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1696713

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of the number of individuals misidentified by the Home Office Person Centric Data Platform in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	19004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Person Centric Data Platform (PCDP) holds millions of identities that have been submitted or otherwise provided in support of immigration applications. Individuals have not been ‘misidentified’ by the PCDP. Rather, the Home Office has for some time been aware of issues around ‘merged identity’ - where a single ‘identity island’ has been formed with data belonging to two or more individuals.</p><p>The ‘merged identities’ issue affects around 0.02% of PCDP customer records - over 99.98% of records are not impacted by this issue. We have identified around 46,000 records with an identity issue, of which over 13,000 have already been resolved and we have a dedicated team working on the remainder.</p><p>The Home Office takes data security and accuracy very seriously. We continue detailed analysis to identify erroneous PCDP records so that appropriate remedial work can be undertaken as quickly, and as carefully, as possible.</p><p>Where customers identify an issue with their data, we encourage them to contact the UK Visas and Immigration Contact Centre to enable this to be investigated and resolved.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 19005 question first answered 25/03/2024 16:56:44 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1696714

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to rectify the misidentification of individuals by the Home Office Person Centric Data Platform.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	19005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Person Centric Data Platform (PCDP) holds millions of identities that have been submitted or otherwise provided in support of immigration applications. Individuals have not been ‘misidentified’ by the PCDP. Rather, the Home Office has for some time been aware of issues around ‘merged identity’ - where a single ‘identity island’ has been formed with data belonging to two or more individuals.</p><p>The ‘merged identities’ issue affects around 0.02% of PCDP customer records - over 99.98% of records are not impacted by this issue. We have identified around 46,000 records with an identity issue, of which over 13,000 have already been resolved and we have a dedicated team working on the remainder.</p><p>The Home Office takes data security and accuracy very seriously. We continue detailed analysis to identify erroneous PCDP records so that appropriate remedial work can be undertaken as quickly, and as carefully, as possible.</p><p>Where customers identify an issue with their data, we encourage them to contact the UK Visas and Immigration Contact Centre to enable this to be investigated and resolved.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 19004 question first answered 25/03/2024 16:56:44 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1639597

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who were in receipt of the Disability Living Allowance for children have had their applications to transfer to Personal Independence Payments on turning 16 refused since April 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	186297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The number of people who were in receipt of Child Disability Living Allowance (DLA) that had their application to transfer to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) refused on turning 16, from April 2013 to October 2022, can be found on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.  In particular, the requested data can be found by applying the following filters to the ‘Child DLA to PIP reassessments’ dataset:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Select the following dataset ‘Child DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes by month’; and</li><li>Filter for all ‘Disallowed’ outcomes in ‘PIP reassessment Outcomes’.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/dataCatalogueExplorer.xhtml" target="_blank">here</a>. An account is not required to use Stat- Xplore; the ‘Guest Login’ feature gives instant access to the main functions.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 05/06/2023 11:14:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1611725

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of applications for Personal Independence Payments were initially denied and subsequently granted following a successful appeal in each month since April 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	181269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p><strong>Number and proportion of PIP initial decisions that are initially disallowed and are successful following an appeal</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date of initial PIP decision</p></td><td><p>Number of PIP initial decisions, initially disallowed that are successful following an appeal</p></td><td><p>Proportion of initial decisions, that were initially disallowed that were successful following an appeal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-22</p></td><td><p>1,180</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>850</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-22</p></td><td><p>630</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-22</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-22</p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-22</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures include appeal decisions at tribunal hearing up to 31<sup>st</sup> December 2022, the latest date for which published data is available. Note that more appeals could be made and completed after December 2022, so numbers could go up as it can take some time for an appeal to be lodged and then cleared after the initial decision.</p><p> </p><p><br> Please note:</p><ul><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 and percentages to 1 decimal place.</li><li>Data for England and Wales (excluding Scotland) has been provided in line with the latest published figures on PIP.</li><li>These figures include initial decisions following assessment for PIP New Claims and Reassessments from 1<sup>st</sup> April 2022 – 30<sup>th</sup> September 2022, the latest data for which published data is available.</li><li>“Successful following an appeal” includes claims that had an appeal lapsed or overturned at tribunal.</li></ul><ul><li>The proportion figure uses the total PIP initial decisions for the relevant month as the denominator.</li></ul><ul><li>Prior to tribunal, appeal claimants must have requested a Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) from DWP. Some of those disallowed following assessment will have their decision changed at this stage and take the dispute no further. In some cases, a claimant who has their Disallowed decision changed at MR will continue to appeal for a higher PIP award, and these cases could be included in the figures reported.</li></ul><ul><li>A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged, but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/04/2023 16:32:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1521178

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	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, what proportion of applications to the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme have been granted.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	61771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>We are continuing the process to grant Indefinite Leave to Remain to all eligible individuals who arrived during the evacuation: officials have already registered over 13,000 (and counting) applications for resettlement from Afghans in the UK, with biometric residence permits being issued accordingly. In the meantime, applicants remain eligible to work and access services under their continuing leave.</p><p>At 12 August 2022, we have granted Indefinite Leave to Remain to 11,303 individuals across the ARAP and ACRS, since they opened in April 2021 and Jan 2022, respectively. We are unable, at this time, to provide a breakdown of whether a grant of leave was made under the ARAP or the ACRS Pathway 1. Work is underway to assure information relating to all the individuals relocated under the ARAP and ACRS on case working systems. Once this work concludes, statistics on both schemes - including the number of people resettled under each - will be included in future editions of the Immigration Statistics. <br> <br> More information on the number of grants of Indefinite Leave to Remain issued to Afghans resettling under the ARAP or ACRS can be viewed at: <br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 17/10/2022 16:19:48 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1506537

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how decisions on fee waiver applications are communicated to applicants.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	51456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Applicants wishing to apply for an entry clearance fee waiver must do so by submitting an online application form. Once assessed, a decision on the fee waiver application is sent by email to the email address specified on the application form by either the applicant or their representative.</p><p> </p><p>Applications for Leave to Remain fee waivers are mandated to be completed online, to receive a decision by email. However, in exceptional circumstances leave to remain fee waiver applications can be submitted on a paper form, in which case we will offer the applicant the choice of a paper or electronic decision.</p><p> </p><p>Child Citizenship fee waiver applications can also be submitted on paper or online. These decisions may be despatched by email or post accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>It is the applicant’s (or their representative’s) responsibility to monitor their email inbox and ‘spam’ folder in anticipation of our decision email.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of applicants whose leave to remain expired following the issue of a fee waiver decision of which the applicant was not aware, is not captured. To recover this information would require a manual examination of each individual case and would thus incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 51457 question first answered 23/09/2022 13:14:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1506538

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Fees and Charges
	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 applications for leave to remain expired because applicants had not responded to decisions sent by email relating to fee waiver requests in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	51457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Applicants wishing to apply for an entry clearance fee waiver must do so by submitting an online application form. Once assessed, a decision on the fee waiver application is sent by email to the email address specified on the application form by either the applicant or their representative.</p><p> </p><p>Applications for Leave to Remain fee waivers are mandated to be completed online, to receive a decision by email. However, in exceptional circumstances leave to remain fee waiver applications can be submitted on a paper form, in which case we will offer the applicant the choice of a paper or electronic decision.</p><p> </p><p>Child Citizenship fee waiver applications can also be submitted on paper or online. These decisions may be despatched by email or post accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>It is the applicant’s (or their representative’s) responsibility to monitor their email inbox and ‘spam’ folder in anticipation of our decision email.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of applicants whose leave to remain expired following the issue of a fee waiver decision of which the applicant was not aware, is not captured. To recover this information would require a manual examination of each individual case and would thus incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 51456 question first answered 23/09/2022 13:14:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1504401

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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, if she will make it her policy to introduce service standards for the processing of asylum applications.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	45731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not currently have a target time for processing applications for asylum, but are committed to ensuring asylum claims are considered without unnecessary delay. We have already made progress in prioritising claims with acute vulnerability and those in receipt of the greatest level of support, including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. Additionally, we are prioritising older claims and those where an individual has already received a decision, but a reconsideration is required.</p><p>Asylum Operations are working to reintroduce a service standard for the processing of asylum applications. It is our intention to reintroduce a service standard aligning with the recommendation from the recent Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s (ICIBI) published report - An inspection of asylum casework (November 2021).</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2022 16:58:39 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 17538 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan