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1459881

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date	25/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of Ukrainian refugees residing in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	906555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office now routinely publishes data on Ukrainians arriving in the United Kingdom under our two new schemes.</p><p>Between 11 and 18 April, the number of those arriving under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme more than doubled from 3,200 to 6,600.</p><p>15,000 more Ukranians have arrived under the Family Scheme; meaning that as of 18 April, 21,600 visa holders had arrived in the UK.</p><p>We continue to work at pace to ensure more people can arrive more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/04/2022 15:27:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1459882

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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, what progress her Department has made on increasing the number of visas granted to people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	906558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>We are prioritising visa applications from Ukrainians and have surged capacity to other visa application centres (VACs) in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic and Moldova.</p><p>Ukrainians with passports no longer need to go to a VAC to give their biometrics before they come to the UK.</p><p>This will mean that our VACs across Europe can focus their efforts on helping Ukrainians without passports, increasing the capacity at those centres to 13,000 appointments per week.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/04/2022 15:28:51 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1459885

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support Ukrainian refugees.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	906563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The UK has a long history of supporting refugees in need of protection.</p><p>In response to the ongoing conflict, the Home Office has launched the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.</p><p>Both of these schemes are free, and people applying under the schemes will be able to live and work in the UK for up to three years. They will have full and unrestricted access to benefits, healthcare, employment, and other support.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/04/2022 15:29:59 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1459969

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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, for what reason third country citizens resident in Ukraine with family members in the UK were excluded from the Ukraine Family Visa scheme.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	159091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>As set out in the Home Secretary’s statement to the House on 1 March, a fee free, bespoke Ukraine Family Scheme has been introduced. The route allows both the immediate family members (spouse, civil partner, durable partner, minor children) and extended family members (parent, grandparent, adult children, grandchildren, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, in laws and their immediate family) to join their relatives in the UK. The UK-based sponsoring relative must be a British citizen, a person who is present and settled in the UK (including those with settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme), a person in the UK with refugee leave or with humanitarian protection or an EEA or Swiss national in the UK with limited leave under Appendix EU (pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme). This route was launched on 4 March.</p><p>Applicants to the scheme must be Ukrainian nationals unless they are applying as part of a family group where their immediate family member, who is a Ukrainian national, qualifies under this scheme. In this circumstance non-Ukrainian nationals will also qualify under the Ukraine Family Scheme.</p><p>Third country nationals who are not part of a family group with a Ukrainian national would normally be expected to return to their country of nationality. However, each case will be judged on merit taking into account the individual circumstances of the case.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/04/2022 09:01:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1459996

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Ealing Central and Acton
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 seekers have been waiting for a decision on eligibility for Section 95 support for longer than (a) three months, (b) six months (c) nine months and (d) 12 months; and how many asylum seekers in each of those categories are accommodated in Ealing Central and Acton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	159035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/04/2022 11:03:43 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1460060

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the statement on the global migration challenge on 19 April 2022, Official Report, col 25, what the evidential basis is for the figures provided in her statement that the UK has welcomed more than 185,000 people through safe and legal routes, including from Syria, Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Ukraine, and 40,000 people in recent years through refugee family reunion routes.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	158974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/04/2022 10:54:54 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1460086

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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: Lost Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to reduce the level of misplaced documents in the Passport Office.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	159105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>During the period January to March 2022, 12 documents were confirmed as lost at a Her Majesty’s Passport Office site. This number of lost documents represents 0.0005% of the applications that were handled during this period.</p><p>The safety of customers’ personal data is of paramount importance, and all confirmed losses are reported to the Home Office’s Office of the Data Protection Officer. HM Passport Office works closely with affected customers to replace any lost document at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/04/2022 07:28:31 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1460087

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help support the Passport Office with increased numbers of passport (a) applications and (b) renewals.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	159106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Due to COVID-19, over 5 million people have delayed applying for a British passport in 2020 and 2021. In March 2022 HM Passport Office decided over a million passport applications, the highest recorded in any month to date.</p><p>Since April 2021 British passport applicants have been advised to allow up to ten weeks to get their passport. However, HM Passport Office continues to endeavour to ensure its customers receive their passport as quickly as possible and is working alongside its suppliers to develop further ways to maximise its ability to cope with an unprecedented demand.</p><p>HM Passport Office has deployed a range of tried and tested contingency arrangements, which includes the increasing of resources through recruitment and enabling the flexing of resources from across the Home Office and other government departments. In addition, technical solutions, such as its latest digital application system, mean more passport applications are securely processed with fewer manual interventions to enable them to be processed more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/04/2022 07:23:38 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1460088

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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: Members
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 provide MP offices with a direct enquiry line to the Passport Office.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	159107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>We recognise there have been unacceptable delays in answering HM Passport Office calls on the MP Enquiry Line. We are therefore increasing resource to improve waiting times and provide a more effective service.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/04/2022 07:25:26 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1460101

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the email of 12 April 2022 from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley regarding Ukraine refugee case LH20372.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	159016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/04/2022 11:04:56 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh