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
tabling member	label

Search

1360567

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to encourage scientists, engineers, academics and other highly skilled workers to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	903777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>Attracting the brightest and best is a key component of our global points-based immigration system.</p><p>Our wide-ranging action to make the UK a preferred destination for global talent, such as scientists, engineers and academics, includes the recently-introduced Graduate route, changes to the world leading Global Talent route, and a new High Potential route, which will launch in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/10/2021 15:18:44 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1357884

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
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 increase the amount of suitable asylum seeker accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	53939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The current global pandemic along with high intake presented us with significant challenges when it comes to the provision of asylum accommodation, including sourcing sufficient suitable accommodation to meet demand. The use of hotels and wider government facilities is a short-term measure and we are working with our accommodation providers to move people to longer-term dispersal accommodation as soon as it becomes available.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is working closely with asylum accommodation providers, Local Authorities and Strategic Migration Partnerships to increase the amount of accommodation available for asylum seekers so we can eliminate the need for the use of contingency accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We are grateful to those local authorities who participate in the dispersal scheme and will continue to work in partnership with them to procure suitable accommodation. Sadly, many local authorities do not currently participate in the dispersal scheme, making it harder to procure sufficient dispersal accommodation. I would encourage them to step up and play their part in the UK-wide effort to provide accommodation to those seeking asylum who would otherwise be destitute.</p><p> </p><p>We have established the Local Government Chief Executive Group (HOLGCEX) group to bring together senior representatives from Home Office, Local Government Association and local authorities with the aim of working in partnership to improve the asylum dispersal process for the people who use this service and the communities in which they reside.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/10/2021 13:10:17 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1357885

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish the final inspection report on contingency asylum accommodation by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	53921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration is still conducting this inspection and has not yet produced a final report.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/10/2021 13:12:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1357904

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish its consultation on possible changes to asylum support entitlement, via commencing provisions within Immigration Act 2016; whether officials in her Department have engaged with representatives of local and devolved governments in respect of its plans during 2021; and whether her Department has prepared an equalities impact assessment on those plans.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Anne McLaughlin
uin	53933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office plans to consult on the implementation of the support provisions of the Immigration Act 2016 later this year. There will be engagement with representatives of local and devolved governments as part of the process.</p><p>An equalities impact assessment was completed at the time the measures were considered by Parliament in 2015 and this will be updated in light of the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/10/2021 13:26:50 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4437 label Biography information for Anne McLaughlin

1357905

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost of asylum support expended on people issued with a Notice of Intent (Inadmissible) is since 1 January 2021.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Anne McLaughlin
uin	53934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The cost of support expended on people issued with a Notice of Intent could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/10/2021 13:13:59 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4437 label Biography information for Anne McLaughlin

1357930

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Uyghurs: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum from Chinese nationals of the Uyghur minority were (a) received and (b) granted by her Department in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018, (iii) 2019 and (iv) 2020; and how many Uyghur minority people are resident in the UK having been granted asylum by the UK.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	53914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to state how many applications for asylum from Chinese nationals of the Uyghur minority were received, granted or rejected since 1 January 2017, or how many Uyghur minority people are resident in the UK having been granted asylum as this as the data is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the information requested is not held in a reportable format.</p><p>However, the Home Office publishes information on asylum applications and resettlement in the Immigration statistics quarterly release. Data on asylum applicants being refused any form of leave and then subsequently being returned to either their home country or a safe third country are published in table Asy_D04 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets; available breakdowns include year of application and nationality.</p><p>The latest data relates to 2020 and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 53915 question first answered 18/10/2021 13:20:47 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1357937

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Uyghurs: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum from Chinese nationals of the Uyghur minority have been rejected by her Department since 1 January 2017; and how many of those applicants her Department deported as a result of their asylum application being so rejected.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	53915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to state how many applications for asylum from Chinese nationals of the Uyghur minority were received, granted or rejected since 1 January 2017, or how many Uyghur minority people are resident in the UK having been granted asylum as this as the data is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the information requested is not held in a reportable format.</p><p>However, the Home Office publishes information on asylum applications and resettlement in the Immigration statistics quarterly release. Data on asylum applicants being refused any form of leave and then subsequently being returned to either their home country or a safe third country are published in table Asy_D04 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets; available breakdowns include year of application and nationality.</p><p>The latest data relates to 2020 and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 53914 question first answered 18/10/2021 13:20:47 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1357458

registered interest
date	22/09/2021
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: 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 asylum case applications being handled by UKVI that are yet to be resolved and were made (a) five, (b) four, (c) three, (d) two and (e) one years ago.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	53334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>Information regarding the number of asylum claims which are yet to be resolved which were made in each of the last 5 years, is routinely published as part of the Government’s Transparency agenda and can be found at tables Asy_02 and Asy_03:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q2-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q2-2021</a></p><p>This data shows the number of asylum cases awaiting an initial decision, post decision, appeals outstanding and further leave which is broken down by case age.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/10/2021 13:23:07 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1357459

registered interest
date	22/09/2021
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: Standards
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 hon. Members' queries to UK Visas and Immigration services are responded to within their target time of 20 working days.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	53258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of MPs written correspondence within 20 working days. Performance has been impacted by a very significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, alongside the need for Ministers and officials to instigate a remote process for drafting and signing correspondence during the period of COVID-19 restrictions.</p><p>The Department recognises it has not been able to meet service standard in some cases but has implemented an action plan to clear backlogs and drive up performance.</p><p>Data about intake and performance in answering MP Correspondence are published quarterly and this includes data up to and including the end of quarter 2 – 2021. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q2-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q2-2021</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/10/2021 13:01:05 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1357462

registered interest
date	22/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: British National (Overseas)
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 British National (Overseas) visa applications that (a) have been put on hold and (b) are on hold because there is an adult dependant relative linked to the application as at 22 September 2021.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	53335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route is for those with BN(O) status and their eligible family members including adult children who were born after 1 July 1997 and who live with their parents. Applications made to this route are considered on their own individual facts and are progressed to conclusion as swiftly as possible.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on visas and the BN(O) route in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ on GOV.UK:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a></p><p>Where a BN(O) Visas application is supported by sufficient evidence to demonstrate they and, where applicable, any family members who are applying with the BN(O) status holder, are eligible for a BNO Visa, under the terms of Appendix HK to the Immigration Rules, the application will be concluded.</p><p>However, if insufficient evidence or information to support their application is provided and further information is required, UK Visas &amp; Immigration will contact the applicant(s), providing an opportunity to supply further evidence or information for assessment, before a decision is taken on their application.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 53336 question first answered 18/10/2021 13:24:58 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran