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	registered interest
	date	27/01/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
	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 Life in the UK citizenship tests taken have been passed by nationality annually since 2010 in (a) English, (b) Welsh and (c) Scots Gaelic.
	tabling member constituency	Halifax
	tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
	uin	144730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2021 answer text <p>Since 2010 there has been one test taken in Welsh by a Brazilian national and one test taken in Scots Gaelic by a German national.</p><p>Table 1 shows the number of tests taken by nationality. Table 2 shows the proportion of LitUK tests that have been passed by nationality.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/02/2021 10:56:43 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name Tables for PQ 144730.xlsx title PQ 144730 - tests taken and passed
	tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1150383

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cervical Cancer: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many women under the age of 25 died from cervical cancer in (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018 and (d) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	1709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/10/2019 15:23:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ1709.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1150501

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment: Romford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people were in employment in Romford constituency in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	1617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/10/2019 09:33:46 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ1617.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1150079

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Census: Sikhs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 291409 on Census: Sikhs, what estimate he has made of the number of people among the 20 million that answered no religion or did not answer the optional religious question in the 2011 census who belong to the Sikh ethnic group.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	1117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/10/2019 15:22:48 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ1117.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1150530

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Business: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many businesses have annual employment costs of (a) £3 million to £20 million, (b) £20 million to £40 million and (c) more than £40 million; and what the total employment costs are for businesses in each of those categories.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	1704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/10/2019 10:36:43 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ 1704.pdf title PQ 1704
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1367592

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	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 passports applied for under the 1 Week Fast Track scheme were delivered within one week in each of the 12 months to 31 October 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	72592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>There is no integration of the system used for passport application processing and the one used by third-party suppliers for delivery services. This means whilst Her Majesty’s Passport Office is able to monitor performance on a case-by-case basis for customer service purposes, there is no accurate measure of whole service performance to the point of delivery.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of the Fast Track service, passports will be delivered on or before the seventh day following an appointment before 12.30pm, or the eighth day for appointments after this time. Passports printed under the Fast Track service are delivered to customers the following day through a 24-hour service level.</p><p> </p><p>The data attached shows the volume of passports printed under the Fast Track service within 144 hours (six days) of the application being submitted. Due to COVID-19, the Fast Track service was suspended until April 2021, with exceptions primarily on compassionate grounds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/11/2021 11:54:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name 72592 attachment.png title volume of passports printed under the Fast Track s
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1205275

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Latvia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Latvian nationals have received British citizenship in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
	uin	61535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on Citizenship in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release). Data on grants of British citizenship are published in table Cit_D02 of the citizenship detailed datasets (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/managed-migration-datasets).</p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending March 2020. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the summary tables (attached). The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on citizenship.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’ (https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance).</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 26/06/2020 13:23:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name 61535 citizenship-summary-mar-2020-tables.xlsx title Summary table
	tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1151153

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment: Essex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of working people in (a) Romford constituency and (b) Essex were employed in the public sector in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	2897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 2898 question first answered 25/10/2019 13:18:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name 2019.10.23 - PQ - 2897 and 2898 - UKSA.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1151154

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment: Essex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in (a) Romford constituency and (b) Essex were employed by (i) small and (ii) medium-sized businesses in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	2898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 2897 question first answered 25/10/2019 13:18:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name 2019.10.23 - PQ - 2897 and 2898 - UKSA.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1150140

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Elections: Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to improve electoral accessibility for voters with blindness following the decision of the High Court on 3 May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	1137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government continues to work with the Accessibility of Elections Working Group to make an informed assessment of the most suitable options to take forward. Officials are due to hold a meeting on this topic with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) very soon</p><p>Work has been undertaken to revise guidance to electoral administrators and, with input from RNIB, to research technical solutions which will be further discussed at a dedicated sub-group.</p><p>We are also starting to bring forward measures following the Government’s response to the 2018 Call for Evidence on Access to Elections. Proposals were announced during the Queen’s Speech. This will include increasing the range of support available to voters with disabilities in polling stations and allowing a wider range of people (such as carers) to assist disabled voters in polling stations if needed.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 1138 60 question first answered 21/10/2019 14:06:31 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt