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1419082

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date	02/02/2022
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, how many applications for EU Settlement Scheme family permit are pending a decision.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	116968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The published statistics for EU Settlement Scheme family permits can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2021/why-do-people-come-to-the-uk-for-family-reasons" target="_blank">Why do people come to the UK? For family reasons - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=04%7C01%7CLouise.Duffy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cbc9698fca61048ee275508d91600d347%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637565015057852346%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=lH5LnvrW4giBI6em7ocmy%2BEIGqsjicoQaO8Vx%2BFedco%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on EEA Family Permit and EU Settlement Scheme family permit applications and outcomes are published in table Vis_D01 and Vis_D02 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fmanaged-migration-datasets&amp;data=04%7C01%7CLouise.Duffy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cbc9698fca61048ee275508d91600d347%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637565015057852346%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=5Dq9dE1uAiCDordNji1hDKQmcMvQOvvB7b3C7bKKYFQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">entry clearance visa detailed datasets</a>. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/02/2022 16:30:38 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1419083

registered interest
date	02/02/2022
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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the deadline for Surinder Singh applications to the EU Settlement Scheme beyond 29 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	116969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>In April 2019 the Government announced transitional arrangements for the family members of qualifying British citizens living in the EEA or Switzerland by 31 December 2020 to enable them to return to the UK under EU law terms. This means they have had nearly three years in which to decide whether to return to the UK on this basis.</p><p> </p><p>Family members who apply by 29 March 2022 for an EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) family permit to return to the UK in order to apply to the EUSS will be considered to have reasonable grounds for applying to the EUSS in the UK after the deadline, provided they do so without delay. An application to the EUSS can also be made from outside the UK where the family member has previously returned here with the British citizen and is currently outside the UK within the absence periods permitted under the Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>In the interests of fairness, it remains the Government’s approach to align under the family Immigration Rules the family reunion requirements for all British citizens, wherever they and their families reside.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/02/2022 16:32:52 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1277661

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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 steps she is taking to ensure that the digital record of an EU citizen's settled status in the UK is protected against data loss.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	139047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>Immigration decisions - and the rights and conditions which flow from those decisions - have been recorded digitally by the Home Office since the turn of the century and maintaining digital records of immigration status is not a new concept.</p><p>The following safeguards are in place to protect this data from accidental or deliberate loss:</p><ul><li>the data in the central repository for immigration data is copied across three different data centres (or ‘availability zones’ within the Home Office cloud service provider’s region), which prevents any loss of data in the event of a catastrophic failure to one of those data centres. As a further precaution, the data is also copied across the Home Office cloud service provider’s regions which prevents any loss of data in the event of a catastrophic failure to an entire region</li><li>data is modelled in such a way it allows accidental deletions to be undone and a full audit maintained to allow a rollback due to accidental corruption</li><li>frequent backups of immigration data are carried out to act as a point in time snapshot if there is ever a need to refer back in time</li><li>robust security controls are in place to protect personal data against unauthorised access and only those who need access to perform their job are granted. Security and background checks are performed on all staff in these roles to further mitigate the risk there may be a deliberate attempt to corrupt or delete the data.</li></ul><p>The Home Office will also look to apply any lessons learnt from the recent issues affecting the PNC to the ongoing management of immigration data, including digital records of immigration status.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/01/2021 14:55:45 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1223752

registered interest
date	13/07/2020
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, whether it is her Department's policy that time spent outside the UK as a result of quarantine measures imposed in response to the covid-19 pandemic is counted against continuous residence in the UK for the purposes of the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	72970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2020 answer text <p>In line with the EU law rights protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, the EU Settlement Scheme permits an applicant to have an absence (or absences) from the UK of up to six months in any 12-month period. It also allows for a single absence of up to 12 months in the period of five years’ continuous residence generally required for settled status under the scheme where that absence is for an important reason.</p><p> </p><p>This includes serious illness and would cover, for example, absence required by being quarantined to protect public health.</p><p> </p><p>Further guidance for applicants to the scheme who have been affected by illness or travel restrictions due to Covid-19 will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 72971 question first answered 24/07/2020 11:02:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1223753

registered interest
date	13/07/2020
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, whether time spent outside the UK as a result of the covid-19 pandemic will qualify for the important reason exemption from the requirement for continuous residence in the UK to qualify for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	72971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2020 answer text <p>In line with the EU law rights protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, the EU Settlement Scheme permits an applicant to have an absence (or absences) from the UK of up to six months in any 12-month period. It also allows for a single absence of up to 12 months in the period of five years’ continuous residence generally required for settled status under the scheme where that absence is for an important reason.</p><p> </p><p>This includes serious illness and would cover, for example, absence required by being quarantined to protect public health.</p><p> </p><p>Further guidance for applicants to the scheme who have been affected by illness or travel restrictions due to Covid-19 will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 72970 question first answered 24/07/2020 11:02:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1145594

registered interest
date	24/09/2019
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 he has made of the proportion of applications for settled status that have resulted in (a) an award of pre-settled status and (b) a request for further information.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	290391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>Published information on EU Settlement Scheme conclusions by outcome type can be found in the Home Office’s fifth ‘EU Settlement Scheme statistics’, monthly statistics tables, table 2, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-statistics-august-2019</a>.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing more detailed quarterly statistics on the EU Settlement Scheme. Home Office statisticians are currently considering the content of the next quarterly release and will take into account the views of statistics users.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/09/2019 16:04:26 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady