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1092637

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Construction: Undocumented Workers
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 18 March 2019 to Question 231997, how many of the 77 potential victims of trafficking that were detained were not released as a result of a positive reasonable grounds decision.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	235299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:28:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1092638

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: Training
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 18 March 2019 to Question 231999 on Detention Centres: Training, which (a) organisation provides the training to his Department's supplier staff on identifying adults at risk in immigration detention; whether that training is compulsory; how many hours are required to complete the training; and how often staff are required to retake the training during the course of their employment.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	235300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The training provided to supplier staff in Immigration Removal Centres was internally arranged and delivered by Home Office staff with expertise of the adults at risk (AAR) in immigration detention policy.</p><p>These two-hour training sessions have been supplemented by the issuance of further, operational instructions and guidance which includes, but is not limited to, AAR matters. The training is not mandatory, but is strongly encouraged. Refresher training will be provided as and when appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:29:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1092639

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
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: Training
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 18 March 2019 to Question 232000 on UK Visas and Immigration: Training, how many hours are required to complete that training; and how often is that training is refreshed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	235301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Staff in UK Visas and Immigration are required to complete the two mandatory e-learning training courses entitled “Modern Slavery - Non Border Force” and “Modern Slavery - National Referral Mechanism Process”.</p><p>The estimated duration of these courses are 1 hour and 30 minutes respectively. The training material was last updated in early 2017 following recommendations from the Chief Inspector for Borders and Immigration and the Anti -Slavery Commissioner</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:23:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1092648

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he last reviewed the application form for Leave to Remain under the five-year partner route.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	235374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Applications for leave to remain under the five-year partner route are made on form FLR(M), which is available on GOV.UK. We continue to keep family application forms under review and will make adjustments in light of feedback on their operation and impact. On 13 December 2018, the current form was revised, which included launching an online version and withdrawing the paper form.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:01:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1092693

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
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 publish the guidance given to his Department's decision-makers on refusal of an asylum claim on the basis of religion.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	235380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Detailed Home Office policy guidance on how to consider asylum claims, including claims based on a person’s religion or belief, is already published on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/considering-asylum-claims-and-assessing-credibility-instruction." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/considering-asylum-claims-and-assessing-credibility-instruction.</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:18:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1092694

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: 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 refusals of asylum claims have included quotations from religious texts in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	235381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>This information is not recorded in a way that can be easily retrieved.</p><p>We are urgently investigating reports which indicate that some asylum decisions were not drafted in accordance with our policy.</p><p>Published Home Office policy guidance contains detailed instructions on how asylum decision makers are expected to approach religious based claims. Our policy makes clear that when assessing such claims, decision makers are expected to ask appropriate and sensitive questions based on an understanding of religious concepts, philosophical viewpoints and forms of persecution a person may suffer due to their religion, belief or lack of belief.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:03:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1092717

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with his French counterpart on plans that country has for a centralised biometric database when processing UK business travellers.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	235247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Policy on short stay visitors, such as business visitors, is an EU competence, rather than a Member State competence.</p><p>The Visa Information System (VIS) is the system that Schengen states use to exchange visa data for short-stay visas. This includes the capability to match biometric data.</p><p>The EU has proposed that UK nationals would be able to enter the EU visa-free for short periods after the country’s exit, provided EU nationals enjoy the same conditions when travelling to the UK. The Home Secretary has announced that EEA and Swiss nationals will be able to continue to travel to the UK for holidays or short-term trips without needing a UK visa.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:21:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1092725

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
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 homeless foreign nationals detained by Immigration Compliance and Enforcement teams in each of the previous years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	235392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested in a reportable format. As such the information requested could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/04/2019 17:06:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1092755

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Naturalisation
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 has taken to estimate the number of people in the UK who are entitled to British citizenship but have not yet been naturalised.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	235402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Information on the UK’s resident population and their characteristics is a matter for the independent Office for National Statistics. Naturalisation as a British Citizen is by discretion and until an individual makes an application to be naturalised, and their application is assessed, it is not possible to tell whether they will qualify for British Citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:06:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1092756

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Naturalisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many M1N1 application forms have been submitted in each of the last three years; and what proportion were (a) refused and (b) withdrawn.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	235403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The available information relates to total grants and refusals of citizenship by general category, and are published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics citizenship table cz_01 and , latest available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship </a></p><p>The large majority of cases decided in 2018 were grants (94%).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:16:50 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens