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1254171

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date	20/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Electric Vehicles
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 the vehicles used by her Department on Government business are electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	118563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>At present across the Home Office Fleet there are no pure electric vehicles.</p><p>The Home Office currently has 15% of its total fleet that are plug in hybrid electric vehicles.</p><p>The Home Office is working towards the Office for Low Emission Vehicles ‘Road to Zero’ target of 25% of fleet cars to be low emission at the tailpipe by 2022. Against that target (which relates only to cars), the Home Office currently has 19% of its fleet as qualifying with 241 plug in hybrid vehicles from a total of 1282 qualifying vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/11/2020 14:20:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1254196

registered interest
date	20/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fines: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how money raised by fines issued for the breaching of coronavirus restrictions is used by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	118508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for the Department for Health and Social Care designated ACRO Criminal Records Office, as the organisation legally able to process Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) issued in relation to the Coronavirus Regulations.</p><p>ACRO is responsible for the distribution of funds generated by fines under the Coronavirus Regulations to local authorities in England and Wales. The Home Office is not in receipt of money raised by these fines</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/11/2020 15:13:01 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1253788

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will (a) fully fund local authorities for the additional support they are providing to households with No Recourse to Public Funds conditions during the covid-19 outbreak and (b) reimburse local authorities for additional support already provided to those households.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	118041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has provided councils with £6.4 billion to support their communities through this pandemic. This includes £4.6 billion in un-ringfenced funding, £1.1 billion from the Infection Control Fund, £300 million to support Test and Trace as well as funding allocated to councils from the new Local Alert Level system and a number of grants to support communities and vulnerable people</p><p>The Government has also provided additional funding for the devolved administrations under the Barnett formula as part of the wider government response. Funding provided to local authorities under the Covid-19 emergency response will be paid through a grant that is not ring-fenced, recognising that local authorities are best placed to decide how this funding is spent.</p><p>The assistance being given under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-employed Income Support Scheme are not classed as public funds and are available to all those in work or self-employment respectively, including those with NRPF status and those on zero-hour contracts.</p><p>The Home Office has published its policy equality statement on the impact of the No Recourse to Public Fund (NRPF) policy on migrants on the 10-year human rights route.  It can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-for-change-of-conditions-of-leave-to-allow-access-to-public-funds-if-your-circumstances-change" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-for-change-of-conditions-of-leave-to-allow-access-to-public-funds-if-your-circumstances-change</a>.</p><p>The Home Office continues to keep the impact of the pandemic under review and will make changes should these be necessary and appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 118042 question first answered 25/11/2020 12:03:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1253790

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to review (a) the No Recourse to Public Funds policy and (b) the effect of that policy on BAME people during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	118042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has provided councils with £6.4 billion to support their communities through this pandemic. This includes £4.6 billion in un-ringfenced funding, £1.1 billion from the Infection Control Fund, £300 million to support Test and Trace as well as funding allocated to councils from the new Local Alert Level system and a number of grants to support communities and vulnerable people</p><p>The Government has also provided additional funding for the devolved administrations under the Barnett formula as part of the wider government response. Funding provided to local authorities under the Covid-19 emergency response will be paid through a grant that is not ring-fenced, recognising that local authorities are best placed to decide how this funding is spent.</p><p>The assistance being given under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-employed Income Support Scheme are not classed as public funds and are available to all those in work or self-employment respectively, including those with NRPF status and those on zero-hour contracts.</p><p>The Home Office has published its policy equality statement on the impact of the No Recourse to Public Fund (NRPF) policy on migrants on the 10-year human rights route.  It can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-for-change-of-conditions-of-leave-to-allow-access-to-public-funds-if-your-circumstances-change" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-for-change-of-conditions-of-leave-to-allow-access-to-public-funds-if-your-circumstances-change</a>.</p><p>The Home Office continues to keep the impact of the pandemic under review and will make changes should these be necessary and appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 118041 question first answered 25/11/2020 12:03:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1253793

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration cases that have been successfully appealed remain unresolved in (a) England and (b) Blackburn.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	118007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>Where an appeal has been allowed in favour of the appellant, we take all reasonable steps to implement the allowed appeal accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information a manual reconciliation of outstanding appeals implementations work would be required. A manual reconciliation of individual cases would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/11/2020 11:59:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

1253238

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Lessons Learned Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 106891 on Windrush Lessons Learned Review, what data on ethnicity she plans to collect to inform the review and evaluation of the public funds stream to the compliant environment.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	117166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>I accepted the Windrush Lessons Learned Review’s important findings, including those relating to measures designed to regulate access to work, benefits and services, including access to public funds</p><p>We are currently in the discovery phase of the review. We are scoping what data is available on the cohort that may not have recourse to public funds. This scoping phase will include what demographic data is available for analysis.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 25/11/2020 17:13:46 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1253446

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of immigration rules for people of faith on faith groups in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	117405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>This Government recognises the importance of faith across our communities in the UK and welcomes the value added by members of religious institutions from across the world. This is reflected in the two dedicated immigration arrangements which exist for Ministers of Religion and Religious Workers. These provisions will continue in the future immigration system and be opened to EEA and Swiss nationals.</p><p>Faith leaders have a dedicated point of contact within the Department, who regularly engage on such topics to ensure the future immigration system works for the whole of the UK. I have also met with senior figures from the Roman Catholic Church to discuss their thoughts on the migration system.</p><p>All immigration routes, including the two dedicated routes for religious organisations, are subject to regular review.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/11/2020 14:59:54 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1252701

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Company Liquidations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of changes to immigration rules after the transition period on the number of businesses going into liquidation; and what support his Department plans to make available to prevent businesses going into liquidation after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	116558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government is introducing a new global points-based immigration system which works in the interests of the whole of our United Kingdom.</p><p>We recognise this will mean a change for some businesses, which is why we have continued to support them through extensive communications and engagement to build awareness and promote understanding. <br> <br> In April, the Government published an Impact Assessment to accompany what is now the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 which considers the expected impact of the future immigration system.</p><p>We will continue to review and assess the operation of the new system and the experiences of users.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/11/2020 12:51:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1252755

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has for the future of Yarls Wood immigration removal centre and the detention of women under immigration powers there.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	116669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The immigration removal estate is kept under ongoing review to ensure that the Home Office has sufficient capacity, in the right places and that it provides value for money.</p><p>In August, the pre-existing Short-Term Holding Facility (STHF) at Yarl’s Wood, in which clandestine entrants may be held by UK Visas and Immigration for a short time to resolve their position before being dispersed through appropriate routes, was temporarily expanded to incorporate the whole site. At this time Yarl’s Wood was operated solely in accordance with the STHF Rules 2018.</p><p>In light of changing demands in the immigration removal estate and in line with business recovery, we have now transitioned part of the Yarl’s Wood site back to an immigration removal centre for women.</p><p>In order to meet operational needs and demands, we will continue to operate the immigration removal estate, including Yarl’s Wood, in a flexible manner and in line with the STHF Rules 2018 and the Detention Centre Rules 2001, as appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/11/2020 14:16:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana