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1684128

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the application process for the Ukraine Extension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The Ukraine Extension Scheme (UES) enables Ukrainian nationals already in the UK with permission to enter, or stay, to be eligible to continue their stay in the UK. To qualify for the UES an applicant must either hold permission to be in the UK on or between 18 March 2022 and 16 November 2023, or have previously held permission to be in the UK which expired on or after 1 January 2022. Those who have been granted permission by 16 November will have until 16 May 2024 to submit an application under the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office routinely keeps application processes under review to ensure a positive user experience, optimal efficiency, and a robust application of the Immigration Rules.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office continues to work closely with our European counterparts, including the Ukrainian Government, and keeps the future of our schemes and any future need for extension to the existing 36 months’ leave under review, in line with developments of the situation in Ukraine.</p><p> </p><p>We are also mindful that permission will start to expire, for the first arrivals under our Ukrainian schemes, from March 2025, and their need for certainty beyond that point to help them to plan ahead.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 29/01/2024 17:25:44 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683600

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs during his oral statement on Afghan Resettlement Update of 13 December 2023, Official Report, column 911, whether the existing hotel contracts being extended apply only to new arrivals from Afghanistan.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to ending the systemic use of hotels, and we do not plan to open new hotels to meet the increased demand from new arrivals from Afghanistan.</p><p>The information requested on hotel contracts is not publicly available; however, a small number of hotels with existing contracts have been extended for a limited time period to help accommodate Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme<strong> </strong>arrivals who have yet to be matched to settled housing solutions in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 24/01/2024 17:06:44 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683692

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	War Widow(er)s Recognition Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, How many war widows who lost their War Widow's Pension and did not benefit from changes on 31 March 1973 and 5 April 2005 have since been compensated by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The War Widows Recognition Payment was announced in Parliament on 17 May 2023. A further announcement with details on taxation was made by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 19 September 2023. On 16 October 2023 the full policy was launched and details are available at the following website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/war-widowers-recognition-payment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/war-widowers-recognition-payment</a></p><p> </p><p>As at 19 January 2024, the number of War Widows Recognition Payments awarded was 100.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 10590 question first answered 26/01/2024 10:54:03 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683693

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	War Widow(er)s Recognition Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, If he will publish his Department's proposals to compensate war widows who lost their War Widow's Pension and did not benefit from changes on 31 March 1973 and 5 April 2005.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The War Widows Recognition Payment was announced in Parliament on 17 May 2023. A further announcement with details on taxation was made by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 19 September 2023. On 16 October 2023 the full policy was launched and details are available at the following website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/war-widowers-recognition-payment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/war-widowers-recognition-payment</a></p><p> </p><p>As at 19 January 2024, the number of War Widows Recognition Payments awarded was 100.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 10589 question first answered 26/01/2024 10:54:03 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683695

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what evidential basis the Office for Veterans Affairs said that there were no veteran rough sleepers as of Christmas 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>Through Op FORTITUDE, the single referral pathway for veterans at risk of or experiencing homelessness, this Government ensured that no veteran was forced to sleep rough over Christmas due to a lack of available provision, supporting over 450 veterans into housing to date.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Office for Veterans’ Affairs uses a number of data sources to monitor the levels of rough sleeping amongst veterans. This includes a number of data sources collected by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Combined Homelessness Information Network (CHAIN) data as well as relevant evidence bases including those collected by the Devolved Administrations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 10592 question first answered 26/01/2024 14:44:03 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683696

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how often the Office of Veterans' Affairs (a) collects and (b) analyses the number of veterans who are sleeping rough.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>Through Op FORTITUDE, the single referral pathway for veterans at risk of or experiencing homelessness, this Government ensured that no veteran was forced to sleep rough over Christmas due to a lack of available provision, supporting over 450 veterans into housing to date.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Office for Veterans’ Affairs uses a number of data sources to monitor the levels of rough sleeping amongst veterans. This includes a number of data sources collected by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Combined Homelessness Information Network (CHAIN) data as well as relevant evidence bases including those collected by the Devolved Administrations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 10591 question first answered 26/01/2024 14:44:03 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683700

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral answer of the Minister for Veterans' Affairs of 18 January 2024, Official Report column 1012, what the evidential basis is for the number of veterans employed through the civil service scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>Sustainable, gainful employment is one of the most significant ways to enhance life outcomes for veterans and their families.</p><p>Over 1,000 veterans to date have secured a job in the Civil Service through the ‘Great Place to Work for Veterans’ initiative and a further 200 veterans have been recruited through the 'Going Forward Into Employment' initiative. Both figures are based on data sent from Government Departments to the Office for Veterans' Affairs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 29/01/2024 14:18:17 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683335

registered interest
date	18/01/2024
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, whether any Afghan refugees were (a) placed in and (b) returned to bridging hotels in the period since September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 24,600 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.</p><p>As of 31 August 2023, we successfully ended the use of bridging hotels for legally resettled Afghans, with the overwhelming majority of those being resettled now having moved into settled accommodation. We have now provided these Afghans with the homes they need to begin the next chapter of their life in the UK, fully integrate, find employment and provide their children with stability.</p><p>Whilst we cannot confirm the longest length of stay in bridging accommodation, our statistics show that the earliest record of an Afghan in bridging accommodation was in the second quarter of 2021.</p><p>The Home Office publish data on Afghan resettlement in the Immigration System Statistics release. In table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets, you can view the number of Afghans resettled, by when they arrived in the UK (quarterly breakdowns) and what type of accommodation they were recorded in as of the date of the data extraction (currently the data is as of 30 September 2023). The next Immigration Statistics are due for release around 22 February 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 10363 10364 10365 question first answered 24/01/2024 09:38:04 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683336

registered interest
date	18/01/2024
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, how many new arrivals from Afghanistan have been placed in bridging hotels since September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 24,600 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.</p><p>As of 31 August 2023, we successfully ended the use of bridging hotels for legally resettled Afghans, with the overwhelming majority of those being resettled now having moved into settled accommodation. We have now provided these Afghans with the homes they need to begin the next chapter of their life in the UK, fully integrate, find employment and provide their children with stability.</p><p>Whilst we cannot confirm the longest length of stay in bridging accommodation, our statistics show that the earliest record of an Afghan in bridging accommodation was in the second quarter of 2021.</p><p>The Home Office publish data on Afghan resettlement in the Immigration System Statistics release. In table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets, you can view the number of Afghans resettled, by when they arrived in the UK (quarterly breakdowns) and what type of accommodation they were recorded in as of the date of the data extraction (currently the data is as of 30 September 2023). The next Immigration Statistics are due for release around 22 February 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 10362 10364 10365 question first answered 24/01/2024 09:38:04 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1683337

registered interest
date	18/01/2024
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, how many people from Afghanistan are living in bridging hotels.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	10364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 24,600 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.</p><p>As of 31 August 2023, we successfully ended the use of bridging hotels for legally resettled Afghans, with the overwhelming majority of those being resettled now having moved into settled accommodation. We have now provided these Afghans with the homes they need to begin the next chapter of their life in the UK, fully integrate, find employment and provide their children with stability.</p><p>Whilst we cannot confirm the longest length of stay in bridging accommodation, our statistics show that the earliest record of an Afghan in bridging accommodation was in the second quarter of 2021.</p><p>The Home Office publish data on Afghan resettlement in the Immigration System Statistics release. In table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets, you can view the number of Afghans resettled, by when they arrived in the UK (quarterly breakdowns) and what type of accommodation they were recorded in as of the date of the data extraction (currently the data is as of 30 September 2023). The next Immigration Statistics are due for release around 22 February 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 10362 10363 10365 question first answered 24/01/2024 09:38:04 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe