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1076693

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to make changes to the Disclosure and Barring Service after the Supreme Court judgment of 30 January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	909409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The judgment found two aspects of the disclosure regime to be incompatible with the Article 8 right to private life.The Government will carefully consider the details of this complex judgment.</p><p>Any legislative changes will not only conform to the judgment, but will continue to ensure that the disclosure regime supports effective protection for children and vulnerable adults.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/02/2019 16:44:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1058730

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Official Engagements
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 list his engagements for Monday 4 February 2019.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	219277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>It is not Home Office policy to release detailed accounts of the Home Secretary’s diary. We do however release quarterly transparency data that details their external meetings, which can be found here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-ministers-hospitality-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-ministers-hospitality-data</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 14/02/2019 17:25:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037143

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sopra Steria: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many service points for processing visa applications are currently operated by Sopra Steria; what the locations are of those service points; and which of those points are (a) free and (b) charge for that service.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>Sopra Steria have opened 56 fixed service points to date, a 57th location in Grays will open early 2019</p><p>The locations of each service are listed below, 6 Core Service Points are free sites and any other sites are charged depending on the service pack-age a customer chooses <br>Core Centres <br>• Belfast<br>• Birmingham<br>• Cardiff<br>• Croydon<br>• Glasgow <br>• Manchester</p><p>Other</p><p>• Aberdeen<br>• Barbican<br>• Bedford<br>• Bournemouth<br>• Bradley Stoke<br>• Brighton<br>• Burnholme<br>• Burnley<br>• Cambridge<br>• Canning Town<br>• Canterbury<br>• Coventry<br>• Dorchester<br>• East Ham<br>• Eastbourne<br>• Gloucester<br>• Hammersmith (temporary)<br>• Hemel Hempstead<br>• Hull<br>• Ipswich<br>• Kensington<br>• Lancaster<br>• Liverpool<br>• Llandudno<br>• London <br>• Newcastle<br>• Newport<br>• Norwich<br>• Nottingham<br>• Patchway<br>• Peterborough<br>• Preston<br>• Reading<br>• Salisbury<br>• Shoe Lane<br>• Southampton (temporary)</p><p><br>• Stevenage<br>• Stockport<br>• Stratford<br>• Swindon<br>• Swinton<br>• Taunton<br>• Truro<br>• Victoria (temporary)<br>• Wakefield<br>• Warrington<br>• Warwick<br>• Watford<br>• Wimbledon<br>• Wolverhampton</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2019 17:08:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037149

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department decided the service point locations of its contractor Sopra Steria; and what consideration was given to accessibility for users of those services when deciding those locations.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The geography of UKVCAS service points is not fixed but rather designed to evolve with demand through the contract term. <br>Sopra Steria undertook extensive market research to identify it’s initial service locations; their research included the impact on customer travel time, cost and accessibility. <br>Sopra Steria can also cater for customers who wish to have more flexi-ble on-demand, mobile application services, for example at university campuses, employers’ offices or individual customers’ homes. <br>All service centres will comply with the Equality Act 2010 and Health and Safety Act 1974, this will include the provision of wheelchair access, disabled toilets and baby changing areas.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:13:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037150

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometrics: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the average processing times for biometric enrolment with Sopra Steria and the Post Office.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>UKVI’s service standards for decisions are the same for applications made through both Sopra Steria and previous application arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:15:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037154

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications Sopra Steria has processed since the commencement of its contract with his Department.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Sopra Steria have handled 18,040 applications to date.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:17:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1027333

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has cost to the public purse was of Operation Kenova to date.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	202708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government continues to cooperate fully with the Operation Kenova investigation. Funding for the investigation is a matter for the PSNI and the devolved Department for Justice.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/02/2019 16:44:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1019380

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to review his policy on proscribing all parts of the Hezbollah organisation.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	198175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>It is Government policy not to comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription. A decision to proscribe an organisation must be based on a belief that it is concerned in terrorism as defined in the Terrorism Act 2000, and it must be proportionate.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 12/12/2018 17:47:51 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

984408

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Lost Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were lost by his Department's Immigration Section in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	177178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>Data on lost passports in the last 12 months is not captured and consolidated across the Border, Immigration and Citizenship System. To find this information would require interrogation of individual case records and therefore could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>From November 2018, the majority of immigration applicants who apply to confirm or extend their stay in the UK, or apply for citizenship, will be managed by the Home Office’s new commercial partner Sopra Steria on behalf of UK Visas and Immigration. As part of this new service, for the first time, applicants will be able to retain their passport and supporting evidence as part of the application process</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/02/2019 18:28:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

984409

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Bank Services and Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is his Department taking to ensure that people permitted to reside and work in the UK have the ability to (a) open bank accounts and (b) obtain employment while his Department are in possession of their passports.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	177179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>Where migrants need to undergo a right to work check while their immigration application is outstanding and their documents are with the Home Office, their status can be confirmed by the employer contacting the Home Office employer checking service. Those applying to extend their stay in the UK are likely to have opened bank accounts already.</p><p>From November 2018, the majority of immigration applicants who apply to confirm or extend their stay in the UK, or apply for citizenship, will be managed by the Home Office’s new commercial partner Sopra Steria on behalf of UK Visas and Immigration. As part of this new service applicants will be able to retain their passport and supporting evidence as part of the application process.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/10/2018 16:01:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar