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1673621

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the recent technical issue with the processing and issuing of Biometric Resident Permits has been; what steps his Department is taking to resolve that issue; and what estimate he has made of when that work will be complete.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	4240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>Incidences of technical issues preventing BRP card production are extremely low, and no systemic issues have been identified.</p><p>Where individual card requests do fail, operational case working teams and IT Support endeavour to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.</p><p>For any case that cannot be resolved immediately, the Employer Checking and Landlord Checking Services are available to provide support to customers to verify their immigration status and permission to work and rent properties in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/12/2023 16:41:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1641920

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of dependent study visas were granted by her Department to students undertaking taught postgraduate courses in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	187784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Our published data on dependent study visas can be found in the available Migration Statistics on GOV.UK, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2022/why-do-people-come-to-the-uk-to-study</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 187785 question first answered 12/06/2023 15:11:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1641921

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of dependent study visas were granted by her Department to students undertaking research postgraduate courses in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	187785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Our published data on dependent study visas can be found in the available Migration Statistics on GOV.UK, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2022/why-do-people-come-to-the-uk-to-study</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 187784 question first answered 12/06/2023 15:11:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1641442

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of international students arriving with dependents are (a) male and (b) female
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	187429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>We consider our Public Sector Equality Duty in the development of all policy, and an Equality Impact Assessment was produced and considered in developing this package of reforms.</p><p> </p><p>We consider any indirect impact to be proportionate in achieving our overall aim of reducing net migration and only allowing dependants to a specific cohort of students with the types of skills the UK is specifically seeking to attract to assist economic growth.</p><p> </p><p>We keep all our immigration policies under constant review to ensure they best serve the UK and reflect the public’s priorities.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 187433 question first answered 12/06/2023 09:21:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1641446

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of limiting the ability for international students not on a research postgraduate course to bring dependents on women's (a) access to and (b) participation in higher education in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	187433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>We consider our Public Sector Equality Duty in the development of all policy, and an Equality Impact Assessment was produced and considered in developing this package of reforms.</p><p> </p><p>We consider any indirect impact to be proportionate in achieving our overall aim of reducing net migration and only allowing dependants to a specific cohort of students with the types of skills the UK is specifically seeking to attract to assist economic growth.</p><p> </p><p>We keep all our immigration policies under constant review to ensure they best serve the UK and reflect the public’s priorities.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 187429 question first answered 12/06/2023 09:21:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1586723

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2023 to Question 137918, when the technical issue was first detected; how long it took to resolve the issue; what the estimated cost of fixing the issue was; and when she plans to publish the data.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	147412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The technical issue that has prevented the release of customer service standards data for 2022 relates to the wider transition of immigration caseworking from a legacy IT system to the new Atlas system. As part of that change, published datasets relating to immigration casework have also had to be transitioned to new systems. The majority of published datasets have been maintained during this transition.</p><p>In the case of data on customer service standards, key data attributes needed to calculate performance against the standards for quarterly publication have only recently become available in statistical data systems, as part of the planned transition process. As such, customer service standards data is expected to be reintroduced from the 2023 Quarter 1 migration transparency data release in May.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/02/2023 17:58:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1586724

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2023 to Question 137918, what assessment she has made of the impact of the absence of 2022 data on complaints, refunds and processing times on the monitoring of super priority visa applications.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	147413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>The technical issue that has prevented the release of customer service standards data for 2022 relates to the wider transition of immigration caseworking from a legacy IT system to the new Atlas system. As part of that change, published datasets relating to immigration casework have also had to be transitioned to new systems. The majority of published datasets have been maintained during this transition.</p><p>In the case of data on customer service standards, key data attributes needed to calculate performance against the standards for quarterly publication have only recently become available in statistical data systems, as part of the planned transition process. As such, customer service standards data is expected to be reintroduced from the 2023 Quarter 1 migration transparency data release in May.</p><p>There is no impact on our monitoring of super priority visa (SPV) performance and we continue to offer SPV across a range of routes for our customers applying both overseas and in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 01/03/2023 13:42:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1582916

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	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 and what proportion of super priority visa applications were processed within five working days in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	137916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes migration transparency data on the gov.uk website. The latest published data was released on 24 November 2022 and the report covers the period up until end of September 2022.</p><p>Historically, we have included performance against customer service standards within the published data up until Quarter 3 of 2021, however due to a technical issue we have been unable to release the 2022 figures. It is our intention to reintroduce these figures as part of future migration transparency data releases now that the technical issue has been resolved.</p><p>We are unable to provide data on how much the Home Office has refunded to super priority visa applicants in 2022. The information is held over multiple computer systems and various immigration routes, which would require a manual trawl to obtain and collate into a report, thereby exceeding time/cost limits.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 137917 137918 question first answered 14/02/2023 11:03:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1582917

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	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, what the average time was to process a super priority visa in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	137917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes migration transparency data on the gov.uk website. The latest published data was released on 24 November 2022 and the report covers the period up until end of September 2022.</p><p>Historically, we have included performance against customer service standards within the published data up until Quarter 3 of 2021, however due to a technical issue we have been unable to release the 2022 figures. It is our intention to reintroduce these figures as part of future migration transparency data releases now that the technical issue has been resolved.</p><p>We are unable to provide data on how much the Home Office has refunded to super priority visa applicants in 2022. The information is held over multiple computer systems and various immigration routes, which would require a manual trawl to obtain and collate into a report, thereby exceeding time/cost limits.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 137916 137918 question first answered 14/02/2023 11:03:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1582918

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Repayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total amount spent by her Department in refunding super priority visa applicants was in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	137918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes migration transparency data on the gov.uk website. The latest published data was released on 24 November 2022 and the report covers the period up until end of September 2022.</p><p>Historically, we have included performance against customer service standards within the published data up until Quarter 3 of 2021, however due to a technical issue we have been unable to release the 2022 figures. It is our intention to reintroduce these figures as part of future migration transparency data releases now that the technical issue has been resolved.</p><p>We are unable to provide data on how much the Home Office has refunded to super priority visa applicants in 2022. The information is held over multiple computer systems and various immigration routes, which would require a manual trawl to obtain and collate into a report, thereby exceeding time/cost limits.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 137916 137917 question first answered 14/02/2023 11:03:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western