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1151950

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inspections the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority has undertaken on farms employing workers under the seasonal workers pilot scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	4412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p><strong><em>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.</em></strong></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/11/2019 16:57:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1173157

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inspections the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority has undertaken on farms employing workers under the seasonal workers pilot scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	7661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>As at 27 January 2020, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority has carried out 8 inspections of farms, in partnership with UKVI, since the seasonal workers pilot scheme commenced in September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/01/2020 17:41:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1184349

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons officials of UK Visas and Immigration attend Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority inspections of farms under the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	28026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of labour abuse and exploitation.</p><p>The responsibility to inspect locations under the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme lies with UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), not the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA).</p><p>GLAA officers accompany UKVI on such visits to provide them with information, advice and guidance including in the context of the GLAA licensing scheme and whether there is evidence of exploitative practice.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 28027 question first answered 16/03/2020 17:36:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1184350

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of officials of UK Visas and Immigration attending Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority inspections of farms under the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme on the propensity of workers to report abuse and exploitation.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	28027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of labour abuse and exploitation.</p><p>The responsibility to inspect locations under the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme lies with UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), not the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA).</p><p>GLAA officers accompany UKVI on such visits to provide them with information, advice and guidance including in the context of the GLAA licensing scheme and whether there is evidence of exploitative practice.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 28026 question first answered 16/03/2020 17:36:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1184351

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the budget of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority commensurate with the expansion of the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	28028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority’s future budget requirements will be subject to the Spending Review process.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/03/2020 17:19:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1172935

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: 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 wait time is for people awaiting an initial asylum decision; and what plans her Department has to reduce that time.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	7250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the average time taken to make an initial decision on an asylum application.</p><p>However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision, by duration for more of less than 6 months. This data can be found at Asy_04, of the published Immigration Statistics September 2019: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement</a></p><p>The Home Office are committed to ensuring that asylum claims are considered without unnecessary delay, to ensure that individuals who need protection are granted asylum as soon as possible and can start to integrate and rebuild their lives, including those granted on appeal.</p><p>Whilst we take steps to increase capacity and focus on process improvements to deliver better quality decisions more efficiently, we have moved away from the 6-month service standard to concentrate on older claims, cases with acute vulnerability and those in receipt of the greatest level of support, including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC). Additionally, we are prioritising cases where an individual has already received a decision, but a reconsideration is required. The intention is for this approach to bring balance back to the asylum system.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/01/2020 17:38:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1172937

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	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 (a) the adequacy of Section 95 support for those awaiting an asylum decision and (b) the potential merits of restoring the right to work for applicants who have waited for six months or more for a decision on an asylum claim.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	7252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free accommodation and a cash allowance to cover their other essential living needs. The level of the allowance, currently set at £37.75 per week for each person in the household, is reviewed regularly to ensure that it is adequate, taking account of various sources of information, including Office of National Statistics (ONS) data about spending by low income groups on food and other essential items. Fresh ONS data is expected to be published in the next few months and the allowances will be reviewed again at that point.</p><p>Asylum seekers can work in jobs on the Shortage Occupation List if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/01/2020 17:41:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1451792

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to section 83 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, what the status is of report on the extent to which people using contact centres in England are protected from the risk of domestic abuse or other harm as of 16 March 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	141276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is on track to publish a report about the extent to which individuals, when they are using contact centres in England, are protected from the risk of domestic abuse or, in the case of children, other harm. This will be delivered by April 2023 as set out in section 83 of the Domestic Abuse Act.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/03/2022 16:49:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1587158

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Energy Bills Rebate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a comparative assessment of the potential merits of providing payments through the Energy Bills Support Scheme (a) after and (b) before the application of VAT.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	148779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text Whether VAT applies to the payment made under the Energy Bills Support Scheme is determined by VAT legislation. Under the Scheme, the government is paying £400 of the domestic customer’s energy bills. Payments made under the scheme into the customers energy account are regarded as third-party payments from the government. Energy suppliers are required to account for VAT at the reduced rate of five percent under the normal rules, as the payment is made for a taxable supply of energy. There are no plans to review the VAT legislation. answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/02/2023 16:29:37 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1167193

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking
	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 National Referral Mechanism referrals receive negative Reasonable Grounds decisions for (a) people in immigration detention and (b) people outside of immigration detention.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	7203
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics regarding the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-referral-mechanism-statistics-quarter-2-2019-april-to-june" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-referral-mechanism-statistics-quarter-2-2019-april-to-june</a> and the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery</a></p><p>This information does not distinguish between those detained under immigration powers and those living in the community. The reason for this is two-fold, firstly because the NRM referral is not an immigration route by which individuals should regularise their stay in the United Kingdom and secondly, because a person’s status in immigration detention is not permanent and can change. The use of immigration detention in all cases is subject to regular reviews.</p><p>Requests for reconsideration of negative reasonable grounds decisions are taken in line with the published policy which can be found at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/828756/victims-modern-slavery-competent-auth-v8.0.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/828756/victims-modern-slavery-competent-auth-v8.0.pdf</a></p><p>Where an individual considers that a National Referral Mechanism decision has been made incorrectly, the decision can be challenged by way of Judicial Review.</p><p>It is not possible to distinguish solely from reportable database fields without a manual review of individual records the number of requests for reconsideration that were rejected because they were not in line with policy, the number of requests for reconsideration that were refused due to insufficient grounds for reconsideration. It is also not possible to distinguish solely from reportable database fields whether a reconsideration case type was the result of a reconsideration request as defined in the published policy, the result of litigation including judicial review or the result of the reconsideration of a suspended case.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 7204 7205 question first answered 04/11/2019 17:16:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris