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1145939

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 6 September 2019 to Question 282339, in what circumstances would a prisoner serving a sentence be eligible to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	290873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p><br>A person’s continuity of residence in the UK for the purposes of eligibility un-der the EU Settlement Scheme is broken when they serve a sentence of im-prisonment. They will therefore not generally be eligible to apply to the scheme while they are serving that sentence.</p><p>Only where a person has already acquired the right of permanent residence under EU law, or has already completed a continuous qualifying period of five years’ residence in the UK, will a sentence of imprisonment not affect their eligibility, or that of their third country national family members, to apply under the scheme and only then if the sentence is not serious enough to lead to their deportation. <br> <br>Official statistics – ‘EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, August 2019’ – providing detailed information regarding operation of the scheme were pub-lished on 22 August 2019. These can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019</a></p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing more detailed quarterly statistics on the EU Settlement Scheme. Home Office statisticians are currently con-sidering the content of the next quarterly release and will take into account the views of statistics users.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 290874 290875 question first answered 30/09/2019 16:16:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1145940

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 6 September 2019 to Question 282339, how many prisoners have applied to the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	290874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p><br>A person’s continuity of residence in the UK for the purposes of eligibility un-der the EU Settlement Scheme is broken when they serve a sentence of im-prisonment. They will therefore not generally be eligible to apply to the scheme while they are serving that sentence.</p><p>Only where a person has already acquired the right of permanent residence under EU law, or has already completed a continuous qualifying period of five years’ residence in the UK, will a sentence of imprisonment not affect their eligibility, or that of their third country national family members, to apply under the scheme and only then if the sentence is not serious enough to lead to their deportation. <br> <br>Official statistics – ‘EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, August 2019’ – providing detailed information regarding operation of the scheme were pub-lished on 22 August 2019. These can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019</a></p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing more detailed quarterly statistics on the EU Settlement Scheme. Home Office statisticians are currently con-sidering the content of the next quarterly release and will take into account the views of statistics users.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 290873 290875 question first answered 30/09/2019 16:16:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1145941

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EEA Nationals
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 6 September 2019 to Question 282339 on Young Offenders: EU Nationals, whether EEA national prisoners' relatives who are third country nationals are eligible to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	290875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p><br>A person’s continuity of residence in the UK for the purposes of eligibility un-der the EU Settlement Scheme is broken when they serve a sentence of im-prisonment. They will therefore not generally be eligible to apply to the scheme while they are serving that sentence.</p><p>Only where a person has already acquired the right of permanent residence under EU law, or has already completed a continuous qualifying period of five years’ residence in the UK, will a sentence of imprisonment not affect their eligibility, or that of their third country national family members, to apply under the scheme and only then if the sentence is not serious enough to lead to their deportation. <br> <br>Official statistics – ‘EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics, August 2019’ – providing detailed information regarding operation of the scheme were pub-lished on 22 August 2019. These can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019</a></p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing more detailed quarterly statistics on the EU Settlement Scheme. Home Office statisticians are currently con-sidering the content of the next quarterly release and will take into account the views of statistics users.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 290873 290874 question first answered 30/09/2019 16:16:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1145942

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 17 July 2019 to Question 252533, when her Department will publish the Data Protection Impact Assessment and Policy Equality Statement for the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	290876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Data Protection Impact Assessment and the Policy Equality Statement for the EU Settlement Scheme will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/09/2019 16:03:25 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1145943

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 Government guidance entitled How the automated check calculates the period of residence, for what reason caseworkers are not shown information about an applicant's employment, pension or benefits.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	290877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The automated checks conducted where an applicant under the EU Settlement Scheme chooses to provide their National Insurance number have been designed to make the application process as quick and straightforward as possible. They greatly reduce the need for applicants to upload documentary evidence of their residence in the UK.</p><p>Caseworkers are not shown information from the checks about an applicant's employment, pension or benefits as this is not relevant to their eligibility for status under the scheme, which is generally based on continuous UK residence.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/09/2019 16:07:40 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1145944

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 Government guidance entitled How your personal information is used within the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System, if she will publish the memoranda of understanding between her Department and authorities and organisations outside the EEA on data sharing for settled status applications.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	290878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is the data controller for all data processed within the EU Settlement Scheme, this includes where organisations are contracted to act on behalf of the Home Office.</p><p>No other organisations have access to the personal information of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme.</p><p>The Home Office may share information with an organisation an applicant has cited within their own application. This is to verify the evidence and protect against fraud and the use of counterfeit documents. Further details are set out in the following guidance and privacy information notice:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu-settlement-scheme-how-we-use-your-personal-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu-settlement-scheme-how-we-use-your-personal-information</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship.</a></p><p>The Home Office takes its data security and data protection obligations extremely seriously. There are processes in place in the Home Office for the capturing and mitigation of risks and vulnerabilities to ensure appropriate control of our services. I can confirm this is the case for the EU Settlement Scheme.</p><p>Our staff are security cleared and data will only be accessed by those who have a valid business reason to access it. The Home Office regularly monitors the systems for abuse and misuse.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 290879 290880 290881 290882 question first answered 07/10/2019 16:55:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1145945

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 Government guidance entitled EU Settlement Scheme: how we use your personal information, if she will publish a list of organisations with whom the Government has shared the personal information of EU Settlement Scheme applicants.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	290879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is the data controller for all data processed within the EU Settlement Scheme, this includes where organisations are contracted to act on behalf of the Home Office.</p><p>No other organisations have access to the personal information of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme.</p><p>The Home Office may share information with an organisation an applicant has cited within their own application. This is to verify the evidence and protect against fraud and the use of counterfeit documents. Further details are set out in the following guidance and privacy information notice:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu-settlement-scheme-how-we-use-your-personal-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu-settlement-scheme-how-we-use-your-personal-information</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship.</a></p><p>The Home Office takes its data security and data protection obligations extremely seriously. There are processes in place in the Home Office for the capturing and mitigation of risks and vulnerabilities to ensure appropriate control of our services. I can confirm this is the case for the EU Settlement Scheme.</p><p>Our staff are security cleared and data will only be accessed by those who have a valid business reason to access it. The Home Office regularly monitors the systems for abuse and misuse.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 290878 290880 290881 290882 question first answered 07/10/2019 16:55:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1141806

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 22 July 2019 to Question 278478 on Immigration: EU Nationals, what mechanisms his Department has established to enable statistics users can make views known.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	281741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>Home Office statistics are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking account of user needs. This includes requesting feedback in all our regular quarterly and annual statistical publications, as well as via the annual Migration Statistics User Forum conference, and the cross government improving migration and population statistics programme of work led by ONS.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we monitor the demand for Home Office statistics received through Parliamentary questions, Freedom of Information requests, requests from other government departments, stakeholders and the press.</p><p> </p><p>We will be publishing the first quarterly statistical report on the EU Settlement Scheme, alongside our quarterly Immigration Statistics in August 2019, with a dedicated mechanism for providing feedback on the publication.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/09/2019 16:34:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1140861

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for administrative review have been made to the EU Settlement Scheme; how many of those applications were (a) successful and (b) successful due to new evidence or an error by the caseworker in the original decision.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	280266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>In the period up to 31 May 2019, the last point at which data was assured, 368 applications were received for administrative review of decisions made on applications under the EU Settlement Scheme. Of these:</p><p>• 30 administrative review applications were rejected, e.g. because no EU Settlement Scheme application had been received;</p><p>• in all the remaining 253 cases, the applicant was challenging a grant of pre-settled status rather than settled status, of which:</p><p>o 22 of these grants of pre-settled status were upheld following the administrative review; and <br>o 231 of these grants of pre-settled status were overturned, and the applicant was instead granted settled status following administrative review. In these cases, the applicant had generally accepted a grant of pre-settled status when making their application and then provided additional evidence of their eligibility for settled status with their application for administrative review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:26:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1139832

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 place in the Library a copy of the algorithms citizen matching layer and business logic.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	278477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Under the EU Settlement Scheme, we conduct automated checks of certain tax and benefits records held by HM Revenue &amp; Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions, where the applicant chooses to provide their National Insurance number. The checks help to provide evidence of the applicant’s residence in the UK and remove or reduce the need for them to submit documentary evidence of this.</p><p>The business logic of how the checks calculate the period of residence is available on gov.uk at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu-settlement-scheme-uk-tax-and-benefits-records-automated-check" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu-settlement-scheme-uk-tax-and-benefits-records-automated-check</a></p><p>We have also published there the memorandum of understanding with each department, reasons why records may not be found, and guidance on the wide range of other evidence we can use to confirm UK residence.</p><p>All applications under the scheme are decided by a caseworker.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/07/2019 15:40:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield