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1678946

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an assessment of the prevalence of certificates of sponsorship for care workers being sold overseas.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	7643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office is aware of allegations of the selling of Certificates of Sponsorship to care workers overseas. All allegations of abuse are investigated but no wider assessment of the prevalence of this activity has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/01/2024 13:45:50 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1678982

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
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 proportion of foreign national prisoners have indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	7646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the immigration status of foreign nationals held in prisons.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum-related detainees in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on numbers of asylum-related detainees entering, leaving and in detention are published in table Det_01 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">‘Detention Summary tables’</a>. However data on numbers of foreign national offenders being detained are not published. Asylum-related cases refer to those where there has been an asylum claim at some stage prior or during detention. This will include asylum seekers whose asylum claims have been refused, and who have exhausted any rights of appeal, those returned under third country provisions, as well as those granted asylum/protection, but detained for other reasons (such as criminality).</p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the end of September 2023 for entering and leaving detention data, and September 2022 for in detention data.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=detention&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 Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 7647 question first answered 10/01/2024 17:11:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1678983

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
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 proportion of foreign national prisoners made a claim for asylum prior to being detained in the latest year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	7647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the immigration status of foreign nationals held in prisons.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum-related detainees in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on numbers of asylum-related detainees entering, leaving and in detention are published in table Det_01 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">‘Detention Summary tables’</a>. However data on numbers of foreign national offenders being detained are not published. Asylum-related cases refer to those where there has been an asylum claim at some stage prior or during detention. This will include asylum seekers whose asylum claims have been refused, and who have exhausted any rights of appeal, those returned under third country provisions, as well as those granted asylum/protection, but detained for other reasons (such as criminality).</p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the end of September 2023 for entering and leaving detention data, and September 2022 for in detention data.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=detention&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 Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 7646 question first answered 10/01/2024 17:11:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1679016

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Care Workers
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 his Oral Statement of 4 December 2023 on Legal Migration, Official Report, column 42, on what evidential basis his Department proposed preventing overseas care workers from bringing family dependants to the UK.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	7726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister has made clear, current levels of migration to the UK are far too high. The long-term plan the Home Secretary has announced would mean around 300,000 of the people who came to the UK last year would not have been able to come.</p><p> </p><p>Care workers were added in February 2022 as a temporary addition to address acute shortages in the social care sector. This has since seen a rapid increase in numbers of people arrive with over 80,000 visas issued to main applicants in the last year to this September alone, bringing a further estimated 100,000 dependants.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will reduce the numbers on the Health and Care visa route by removing the right for care workers and senior care workers to bring dependants from spring 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/01/2024 11:24:19 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1679018

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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, whether his Department has had discussions with commercial airlines on the potential provision of flights between the UK and Rwanda for the purposes of relocating asylum seekers in line with (a) the Migration and Economic Development Partnership and (b) the UK-Rwanda treaty on provision of an asylum partnership.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	7579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>We have robust plans in place for future flights and have carried out discussions with a range of companies. These discussions are commercially sensitive and therefore we will not be providing a running commentary on them.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/01/2024 17:01:59 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1679036

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: EU Countries
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 he has had with his (a) EU and (b) French counterparts on the implementation of the new EU entry/exit system.
tabling member constituency	Preseli Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Crabb
uin	7529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is engaging both the European Commission and French Government through officials holding routine technical meetings to understand and influence the implementation plans of the new system. This includes working with port owners and operators to understand and support their plans to mitigate EES and ETIAS impacts at the border. HMG’s focus is on the juxtaposed locations of Dover, St Pancras and Eurotunnel as the EES processes there will take place before departure from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/01/2024 11:25:17 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb

1679039

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	St Pancras Station: Immigration Controls
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 potential impact of the implementation of the new EU entry/exit system on passenger processing times at St Pancras International station.
tabling member constituency	Preseli Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Crabb
uin	7530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is engaging both the European Commission and French Government through officials holding routine technical meetings to understand and influence the implementation plans of the new system at St Pancras. This includes working with High Speed 1 and Eurostar to understand and support their plans to mitigate EES and ETIAS impacts there, as the EES processes there will take place before departure from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/01/2024 12:26:54 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb

1679040

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Port of Dover: Immigration Controls
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 potential impact of the implementation of the new EU entry/exit system on vehicle processing times at Dover ferry port.
tabling member constituency	Preseli Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Crabb
uin	7531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is engaging both the European Commission and French Government through officials holding routine technical meetings to understand and influence the implementation plans of the new system at Dover. This includes working with the Port of Dover to understand and support their plans to mitigate EES and ETIAS impacts there, as the EES processes there will take place before departure from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/01/2024 12:25:48 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb

1679041

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Channel Tunnel: Immigration Controls
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 potential impact of the implementation of the new EU entry/exit system on vehicle processing times at the Eurotunnel terminal.
tabling member constituency	Preseli Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Crabb
uin	7532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is engaging both the European Commission and French Government through officials holding routine technical meetings to understand and influence the implementation plans of the new system at Eurotunnel. This includes working with Eurotunnel to understand and support their plans to mitigate EES and ETIAS impacts there, as the EES processes there will take place before departure from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/01/2024 12:24:53 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb

1679042

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: EU Countries
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 he has had with representatives of (a) Eurostar, Port of Dover and (b) Eurotunnel on the implementation of the new EU entry/exit system.
tabling member constituency	Preseli Pembrokeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Crabb
uin	7533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is engaging both the European Commission and French Government through officials holding routine technical meetings to understand and influence the implementation plans of the new system. This includes working with port owners and operators to understand and support their plans to mitigate EES and ETIAS impacts at the border. HMG’s focus is on the juxtaposed locations of Dover, St Pancras and Eurotunnel, as the EES processes there will take place before departure from the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/01/2024 12:23:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb