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1504605

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Newport West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on reducing the backlog of passport applications from residents of Newport West constituency.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	901277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>HM Passport Office carries work in progress across the year as part of normal operational planning.</p><p>Across 2022, approximately 800,000 passport applications have been processed on average each month, with 96.4% of standard UK applications being processed within the published ten-week timeframe.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 15:41:26 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1504342

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Termination of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many members of staff have left his Department since 12 December 2019.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	46105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2022 answer text <p>Since December 2019, the number of staff who have left the central Department for Transport is 1,063.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/09/2022 16:16:11 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1470196

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: Newport West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people claiming asylum currently reside in Newport West constituency.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	18032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to state how many people claiming asylum currently reside in Newport West constituency, how many asylum claims from people in Newport West constituency have been submitted in each of the last 5 years or how many people in Newport West constituency have outstanding asylum claims as of 14 June 2022 as this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it would require a manual search through individual records.</p><p> </p><p>However, The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications raised can be found in table Asy_D01, and data on asylum applications awaiting an initial decision or further review can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending March 2022. Data for June 2022 will be published on 25 August 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 18033 18034 question first answered 23/06/2022 09:15:45 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 8234 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1470198

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: Newport West
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 claims from people in Newport West constituency have been submitted in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	18033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to state how many people claiming asylum currently reside in Newport West constituency, how many asylum claims from people in Newport West constituency have been submitted in each of the last 5 years or how many people in Newport West constituency have outstanding asylum claims as of 14 June 2022 as this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it would require a manual search through individual records.</p><p> </p><p>However, The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications raised can be found in table Asy_D01, and data on asylum applications awaiting an initial decision or further review can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending March 2022. Data for June 2022 will be published on 25 August 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 18032 18034 question first answered 23/06/2022 09:15:45 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 8236 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1470199

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: Newport West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in Newport West constituency have outstanding asylum claims as of 14 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	18034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to state how many people claiming asylum currently reside in Newport West constituency, how many asylum claims from people in Newport West constituency have been submitted in each of the last 5 years or how many people in Newport West constituency have outstanding asylum claims as of 14 June 2022 as this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it would require a manual search through individual records.</p><p> </p><p>However, The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications raised can be found in table Asy_D01, and data on asylum applications awaiting an initial decision or further review can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending March 2022. Data for June 2022 will be published on 25 August 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 18032 18033 question first answered 23/06/2022 09:15:46 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 8237 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1470254

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	Passports: Newport West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on reducing the backlog in passport applications from residents of Newport West constituency.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	18040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>To support the processing of an unprecedented demand, Her Majesty’s Passport Office has increased its staffing numbers across the UK. 650 new staff have joined HM Passport Office since April 2021, with plans for a further 550 to have joined by the summer.</p><p>This has helped to process applications in record numbers. Across March, April, and May, HM Passport Office completed the processing of approximately three million applications, with 98.5% of applications from the UK being completed within the published processing time of up to ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/06/2022 07:37:27 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1470255

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	Passports: Newport West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in Newport West constituency have waited longer than 6 weeks for their passport application to be processed in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	18041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, customers have been advised it takes up to ten weeks to process a passport application.</p><p>In May 2022, over 91% of applications from across the UK were completed within six weeks, and 98.5% within ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/06/2022 11:40:53 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1470289

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	HM Passport Office: Newport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff were employed by HM Passport Office in Newport on 14 June 2022; and what proportion of those staff were agency workers.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	18046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2022 answer text <p>To meet the elevated demand for passports, Her Majesty’s Passport Office has recruited through the use of both temporary staff and permanent civil servants.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/06/2022 09:17:51 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1458016

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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 outstanding asylum claims there are as of 13 April 2022.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	154389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of asylum applications awaiting an initial decision or further review (outstanding applications) are published in table Asy_D03 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>.</p><p>Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to December 2021. Data for the period relating to January – March 2022 is set to be published on the 26 May 2022 and data for the period relating to April – June 2022 is set to be published on 25 August 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 26/04/2022 14:14:57 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1438367

registered interest
date	07/03/2022
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, if she plans to establish a British consular presence in Calais to issue visas to people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	135642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2022 answer text <p>We have worked closely with the French Government to respond to the situation in northern France. In partnership with the French Government, we have established a new temporary Visa Application Centre in Arras to provide extra support for those people in Calais who are eligible for our Ukraine schemes. It is operating by referral only.</p><p>This is a rapidly shifting situation, and we are keeping our operational response under constant review to ensure we adapt as needed to best support people through this process and keep pace with the evolving picture on the ground.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/04/2022 10:21:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 56744 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones