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1433780

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
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, how many in-country (a) leave to remain and (b) indefinite leave to remain applications remain outstanding beyond their six month service standard as of 21 February 2022.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	126868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>Our aim is to process all applications for leave to remain and indefinite leave to remain within our service level agreement (SLA). Each individual case is considered on its own merit, which means some cases will inevitably take longer than others to conclude. Cases may take longer dependent on the circumstances of the case, for example, if the applicant is facing an impending prosecution or has a criminal record.</p><p> </p><p>If an application is deemed complex and expected to take longer than the published SLA, UKVI will write to the customer within the SLA and explain what will happen next.</p><p>Not all application routes have a six month SLA and certain routes do not have an SLA, this is due to the complexities of the applications submitted to us.</p><p>Information on our immigration routes with service standards and whether they have been processed against these standards is available as part of our transparency data, at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=04%7C01%7CVCDirectorsOffice%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C5f31526578974542d1ab08d9f5ecd38c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637811219766945261%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=%2FTXLGCNaIjFc%2F9Hb5ppeDf70X5MWD%2Fc%2F%2BArgqEI6e30%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/02/2022 12:50:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1422772

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, whether her Department plans to take steps to simplify immigration law for (a) practitioners and (b) the public.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	125435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office is already taking steps to simplify immigration law, simplifying the Immigration Rules and consolidating primary legislation as part of its Simplification Programme of work.</p><p>This Programme of work is part of our response to the Law Commission’s recommendations on Simplifying the Immigration Rules and recommendation in the Windrush Lessons Learned report to consolidate immigration law.</p><p>Since autumn 2020, over 30 immigration routes have been simplified and more are reviewed and simplified with each major rules change.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/02/2022 17:57:57 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1422988

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, if she will make changes to the Immigration Rules to permit certain persons to apply for a visa to come to the UK for the purpose of making an asylum claim; and whether a person can already seek a visa for such purposes.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	125219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>We sympathise with the many millions of people facing difficult situations around the world, yet there is no provision in the Immigration Rules for someone to be allowed to travel to the UK to claim asylum as it would simply not be practical or sensible to offer a visa to the UK for everyone who might be in this situation.</p><p> </p><p>It is more effective to focus opportunities for resettlement in the UK on the most vulnerable people in need of protection through our resettlement schemes. These schemes have provided safe and legal routes for tens of thousands of people to start new lives in the UK, alongside the many who may also arrive via our family or skilled work routes where they are eligible for them.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/02/2022 14:37:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1421863

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
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 applicants were granted permission to work in the UK in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	122682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to state how many people seeking asylum were in employment in 2021 or how many asylum applicants were granted permission to work in 2021 as this information is not published and is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is not held in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 122683 question first answered 22/02/2022 11:47:22 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1421864

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
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 seeking asylum were in employment in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	122683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office are unable to state how many people seeking asylum were in employment in 2021 or how many asylum applicants were granted permission to work in 2021 as this information is not published and is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is not held in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 122682 question first answered 22/02/2022 11:47:22 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1421945

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
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 when the visa application of 28 August 2021, number 1212-0001-1687-2836/00 with GWF061763452, will be determined; and whether the applicant's passport can be returned in the meantime.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	122583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The case has been completed and a decision has been issued.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/02/2022 16:31:30 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 52068 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1421954

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Hotels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the food provided by Serco at hotels accommodating refugees caters for people who require halal.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	122862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>Where full board accommodation is provided by the provider for asylum seeking service users, food provisions are required to meet the dietary, cultural and religious needs of those accommodated.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/02/2022 11:41:28 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1421971

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals and families did not receive Section 95 support but were granted refugee status in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	122686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of asylum seekers on Asylum Support. These statistics can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of these statistics which shows families who did <em>not</em> receive section 95 support and have been granted refugee status in 2021. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/02/2022 11:37:52 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1421972

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Mental Health Services
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 plans to take steps in response to the finding in the 2022 report by the British Red Cross and the VOICES Network, entitled We want to be strong, but we don’t have the chance, that the UK’s asylum system is not sensitive to gender or trauma needs.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	122687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of providing protection to the most vulnerable people in genuine need, including women, and this will not change. This government remains committed to delivering a gender-sensitive asylum system ensuring that all those who seek asylum are treated with dignity and respect.</p><p>The Nationality and Borders Bill will deliver the Government’s New Plan for Immigration – the most comprehensive reform in decades, to fix the broken asylum system. The reformed asylum system will continue to strive to provide a system which is sensitive to gender and trauma-related needs, for example continuing to provide the opportunity for all those claiming asylum to be interviewed by an individual of the same gender and a trauma informed approach to actively avoid the re-traumatisation whilst an individual is in the asylum system.</p><p>We are taking into account the recently received report ‘We want to be strong’, commissioned research, experiences of those seeking asylum and welcome engagement through our stakeholder networks. Engagement, including on the New Plan for Immigration, is already underway, as we build a system that is fair, but firm; that safeguards those who may be vulnerable; and protects against any unintended consequences.</p><p>We will continue to support conversations on improving the health of refugees and asylum seekers via the Refugee Council chaired Mental Health Forum. This forum is informed by representatives from across the NGO sector, Home Office, Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and NHS England and NHS Improvement bringing those with customer informed insight together to consider approaches to mental health support.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 122688 122689 122690 122691 question first answered 22/02/2022 11:44:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1421974

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Interviews
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 plans to take steps in response to finding in the 2022 report by the British Red Cross and VOICES Network, entitled We want to be strong but we don’t have the chance, that her Department is not offering women the option to be interviewed by another woman for their asylum interviews.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	122688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of providing protection to the most vulnerable people in genuine need, including women, and this will not change. This government remains committed to delivering a gender-sensitive asylum system ensuring that all those who seek asylum are treated with dignity and respect.</p><p>The Nationality and Borders Bill will deliver the Government’s New Plan for Immigration – the most comprehensive reform in decades, to fix the broken asylum system. The reformed asylum system will continue to strive to provide a system which is sensitive to gender and trauma-related needs, for example continuing to provide the opportunity for all those claiming asylum to be interviewed by an individual of the same gender and a trauma informed approach to actively avoid the re-traumatisation whilst an individual is in the asylum system.</p><p>We are taking into account the recently received report ‘We want to be strong’, commissioned research, experiences of those seeking asylum and welcome engagement through our stakeholder networks. Engagement, including on the New Plan for Immigration, is already underway, as we build a system that is fair, but firm; that safeguards those who may be vulnerable; and protects against any unintended consequences.</p><p>We will continue to support conversations on improving the health of refugees and asylum seekers via the Refugee Council chaired Mental Health Forum. This forum is informed by representatives from across the NGO sector, Home Office, Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and NHS England and NHS Improvement bringing those with customer informed insight together to consider approaches to mental health support.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 122687 122689 122690 122691 question first answered 22/02/2022 11:44:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle