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registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Post Office: Biometric Residence Permits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to announce a decision on extending the biometric residence permit collection service with Post Office Ltd.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	280258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The contract with the Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit (BRP) collection service started on 29 August 2014. The service commenced in February 2015 and became fully operational on 1 August 2015.</p><p>The current BRP Collection contract is due to end on 31 July 2019. It is our intention to take up the final 1-year extension option which allows the service to run until 31 July 2020.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:20:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129775

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much financial support was paid to asylum seekers through post offices in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	260050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Post May 2017 all funding for financial support was paid to asylum seekers via ASPEN cards and prior to that Home Office records do not indicate whether financial support was paid via a Post Office, a card or in cash/vouchers to asylum seekers.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 14:08:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129776

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department's contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through an Aspen card will expire.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	260051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office’s contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through an Aspen Card will expire on 27 November 2019 (with the option to extend for a further 6 months to 27 May 2020).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 14:13:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129777

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
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 the contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through Aspen cards.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	260052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the costs to the public purse for the contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through Aspen cards.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 14:09:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129778

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Post Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department's contract with Post Office Ltd for check and send services is due to expire; and whether he has plans to extend that contract.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	260053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The current Call Off Agreement (contract) between the Home Office and Post Office Ltd will expire on 31 August 2022. There are no contractual options to extend this Agreement further, as these have already been exercised.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/06/2019 15:00:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129780

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Post Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's contract with Post Office Ltd for Check and Send services in (a) each year since its inception and (b) the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	260054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not pay Post Office Ltd (POL) for providing either of the passport Check &amp; Send services. The handling charges by POL to passport customers applying under both the digital and paper Check &amp; Send services cover their costs of providing these services, and for the onward secure transmission of applications to Her Majesty’s Passport Office. This has been the case since the original service was introduced in 1996, and will continue to be the arrangement until the current Agreement ends on 31 August 2022.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/06/2019 15:03:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129784

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits: Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department's contract with the Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit collection service (a) began, (b) will end; and whether he plans to extend that service.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	260057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The contract with the Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit (BRP) collection service started in June 2012, although the service only became operational in February 2015. The current BRP Collection contract is due to end in July 2019, however we do have an option to extend the contract for a further year to July 2020. The Home Office is currently considering this option, a decision is imminent.</p><p>In terms of the yearly cost of the contract:</p><p>2018/19: £2,131,283. 95 <br>2017/18: £2,056,394.35 <br>2016/17: £2,051,690.25<br>2015/16: £1,610,036.95<br>2014/15: £123,000<br>2013/14: £257,000<br>2012/13: £1,558,000<br>2011/12: £441,000 (Set up costs)</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 260058 question first answered 11/06/2019 14:14:19 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129785

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits: Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department has paid to Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit collection service in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	260058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The contract with the Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit (BRP) collection service started in June 2012, although the service only became operational in February 2015. The current BRP Collection contract is due to end in July 2019, however we do have an option to extend the contract for a further year to July 2020. The Home Office is currently considering this option, a decision is imminent.</p><p>In terms of the yearly cost of the contract:</p><p>2018/19: £2,131,283. 95 <br>2017/18: £2,056,394.35 <br>2016/17: £2,051,690.25<br>2015/16: £1,610,036.95<br>2014/15: £123,000<br>2013/14: £257,000<br>2012/13: £1,558,000<br>2011/12: £441,000 (Set up costs)</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 260057 question first answered 11/06/2019 14:14:19 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows