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1718915

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Migration Advisory Committee entitled Rapid review of the graduate route, published in May 2024; and whether he plans to implement each of the recommendations in full.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	26638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26639 question first answered 21/05/2024 13:39:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1718918

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students
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 it his policy to maintain routes to enable international students to (a) study and (b) make an economic contribution to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	26639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26638 question first answered 21/05/2024 13:39:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1718934

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
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 page 64 of the Migration Advisory Committee's report entitled, Rapid Review of the Graduate Route, published on 14 May 2024, if she will take steps to implement the recommendation on establishing a mandatory registration system for international recruitment agents and subagents.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	26711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26712 question first answered 21/05/2024 14:34:40 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1718431

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Republic of Ireland
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 sent by the authorities in the Republic of Ireland to the UK in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	26374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>In 2020, we agreed operational arrangements which allow for the return and readmission of asylum seekers where this is agreed by both participants. Ireland has not returned anyone to the UK under these arrangements, including in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/05/2024 15:27:02 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1718566

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
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 on a (a) student visa and (b) graduate visa took jobs (i) in caring, leisure and other service occupations, (ii) as care workers and (iii) as senior care workers in the financial year (A) 2021-22 (B) 2022-23 and (C) 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	26601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office published ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/analysis-of-migrants-use-of-the-graduate-route" target="_blank">Analysis of migrants use of the Graduate route</a>’. The report shows the proportion of student visa holders who were subsequently granted a work visa after their studies, and those who left the Graduate route and went into work (including those who were granted a Health &amp; Care visa).</p><p>The report shows that, of the 25,469 people whose Graduate visas had expired by the end of 2023, 46% had switched to a work visa (9% of the total switched to the Health &amp; Care route). In addition, based on matching Home Office visa records with HMRC income data, of Graduate visa holders who earned in at least one month during the financial year ending 2023 (including those who worked across the full year), 16% worked in the Health and Social Care work sector.</p><p>The report does not look at specific occupations Student or Graduate visa holders held, or the number of students who extended into the Health &amp; Care route. This information is not currently published by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/05/2024 15:19:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1717858

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	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

1717540

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Palestinians who were living in Gaza before 27 October 2023 have been granted the right to enter the UK.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South West
tabling member printed	Joanna Cherry
uin	25862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not available in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/05/2024 13:42:47 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4419 label Biography information for Joanna Cherry