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1465677

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
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) 4 April and (b) 3 May 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11506.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	9115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2022 answer text <p><strong>PQ 9115 – </strong>MPAM reference: MPAM/0299013/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 26 May 2022</p><p><strong>PQ 9116 – </strong>MPAM reference: MPAM/0283361/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 26 May 2022</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 9116 question first answered 07/06/2022 11:16:20 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1465678

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
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) 11 April and (b) 9 May 2022 from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, reference DL11591.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	9116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2022 answer text <p><strong>PQ 9115 – </strong>MPAM reference: MPAM/0299013/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 26 May 2022</p><p><strong>PQ 9116 – </strong>MPAM reference: MPAM/0283361/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 26 May 2022</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 9115 question first answered 07/06/2022 11:16:20 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1465680

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ukrainian nationals who enter Northern Ireland without a visa having lawfully entered the Republic of Ireland fall within the scope of third country inadmissibility principles, under paragraphs 345A-D of the Immigration Rules.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	9206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2022 answer text <p>There are a range of safe and legal routes to the UK and unlimited numbers are being offered safety after fleeing the war in Ukraine through our family and Homes for Ukraine schemes.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 31/05/2022 14:29:50 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1465681

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: 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 her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to respond to requests submitted to the Employer Checking Service.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	9229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>Digital status has been an overwhelming success. Millions of customers have used the Home Office’s digital services which enable customers to prove their immigration status immediately. Data on the usage of our digital services can be found on the GOV.UK webpage: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDuncan.Hawkins%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C234f952d728b4cdde71108da3fe25753%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637892538597940882%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=6lqy1y42NC5K7BL3Z62Q3vOa87CnOlaHunHL7VZLuCY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>As part of the continuing transformation of the border and immigration system, we will phase out physical and paper-based products and services and replace them with accessible, easy to use online and digital services. These new services, alongside new technologies, will remove certain scenarios where customers have to rely on the Employer Checking Service to prove their permission to work, helping reduce the need for employers to submit queries in future.</p><p>The home office is currently recruiting additional staff to reduce the time taken to respond to requests on the Employer Checking Service. Information on the number of requests submitted to the Employer Checking Service and awaiting a response as of 25 May 2022 is not available in a reportable format as it is unassured management information.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2022 16:56:39 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1465717

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Northern Ireland
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 who claimed asylum in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months have been moved to another region of the UK while their claim is processed.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	9201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Accommodation can be provided anywhere in the United Kingdom. The information requested is not routinely captured. To capture numbers would require a manual trawl of data and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 15:27:55 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1465736

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
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, what the size of the backlog of passport applications was within HM Passport Office for each of the four-week periods where data has been reported since 1 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	8983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 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. The vast majority of all passport applications continue to be dealt with well within 10 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office carries work in progress across the year as part of normal operational planning, and approximately 250,000 passport applications are being processed each week.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 15:33:43 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1465739

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much income has been received by HM Passport Office in the last three months from (a) premium passport and (b) fast-track passport applications.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	8984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not hold data on passport income by application or channel type. Full passport income is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts. For 2021/22, this is planned for publication prior to the summer recess, and will be laid in the House.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 15:19:46 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1465758

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
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, how many asylum applications were processed to the point of either rejection or leave-to-remain granted in the 12 months leading up to 31 March (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	9023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the outcomes of asylum applications at initial decision are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the end of March 2022.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/06/2022 15:23:10 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1465764

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Hotels and Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the cost of housing refugees in (a) hotels and (b) rented accommodation; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of housing more refugees in rented accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	9037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office has not made a comparative assessment of the cost of housing asylum seekers in either hotels or in rented accommodation on the basis that hotel accommodation is and always has been contingency accommodation where we are unable to procure sufficient Dispersed Accommodation to meet our statutory obligation. Whilst we are working to reduce our use of hotels, we must continue to ensure there is sufficient capacity in the system to meet our obligations.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we wrote to all Local Authorities on 13 April 2022 to set out plans for Full Dispersal. This will reduce and then eliminate the use of hotels for asylum seekers by moving to a full dispersal model for asylum accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We will achieve this through three key interventions:</p><p> </p><p>1. To reduce and eliminate the use of hotels for asylum seekers by moving to a full dispersal model for asylum accommodation. This will mean expanding our existing approach of using private rental sector housing to all local authority areas across England, Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>2. We are committed to working with local authorities to move to a fairer distribution of asylum seekers and have launched an informal consultation with local government to inform how this model will work across England, Scotland and Wales and within regions and nations. The consultation will explore how asylum dispersal can better take account of the impact of other protection based immigration on local authorities, including resettlement and the care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p>.</p><p>3. Providing specific funding to recognise the existing contribution of local authorities and for new dispersed accommodation. We will continue to work with local government to capture and evaluate data to understand the impact of asylum dispersal on local authorities going forward.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 10/06/2022 12:54:37 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1465841

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what steps her Department is taking to prevent the exploitation of Ukrainian refugees being facilitated on social media sites and (b) what discussions her Department has had with social media companies regarding this issue.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	9161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The Homes for Ukraine is a unique scheme which has been set up specifically to support those escaping the conflict in Ukraine who are not able to rely on family support. The scheme cannot be directly accessed through social media sites.</p><p>To access the scheme the sponsor and/or their prospective guest must apply for visas through the Home Office run website. This action initiates the first stage in the multi-layered safeguarding defence system which has been built into the scheme. Neither Facebook nor any other social media platforms are part of the scheme design.</p><p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of exploitation, including those facilitated online by organised crime groups and we will continue to clamp down on those who exploit vulnerable people while providing tailored support for victims to help their recovery.</p><p>We are working both domestically and internationally to minimise the risk of trafficking and exploitation to the Ukrainian people through the routes they take to the UK and once they arrive here.</p><p>To address the domestic risk, we are working with the Department for Housing, Levelling Up and Communities and the NCA to ensure that law enforcement bodies are linked into the scheme to assess potential risks around those looking to exploit the vulnerable and assist with any safeguarding enquiries and that local authorities are aware of who to work with, on the ground, to help mitigate those risks.</p><p>To address the international risk, we are providing funding, improving agency capability and pivoting our existing projects in neighbouring countries.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/06/2022 12:30:55 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley