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971428

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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, with reference to his Department's EU Settlement Scheme launched on 28 August 2018, what the timeframe is for the (a) conclusion of and (b) publication of an assessment of the effectiveness of that pilot scheme.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	172565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>From 28 August we commenced our first private beta phase of the EU Settlement Scheme to prove some of the functionality and processes in a live environment.</p><p>We will use the learning from this phase to improve our processes ahead of further phased roll outs to all eligible EU citizens and their non-EU citizen family members. Feedback from users so far has been very positive.</p><p>We will provide further details in due course of these subsequent phases, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/09/2018 15:43:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

971449

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Brexit
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 2018-19 Main Estimates, published in April 2018, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	172573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>For the financial year 2018-19, the department will receive an allocation of £395 million from HM Treasury to continue preparing for the UK to leave the EU. The Main Estimate will be amended through the Supplementary Estimate process later this year to reflect this.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/09/2018 15:45:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

969448

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason his Department has informed applicants for priority visas that the 30-day processing time would be extended to up to 12 weeks.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	171665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The Priority Visa Service for settlement applications aims to process straightforward cases within 30 working days.</p><p>Those applications made under the priority service will be placed to the front of the processing queue and expedited. However, it should be noted that timescales for decisions are not guaranteed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/09/2018 15:48:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

969486

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria will be used to determine destitution in the renewed asylum accommodation contract.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	171726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>Section 95 of the of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 provides that an asylum seeker is destitute and therefore eligible to receive accommodation and other support from the Home Office if:</p><p>a) he does not have adequate accommodation or the means of obtaining it (whether or not his other essential living needs are met); or</p><p>b)he has adequate accommodation or the means of obtaining it, but cannot meet his other essential living needs.</p><p>The definition is not changed by the re-tender of the Home Office asylum accommodation contracts. The legislation provides that, unless there are children in their household, a person ceases to be eligible to receive section 95 support 21 days after their asylum claim or any appeal is finally rejected. However, another form of support, including accommodation, is available under section 4(2) of the 1999 Act if the person is taking reasonable steps to leave the UK or there is a temporary or legal or practical obstacle that prevents their departure.</p><p>Cessation of s95 support occurs once an applicant is no longer eligible, through having exhausted all appeal rights, being granted a form of leave, has been removed from the country or having left the accommodation voluntarily. Operational checks are undertaken to ensure that there are no outstanding issues or applications, and support can be reinstated if information is received to the contrary.</p><p>There is no provision in the accommodation contracts that enable people who cease to qualify for section 95 support and do not qualify for section 4(2) support to continue to be housed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/09/2018 15:54:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

969487

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) enforce the provisions in the asylum accommodation contract that people who would otherwise be destitute will continue to be housed.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	171727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>Section 95 of the of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 provides that an asylum seeker is destitute and therefore eligible to receive accommodation and other support from the Home Office if:</p><p>a) he does not have adequate accommodation or the means of obtaining it (whether or not his other essential living needs are met);</p><p>or b)he has adequate accommodation or the means of obtaining it, but cannot meet his other essential living needs.</p><p>The definition is not changed by the re-tender of the Home Office asylum accommodation contracts. The legislation provides that, unless there are children in their household, a person ceases to be eligible to receive section 95 support 21 days after their asylum claim or any appeal is finally rejected. However, another form of support, including accommodation, is available under section 4(2) of the 1999 Act if the person is taking reasonable steps to leave the UK or there is a temporary or legal or practical obstacle that prevents their departure.</p><p>Cessation of s95 support occurs once an applicant is no longer eligible, through having exhausted all appeal rights, being granted a form of leave, has been removed from the country or having left the accommodation voluntarily. Operational checks are undertaken to ensure that there are no outstanding issues or applications, and support can be reinstated if information is received to the contrary.</p><p>There is no provision in the accommodation contracts that enable people who cease to qualify for section 95 support and do not qualify for section 4(2) support to continue to be housed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 171728 question first answered 12/09/2018 15:55:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

969489

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
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 seekers have had their housing provision removed before their asylum process was fully completed including the appeals process since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	171728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>Section 95 of the of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 provides that an asylum seeker is destitute and therefore eligible to receive accommodation and other support from the Home Office if:</p><p>a) he does not have adequate accommodation or the means of obtaining it (whether or not his other essential living needs are met);</p><p>or b)he has adequate accommodation or the means of obtaining it, but cannot meet his other essential living needs.</p><p>The definition is not changed by the re-tender of the Home Office asylum accommodation contracts. The legislation provides that, unless there are children in their household, a person ceases to be eligible to receive section 95 support 21 days after their asylum claim or any appeal is finally rejected. However, another form of support, including accommodation, is available under section 4(2) of the 1999 Act if the person is taking reasonable steps to leave the UK or there is a temporary or legal or practical obstacle that prevents their departure.</p><p>Cessation of s95 support occurs once an applicant is no longer eligible, through having exhausted all appeal rights, being granted a form of leave, has been removed from the country or having left the accommodation voluntarily. Operational checks are undertaken to ensure that there are no outstanding issues or applications, and support can be reinstated if information is received to the contrary.</p><p>There is no provision in the accommodation contracts that enable people who cease to qualify for section 95 support and do not qualify for section 4(2) support to continue to be housed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 171727 question first answered 12/09/2018 15:55:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

969528

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has paid damages under its hostile environment immigration policy on condition that the recipient did not publicise that payment since October 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	171732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>Further to my response to UIN 160359 of 4 July 2018 stated that since 2010 the Home Office had paid £12,360 in ex-gratia payments in relation to 8 cases where compliant environment measures had been applied.</p><p>Home Office records indicate that since 2010 there have been no payments for damages relating to compliant environment measures.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/09/2018 15:59:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

969125

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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, how many people have been invited to participate in the pilot of the application process for the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	171406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>From 28 August we commenced our first private beta phase of the EU Settlement Scheme to prove some of the functionality and processes in a live environment.</p><p>This phase is open to around 4,000 eligible EU citizens from three Liverpool universities and 12 NHS Trusts in North West England who are working for or studying at these institutions. Any non-EU citizen family members of EU citizens who have previously been issued a biometric residence card under the EEA Regulations and are working for or studying at these institutions are also eligible.</p><p>The private beta phase is entirely voluntary. EU citizens and non-EU citizen family members who are eligible do not need to apply now and can choose to apply after the scheme has rolled out fully. Given the voluntary nature of the private beta phase, we do not expect all eligible EU citizens and non-EU citizen family members to apply.</p><p>Applications will cost £65, which is the standard fee for applicants aged 16 or over. It will, however, be free for those with valid permanent residence or indefinite leave to remain documentation.</p><p>We will use the learning from this phase to improve our processes ahead of further phased roll outs to all eligible EU citizens and their non-EU citizen family members. Feedback from users so far has been very positive.</p><p>We will provide further details in due course of these subsequent phases, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 171408 171409 171410 171411 question first answered 11/09/2018 11:44:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

969126

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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, if he will place in the House of Commons Library a copy of the letter sent to EU citizens inviting them to participate in the pilot of the application process for the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	171407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Information about the private beta phase of the EU Settlement Scheme and how to participate in it was provided by the 12 NHS Trusts and three universities to their employees and students.</p><p>We will provide further details in due course of the planned phased implementation of the scheme, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/09/2018 11:40:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

969127

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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, what projection she has made of the number and proportion of people invited to participate in the pilot of the application process for the EU Settlement Scheme who will do so.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	171408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>From 28 August we commenced our first private beta phase of the EU Settlement Scheme to prove some of the functionality and processes in a live environment.</p><p>This phase is open to around 4,000 eligible EU citizens from three Liverpool universities and 12 NHS Trusts in North West England who are working for or studying at these institutions. Any non-EU citizen family members of EU citizens who have previously been issued a biometric residence card under the EEA Regulations and are working for or studying at these institutions are also eligible.</p><p>The private beta phase is entirely voluntary. EU citizens and non-EU citizen family members who are eligible do not need to apply now and can choose to apply after the scheme has rolled out fully. Given the voluntary nature of the private beta phase, we do not expect all eligible EU citizens and non-EU citizen family members to apply.</p><p>Applications will cost £65, which is the standard fee for applicants aged 16 or over. It will, however, be free for those with valid permanent residence or indefinite leave to remain documentation.</p><p>We will use the learning from this phase to improve our processes ahead of further phased roll outs to all eligible EU citizens and their non-EU citizen family members. Feedback from users so far has been very positive.</p><p>We will provide further details in due course of these subsequent phases, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 171406 171409 171410 171411 question first answered 11/09/2018 11:44:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield