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1601510

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of asylum seekers arriving in the UK by unofficial transit routes were eventually successful in their asylum claims in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL6161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes statistics on the asylum outcomes of small boat arrivals in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK statistics’ report on gov.uk. The latest data is in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK, year ending December 2022’ release.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish breakdowns for the asylum outcomes of people arriving by other irregular routes.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 20/03/2023 17:39:17 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth attachment 1 file name irregular-migration-to-the-UK-detailed-dataset-year-ending-December-2022.xlsx title ‘Irregular migration to the UK - Dec 2022
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1367592

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	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 passports applied for under the 1 Week Fast Track scheme were delivered within one week in each of the 12 months to 31 October 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	72592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>There is no integration of the system used for passport application processing and the one used by third-party suppliers for delivery services. This means whilst Her Majesty’s Passport Office is able to monitor performance on a case-by-case basis for customer service purposes, there is no accurate measure of whole service performance to the point of delivery.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of the Fast Track service, passports will be delivered on or before the seventh day following an appointment before 12.30pm, or the eighth day for appointments after this time. Passports printed under the Fast Track service are delivered to customers the following day through a 24-hour service level.</p><p> </p><p>The data attached shows the volume of passports printed under the Fast Track service within 144 hours (six days) of the application being submitted. Due to COVID-19, the Fast Track service was suspended until April 2021, with exceptions primarily on compassionate grounds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/11/2021 11:54:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name 72592 attachment.png title volume of passports printed under the Fast Track s
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1455680

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Nationality and Borders Bill
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have applied the Family Test to the Nationality and Borders Bill.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	uin	HL7425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2022 answer text <p>The Nationality and Borders Bill is part of our New Plan for Immigration, delivering the most comprehensive reform of the asylum system in decades.</p><p>We have undertaken an Equality Impact Assessment as part of our work on the Nationality and Borders Bill, which was published on 16 September 2021.</p><p>The assessment considers the potential impacts on people because of their marriage / civil partnership. It also includes consideration of the possible impacts on children.</p><p>The Equality Impact Assessment can be found on the GOV.UK website at; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nationality-and-borders-bill-equality-impact-assessment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/04/2022 14:42:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Nationality_and_Borders_Bill_-_EIA.pdf title the-nationality-and-borders-bill-equality-impact-a
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1469202

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many new migrants legally settled in the UK in the period January–April.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mann
	uin	HL826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on the number of grants of Settlement in the “How many people continue their stay in the UK or apply to stay permanently?” topic and underlying datasets of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’</a>.</p><p>The latest data relates to the year ending March 2022 and can be found in table <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076314/settlement-datasets-mar-2022.xlsx" target="_blank">se_D02</a>, which is attached.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/06/2022 16:21:15 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name settlement-datasets-mar-2022 (1).xlsx title table se_D02
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

1421519

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Islamic State
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many victims of Daesh have been granted asylum in the UK since 2014; and how many of these belonged to religious minorities in the countries they left.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
	uin	HL6121
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office cannot identify how many victims of Daesh have been granted asylum in the UK since 2014 nor can we identify how many of these victims belonged to a religious minority. This data could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it would require a manual search through individual records.</p><p>However, the Home Office publishes figures on the number of people who have been granted asylum in the UK. This data can be found attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/02/2022 13:51:23 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name PQ attachment HL6121.docx title table for granted asylum
	tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

1539341

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many unauthorised Cross Channel migrants have been returned to France in each year since 2012.
	tabling member printed	Lord Oates
	uin	HL3203
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ on gov.uk. The latest data on returns from the UK by return destination country are published published in table Ret_D02 of the 'Returns Detailed Tables' on gov.uk which can be broken down by return type group. The latest data go up to the end of March 2022.</p><p>The data are for all returns from the UK. We do not publish information on method of entry for the returnee i.e. if they are migrants who crossed the channel.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 18/11/2022 13:13:11 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth attachment 1 file name table Ret_D02.xlsx title table Ret_D02
	tabling member	4549 label Biography information for Lord Oates

1380070

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Standards
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers have spent at least six months awaiting a decision on their asylum claim in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
	uin	HL4208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes information on asylum applications and resettlement in the Immigration statistics quarterly release. Data on the number of asylum applications that are currently awaiting an initial decision are published in table Asy_D03 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets (which is attached), which includes whether cases have been waiting less or more than 6 months.</p><p>The number of people awaiting an initial decision is a subset of the total number of people in the asylum system (‘asylum work in progress’), which also includes those awaiting appeal outcomes and failed asylum seekers that are subject to removal from the UK. The total number of cases in the asylum system is published in the ‘Immigration and Protection’ data of the Migration Transparency Data collection.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 02/12/2021 16:44:11 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum-applications-awaiting-decision-datasets-sep-2021.xlsx title table Asy_D03
	tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

1483332

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve (1) accountability, (2) transparency, and (3) value for money, in recording the average time it takes to process asylum seeker applications from the initial claim to the date of final interview.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL1284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to routinely publishing information which shows the number of cases in the entire asylum system outstanding to improve accountability, transparency and value for money. However, some data we are unable to provide as it is not easily aggregated, can only be obtained at disproportionate costs or not held in a reportable format.</p><p>Data on case age and Asylum Operations costs and productivity can be found in ASY_03 and ASY_04 of the published Transparency data (also attached)</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q1-2022" target="_blank">Immigration and protection data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Whilst there are a number of older outstanding cases in the system, these are more complex cases which generally have barriers that causes delays in the time taken to process an asylum seeker application from the initial date of claim to the date of final interview. These barriers are often varied and require time to clear, but our teams are actively working to clear and progress these enable the final interview to take place.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 21/07/2022 11:33:24 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name UKVI_IP_Q1_2022.xlsx title published Transparency data
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1488570

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Agriculture
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many short-term visas were granted for people working in the farming sector in (1) January, (2) February, and (3) March.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Leicester
	uin	HL1697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>The most recent data available on the seasonal worker visa scheme is released quarterly and contained within published tables at: (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fmanaged-migration-datasets%23entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca0878ec9e09444f4094308da6ef605b0%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637944300168944191%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=h%2B04c8%2FztnabFjsUTxt3sciOlaMTJhQ6tcHs789V0c0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">entry clearance detailed dataset Vis_D02</a> - attached).</p><p> </p><p>It is worth noting that while most short-term jobs in the agriculture sector are under the seasonal worker visa, a small number may be on other visa types and not all seasonal worker visa jobs will relate to farming.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 26/07/2022 14:27:56 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name entry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-mar-2022 (1).xlsx title entry clearance detailed datasets
	tabling member	4919 label Biography information for The Earl of Leicester

1189875

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were held in immigration detention centres in each month of 2020 to date.
	tabling member printed	Lord German
	uin	HL3386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on people in detention in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p><p>Data on the number of people detained under immigration powers at the end of each quarter are published in table Det_D02 of the immigration detention detailed datasets. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets#immigration-detention</p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to those in detention as at 31 December 2019. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the 'summary tables'. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on detention.</p><p>Figures covering the first quarter of 2020, including those detained as at 31 March 2020 will be released on 21<sup>st</sup> May 2020. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets#immigration-detention</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 07/05/2020 15:44:22 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Copy of detention-summary-dec-2019-tables copy 2.xlsx title copy of detention summary tables
	tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German