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1346717

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had to ensure that the correct (a) procedures are followed and (b) documents are checked at border controls at UK airports during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	33229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>The digital logic incorporated into the Passenger Locator Form (PLF) processes ensure the correct processes can only be completed once all tests are booked and other requirements are fulfilled.</p><p>Border Force officers are now able to check passengers have completed their online PLF when scanning their passport.</p><p>Our continual upgrade of e-Gates enables more passengers to use them and for the e-Gates to check a PLF, including test bookings, has been completed before the E-Gate allows the passenger entry or advises the passenger to seek assistance of staff at the control desk.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/07/2021 13:17:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1346718

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ferries and Roads: Customs
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 ensure that the appropriate checks are taking place on (a) road and (b) ferry passengers entering the UK from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	33230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>Carriers are legally required to check all passengers for completion of a negative pre-departure test (PDT) taken withing the previous 3 days, and a passenger locator form (PLF).</p><p>Passengers cannot submit a PLF without providing a valid reference for test bookings, an MQS booking (if appropriate), or a declaration of exemption.</p><p>From 19 July, carriers must also check vaccine status certification, when passengers declare a completed course of NHS vaccination in their PLF.</p><p>The legal requirement on carriers is underpinned by a robust compliance regime, which is overseen by regulators</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/07/2021 14:16:39 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1346725

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has been made on ensuring that the Serious and Organised Crime Group (a) is provided with the necessary resources for and (b) is giving sufficient priority to disrupting the threat posed by illicit Russian financial activity as recommended by the Intelligence and Security Committee’s report on Russia published on 21 July 2020.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	33214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>Money obtained through corruption or criminality, including that linked to Russia, is not welcome in the UK.</p><p>The government, with the Home Office as a core partner, is continuing to bring all the capabilities of UK law enforcement to bear where there is any evidence of malign intent, serious and organised crime or illicit financial activity.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/07/2021 15:36:50 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1346726

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
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 has taken to progress closer working between MI5 and police regional Counter- Terrorism Units on countering Hostile State Activity, as recommended by the Intelligence and Security Committee’s report on Russia published on 21 July 2020.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	33215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government agrees with the Intelligence and Security Committee on the benefits of close working arrangements between law enforcement and the security and intelligence services.</p><p>As noted in the Government’s response to the ISC’s report, MI5 has already developed closer working with Police and Home Office partners in tackling the threat posed by State Threats, including working together closely on a number of State Threats cases. The Salisbury response and investigations in 2018 were led by Counter Terrorism Policing, drawing on its expertise in investigating matters which pertain to national security. The Agencies continue to collaborate closely and productively with Police on all relevant State Threats cases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/07/2021 16:33:16 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1346728

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Protocol: Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to review the Universal Permission to Travel requirements as a result of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	33129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The Common Travel Area facilitates the free movement of people between the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and Ireland.</p><p>As now, the UK will not operate routine immigration controls on journeys from within the Common Travel Area, with no immigration controls whatsoever on the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland land border given the Common Travel Area Arrangements and Ireland not being part of the EU’s Schengen Border Free Area.</p><p>However, as now, individuals arriving in the UK from will need to continue to enter in line with the UK’s immigration framework including the Universal Permission to Travel requirement (except British and Irish citizens) when it is introduced.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/07/2021 16:37:26 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1346833

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 the Answer of 20 May 2020 to Question 48558 on Immigration: EU Nationals, whether people who have completed the EU Settled Status application process will be able to use written notification of their immigration status as evidence of their status for all legal purposes.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	33190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>EEA citizens who are granted settled or pre-settled status are issued with a document which is formal written notification of their leave. This is in the form of a letter sent by post or a PDF document sent by email, which sets out their immigration status in the UK.</p><p>They can retain the letter sent by post or print or electronically store the PDF document and keep it as confirmation of their status for their own personal records and for use when contacting the Home Office about their status.</p><p>If necessary, EEA citizens can show external organisations their written confirmation of status and it includes details of the view and prove service so the person checking their status can see there is an online service where they should check the individual’s status.</p><p>The written notification is not itself sufficient proof of status for right to work or right to rent checks because it is not a biometric document and could be subject to fraud and abuse.</p><p>EEA citizens are able to request a replacement written notification if they have lost or deleted their letter and cannot print out a replacement.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 33191 question first answered 23/07/2021 13:12:05 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1346834

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
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 the Answer of 20 May 2020 to Question 48558 on Immigration: EU Nationals, whether people who have (a) completed the EU Settled Status application process and (b) received written notification of their immigration status will be able to request a replacement copy of that notification in case it is lost or stolen.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	33191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>EEA citizens who are granted settled or pre-settled status are issued with a document which is formal written notification of their leave. This is in the form of a letter sent by post or a PDF document sent by email, which sets out their immigration status in the UK.</p><p>They can retain the letter sent by post or print or electronically store the PDF document and keep it as confirmation of their status for their own personal records and for use when contacting the Home Office about their status.</p><p>If necessary, EEA citizens can show external organisations their written confirmation of status and it includes details of the view and prove service so the person checking their status can see there is an online service where they should check the individual’s status.</p><p>The written notification is not itself sufficient proof of status for right to work or right to rent checks because it is not a biometric document and could be subject to fraud and abuse.</p><p>EEA citizens are able to request a replacement written notification if they have lost or deleted their letter and cannot print out a replacement.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 33190 question first answered 23/07/2021 13:12:05 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1346836

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond substantively to the email from the hon. Member for Lichfield of 15 January 2021 and the follow-up email of 11 June 2021 on Educational oversight inspections of private further education colleges.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	33109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>My officials have been in discussion directly with the relevant organisations and other Government departments in relation to the issue of Educational Oversight (EO) provision for further education colleges raised in the email from the hon. Member for Lichfield.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/07/2021 16:35:48 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1346857

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Security Guards: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to reduce the renewal cost for SIA license holders that have been affected by the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	33370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>There are no current plans to reduce the fee for SIA licence applications. The application fee is set on the basis of full recovery of the costs incurred by the SIA for processing and issuing the licence, and for associated costs such as inspections and enforcement activity.</p><p>The fee is reviewed on an annual basis to ensure that cost recovery is achieved over the three year licence cycle, without generating an overall surplus at the end of cycle. Reviews are undertaken in line with the principles of the HM Treasury guidance, Managing Public Money, with a business case submitted to Treasury to approve any prospective fee change. The last fee reduction took effect from 1st April 2020 and reduced the fee from £210 to £190.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/07/2021 15:39:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1346894

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits
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 efficiency of her Department's manufacture and distribution of Biometric Residence Permits.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	33286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) advises applicants they can expect delivery of their Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) within 10 working days of receiving their decision notification.</p><p>BRPs are produced on behalf of UKVI by the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA). DVLA has a service level agreement to complete 90% of production requests within one working day and the remaining 10% within two working days. For quarter one of financial year 2021/22 they achieved 85.1% (218,527) within 24 hours and 100% (256,730) within 48 hours.</p><p>FedEx took over the BRP delivery contract from DX in February 2020, after a bedding in period formal reporting started in July 2020. Between 1 July 2020 and 31 March 2021 FedEx attempted to deliver 99.2% of BRPs within 48 hours of collection from DVLA, against a target to attempt delivery within 48 hours of collection for 99% of BRP packages.</p><p>Therefore, first delivery will have been attempted within 10 working days of decision notification for all BRPs successfully produced by DVLA.</p><p>Between March and mid-December 2020, as a social distancing measure due to the coronavirus pandemic, UKVI agreed to allow FedEx to post all BRP packages which resulted in higher first time delivery success rates of 92.73% between August and December 2020, but higher volumes of mis-posts and losses. We therefore re-introduced the contractual requirement to knock on every door, check identity, capture the name of the recipient and take a photograph of the front door within FedEx’s tracking system. Once all social distancing restrictions have eased, signatures will also be required for every delivery. As a result, between January and May 2021 FedEx achieved 84.34% first time delivery success rate.</p><p>Where it is possible to do so FedEx will leave a ‘Sorry we missed you’ card detailing how the customer can re-arrange delivery. Where UKVI has been able to share customer contact details with FedEx it will also email or SMS message the customer with a delivery failure message explaining how to re-arrange delivery.</p><p>UKVI meets with FedEx at least twice a week, to discuss measures to improve first time delivery success rates.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 33287 33288 question first answered 19/07/2021 16:29:58 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle