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1683968

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: Dependants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of dependents brought to the UK by foreign students in (1) 2018, (2) 2019, (3) 2020, (4) 2021, and (5) 2022; and what estimate they have made of the number of these (a) foreign students, and (b) their dependents, who have since returned home.
	tabling member printed	Lord Tyrie
	uin	HL1829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on Entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of student dependant visas granted are published in table Vis_D02 of the Entry clearance detailed dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to 2023 Q3.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on how people move through the immigration system in the Migrant Journey report. The report contains information on the number of people starting a journey each year broken down by immigration route (e.g. study) and applicant type (e.g. dependant), and how long they continued to hold leave to remain in the UK. The latest report covers up to the end of 2022. The report looks at periods when people held valid leave which does not necessarily mean they were in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 05/02/2024 15:40:16 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom attachment 1 file name entry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-sep-2023.xlsx title table Vis_D02
	tabling member	112 label Biography information for Lord Tyrie

1683971

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mike Veale
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 17 January (HL Deb col 463), when and in what circumstances Mr Mike Veale, former chief constable for Wiltshire, agreed that the manner in which he publicised allegations against Sir Edward Heath was “inappropriate”.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
	uin	HL1796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The reference to Mr Veale agreeing that the manner in which he publicised allegations against Sir Edward Heath was “inappropriate” was paraphrased from articles in <em>The Guardian</em> newspaper on 5 October 2017.</p><p><em>The Guardian</em> reported that ‘, the chief constable, Mike Veale, finally acknowledged it a mistake that tainted the investigation by implying the presumption of guilt’ and <strong>‘</strong>Veale apologised for an appeal for complainants to come forward being made outside Heath’s house in August 2015, which critics said would encourage false claims.’</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 05/02/2024 15:40:51 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

1685255

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
	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 whose asylum application has remained unresolved for more than 12 months have been granted permission to work in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	11565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office is unable to state how many asylum seekers were granted the right-to-work because their application remained unresolved for more than 12 months in each year since 2015, as the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is not published.</p><p>Those who have claimed asylum in the UK and have had their asylum claim outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own, are able to apply for permission to work. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List, which is based on expert advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 05/02/2024 17:30:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1685290

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to support local police forces to help them to deal with complaints backlogs.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Ashley Dalton
	uin	11666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government implemented a series of legislative reforms in 2020 to the police complaints and disciplinary systems. These changes were designed to achieve a simpler, more proportionate, and customer-focused complaints system focused on learning and improvement.</p><p>The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) collects and publishes information from all police forces in England and Wales about the type of complaints they are receiving and how long they take to deal with them. The most recent police complaints statistics report can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/our-work/research-and-statistics/police-complaints-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/our-work/research-and-statistics/police-complaints-statistics</a></p><p>From the most recent publication (2022/23) the IOPC note that “more complaints are being sorted quickly, as the new system intended, with fewer complaints resulting in lengthy investigations. This is to be welcomed. In many cases these are being replaced with responses that are more proportionate with appropriate explanations and apologies.”</p><p>The IOPC, Home Office and wider policing sector are continuing to work with forces to seek to improve their handling of police complaints. The Home Office will also continue to collect, review and publish data annually on police complaints, conduct matters and recordable conduct matters.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 05/02/2024 12:06:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4981 label Biography information for Ashley Dalton

1686056

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Ministerial Boxes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many ministerial red boxes belonging to his Department have been reported (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	12159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>No ministerial red boxes have been reported lost or missing in the last three years.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 05/02/2024 10:17:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1686411

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Personal Income
	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 26 January 2024 to Question 11230 on Immigration: Personal Income, how many people on the current 10 year route to settlement will now have to meet a higher income threshold.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
	uin	12475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>People on the 10-year route to settlement do not need to meet an income threshold. Under Appendix FM, a partner, parent, or child can make an application for settlement on the basis of the five-year route where they meet the requirements of the rules, including where applicable the Minimum Income Requirement. Where those requirements are not met, but there are exceptional circumstances, then applicants may be granted permission to stay under the ten-year route to settlement.</p><p> </p><p>Those on the ten-year route to settlement are able to switch back to re-commence the five-year route if they meet all of the requirements including, where relevant, the level of Minimum Income Requirement in place at the time they make their application.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 05/02/2024 15:01:13 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern