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1108694

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases under the Windrush Scheme remain outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	239288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary provides the Home Affairs Select Committee with monthly updates on the work of the department in connection with Windrush. This includes information on decisions made by the Taskforce, including refusals under the Windrush Scheme. The monthly updates can be found at the following link, including the most recent letter to the Chair of HASC sent in March 2019.</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 239289 question first answered 04/04/2019 15:23:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1108696

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the Windrush Scheme cases that were outstanding as of 31 October 2018 were (a) refused, (b) accepted and what the outcome was and (c) remain outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	239289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary provides the Home Affairs Select Committee with monthly updates on the work of the department in connection with Windrush. This includes information on decisions made by the Taskforce, including refusals under the Windrush Scheme. The monthly updates can be found at the following link, including the most recent letter to the Chair of HASC sent in March 2019.</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 239288 question first answered 04/04/2019 15:23:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1105182

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detainees: Emergency Travel Documents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the time taken was for each emergency travel document application to be secured for a person in immigration detention in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	237135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Home Office continues to work closely with diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom and representatives of receiving countries for the timely issuing of travel documentation to support the return of their nationals. Travel document applications are dependent on the receiving country and take a range of time to complete for reasons outside of our control</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/04/2019 16:21:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1092693

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
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 publish the guidance given to his Department's decision-makers on refusal of an asylum claim on the basis of religion.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	235380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Detailed Home Office policy guidance on how to consider asylum claims, including claims based on a person’s religion or belief, is already published on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/considering-asylum-claims-and-assessing-credibility-instruction." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/considering-asylum-claims-and-assessing-credibility-instruction.</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:18:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1092694

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refusals of asylum claims have included quotations from religious texts in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	235381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>This information is not recorded in a way that can be easily retrieved.</p><p>We are urgently investigating reports which indicate that some asylum decisions were not drafted in accordance with our policy.</p><p>Published Home Office policy guidance contains detailed instructions on how asylum decision makers are expected to approach religious based claims. Our policy makes clear that when assessing such claims, decision makers are expected to ask appropriate and sensitive questions based on an understanding of religious concepts, philosophical viewpoints and forms of persecution a person may suffer due to their religion, belief or lack of belief.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/03/2019 17:03:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1087186

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
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 publish the time taken for each Emergency Travel Document application to be secured for a person in immigration detention for each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	231563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The Home Office continues to work closely with diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom and representatives of receiving countries for the timely issuing of travel documentation to support the return of their nationals</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/03/2019 12:51:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1061162

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2019 to Question 218366, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people who will be registered for settled status in the United Kingdom by (a) 29 March 2019, (b) 31 December 2020 and (c) 30 June 2021, in the event of the UK leaving the EU (i) with a withdrawal agreement and (ii) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	221820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The 3.5 million EU citizens and their family members resident in the UK are eligible to apply for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme. Following two successful private beta test phases, we commenced the wider public roll-out of the scheme on 21 January. The EU Settlement Scheme will be fully open by 30 March 2019 and EU citizens will have until 30 June 2021 to apply, in line with the draft Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p>In the event of a no deal, the Prime Minister has already made clear that all EU citizens resident here by 29 March 2019 will be welcome to stay. The deadline for applications will be 31 December 2020 to align with the start of the new UK immigration system.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/02/2019 15:37:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1056734

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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, what estimate his department has made of the number of people who will be registered for settled status in the United Kingdom by (a) 29 March 2019, (b) 31 December 2020 and (c) 30 June 2021, in the event of the UK leaving the EU (i) with a withdrawal agreement and (ii) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	218366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The 3.5 million EU citizens and their family members resident in the UK are eligible to apply for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme. Following two successful private beta test phases, we commenced the wider public roll-out of the scheme on 21 January. The EU Settlement Scheme will be fully open by 30 March 2019 and EU citizens will have until 30 June 2021 to apply, in line with the draft Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p>In the event of a no deal, the Prime Minister has already made clear that all EU citizens resident here by 29 March 2019 will be welcome to stay. The deadline for applications will be 31 December 2020 to align with the start of the new UK immigration system.</p><p><br>We want all EU citizens and their family members who are eligible to do so, to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme. A targeted communications plan is already underway and once the scheme is fully rolled out by 30 March 2019, a full campaign will ensure we reach as many people as possible, both directly and through third parties such as employers and charities. Additionally, up to £9 million of grant funding will also be made available to enable civil society organisations to mobilise services targeted at vulnerable EU citizens and their families to ensure those that require the most support to apply to the scheme can access it.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/02/2019 17:28:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1041450

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
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 Government's white paper on The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, published in December 2018, whether he plans to introduce a second immigration Bill to implement the proposals contained in that White Paper.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	208426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government published a White Paper on 19 December 2018 outlining the UK’s future skills-based immigration system. The Government also introduced the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill on 20 December 2018 which will end free movement and provide the legal basis for the future immigration system.</p><p>We will implement most of the future immigration arrangements in UK Immigration Rules as is the case now. If primary legislation is required to implement any details of the future system, we will bring forward that legislation when Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/01/2019 16:08:57 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1039581

registered interest
date	11/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
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 10 January to Question 206043 on Undocumented Migrants: Boats, for what reason his Department does not routinely publish that data; and if he will make it his policy to publish that data routinely.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	207607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">As set out in the Immigration White Paper, the future system will be a single global immigration system, where students of all nationalities will apply under the new student route.Under the new route all students studying at a Masters’ level, or at Bachelors’ level and an institution with degree awarding powers, will be eligible for the increased 6-month post study leave period. Doctoral students will be eligible for a 12-month post study leave period.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Border Force does not routinely publish data that does not meet the Home Office standard for publication or that could impact its operational effectiveness. There are no current plans to routinely publish this data in the future.Border Force transparency data can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/border-force-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/border-force-statistics</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/01/2019 18:31:59 question first ministerially corrected 17/01/2019 16:16:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes previous answer version 95807 answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan