Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1522431

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Strikes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of implementing minimum service levels on (a) the number of and (b) the impact of strikes.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	63243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>Minimum service levels will allow us to get the balance right between respecting the right strike, whilst ensuring passengers can make essential journeys to access healthcare, education and employment.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/10/2022 10:39:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1522432

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Strikes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish further information on her proposals to introduce minimum service levels during strike action.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	63244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 20 October 2022.</p><p>The bill can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3350" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3350</a></p><p>The Explanatory notes can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3350/publications" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3350/publications</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/10/2022 10:35:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1489179

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
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: Telephone Services
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 make an estimate of the average waiting time in minutes for the MP UK Visas and Immigration helpline in (a) April and (b) May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	36799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>We provided this data in 22455 on 22 June 2022.</p><p>The average wait times to the MP UK Visas and Immigration Helpline in April were 01h 09m 33s (69 minutes 33s), in May 00h 44m 04s and in June 00h 22min 39s.</p><p>We have been reviewing staff numbers and have added an additional 40 support staff who are supporting with the HMPO and Ukraine calls. We continue to review resource and wait times to reduce these even further.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/07/2022 09:43:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1487827

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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, what the average waiting time is for a response to be received from the MP's accounts team; and how many open cases there are as of 11 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	33816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department does not publish average waiting times for substantive responses to correspondence.</p><p>Performance against target has been impacted by a significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, including the unprecedented amount of correspondence about the situation in Afghanistan and more recently in Ukraine.</p><p>The Department continues to prioritise enquiries related to Ukraine and recognises that it has not been able to meet service standard in other cases. Actions are being taken to clear backlogs and drive-up performance.</p><p>Members can escalate urgent and compassionate cases via the team at Portcullis House or via engagement surgeries with the MP Engagement team.</p><p>The Department continues to recruit additional resources and has recently been loaned staff from non-operational areas to assist in clearing the backlogs. A detailed recovery plan to support a return to an acceptable service standard is being prepared.</p><p>Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/07/2022 10:38:47 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1487846

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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 are awaiting a decision.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	33825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Home Office published data shows as of 31 March 20202 there were 89,344 initial asylum applications awaiting a decision.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office are unable to state how many asylum applications where substantive interviews have taken place are outstanding because this data is not held in a reportable format.</p><p> </p><p>Published data on the number of asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only can be found in table Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics: List of tables - GOV.UK (List of tables - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 33826 question first answered 19/07/2022 10:42:25 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1487847

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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 where substantive interviews have taken place are outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	33826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Home Office published data shows as of 31 March 20202 there were 89,344 initial asylum applications awaiting a decision.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office are unable to state how many asylum applications where substantive interviews have taken place are outstanding because this data is not held in a reportable format.</p><p> </p><p>Published data on the number of asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only can be found in table Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics: List of tables - GOV.UK (List of tables - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 33825 question first answered 19/07/2022 10:42:25 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1487852

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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 were upgraded to the fast-track service in each month since January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	33830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, Her Majesty’s Passport Office has advised customers to allow up to ten weeks to get their passport when using the standard service from the UK. Customers will only choose to upgrade a standard application to the Fast Track or Premium services if they need a passport sooner than ten weeks.</p><p>Please see the table attached showing the number of upgrades to the Fast Track service from January 2022.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume Upgraded to Fast Track </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-22</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-22</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-22</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-22</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-22</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 113 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/07/2022 13:20:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 14121 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1487854

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
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 28 June 2022 to Question 22463 on Visas, for what reason the transparency data does not include the average processing time for spousal and partner visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	33831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office’s commitment is to process visa applications within the service standards which are offered. These can be found at:<br></p><ul><li>Out of country <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk#join-family-in-the-uk" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></li><li>In country <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-inside-the-uk#switch-to-or-extend-a-family-visa" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a><br></li></ul><p>Home Office Transparency data aims to set out how the department is performing against the commitments that have been made, in terms of the proportion of applications processed within the service standard that applied.</p><p>Average processing times are not published in our transparency data for spouse and partner visa applications because these do not relate to the commitments which are made to applicants.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/07/2022 10:45:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472214

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time in minutes was on the MP UK Visas and Immigration helpline in (a) April and (b) May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>We have been reviewing staff numbers and have added an additional 40 support staff who are supporting with the HMPO and Ukraine calls.</p><p>We continue to review resource and wait times to reduce these even further.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/06/2022 10:30:16 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472218

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2022 to Question 156507 on Immigration, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Home Office decision-making process for migration applications in (a) the UK and (b) overseas.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>We continually review the effectiveness of the visa system.</p><p>The Home Office is pursuing a programme of transformation and business improvement initiatives which will speed up decision making, reduce the time people spend in the system and reduce the numbers who are awaiting a decision, ensuring value for money and high-quality customer service and decisions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/06/2022 15:17:20 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders