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908997

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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 target his Department has been set for the processing of applications by non-UK EU citizens for (a) temporary and (b) settled status.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	146070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>We are developing a streamlined, user-friendly, digital application process for the EU Settlement Scheme, which draws on existing government data to minimise the burden on applicants.</p><p>As the then-Immigration Minister, my Right Honourable Friend, the Member for Great Yarmouth told the Home Affairs Select Committee on 21 November 2017, our aim is to process standard applications in a couple of weeks.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/05/2018 15:01:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

908998

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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 the Government's policy is on the status of non-UK EU citizens who fail to apply for (a) temporary (b) settled status by 31 December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	146071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>EU citizens and their family members who are covered by our agreement with the EU on citizens’ rights, and who have not obtained UK immigration status under the settlement scheme by the end of the grace period, 30 June 2021, will technically have no lawful basis to remain in the UK. However, the draft Withdrawal Agreement provides that where there are reasonable compassionate or practical grounds for missing the deadline, those persons will be allowed to submit an application within a reasonable further period of time. A proportionate approach will be taken and cases will be considered on their individual merits.</p><p>The application fee for the EU exit settlement scheme will not exceed the cost charged to British citizens for a UK passport. Those who already hold a valid EU permanent residence document or a valid document evidencing their Indefinite Leave to Remain will be able to exchange this for a new settled status free of charge. Full details of the application fee will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 146072 question first answered 24/05/2018 15:08:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

908999

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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 charges are levied on non-UK EU citizens applying for (a) temporary status (b) settled status.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	146072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>EU citizens and their family members who are covered by our agreement with the EU on citizens’ rights, and who have not obtained UK immigration status under the settlement scheme by the end of the grace period, 30 June 2021, will technically have no lawful basis to remain in the UK. However, the draft Withdrawal Agreement provides that where there are reasonable compassionate or practical grounds for missing the deadline, those persons will be allowed to submit an application within a reasonable further period of time. A proportionate approach will be taken and cases will be considered on their individual merits.</p><p>The application fee for the EU exit settlement scheme will not exceed the cost charged to British citizens for a UK passport. Those who already hold a valid EU permanent residence document or a valid document evidencing their Indefinite Leave to Remain will be able to exchange this for a new settled status free of charge. Full details of the application fee will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 146071 question first answered 24/05/2018 15:08:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

909006

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
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 first-time Passport applicants were required to attend an interview in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	146314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows proportions of UK based First Time Adult (FTA) customers attending interview over the last 3 years. However, not all FTA, for example HM Forces service personnel serving in the UK and overseas are required to attend an interview.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of UK First Time Adult Applications</p></td><td><p>Number of UK First Time Adult Interviews</p></td><td><p>Proportion of UK FTA Intake to Interviews</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>286,640</p></td><td><p>222,264</p></td><td><p>78%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>325,793</p></td><td><p>244,555</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>293,647</p></td><td><p>177,540</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The reduction in the 2017 proportions being interviewed is due to the option for individuals applying for citizenship to opt for the Joint Citizenship and Passport Application Process (JCAP).</p><p>HM Passport Office does not require FTA customers using JCAP to attend an interview as identity is confirmed through the naturalisation process.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/05/2018 14:53:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

909036

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Biometrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average waiting time for the issuing a biometric permit by immigration status.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	146255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.</p><p>The information requested is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by examination of thousands of cases.</p><p>However, published information on the number of applications for leave to remain in all categories, as well as data on UK Visa and Immigration performance against service standards for applications made in the UK and from overseas, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/05/2018 14:59:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

909064

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Education and Employment
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 support refugees into education and employment upon their arrival in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	146096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government published the Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper on 14th March, which includes proposals to work with civil society and others to increase the integration support available to all refugees. The consultation is available online and will close on 5th June.</p><p>Adults with refugee status can access education and employment support through mainstream services, and child refugees can access mainstream education in schools, or, if 16-18, with further education providers. Adult refugees are eligible for the same skills funding as any English resident and are not subject to the normal three-year qualifying period. English language tuition is fully funded for refugees who are unemployed and looking for work.</p><p>We recognise that there are additional challenges that refugees can face when looking for work. Refugees can access employment support from Jobcentre Plus and we continue to work closely with colleagues in DWP to ensure refugees are aware of, and receive, the support they are entitled to.</p><p>We have made additional support available to those whom we resettle under the Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme, in particular by providing funding for increased English language support: £10m for formal ESOL provision, and some additional funding to provide childcare to facilitate access to classes and to enable better coordination of service provision and sharing of good practice. We have also funded a pilot project to provide additional employment support and are now evaluating what it has delivered. We will be sharing the learning from the pilot with other Government Departments.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/05/2018 15:13:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

909177

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Deportation
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 who had held tier 1 (general) visas have been removed from the UK in the last 12 months as a result of a decision based on s322(5) of the Immigration Rules.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	146114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>Data is not held centrally in a way that allows us to give an up to date answer to this question without manually checking individual case records which could only be undertaken at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/05/2018 15:10:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

909183

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on contesting an appeal against refusal of leave to remain in the UK once it has received legal advice that the appeal is (a) highly likely to succeed and (b) certain to succeed.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	146057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>When deciding whether to contest any litigation we will always take the merits of the case into account, this will include carefully considering any legal advice that we receive.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/05/2018 15:04:48 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

909186

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: 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 costs to the public purse were of defending the appeal in the case of Ahsan and others v SSHD [2017] EWCA Civ 2009.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	146058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>When deciding whether to contest any litigation we will always consider the value for money of doing so. Costs for this matter have not been concluded to date.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/05/2018 15:03:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

907161

registered interest
date	18/05/2018
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, with reference to the Refugee Action report, Waiting in the dark, published on 16 May 2018, what steps he plans to take to improve the (a) quality and (b) speed of the asylum decision making process; and if he will provide independent support and information to asylum seekers about the asylum system when they apply for asylum.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	145566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need our protection. All claims for asylum are considered on their individual merits in line with Home Office guidance, and where people establish a genuine need for protection, or a well founded fear of persecution, refugee status will be granted.</p><p>The Home Office has plans to improve the speed at which outstanding asylum claims are decided. These include rolling recruitment campaigns to maintain decision maker levels, a staff retention strategy to ensure it retains its highly skilled asylum decision makers, and the further expansion of digital processes to increase caseworking flexibility.</p><p>Furthermore, the Home Office issues an information leaflet to asylum claimants at the point of claim that outlines the process and their responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/05/2018 14:51:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas