061162

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 12 February 2019 to Question 218366, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people who will be registered for settled status in the United Kingdom by (a) 29 March 2019, (b) 31 December 2020 and (c) 30 June 2021, in the event of the UK leaving the EU (i) with a withdrawal agreement and (ii) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	221820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The 3.5 million EU citizens and their family members resident in the UK are eligible to apply for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme. Following two successful private beta test phases, we commenced the wider public roll-out of the scheme on 21 January. The EU Settlement Scheme will be fully open by 30 March 2019 and EU citizens will have until 30 June 2021 to apply, in line with the draft Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p>In the event of a no deal, the Prime Minister has already made clear that all EU citizens resident here by 29 March 2019 will be welcome to stay. The deadline for applications will be 31 December 2020 to align with the start of the new UK immigration system.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 15:37:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1061188

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspected victims of human trafficking have been held in immigration detention since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	221825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office record the number of all individuals referred to the Na-tional Referral Mechanism (NRM) and this information is published Quarter-ly by the National Crime Agency. This information does not distinguish be-tween those detained under immigration powers and those living in the community. The reason for this is two-fold, firstly because the NRM referral is not an immigration route by which individuals should regularise their stay in the United Kingdom and, secondly, because a person’s status in immi-gration detention is not permanent and can change.</p><p>The use of immigration detention in all cases is subject to regular reviews and consequently a change in circumstance may result in a different con-sideration. It is quite possible that an immigration detainee is referred to the National Referral Mechanism during a detention period and is released into the community at any point during that process.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 15:59:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1061191

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre: Inspections
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 implications for his polices of the conclusions of HM Chief Inspector of Prison's report on the (a) condition of the buildings and (b) needs of female detainees at Dungavel detention centre.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	221828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has fully considered the recommendations made by HM Chief Inspector of Prison following his recent inspection report of Dungavel immigration removal centre.</p><p><br>The Government’s response to the recommendations made, including the ac-tions being taken forward, was published on the Inspectorate’s website on 19 November 2018. A copy of the Government’s service improvement plan can be found at the link below :</p><p><a href="https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/11/2018-11-15-Service-Improvement-Plan-Dungavel-House-IRC-Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/11/2018-11-15-Service-Improvement-Plan-Dungavel-House-IRC-Final.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 16:09:31 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1061226

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Overseas Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visit visa applications have been refused in each year since 2000.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	221834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Home Office published statistics on visitor entry clearance visas start from 2005.</p><p>Information on visitor entry clearance visa applications and outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed cases) is published on a quarterly basis as part of the Home Office publication scheme, in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics’, Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q.</p><p>The latest edition can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 14:34:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell

1061325

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EEA Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether all Surinder Singh people with issued EEA Family Permits and UK Residence Cards will have to re-submit all evidence of life in the UK when re-applying for permanent UK residence after 29 March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	221777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Where an application is made to the EU Settlement Scheme by an appli-cant who holds valid permanent residence documentation, or valid indefinite leave to enter or remain in the UK, the assessment of their previous UK residence will not be repeated.</p><p>Otherwise, evidence of UK residence for the relevant period will be re-quired. The application process will help the applicant to establish their con-tinuous residence, on an automated basis using data held by HM Revenue &amp; Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions. This will keep the documentary evidence the applicant is required to provide to a minimum. If needed, the applicant will be able to upload documentary evidence of their continuous residence.</p><p>There has been no estimate made of how many people documented under the ‘Surinder Singh’ provisions (those resident here by virtue of regulation 9 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016) will need to make an application to the EU Settlement Scheme. Those currently resi-dent here under regulation 9 are not generally required to hold EEA docu-mentation in order to be lawfully resident in the UK, as is the case with oth-er direct family members of EEA citizens whose residence rights are auto-matic.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 221778 question first answered 19/02/2019 15:40:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty