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1603459

registered interest
date	13/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: LGBT+ People
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 tackle hate crime directed towards LGBT+ people.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	163909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.</p><p>All forms of hate crime, including those crimes that target individuals based on their sexual orientation or transgender identity, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.</p><p>We also fund the National Online Hate Crime Hub, a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. It includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these abhorrent offences.</p><p>Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 16/03/2023 09:51:47 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1603586

registered interest
date	13/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Fees and Charges
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 extend the visa fee waiver to the immediate family of Commonwealth Armed Forces personnel.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	163834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>The Armed Forces settlement fee exemption was launched in April last year in recognition of the immensely valuable contribution that thousands of overseas personnel make to the UK while serving in HM Forces. It applies to discharged personnel who have served in the UK Armed Forces for a minimum period of six years or have been discharged due to an illness or injury attributable to their service.</p><p> </p><p>The fees and policies that apply to family members of Commonwealth and other non-UK members of HM Forces are closely aligned with those that apply to British citizens and settled persons under the standard family rules. As such there are no plans to extend the fee exemption to family members of Armed Forces personnel.</p><p> </p><p>Further support for Armed Forces families in planning for the cost of visa fees is provided by the Joining Forces Credit Union service. Additionally, families of all HM Forces personnel are exempt from paying the Immigration Health Surcharge, reducing the overall cost of their visa applications compared with the families of most other employment groups.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/03/2023 14:06:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1603638

registered interest
date	13/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Resettlement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have settled in the UK under the UK Resettlement Scheme in 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
uin	163977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on resettlement in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on refugees resettled in the UK by scheme can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.</p><p>The latest data relate to the year ending December 2022. Data for the year ending March 2023 will be published on 25 May 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/03/2023 11:10:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby

1603689

registered interest
date	13/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Email
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 13 March 2023 to Question 160374 on Home Office: Correspondence, what proportion of emails to the urgent queries inbox were responded to within 24 hours in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	164009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>This information is not held by the Home Office in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/03/2023 11:18:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1602825

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a Ministerial Direction has been issued on the decision to grant Government funding to house asylum seekers in hotels.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	162253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>No Ministerial Direction has been issued on the decision to grant Government funding to house asylum seekers in hotels. All Ministerial Directions are published on https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministerial-directions.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/03/2023 17:02:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1602826

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
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 an estimate of the cost to the public purse of housing asylum seekers in hotels in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	162254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>In order to meet our statutory obligations to accommodate asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, we have been forced to temporarily house asylum seekers in hotels. The use of hotels is a short term solution and we are working hard with Local Authorities and our accommodation providers to find more appropriate accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>Operating hotels as contingency accommodation for asylum seekers is not something we want to be doing and is not a long-term solution. We have been working with providers, local authorities and Strategic Migration Partnerships in order to move people from hotels across the country to more suitable dispersal accommodation. Increased asylum intake has meant that the Home Office has had to deal with growing demand for asylum support and accommodation services. In addition to these pressures, it remains slow to bring on dispersal accommodation, and procurement has not kept pace with intake.</p><p> </p><p>We do not have a set budget for contingency hotels. Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/03/2023 15:23:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1602827

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on processing asylum claims in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	162255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The number of asylum decision makers, the total cost of managing asylum operations and productivity is published in table ASY_04 in the quarterly immigration and protection data:</p><p>Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p> </p><p>The number of asylum applications in each year from 2001 – 2022 can be found in the ASY_D01 Tab of the published asylum and resettlement data table:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement</p><p> </p><p>The asylum system has been under mounting pressure for several years and we are taking immediate action to accelerate decision-making and streamline processes. We have already doubled our decision makers over the last 2 years, and we are continuing to recruit more.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 162256 162257 question first answered 14/03/2023 12:26:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1602828

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff worked on processing asylum claims in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	162256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The number of asylum decision makers, the total cost of managing asylum operations and productivity is published in table ASY_04 in the quarterly immigration and protection data:</p><p>Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p> </p><p>The number of asylum applications in each year from 2001 – 2022 can be found in the ASY_D01 Tab of the published asylum and resettlement data table:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement</p><p> </p><p>The asylum system has been under mounting pressure for several years and we are taking immediate action to accelerate decision-making and streamline processes. We have already doubled our decision makers over the last 2 years, and we are continuing to recruit more.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 162255 162257 question first answered 14/03/2023 12:26:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1602832

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the ratio was of the number of asylum applications to the number of staff processing those applications in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	162257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The number of asylum decision makers, the total cost of managing asylum operations and productivity is published in table ASY_04 in the quarterly immigration and protection data:</p><p>Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p> </p><p>The number of asylum applications in each year from 2001 – 2022 can be found in the ASY_D01 Tab of the published asylum and resettlement data table:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement</p><p> </p><p>The asylum system has been under mounting pressure for several years and we are taking immediate action to accelerate decision-making and streamline processes. We have already doubled our decision makers over the last 2 years, and we are continuing to recruit more.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 162255 162256 question first answered 14/03/2023 12:26:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1602883

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Questionnaires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what resources are being provided to support asylum seekers required to fill in the 11 page questionnaire in English and return it within 20 days.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	162112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>The Streamlined Asylum Process policy guidance was published on 23 February 2023 (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fstreamlined-asylum-processing&amp;data=05%7C01%7CEleanor.Morris3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1384cd8826a749ed247a08db257c87b8%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638144988997091507%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=OTH5FymXqG9neZFpn1A2TuBomvmkyEVtw%2B2C7lCjqxs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Streamlined asylum processing - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>). On the same day, questionnaires began to be sent out to legacy claimants from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Syria and Yemen to their most recently recorded correspondence address. These countries have been included in the streamlined asylum process on the basis of their high-grant rate of 95% or higher and over 100 grants in the year-ending September 2022 of protection status (refugee status or humanitarian protection). All questionnaires should be dispatched to eligible claimants by the end of March 2023.</p><p>The asylum claim questionnaires are in English as is generally the case for immigration paperwork across the Department. If necessary, claimants can utilise legal representatives, Non-Government Organisations and other support networks to help them respond to the questionnaire. For those who are unable to return the questionnaire within 20 working days, a reminder will be sent to the claimant allowing a further 10-working days to complete and return it to the Home Office. A further extension can be requested where the timeframe cannot be met, for example because the claimant has serious medical conditions which is impacting their ability to respond to the questionnaire.</p><p>The intention of these questionnaires is to enable claimants to provide any further information about their claims after their initial screening interview upon arrival.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/03/2023 17:45:46 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman