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1696717

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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 form of immigration status people relocated to Rwanda under the voluntary departures scheme will receive once in Rwanda; and whether that status will be (a) permanent or (b) time-limited.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	19033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The option of voluntary relocation will be given to failed asylum seekers. It would be inappropriate to provide a running commentary on individual cases or numbers.</p><p>A Memorandum of Understanding has been agreed for the voluntary relocation of individuals and will be published in due course.<strong> </strong></p><p>People who voluntarily decide to relocate to Rwanda, if they are relocated, will be entitled to permanent residence in Rwanda.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 19034 question first answered 26/03/2024 15:08:00 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1692117

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Gaza
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 barriers to people in Gaza who are seeking to join their family members in the UK reaching their closest visa application centre in Egypt.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	15865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>Immediate family members of British citizens, individuals with protection status, and those settled in the UK, who wish to come and live in the UK and do not have a current UK visa, can apply under one of the existing Family visa routes.</p><p>The Home Office is working closely with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in supporting family members of British nationals evacuated from Gaza who require a visa, signposting the necessary steps and expediting appointments at the Visa Application Centre (VAC). VACs in the region, such as Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, are open and offering a full service.</p><p>In the vast majority of circumstances, the UK requires biometrics to be taken as part of an application; this is vital so we can conduct checks on the person’s identity and suitability to come to the UK. Biometrics, in the form of fingerprints and facial images, underpin the current UK immigration system to support identity assurance and suitability checks on foreign nationals who are subject to immigration control.</p><p>Applicants who are at risk of embarking on an unsafe journey must provide evidence they need to make an urgent journey to a VAC that would be particularly unsafe for them, and they cannot delay their journey until later or use alternative routes.</p><p>When considering a pre-determination or an excusal of the requirement for an applicant to enrol their biometrics request under the Unsafe Journey’s policy, decision-makers must refer to the Biometric Enrolment and the Unsafe Journey’s guidance.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/03/2024 12:08:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1692119

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Palestinians: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to provide safe and legal entry routes for people in Gaza seeking to join family members in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	15866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is monitoring the situation in Israel and Gaza closely to ensure that it is able to respond appropriately.</p><p> </p><p>British citizens and those with settled status in the UK, together with their foreign national dependants, may come to the UK provided that they have valid travel documents and existing permission to enter or remain in the UK; or are non-visa nationals. They must also pass appropriate security checks.</p><p> </p><p>The Government allows individuals with protection status in the UK to sponsor their partner or children to stay with, or join, them here through our refugee family reunion policy, provided they formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country of origin to seek protection.</p><p> </p><p>There are additional safe and legal routes for people to come to the UK should they wish to join family members here, work, or study. They would need to meet the requirements of the relevant Immigration Rule under which they were applying to qualify for a visa.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has not considered establishing a separate resettlement route for Palestinians to come to the UK. Since 2015, over half a million people have been offered safe and legal routes into the UK. Our approach is considered in the round, rather than on a crisis-by-crisis basis.</p><p> </p><p>UK Visas and Immigration is working closely with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in supporting family members of British nationals evacuated from Gaza who require a visa, signposting the necessary steps and expediting appointments at the Visa Application Centre.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/03/2024 12:05:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1690466

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Research
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 February 2024 to Question 12970, what options he is considering.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	14835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2024 answer text <p>We are in the process of developing options for publication.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 28/02/2024 16:19:04 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1687458

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Research
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 19 December 2023 to Question 5245 on Hate crime: research, if he will publish the final reports of the research projects commissioned from (a) IPSOS UK and (b) RAND Europe.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	12970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>We are considering options to publish the final reports of the commissioned research projects in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 13/02/2024 14:46:50 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1685428

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which policies under each arms length body reporting to their Department fall within the scope of the Environmental principles policy statement, published on 31 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The duty does not require us to maintain a comprehensive list of policies within scope of the duty.</p><p>The duty applies to all policies made from 1 November 2023, whether developed by a central department or an arm’s length body, which are:</p><ul><li>made by Ministers of the Crown; and</li><li>not covered by the exemptions for the armed forces, defence or national security, taxation, spending or the allocation of resources within government.</li></ul><p>The environmental principles policy statement provides further information on what is considered policy in scope of the duty. Examples include strategies and frameworks.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/02/2024 17:54:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1684383

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
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 contribution by the Minister for Immigration to the debate on Safe Asylum Routes: Afghan Refugees of 17 October 2023, official report, column 54WH, what progress he has made with Cabinet colleagues on reuniting Afghans evacuated under Operation Pitting in August 2021 with family members.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The government remains committed to providing protection for vulnerable and at-risk people fleeing Afghanistan. The situation is complex and presents significant challenges, including how those who are eligible for resettlement in the UK can leave the country. This includes eligible immediate family members of those being resettled under the ACRS.</p><p>For those evacuated from Afghanistan under ACRS P1 without their immediate family members, the Home Secretary has committed to establishing a route for separated families to be reunited. We expect to receive referrals in the first half of 2024.</p><p>Individuals remaining in Afghanistan or elsewhere are not obliged to wait for the pathway for eligible family members of ACRS P1 to open. Appendix FM, for example, provides a route for those seeking to enter the UK on the basis of their family life.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 31/01/2024 14:15:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1684401

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
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 oral contribution of the Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire during the Seventh sitting of the Public Bill Committee on the Criminal Justice Bill on Tuesday 16 January 2024, Official Report, column 214, which facial recognition database he would expect the police to use when checking a photograph of somebody committing a crime; and which databases the police have access to for facial recognition checks.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>Facial recognition is a valuable tool that helps police forces identify murderers, rapists and other suspects quickly and accurately and keep the public safe.</p><p>Forces use the facial recognition facility on the Police National Database (PND) to search against images of previously arrested individuals. Further information is available at the following link: <a href="https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2023/10/29/police-use-of-facial-recognition-factsheet/" target="_blank">Police use of Facial Recognition Factsheet</a></p><p>Where it has not been possible to identify a suspect on PND, forces can submit requests to the Home Office for checks against the passport and immigration databases. The Home Office runs low-volume facial recognition searches against these databases, and the requests mostly relate to serious and national security cases.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 31/01/2024 16:46:58 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1684484

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugee children were wrongly assessed to be adults by the Home Office between January 2022 and June 2023; and if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the report by the Refugee Council together with Helen Bamber Foundation and Humans for Rights Network entitled Forced Adulthood, published on 23 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the data requested, as this cannot currently be collected via national reporting systems. Our published data on age assessment can be accessed <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">here</a> which includes the number of age disputes raised and resolved. and whether the decision found the individual to be under or over 18.</p><p>Our age assessment policies for immigration purposes seek to protect genuine minors and identify those who are adults. Determining the age of a young person is an inherently difficult task and therefore, the age assessment process for immigration purposes contains a number of safeguards.</p><p>Where a new arrival does not have genuine documentary evidence of their age and their claimed age is doubted, an initial age decision is conducted as a first step to prevent individuals who are clearly an adult or child from being subjected unnecessarily to a more substantive age assessment and ensure that new arrivals are routed into the correct accommodation and processes for assessing their asylum or immigration claim.</p><p>The Home Office will only treat an individual claiming to be a child as an adult, without conducting further enquiries, if two Home Office members of staff independently determine that the individual's physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggests they are significantly over 18 years of age. The lawfulness of this process was endorsed by the Supreme Court in the case of R (on the application of BF (Eritrea)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 38.</p><p>Where doubt remains and an individual cannot be assessed to be significantly over 18, they will be treated as a child for immigration purposes until further assessment of their age by a local authority.</p><p>The Home Office is currently considering the contents and recommendations of the report by the Refugee Council together with Helen Bamber Foundation and Humans for Rights Network entitled Forced Adulthood, published on 23 January 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 31/01/2024 12:45:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1675433

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights his Department (a) has chartered and (b) plans to charter to transport Afghan refugees from Pakistan since October for (i) each month in 2023 and (ii) the first three months of 2024; what estimate he has made of the total number of flights that will be chartered in total; and whether the total number of flights will be calculated on the number of Afghan refugees currently receiving UK Government support in Pakistan.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	5231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>Resettlement of eligible Afghans remains a top priority for this Government.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-september-2023" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> show that at the end of September 2023, around 24,600 vulnerable people affected by the events in Afghanistan have been brought to safety so far.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government and our partners will arrange and fund travel for those accepted under our Afghan schemes as part of the resettlement and relocation process. Depending on the individual circumstances, this may be via charter or commercial flights.</p><p> </p><p>Flights for those being resettled under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) are organised by the International Organisation for Migration, in line with requests from the Home Office. As flights are operational you will appreciate that we cannot go into more detail about them.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to honour our commitment to bring eligible Afghans to the UK, with new arrivals going directly into settled accommodation where possible.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/12/2023 14:40:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas