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833802

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
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 the availability of Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) Visas.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	125560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) route demonstrates our commitment to continuing to attract top international talent in the digital technology, science and arts sectors. On 11 January we doubled the number of places available to applicants from 1000, to 2000, and are confident that this is sufficient to meet demand at this time. We will continue to monitor take up of the route.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2018 16:33:21 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

833820

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
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 her Department's news story, Twenty three universities join student visa pilot, published on 18 December 2017, what criteria universities were required to fulfil in order to take part in that pilot.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Robert Neill
uin	125578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The Tier 4 visa pilot, helps to streamline the visa process for international students looking to study on a Masters’ course, in the UK, of 13 months or less. The pilot also helps to support students who wish to switch into a work route and take up a graduate role, by extending the leave period following the end of their study to up to six months.</p><p>23 additional institutions were selected to participate based on having the consistently lowest visa refusal rates for their region or country. The evaluation of the pilot is ongoing, with an interim report due to be published in the summer of 2018. The primary focus of the evaluation is to assess the impact of the Tier 4 visa pilot on UK education institutions’ competitiveness in terms of attracting international students and the ability of international students to switch into a work route. Engaging more sponsors to participate in the pilot will provide additional evidence for the evaluation to ensure it more accurately represents the diversity of the sector. Once evaluated, we will consider whether to introduce the offer being tested with the pilot into the Immigration Rules and make it policy.</p><p>We regularly engage with the education sector on student migration policy, including the Tier 4 visa pilot. We hold a quarterly Education Sector Forum with key representatives from the sector including the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 125579 125580 question first answered 06/02/2018 16:23:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

833821

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many representations the Department has received from universities wanting to take part in the expanded student visa pilot scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Robert Neill
uin	125579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The Tier 4 visa pilot, helps to streamline the visa process for international students looking to study on a Masters’ course, in the UK, of 13 months or less. The pilot also helps to support students who wish to switch into a work route and take up a graduate role, by extending the leave period following the end of their study to up to six months.</p><p>23 additional institutions were selected to participate based on having the consistently lowest visa refusal rates for their region or country. The evaluation of the pilot is ongoing, with an interim report due to be published in the summer of 2018. The primary focus of the evaluation is to assess the impact of the Tier 4 visa pilot on UK education institutions’ competitiveness in terms of attracting international students and the ability of international students to switch into a work route. Engaging more sponsors to participate in the pilot will provide additional evidence for the evaluation to ensure it more accurately represents the diversity of the sector. Once evaluated, we will consider whether to introduce the offer being tested with the pilot into the Immigration Rules and make it policy.</p><p>We regularly engage with the education sector on student migration policy, including the Tier 4 visa pilot. We hold a quarterly Education Sector Forum with key representatives from the sector including the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 125578 125580 question first answered 06/02/2018 16:23:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

833822

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to further expand the student visa pilot scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Robert Neill
uin	125580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The Tier 4 visa pilot, helps to streamline the visa process for international students looking to study on a Masters’ course, in the UK, of 13 months or less. The pilot also helps to support students who wish to switch into a work route and take up a graduate role, by extending the leave period following the end of their study to up to six months.</p><p>23 additional institutions were selected to participate based on having the consistently lowest visa refusal rates for their region or country. The evaluation of the pilot is ongoing, with an interim report due to be published in the summer of 2018. The primary focus of the evaluation is to assess the impact of the Tier 4 visa pilot on UK education institutions’ competitiveness in terms of attracting international students and the ability of international students to switch into a work route. Engaging more sponsors to participate in the pilot will provide additional evidence for the evaluation to ensure it more accurately represents the diversity of the sector. Once evaluated, we will consider whether to introduce the offer being tested with the pilot into the Immigration Rules and make it policy.</p><p>We regularly engage with the education sector on student migration policy, including the Tier 4 visa pilot. We hold a quarterly Education Sector Forum with key representatives from the sector including the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 125578 125579 question first answered 06/02/2018 16:23:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

833874

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	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 visa applications were rejected because the applicant was late with their tax return in each of the last three years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	125632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The specific information that has been requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.</p><p>Information on the number of applications and decisions (i.e. grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed cases) is published quarterly in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2018 16:24:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

833880

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	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 and what proprotion of visa applications have been categorised as non-straightforward by the UKVI unit in the past 3 years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	125638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The information on the number of visa applications categorised as non-straightforward is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/02/2018 10:57:41 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

833901

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tech City UK: Skilled Workers
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 30 January 2018, on Tech City UK: Skilled Workers, where (a) Tier 1 and (b) Tech City are referenced in the transparency data.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	125659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Transparency data for Tier 1 is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p><p>Tier 1 is referenced in the document ‘In-country Migration data: November 2017’.</p><p>Endorsements made by Tech City form part of the total Tier 1 data and they are therefore not referenced directly within the transparency data. Tier 1 data is reference on the following tabs; Notes, Inc_01a, Inc_02, Inc_3, and Inc_7.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 125660 question first answered 06/02/2018 16:30:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

833902

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tech City UK: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pusuant to the Answer of 25 January 2018 to Question 124932, if she will provide a regional breakdown of the locations where people with Tier 1 visas endorsed by Tech City are working.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	125660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Transparency data for Tier 1 is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p><p>Tier 1 is referenced in the document ‘In-country Migration data: November 2017’.</p><p>Endorsements made by Tech City form part of the total Tier 1 data and they are therefore not referenced directly within the transparency data. Tier 1 data is reference on the following tabs; Notes, Inc_01a, Inc_02, Inc_3, and Inc_7.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 125659 question first answered 06/02/2018 16:30:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

833913

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Jamaica
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State will she place in the Library a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the British Government and Jamaican Government, signed in 2007, on deportations and forced removals from the UK to Jamaica.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	125671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not have a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jamaican government regarding enforced deportations and enforced returns.</p><p>However, the Ministry of Justice reports that in 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in relation to the operation of a proposed prisoner transfer agreement between the United Kingdom and Jamaica. As the prisoner transfer agreement was not ratified the Memorandum of Understanding was not brought into force.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2018 15:58:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

833944

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Kurds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to integrate Kurdish refugees into UK society.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	125702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Kurdish refugees are able to access the same support to integrate into UK society as all refugees. Refugees are currently given the same access to the labour market and benefits as UK citizens, as well as access to English language training. Refugees are also eligible to receive a dedicated integration loan designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2018 16:28:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine