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1715258

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pornhub
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have met with representatives of Pornhub since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	24422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling illegal online content and routinely engage in forums at which a range of external partners will be present, including technology companies, social media firms and other websites, to ensure that they are keeping their platforms and services safe.</p><p>Home Office officials have a long-standing provision of not disclosing the details of companies which have been engaged with on matters regarding Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, nor the specifics of discussions in the public domain.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/05/2024 13:29:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1715330

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
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 he has made of the impact of illegal immigration on (a) society and (b) the economy.
tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
tabling member printed	Dame Andrea Jenkyns
uin	24496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>Illegal immigration reduces our capability and capacity to help those who most need our support. It puts lives in danger by placing vulnerable people into the hands of smugglers. It also puts intolerable pressure on public services and local communities and corrodes public confidence in the system.</p><p>An example of the impact of illegal migration is that the asylum system is now costing the British taxpayer over £4 billion a year.</p><p>Our landmark Rwanda deal was a recognition of these facts, and we will continue to work to deliver it to break the business model of the smuggling gangs and deter those coming to the UK illegally.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 07/05/2024 12:40:03 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1715334

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Translation Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department has issued on the provision of culturally appropriate oral and written professional translation when communicating with (a) applicants for asylum, (b) people in immigration detention, (c) people appealing application decisions and (d) people identified for deportation to Rwanda.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	24398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office aims to provide interpreter and translation services for refugees and asylum seekers at public expense whenever and wherever necessary. Interpreters are engaged by the Home Office to act on its behalf. They are not Home Office employees and undertake freelance work commissioned by the Home Office. In some circumstances interpreting services are provided by commercial partners.</p><p>Interpreters/translators engaged are required to operate to a high standard on a range of protection-based and human rights topics including (though not limited to) religious conversion, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), sexuality and gender-based claims, all types and forms of persecution, medical (physical and mental health) and political activity.</p><p>The Home Office also works with other commercial providers and public sector bodies which provide interpreters and linguists to ensure the best sector-wide standards are applied.</p><p>Guidance on the use of interpretation and translation services, Detention Services Order ‘Interpretation Services and use of Translation Devices’, was published in July 2022. This guidance sets out the provisions, including interpretation services and translation devices, available for individuals held in immigration detention and the circumstances in which these should be used.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24399 question first answered 07/05/2024 12:49:50 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1715335

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Translation Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what culturally appropriate oral and written professional translation services are provided by his Department when communicating with (a) applicants for asylum, (b) people in immigration detention, (c) people appealing application decisions and (d) people identified for deportation to Rwanda.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	24399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office aims to provide interpreter and translation services for refugees and asylum seekers at public expense whenever and wherever necessary. Interpreters are engaged by the Home Office to act on its behalf. They are not Home Office employees and undertake freelance work commissioned by the Home Office. In some circumstances interpreting services are provided by commercial partners.</p><p>Interpreters/translators engaged are required to operate to a high standard on a range of protection-based and human rights topics including (though not limited to) religious conversion, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), sexuality and gender-based claims, all types and forms of persecution, medical (physical and mental health) and political activity.</p><p>The Home Office also works with other commercial providers and public sector bodies which provide interpreters and linguists to ensure the best sector-wide standards are applied.</p><p>Guidance on the use of interpretation and translation services, Detention Services Order ‘Interpretation Services and use of Translation Devices’, was published in July 2022. This guidance sets out the provisions, including interpretation services and translation devices, available for individuals held in immigration detention and the circumstances in which these should be used.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24398 question first answered 07/05/2024 12:49:50 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1715350

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what airline took an asylum seeker to Rwanda on 30 April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	24506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>Individuals who have no right to remain in the UK legally are being offered voluntary relocation to Rwanda under a new agreement with the Government of Rwanda. This will relocate individuals who have no right to work, rent or remain in the UK to relocate to Rwanda and allow them to build safe and prosperous lives there.</p><p>Individuals will receive £3,000 to support their relocation, paid to them on a card that can only be used in Rwanda.</p><p>This builds on our already widely used voluntary returns scheme, which saw more than 19,000 people return to their country-of-origin last year. We can also now facilitate relocation to Rwanda, providing an alternative for those whose country of origin is unsafe or those who would prefer not to return, but have no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>Under this Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Rwanda, individuals relocated voluntarily will have the same package of support for up to five years and access to integration programmes, so that they can study, undertake training, and work. Actual spend of the policy will be reported as part of the annual Home Office Reports and Accounts in the usual way.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to provide individual details of voluntary relocations that the Home Office has helped facilitate.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24507 24508 question first answered 07/05/2024 12:47:04 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1715351

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on sending an asylum seeker to Rwanda on 30 April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	24507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>Individuals who have no right to remain in the UK legally are being offered voluntary relocation to Rwanda under a new agreement with the Government of Rwanda. This will relocate individuals who have no right to work, rent or remain in the UK to relocate to Rwanda and allow them to build safe and prosperous lives there.</p><p>Individuals will receive £3,000 to support their relocation, paid to them on a card that can only be used in Rwanda.</p><p>This builds on our already widely used voluntary returns scheme, which saw more than 19,000 people return to their country-of-origin last year. We can also now facilitate relocation to Rwanda, providing an alternative for those whose country of origin is unsafe or those who would prefer not to return, but have no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>Under this Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Rwanda, individuals relocated voluntarily will have the same package of support for up to five years and access to integration programmes, so that they can study, undertake training, and work. Actual spend of the policy will be reported as part of the annual Home Office Reports and Accounts in the usual way.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to provide individual details of voluntary relocations that the Home Office has helped facilitate.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24506 24508 question first answered 07/05/2024 12:47:04 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1715352

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what grounds the asylum seeker sent to Rwanda on 30 April 2024 had claimed asylum.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	24508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>Individuals who have no right to remain in the UK legally are being offered voluntary relocation to Rwanda under a new agreement with the Government of Rwanda. This will relocate individuals who have no right to work, rent or remain in the UK to relocate to Rwanda and allow them to build safe and prosperous lives there.</p><p>Individuals will receive £3,000 to support their relocation, paid to them on a card that can only be used in Rwanda.</p><p>This builds on our already widely used voluntary returns scheme, which saw more than 19,000 people return to their country-of-origin last year. We can also now facilitate relocation to Rwanda, providing an alternative for those whose country of origin is unsafe or those who would prefer not to return, but have no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>Under this Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Rwanda, individuals relocated voluntarily will have the same package of support for up to five years and access to integration programmes, so that they can study, undertake training, and work. Actual spend of the policy will be reported as part of the annual Home Office Reports and Accounts in the usual way.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to provide individual details of voluntary relocations that the Home Office has helped facilitate.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24506 24507 question first answered 07/05/2024 12:47:04 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1715386

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Wellingborough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any asylum seekers in Wellingborough constituency have been (a) identified and (b) detained for deportation to Rwanda.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Gen Kitchen
uin	24601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely publish information on detention activity at a regional level.</p><p>The first illegal migrants set to be removed to Rwanda have now been detained, following a series of nationwide operations this week. We will not be providing a running commentary on operational activity.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 07/05/2024 12:38:13 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	5011 label Biography information for Gen Kitchen

1714945

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Repatriation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was for the conclusion of an application for a voluntary return through the Voluntary Returns Service in (a) Wales and (b) the UK, in the most recent period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	24199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>Information on processing times for voluntary return applications is not held centrally and is not currently captured in a publishable form.</p><p>Our priority is to consider applications as efficiently and fairly as possible. There may, however, be circumstances which delay the progression of a case, for example waiting for evidence that is of importance in deciding an application, or a need to obtain documentation to enable travel. In these circumstances, regular reviews are undertaken at appropriate intervals, dependant on the reason why the application cannot be progressed.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24200 question first answered 07/05/2024 12:55:59 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1714946

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Repatriation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the (a) financial and (b) other impacts of delays in assessing voluntary return applications by the Voluntary Returns Service on applicants remaining in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	24200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>Information on processing times for voluntary return applications is not held centrally and is not currently captured in a publishable form.</p><p>Our priority is to consider applications as efficiently and fairly as possible. There may, however, be circumstances which delay the progression of a case, for example waiting for evidence that is of importance in deciding an application, or a need to obtain documentation to enable travel. In these circumstances, regular reviews are undertaken at appropriate intervals, dependant on the reason why the application cannot be progressed.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24199 question first answered 07/05/2024 12:55:59 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams