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1628036

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
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 visa applicants from Sudan whose passports and other travel documents are held in the visa application centre in Khartoum have been contacted by her Department.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	185323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration have contacted all customers who have been issued or refused visa applications in our Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum and offered them a letter confirming that their passport is securely stored and attaching a digital copy of their passport.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/05/2023 16:54:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1628037

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
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 from Sudan who had applied for a visa were awaiting a decision on 16 May 2023; and how many of those have submitted their passports to her Department.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	185324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to publishing transparency data on applications by nationality as part of the immigration quarterly statistics release, which is available on the GOV.UK website.</p><p>UK Visas and Immigration are in the process of trying to contact customers who have been issued or refused visa applications in our Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum and offering them a letter confirming that their passport is securely stored and attaching a digital copy of their passport.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/05/2023 16:57:49 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1628049

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent delays in processing passport applications; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	185186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>Between January and April 2023, 99.5% of customers using the standard UK service received their passport within the published processing timeframe of ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/05/2023 14:30:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1628050

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps steps she is taking to improve waiting times for passport applications; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	185187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>Between January and April 2023, 99.5% of customers using the standard UK service received their passport within the published processing timeframe of ten weeks.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/05/2023 14:29:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1628051

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve access to priority appointments at the Passport Office; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	185188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>Appointments for urgent passport services are released up to three weeks in advance to help meet the needs of the small proportion of customers who need a passport sooner than ten weeks. Appointment capacity is at normal levels.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/05/2023 15:08:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1628053

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her department calculates the weekly allowance received by asylum seekers on aspen cards.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	185182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The level of the allowance given to those supported under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”) is generally reviewed each year to ensure it meets an asylum seeker’s essential living needs. Reports on the reviews are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-on-review-of-cash-allowance-paid-to-asylum-seekers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-on-review-of-cash-allowance-paid-to-asylum-seekers</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/05/2023 14:18:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1628054

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
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 and what proportion of right to work applications made by asylum seekers were accepted in 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	185183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/05/2023 09:47:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1628115

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to respond to the Children’s Commissioner’s letter of 5 April 2023 requesting information on unaccompanied child refugees who have been accommodated in hotels by her Department since July 2021.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	185180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>Home Office officials continue to work collaboratively with the Children’s Commissioner’s Office in response to this request for information. We have introduced weekly meetings to provide the Children’s Commissioner’s office with progress updates directly and I have personally met with the Children’s Commissioner twice. We will continue to work through the required legislative and legal processes to ensure this request is managed in the right way which is essential when answering a request of this sensitivity and size.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/05/2023 12:44:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1628137

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of levels of police participation in Domestic Abuse Matters training in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	185451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The Domestic Abuse Matters training, developed by the College of Policing, in collaboration with SafeLives, with input from Women’s Aid and Welsh Women’s Aid, aims to improve the police response to domestic abuse and to achieve national consistency in the service police forces provide to people experiencing domestic abuse.</p><p>The majority of police forces in England and Wales have undertaken the Domestic Abuse Matters training in their force to date, including the Metropolitan Police who are the force for the London Borough of Enfield.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/05/2023 14:49:43 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1628150

registered interest
date	16/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Sudan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the speed at which asylum applications are processed for people from Sudan.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	185383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>We are carefully monitoring the situation in Sudan.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>We are taking immediate action to clear the backlog of 92,601 initial asylum decisions relating to claims made before 28 June 2022 (“legacy claims”) by the end of 2023.</p><p> </p><p>We are increasing the number of caseworkers to 2,500 by September 2023, streamlining interviews where one is required and simplifying guidance.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/05/2023 16:51:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin