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1037177

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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, with reference to the Detention Services Order 01/2016 on The Protection, Use and Sharing of Medical Information Relating to People Detained Under Immigration Powers, whether his Department has shared medical files of detained persons with foreign Governments since 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
	uin	205807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>Detention Services Order (DSO) 01/2016 sets out the Home Office’s policy on the protection, use and sharing of detainees’ medical information. As set out in this DSO the medical record is a confidential document and is the property of the detainee.</p><p>In the case of an unescorted removal, the medical record is handed over to the detainee at the point of boarding the aircraft. During an escorted removal, the escort staff will hold the record until the end of the escort, when it is given over to the detainee before they are received by their own authorities. If the detainee does not want the record, the escort staff will return it to the UK where it will be securely stored.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2019 17:24:22 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

1037149

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Applications
	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 decided the service point locations of its contractor Sopra Steria; and what consideration was given to accessibility for users of those services when deciding those locations.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	205820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The geography of UKVCAS service points is not fixed but rather designed to evolve with demand through the contract term. <br>Sopra Steria undertook extensive market research to identify it’s initial service locations; their research included the impact on customer travel time, cost and accessibility. <br>Sopra Steria can also cater for customers who wish to have more flexi-ble on-demand, mobile application services, for example at university campuses, employers’ offices or individual customers’ homes. <br>All service centres will comply with the Equality Act 2010 and Health and Safety Act 1974, this will include the provision of wheelchair access, disabled toilets and baby changing areas.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:13:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037173

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Generation: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the Government's Windrush initiatives.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
	uin	206019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>At the HASC evidence session on Tuesday 15 May, the Home Secretary committed to providing the HASC with regular updates on the work of the department in relation to Windrush. The most recent update was published on 17 December 2018 and Annex A provides a Financial Overview of the Windrush Initiative up to and including Period 7 of the Financial Year 2018/19.</p><p>Data would only be accurate at the time it was generated, with any answer potentially being inaccurate at the time of release. Providing a running commentary on the estimate of the cost to the public purse would not be cost and resource effective.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:15:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1037214

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of people using uncharted boats and ships to arrive in the UK in December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	205962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>Over 500 migrants - mostly Iranian - attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels in 2018. 80% of them attempted this in the last three months of the year.</p><p>We are working across Government and with both domestic and international agencies to respond to this issue. A new UK-France Coordination and Information Centre has opened in Calais as part of the ongoing co-operation between the UK and France to tackle criminality at the border</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2019 17:16:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1037150

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Biometrics: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the average processing times for biometric enrolment with Sopra Steria and the Post Office.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	205821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>UKVI’s service standards for decisions are the same for applications made through both Sopra Steria and previous application arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:15:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037052

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: 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 (a) public and (b) private sector organisations will be able to access the personal information of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	205799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is the data controller for all data processed within the EU Settlement Scheme, this includes where organisations are contracted to act on behalf of the Home Office as the Home Office. No other organisations have access to the personal information of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme. The Home Office may however share information with other organisations, but only where the information needs to be shared and there is an appropriate legal basis for doing so. Further detail on this is set out in the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System privacy information notice:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship.%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-borders-immigration-and-citizenship. </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:08:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1037031

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: 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 13 September to Question 172565 on Immigration: EU Nationals, when he plans to publish an assessment of the effectiveness of the pilot scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	206036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>A report setting out the findings of the first private beta test phase of the EU Settlement Scheme was published on 31 October 2018. The report can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-private-beta-1" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-private-beta-1</a></p><p>A report of our findings from the second private beta test phase will be published shortly and made available on Gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:17:42 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1037032

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: 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 13 September 2018 to Question 172611 on Immigration: EU Nationals, if he will hold discussions with banks on (a) the decision to allow applicants to the EU settlement scheme to submit as documentary evidence of five years of continuous residence an annual bank statement or an account summary covering a 12-month period and (b) that information being provided free of charge.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	206037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>It is expected that the majority of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme will be able to prove their UK residence using the automated cross-Government checks with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions. Those wishing to provide bank statements as evidence of UK residence may be able to do so free of charge by using their bank’s self-service online facilities and submitting them digitally with their application.</p><p>There are no plans to discuss this specific issue with banks but the banking industry is represented by UK Finance at one of the Home Office’s monthly stakeholder groups at which all elements of the EU Settlement Scheme’s design are discussed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:24:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1037154

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications Sopra Steria has processed since the commencement of its contract with his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	205822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Sopra Steria have handled 18,040 applications to date.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:17:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037143

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sopra Steria: Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many service points for processing visa applications are currently operated by Sopra Steria; what the locations are of those service points; and which of those points are (a) free and (b) charge for that service.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	205819
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>Sopra Steria have opened 56 fixed service points to date, a 57th location in Grays will open early 2019</p><p>The locations of each service are listed below, 6 Core Service Points are free sites and any other sites are charged depending on the service pack-age a customer chooses <br>Core Centres <br>• Belfast<br>• Birmingham<br>• Cardiff<br>• Croydon<br>• Glasgow <br>• Manchester</p><p>Other</p><p>• Aberdeen<br>• Barbican<br>• Bedford<br>• Bournemouth<br>• Bradley Stoke<br>• Brighton<br>• Burnholme<br>• Burnley<br>• Cambridge<br>• Canning Town<br>• Canterbury<br>• Coventry<br>• Dorchester<br>• East Ham<br>• Eastbourne<br>• Gloucester<br>• Hammersmith (temporary)<br>• Hemel Hempstead<br>• Hull<br>• Ipswich<br>• Kensington<br>• Lancaster<br>• Liverpool<br>• Llandudno<br>• London <br>• Newcastle<br>• Newport<br>• Norwich<br>• Nottingham<br>• Patchway<br>• Peterborough<br>• Preston<br>• Reading<br>• Salisbury<br>• Shoe Lane<br>• Southampton (temporary)</p><p><br>• Stevenage<br>• Stockport<br>• Stratford<br>• Swindon<br>• Swinton<br>• Taunton<br>• Truro<br>• Victoria (temporary)<br>• Wakefield<br>• Warrington<br>• Warwick<br>• Watford<br>• Wimbledon<br>• Wolverhampton</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2019 17:08:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar