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1052451

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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, what guidance has been provided to the UKVI MP account management team relating to addressing enquiries on the settled status scheme.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	215594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The UKVI MP Account Management teams are provided with guidance on the EU Settlement Scheme, which is approved and updated by the relevant Policy and Operational experts as appropriate. When necessary, staff are also able to seek advice from relevant experts regarding the scheme, in order to address enquiries.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 16:50:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

1052214

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to answer Question 208260 tabled on 14 January 2019 on Deportation: Windrush Generation.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	215142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The response for UIN 208260 was given on 1 February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 16:53:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1052223

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
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 number of people living in the UK under visitor visas who have been required to travel overseas to process their applications for (a) family visas, (b) work visas and (c) permanent leave to remain in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	215088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>A visitor is a person who is coming to the UK, usually for up to six months, for a temporary purpose, for example as a tourist, to visit friends or family or to carry out a business activity.</p><p>Visit visas are not granted for the purpose of living in the UK or making the UK their home through frequent and successive visits, therefore the information requested is not available</p><p>Individuals in the UK as visitors may extend their visit whilst in the UK, as long as the total stay does not exceed 6 months.</p><p>Applications to switch from visit to spouse or child settlement visa applications need to be made from overseas. Information on the number of in country extensions for main applicants previously in the visitor category is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, extensions table expc_01, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 16:51:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1052278

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money has been paid from the public purse to authorities in France in relation to the Sandhurst Treaty 2018; and on what dates those payments were made.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	215155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government committed €50 million in order to implement a range of agreed actions under the terms of the 2018 Sandhurst Treaty. Payments from this package have been made across the course of the 18/19 financial year as and when required by specific projects. The agreed programme of work is designed to improve security at the shared border in Northern France, reduce illegal migration flows towards northern French ports and support France in returning migrants with no legal right to be in Europe. We are forecasting to spend the full package allocated to this work.</p><p>Within this package, £3.6 million was specifically allocated to funding the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK. The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims. The Government has committed to publishing regular updates on the number of requests processed under the Dublin III Regulation. The latest figures will be published on 28th February 2019 as part of the wider quarterly release of Migration Statistics.</p><p>Migration cooperation between the UK and France, including implementation of the Sandhurst Treaty is overseen by the senior official UK-France Migration Committee, which generally meets alternately in Paris and London on a bi-monthly basis. The minutes of those meetings are confidential and to disclose them would risk injuring relations with an important foreign ally.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215156 215157 215158 question first answered 06/02/2019 17:02:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1052280

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government has committed to pay to the Government of France under the Sandhurst Treaty 2018; and on what dates the Government plans to make those payments.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	215156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government committed €50 million in order to implement a range of agreed actions under the terms of the 2018 Sandhurst Treaty. Payments from this package have been made across the course of the 18/19 financial year as and when required by specific projects. The agreed programme of work is designed to improve security at the shared border in Northern France, reduce illegal migration flows towards northern French ports and support France in returning migrants with no legal right to be in Europe. We are forecasting to spend the full package allocated to this work.</p><p>Within this package, £3.6 million was specifically allocated to funding the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK. The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims. The Government has committed to publishing regular updates on the number of requests processed under the Dublin III Regulation. The latest figures will be published on 28th February 2019 as part of the wider quarterly release of Migration Statistics.</p><p>Migration cooperation between the UK and France, including implementation of the Sandhurst Treaty is overseen by the senior official UK-France Migration Committee, which generally meets alternately in Paris and London on a bi-monthly basis. The minutes of those meetings are confidential and to disclose them would risk injuring relations with an important foreign ally.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215155 215157 215158 question first answered 06/02/2019 17:02:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1052281

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Biometric Residence Permits
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 made an assessment of the potential merits of printing IHS numbers on biometric cards for visa applicants.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	215209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) number is not used by the NHS for administrative purposes and there is no advantage in printing it on the biometric residence permit (BRP).</p><p>Surcharge payers can use their BRP to evidence their status as part of the eligibility checks carried out by the NHS. The Home Office shares data with the NHS in England on those who have paid the surcharge, or who are exempt from doing so and are entitled to free NHS care. It also provides checking services for the NHS in other parts of the UK. These services help the NHS establish whether a patient is chargeable.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 16:55:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1052282

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many take charge requests have been made by France under the Sandhurst Treaty 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	215157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government committed €50 million in order to implement a range of agreed actions under the terms of the 2018 Sandhurst Treaty. Payments from this package have been made across the course of the 18/19 financial year as and when required by specific projects. The agreed programme of work is designed to improve security at the shared border in Northern France, reduce illegal migration flows towards northern French ports and support France in returning migrants with no legal right to be in Europe. We are forecasting to spend the full package allocated to this work.</p><p>Within this package, £3.6 million was specifically allocated to funding the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK. The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims. The Government has committed to publishing regular updates on the number of requests processed under the Dublin III Regulation. The latest figures will be published on 28th February 2019 as part of the wider quarterly release of Migration Statistics.</p><p>Migration cooperation between the UK and France, including implementation of the Sandhurst Treaty is overseen by the senior official UK-France Migration Committee, which generally meets alternately in Paris and London on a bi-monthly basis. The minutes of those meetings are confidential and to disclose them would risk injuring relations with an important foreign ally.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215155 215156 215158 question first answered 06/02/2019 17:02:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1052287

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the UK-France Migration Committee established under Article 9 of the Sandhurst Treaty 2018 has met; on what dates and in which locations that committee met; and if he will place the minutes of those meetings and other documents relating to the committee in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	215158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government committed €50 million in order to implement a range of agreed actions under the terms of the 2018 Sandhurst Treaty. Payments from this package have been made across the course of the 18/19 financial year as and when required by specific projects. The agreed programme of work is designed to improve security at the shared border in Northern France, reduce illegal migration flows towards northern French ports and support France in returning migrants with no legal right to be in Europe. We are forecasting to spend the full package allocated to this work.</p><p>Within this package, £3.6 million was specifically allocated to funding the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK. The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims. The Government has committed to publishing regular updates on the number of requests processed under the Dublin III Regulation. The latest figures will be published on 28th February 2019 as part of the wider quarterly release of Migration Statistics.</p><p>Migration cooperation between the UK and France, including implementation of the Sandhurst Treaty is overseen by the senior official UK-France Migration Committee, which generally meets alternately in Paris and London on a bi-monthly basis. The minutes of those meetings are confidential and to disclose them would risk injuring relations with an important foreign ally.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215155 215156 215157 question first answered 06/02/2019 17:02:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1051295

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ministers of Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Minister of Religion visas have been granted (a) within and (b) outside of the three week timescale target time in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	214615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The published quarterly transparency data does not separate the sub-categories within the wider Tier 2 route. We have therefore provided the published data for all Tier 2 subcategories which includes General, Intra Company Transfers, Minister of Religion and Sportspeople.</p><p><br>Link to the latest published data:</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 06/02/2019 14:53:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1051307

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Russia
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 expedite visa applications for Russian (a) human rights activists, (b) journalists and (c) civil society activists to visit the UK to enable them to hold discussions with Government representatives on the human rights situation in Russia; and whether it is his Department's policy to provide (i) temporary visas for sanctuary and (ii) asylum to Russian (A) human rights activists and (B) journalists that need to leave Russia for their safety.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	214533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>All visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with UK immigration rules and guidance.</p><p>As a signatory to the Refugee Convention, the UK fully considers all asylum claims lodged in the UK. We do not consider asylum claims lodged outside UK territory and there is no provision in the Immigration Rules to allow someone to travel to the UK for temporary protection or to claim. We recognise the continuing concerns of key partners domestically and internationally around the human rights situation in Russia, and we remain committed to continuing engagement with them on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/02/2019 16:54:50 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce