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1678086

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans that the review of the two year post study work visa will be complete.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	7111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>We will confirm the timings of the review in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/12/2023 12:55:45 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1678982

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	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 foreign national prisoners have indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	7646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the immigration status of foreign nationals held in prisons.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum-related detainees in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on numbers of asylum-related detainees entering, leaving and in detention are published in table Det_01 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">‘Detention Summary tables’</a>. However data on numbers of foreign national offenders being detained are not published. Asylum-related cases refer to those where there has been an asylum claim at some stage prior or during detention. This will include asylum seekers whose asylum claims have been refused, and who have exhausted any rights of appeal, those returned under third country provisions, as well as those granted asylum/protection, but detained for other reasons (such as criminality).</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 end of September 2023 for entering and leaving detention data, and September 2022 for in detention data.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=detention&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 7647 question first answered 10/01/2024 17:11:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1678983

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	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 foreign national prisoners made a claim for asylum prior to being detained in the latest year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	7647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the immigration status of foreign nationals held in prisons.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum-related detainees in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on numbers of asylum-related detainees entering, leaving and in detention are published in table Det_01 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">‘Detention Summary tables’</a>. However data on numbers of foreign national offenders being detained are not published. Asylum-related cases refer to those where there has been an asylum claim at some stage prior or during detention. This will include asylum seekers whose asylum claims have been refused, and who have exhausted any rights of appeal, those returned under third country provisions, as well as those granted asylum/protection, but detained for other reasons (such as criminality).</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 end of September 2023 for entering and leaving detention data, and September 2022 for in detention data.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=detention&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 7646 question first answered 10/01/2024 17:11:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1687641

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the review of the graduate visa route by the Migration Advisory Committee has begun.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	13126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee have not yet been commissioned to review the Graduate route.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/02/2024 11:24:11 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1692717

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral statement of 4 December 2023 entitled Legal Migration, Official Report, column 41, for what reason the review of the graduate visa route has not been started.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	16416
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of reviewing the Graduate route, in line with the Home Secretary’s commitment of 4 December 2023.</p><p>We will commission the Migration Advisory Committee to undertake this review at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/03/2024 09:45:35 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1695884

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
	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 publish the data to be provided to the Migration Advisory Committee as part of the review of the graduate route.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	18600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes a range of <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-statistics&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJoel.Scott2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cbba0af40571840fa492a08dc442a4f0b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638460195701469099%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=m89rXE%2FM1xvgukeBb9WQGsySHNvNtjseugldiwnQFAg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">migration statistics</a>, including statistics relating to the Graduate route, in its quarterly statistics releases.</p><p>The Migration Advisory Committee will publish their findings of the Graduate route review in May.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 21/03/2024 12:26:58 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1696164

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
	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 people (a) received and (b) repaid a refugee integration loans since 2007.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	18800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>Refugee Integration Loans were introduced in 2007 following a public consultation and are intended to help people with the costs of integrating into UK society. They are funded by the Home Office, who make the initial decisions on applications. They are then administered and recouped by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).</p><p>Refugee integration loans are interest-free loans with favourable repayment terms for individuals who are over 18 and meet the following eligibility criteria:</p><ul><li>a refugee;</li><li>you have humanitarian protection;</li><li>a dependant of a refugee or someone with humanitarian protection.</li></ul><p>Individuals are currently able to borrow between £100 and £500. Between £100 to £780 can be borrowed if submitting a joint application with a partner.</p><p>The specific data requested cannot be provided as it comes from live operational databases that have not been quality assured.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/03/2024 12:09:25 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1701034

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	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 citizenship were refused in each year since 1994.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	21822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Historical data relating to those who applied to naturalise/registration can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65d8886b87005a001180f8d9/citizenship-summary-dec-2023-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65d8886b87005a001180f8d9/citizenship-summary-dec-2023-tables.ods</a>.</p><p>These summary tables report those who were naturalised, registered, or refused on tab Cit_02 since 1987.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 23/04/2024 14:22:06 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1683146

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many equalities impact assessments his Department completed in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	10248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Under the Public Sector Equality Duty all public authorities, including Government departments, are required by law to ensure that they have due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions.</p><p>While equality impact assessments may be produced, there is no legal requirement for duty assessments to be recorded in a specific format.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/01/2024 13:15:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1691376

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in their Department have job titles that include the words (a) equality, (b) diversity, (c) inclusion, (d) gender, (e) LGBT and (f) race.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	15470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>Home Office staff job titles is not held centrally and would require significant manual collation and manipulation of local data, so could only be retrieved with disproportionate effort.</p><p>The Government is auditing the cost-effectiveness of all activities that support the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) of the workforce, through the review of EDI spending announced last June.</p><p>As stated in the Autumn Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister for Cabinet Office will be outlining the final proposals in response to the review in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/03/2024 16:47:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien