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1471028

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the email correspondence of 28 April from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL10729.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	19659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 17 June 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 13:52:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1471030

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Minister for Safe and Legal Migration plans to respond to the correspondence of 25 April 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11740.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	19660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 17 June 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 13:50:16 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1471094

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the email correspondence of 4 May 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow, reference DL11455.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	19661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 17 June 2022</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 13:48:54 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1471101

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
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 passport applications are currently being processed by HM Passport Office; and how many passport applications are taking longer than 10 week estimated processing time.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	19610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic.</p><p>Between March and May, 98.5% of UK applications processed were completed within ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 15:27:41 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1471127

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number of Afghan Citizen Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) cases that were formerly ARAP cases; when the oldest ACRS application still in process was submitted; the number of staff appointed to deal with the ACRS cases; the number of ACRS applications that have been closed due to the applicant either being killed or dying; and the number of ACRS applicants on the Taliban Kill list.
tabling member constituency	Wealden
tabling member printed	Ms Nusrat Ghani
uin	19630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Over 15,000 people were supported to come to the UK directly following the evacuation of Afghanistan, and more than 4,000 have since arrived.</p><p> </p><p>Work is underway to ensure information relating to all the individuals relocated under all schemes are recorded on case working systems. Once this work concludes, statistics on ACRS and ARAP will be included in future editions of the Immigration Statistics. We will publish resettlement figures in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, allowing transparent progress-monitoring.</p><p> </p><p>The ACRS is not application-based. Instead, eligible people will be prioritised for resettlement through three referral pathways.</p><p> </p><p>Some of those brought to safety in the UK during and after the evacuation are eligible for the ACRS under Pathway 1. They include women’s rights activists, journalists, and prosecutors, as well as the Afghan families of British Nationals. We have now granted many of these ILR under the ACRS.</p><p> </p><p>Under the newly-opened second pathway, we are now able to begin receiving referrals from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of vulnerable refugees who have fled Afghanistan for resettlement to the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The FCDO have also launched the third referral pathway, which will see eligible British Council and GardaWorld contractors and Chevening alumni considered for resettlement to the UK.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring our operational teams have the resources they need to run an efficient and effective system, and we actively monitor workflows to ensure sufficient resources are in place to meet demand, including from pressures relating to the situations in Afghanistan and Ukraine.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 13:47:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

1470585

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Hospitality Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of foreign seasonal labour in the hospitality sector in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	18981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Issues with recruitment in the Hospitality sector are not unique to the UK, with reports of similar issues in the USA, the Republic of Ireland and Spain. This indicates factors other than immigration policy need to be considered to resolve these issues.</p><p> </p><p>Several roles in the hospitality sector (including chefs and managerial roles) are eligible for the Skilled Worker route in the Points Based System. Modelling by the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) suggest the new, lower salary and expanded skills thresholds, strike a reasonable balance between controlling immigration and business access to labour.</p><p> </p><p>Other roles will need to be filled from the resident workforce and those with full work rights, including the 6.5 million applicants under our EU Settlement Scheme, dependants of work visa holders, and those coming to the UK under our new Ukraine Schemes, the British National (Overseas) route, the Graduate route and Youth Mobility Schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Further advice from the MAC has been against the creation of sector specific visa routes.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 18982 question first answered 21/06/2022 08:58:56 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 7472 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1470586

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Seasonal Workers: Hospitality Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to facilitate access to foreign seasonal labour for the hospitality sector.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	18982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Issues with recruitment in the Hospitality sector are not unique to the UK, with reports of similar issues in the USA, the Republic of Ireland and Spain. This indicates factors other than immigration policy need to be considered to resolve these issues.</p><p> </p><p>Several roles in the hospitality sector (including chefs and managerial roles) are eligible for the Skilled Worker route in the Points Based System. Modelling by the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) suggest the new, lower salary and expanded skills thresholds, strike a reasonable balance between controlling immigration and business access to labour.</p><p> </p><p>Other roles will need to be filled from the resident workforce and those with full work rights, including the 6.5 million applicants under our EU Settlement Scheme, dependants of work visa holders, and those coming to the UK under our new Ukraine Schemes, the British National (Overseas) route, the Graduate route and Youth Mobility Schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Further advice from the MAC has been against the creation of sector specific visa routes.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 18981 question first answered 21/06/2022 08:58:56 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 7478 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1470626

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 15 September 2021, (b) 24 February 2022 and (c) 16 May 2022 from the hon. Member for Ealing Central and Acton, reference RH51240.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	18967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 16 June 2022</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 07:37:25 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1470209

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse is of supporting an asylum seeker in the UK for six months while waiting for an asylum application to be processed.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and other support whilst their application for asylum is being considered. The cost of supporting an asylum seeker is dependent on the level of support they receive.</p><p>Section 95 allows for accommodation and a cash allowance to a person who would be destitute whilst they have an ongoing asylum claim or appeal. The standard package of support consists of accommodation and a cash allowance of £40.85 per week for each asylum seeker and any dependants in their household when dispersed and £8.24 per person whilst they are accommodated in full board IA. The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of asylum seekers on Asylum Support. These statistics can be found at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets%23asylum-support.&amp;data=04%7C01%7CJordan.Kelly27%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C818d26c54a6b4870eb3e08d971125265%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637665145760486661%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=9Pr1O35%2BlHyc0XA337DVnY064i3OIi1KTqtGQzBJsS8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support.</a></p><p>Accommodation costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fho-annual-reports-and-accounts&amp;data=04%7C01%7CRASI-BriefingCorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C792e2013d32743f2d75808d9f23aef96%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637807157197963557%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=j6LR2BiJVrpW21AogZClDi8mPqgMz8YKdG48SsF%2FOj0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 09:04:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 7502 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1470210

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessments she has made of the potential merits of permitting asylum seekers to work while they await the outcome of an asylum application.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL).</p><p>A review of the policy has concluded and there will be no changes to the policy at this time.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 17982 question first answered 21/06/2022 09:02:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 7495 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell