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767587

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Biometrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what average time it took to (a) issue a replacement biometric card and (b) determine an indefinite leave to remain application in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	106740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration have different service standards for all Biometric Replacement Cards, these are dependent upon the immigration leave that an individual may have.</p><p> </p><p>Published service standards for all Indefinite Leave to Remain applications are to complete 100% of straightforward applications within six months.</p><p> </p><p>Where an application is defined as non-straightforward, due to complexity, the customer will be written to within the normal processing time to explain why it will not be decided within the normal standard, and to explain what will happen next.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:29:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

767590

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of failed asylum seekers currently in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	106741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Details of total numbers of cases who have had asylum claims refused, have no basis to remain having exhausted all appeal rights and are subject to removal action, can be found in Asylum transparency data:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2017" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:32:45 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

767591

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the proportion of cases is in which a person granted humanitarian protection in the last 10 years has subsequently had that protection subsequently withdrawn as no longer required.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	106811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>I am sorry but the data required to answer the question is not recorded in a way that can be reported on accurately.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:35:17 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

767592

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Carers: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the position of Zambrano carers after the UK leaves the EU is being discussed in the negotiations on the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	106816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government publishes details of its negotiating position on citizens’ rights on the gov.uk webpage: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/648148/September_-_Joint_technical_note_on_the_comparison_of_EU-UK_positions_on_citizens__rights.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/648148/September_-_Joint_technical_note_on_the_comparison_of_EU-UK_positions_on_citizens__rights.pdf</a>.</p><p>As set out in the personal scope section of the table, the focus of the citizens’ rights negotiations is on those currently resident in the UK under the Free Movement Directive and Article 21 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union. Further proposals, relating to those who derive a right of residence from other instruments of European Union (EU) law, will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:37:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

767593

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Catering: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that chefs and catering staff are able to travel to the UK from the EU and take up job opportunities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Data on UK Visas and Immigration temporary and permanent migration activities including In-Country Work In Progress Casework, and Percentage of Temporary and Permanent Migration in-country visa applications for each Route, processed within Service Standards, is published on the .GOV.UK website. The relevant Routes are ‘Spouse/Partner’ and ‘HR/Complex Case’ as indicated on worksheet InC_01 and InC_01a.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The relevant tables are also attached to this answer.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial"><a href="http://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/710413/original/Copy%20of%202014%20Temporary%20Migration%20Data%20Appendix%20One.xlsx" target="_blank">2014 figures</a> (Excel SpreadSheet, 29.66 KB)</del></p><p><del class="ministerial"><a href="http://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/710413/original/Copy%20of%202015%20Temporary%20Migration%20Data%20Appendix%20Two.xlsx" target="_blank">2015 figures</a> (Excel SpreadSheet, 38.02 KB)</del></p><p><del class="ministerial"><a href="http://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/710413/original/Copy%20of%202016%20Temporary%20Migration%20Data%20Appendix%20Three.xlsx" target="_blank">2016 figures</a> (Excel SpreadSheet, 40.81 KB)</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Until the UK leaves the EU, EU citizens continue to have the same rights to live and work in the UK, as was the case before Article 50 was triggered.</ins></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:43:28 question first ministerially corrected 16/10/2017 21:11:00 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 14928 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767598

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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, what proportion of people waited (a) less than a week, (b) less than two weeks, (c) less than three months, (d) less than six months and (e) more than six months to have their documents and visa returned after a successful visa application in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	106757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:45:49 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

767600

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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, whether her Department has targets or standards for processing times for non-straightforward visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	106759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Where it is likely to be necessary to make further enquiries where UKVI has no control over the time it may take, such as enquiries to external organisations or waiting for the applicant to submit additional information, or where the necessary enquiries will take longer than the published service standard UKVI will defer an application as ‘complex'. Where an application has been classified as complex and cannot be concluded within published services standards, we will write to the customer to inform them that it will not be decided within the service standard.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:46:49 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

767601

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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, what the criteria are for a non-straightforward immigration application for each type of visa.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	106760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Visa applications are considered to be complex where additional information is required and the timeline for producing this is outside of the control of the department.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 16:15:24 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

767606

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of restrictions to work on asylum seekers whose applications take longer than six months to process.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	106486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not allowed to work in the UK unless their claim has been outstanding for at least 12 months through no fault of their own. The policy is designed to protect the resident labour market so that access to employment is prioritised for British citizens and lawful residents, including those granted refugees status.</p><p> </p><p>Asylum seekers do not need to work whilst their claim is considered – they are provided with accommodation and support to meet their essential living needs if they would otherwise be destitute.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 15:44:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

767608

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) complex and (b) non-complex applications for leave to remain on the basis of family and private life have been assessed in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	106479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Data on UK Visas and Immigration temporary and permanent migration activities including In-Country Work In Progress Casework, and Percentage of Temporary and Permanent Migration in-country visa applications for each Route, processed within Service Standards, is published on the .GOV.UK website. The relevant Routes are ‘Spouse/Partner’ and ‘HR/Complex Case’ as indicated on worksheet InC_01 and InC_01a.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p><p>The relevant tables are also attached to this answer.</p><p><a href="http://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/710413/original/Copy%20of%202014%20Temporary%20Migration%20Data%20Appendix%20One.xlsx" target="_blank">2014 figures</a> (Excel SpreadSheet, 29.66 KB)</p><p><a href="http://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/710413/original/Copy%20of%202015%20Temporary%20Migration%20Data%20Appendix%20Two.xlsx" target="_blank">2015 figures</a> (Excel SpreadSheet, 38.02 KB)</p><p><a href="http://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/710413/original/Copy%20of%202016%20Temporary%20Migration%20Data%20Appendix%20Three.xlsx" target="_blank">2016 figures</a> (Excel SpreadSheet, 40.81 KB)</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2017 16:12:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett