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1717858

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date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism entitled Thousands of care workers risk deportation after employers breach rules, published on 11 May 2024.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	26214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government will carefully consider the evidence put forward by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The Home Office does not tolerate exploitation in the labour market and our systems are designed to ensure exploitative employers are unable to sponsor migrant workers. Any decision to revoke an employer’s licence will only be done in circumstances where they have failed to meet the obligations and duties such as ensuring workers are being paid the correct salary and given guaranteed work.</p><p> </p><p>We are working hard across government and with the sector to support care workers who wish to seek alternative employment with a Home Office approved sponsor and remain in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 17/05/2024 14:46:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1717911

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: ICT
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 Minister for Legal Migration and the Border's Oral Statement of 8 May 2024 on Passport e-Gates Network Outage, Official Report, column 592, if he will publish a report of the investigations into the failure of passport e-gates on 7 May 2024.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	26166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>It has never been Government practice, for reasons of law enforcement, to comment on operational issues relating to border security and immigration controls. This includes offering commentary on the performance of border systems and of ePassport Gates data specifically.</p><p>The Home Office has a number of contingency arrangements in the event of a system failure, including technical and business contingency measures.</p><p>In the UK, all arriving passengers need to establish their eligibility for admission. Every passenger is required to establish their nationality and identity. To maintain a safe and secure border, a passenger’s passport or national identity card is checked electronically. The eGates and face-to-face checks are two methods of conducting the same process.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/05/2024 12:41:49 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1717912

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of security at passport e-gates.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	26167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>It has never been Government practice, for reasons of law enforcement, to comment on operational issues relating to border security and immigration controls. This includes offering commentary on the performance of border systems and of ePassport Gates data specifically.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has a number of contingency arrangements in the event of a system failure, including technical and business contingency measures.</p><p>In the UK, all arriving passengers need to establish their eligibility for admission. Every passenger is required to establish their nationality and identity. To maintain a safe and secure border, a passenger’s passport or national identity card is checked electronically.</p><p> </p><p>The eGates and face-to-face checks are two methods of conducting the same process.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/05/2024 12:42:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1717973

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visas have been granted to the non-British dependents of (a) British Israelis and (b) British Palestinians that have been repatriated since 7 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	26172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=05%7C02%7CEleanor.Morris3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C9c355d1434e1416431c508dc78027004%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638517199069329027%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WrnZOYCVtoIT%2F3FBlkWZdIKfER8JCaccz96tlt%2B0z%2FA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on visas granted, by nationality, main applicants, and dependants are published in table Vis_D02 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-system-statistics-data-tables%23entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C02%7CEleanor.Morris3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C9c355d1434e1416431c508dc78027004%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638517199069340335%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7g%2BJUKxdW0Nf8Bdp%2BvOUGXrTkr6txeYyMedlbOXW3Xk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Entry clearance detailed dataset</a>. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate up to the end of 2023. Please note the published statistics do not identify how many visas were issued to dependants of people who have been repatriated since 7 October 2023.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/05/2024 09:18:07 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1718070

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
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, how many (a) work and (b) family visas were issued to people aged (i) between (A) 18 and 24, (B) 25 and 34, (C) 35 and 44, (D) 45 and 54 and (E) 55 and 64 and (ii) 65 and over in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	26253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of work or family applications for entry clearance to the UK that are broken down by age group does not form part of any current transparency data or migration statistics and is not published.</p><p>The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/05/2024 13:20:27 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1718072

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Gaza
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to support Palestinian families seeking reunification with relatives from Gaza.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	26252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce bespoke arrangements for people arriving from the region. Those wishing to come to the UK who currently have no visa can apply under one of the existing visa routes.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 21/05/2024 14:39:11 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova