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1658129

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Bail: Electronic Tagging
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were electronically tagged as a condition of immigration bail as of 1 September 2023; and what was the cost to the public purse of electronic tagging in immigration cases in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	197721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Foreign nationals who commit crimes here in the UK will face the full force of the law, including deportation at the earliest opportunity for those eligible.</p><p> </p><p>In some cases, where deportation is delayed, individuals may be released on electronic monitoring as a condition of immigration bail, pending deportation.</p><p> </p><p>Since 14 June 2022, we have been piloting the use of EM with a small cohort of individuals who have arrived in the UK through illegal and dangerous routes.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 16:48:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1658130

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2023
	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, if she will make an estimate of the number of biometric residence permits that have been issued with incorrect information in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	197722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The information is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 09:27:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1653616

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether visas granted by her Department to individuals in Sudan can be collected by the applicants in Ethiopia.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	194415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Where a decision has been made to grant a visa, processes are in place to transport their visa to another VAC location of their choice for collection.</p><p>Customers should contact <a href="mailto:Sudanpassportenquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk" target="_blank">Sudanpassportenquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk</a> in order to discuss individual arrangements for the collection of their visa if they are outside of Sudan.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/07/2023 16:15:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1648683

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Pornography
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to issue guidance on the application of legislation to child pornography generated by artificial intelligence.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	191568
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises the many benefits Artificial Intelligence can provide across a range of sectors and our efforts to ensure public safety; however artificial intelligence also poses significant risks to our efforts to tackle the proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).</p><p>This Government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse online and in our communities across the UK and internationally. Our approach is underpinned by the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy which sets out firm commitments to drive action across the whole system.</p><p>The law in the UK is very clear with regards to production of child sexual abuse material. It is an offence to produce, store, share or search for any material that contains or depicts child sexual abuse, regardless of whether the material depicts a ‘real’ child or not. This prohibition also includes pseudo-imagery that may have been computer-generated.</p><p>Furthermore, the Government is currently driving forward the Online Safety Bill which seeks to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. The Online Safety Bill will, for the first time, place clear legal duties on technology companies to take proactive steps to identify, remove and prevent users encountering illegal content, including child sexual abuse content from platforms/services. AI-generated content is itself capable of amounting to a child sexual abuse offence regardless of whether it depicts a real child or not. Child sexual abuse offences are priority illegal offences in the Bill, and therefore tech companies are subject to proactive duties to identify and remove CSEA content. In addition, Ofcom can require tech companies to use specified technology to remove such content.</p><p>Companies who fail to fulfil their legal duties will be held to account by an independent regulator, Ofcom, who will have strong enforcement powers including fines of up to £18 million or 10 per cent of qualifying annual global turnover (whichever is greater).</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 03/07/2023 16:49:24 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646517

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Africa
	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 13 June 2023 to Question 188517 on Visas: Africa, what mechanisms her Department has for identifying individuals coming to the UK for the purposes of scientific research.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	190614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office requires all those coming to the UK who need a visa to complete a visa application form which contains questions around an applicant’s intentions whilst in the UK. Applicants would use these questions to explain the purpose of their stay which would include scientific research, usually either via a sponsored work migration route or as a visitor.</p><p> </p><p>Each case is then assessed on its merits by a trained entry clearance officer. However, the reasons for travel to the UK are not routinely collated as part of the Government’s regular migration statistics.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/06/2023 13:41:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646520

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants who made applications while under the age of 18 have had their substantive interviews cancelled due to turning 18 years of age and being classified as an adult in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	190617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p><em>The Home Office takes our duty of care towards children and young people extremely seriously and we prioritise applications from children and young people.</em></p><p><em>If the child’s 18th birthday passes before a substantive asylum interview has been conducted, they are legally an adult. However, staff must follow best practice on children’s cases. The child is interviewed by a decision maker who has completed the appropriate training for handling children’s asylum claims and be given an opportunity to discuss the statement of evidence form (SEF) as it may refer to issues that are child specific.</em></p><p><em>The decision maker is trained in handling children’s cases. The Home Office would not therefore cancel interviews based on a child turning 18. </em></p><p><em>Where the applicant has since admitted to being an adult, or evidence confirms the applicant as an adult, at the point of claiming asylum, the application is assessed as an adult claim. </em></p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/947900/sect-67-of-the-immigration-act-2016-leave-v3.0ext.pdf" target="_blank">Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 asylum casework guidance (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/06/2023 11:02:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646518

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	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 the National Audit Office’s Report on the Asylum and Protection Transformation Regime, published in June 2023, if she will take steps to implement the NAO’s recommendation on making asylum decisions.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	190615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The NAO report into the Asylum &amp; Protection Transformation Programme acknowledges the progress made across asylum caseworking and accommodation. The report suggested three recommendations for the programme to increase its chances of success, we are carefully considering all recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/06/2023 16:03:19 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646519

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the number of outstanding family reunion cases that have documents held in the Khartoum Visa Application Centre as at 21 June 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	190616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>We do not hold centralised data on this. However, where our records confirm that a customer’s passport is being held in the Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum and a decision has been made on their application, we have contacted all those customers, and offered them a letter confirming that their passport is securely stored and attaching a digital copy of their passport.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/06/2023 11:32:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646521

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	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 13 June 2023 to Question 187651 on Asylum: Newcastle upon Tyne Central, what data her Department holds on the number of people awaiting a decision on their claim for refugee status in Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency; and whether this data includes the year of each asylum claim.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	190618
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on claims awaiting a decision can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.</p><p> </p><p>Asy_D03 is not broken down by local authority therefore data for those living in Newcastle upon Tyne is not available and the data is also not broken down by year of asylum claim. The latest data relates to a snapshot as of 31 March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/06/2023 11:49:19 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1644814

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	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 13 June 2023 to Question 187651, how many asylum seekers lived in Newcastle upon Tyne in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	189597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum seekers in receipt of support by local authority and data on resettlement by local authority can be found in tables Asy_D11 and Res_D01 respectively of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#local-authority-data" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’. Please note that the data relates to asylum seekers in receipt of support or refugees resettled only and does not represent all asylum seekers.</p><p>Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relates to March 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="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" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold information on the number of people with refugee status who are still living in the UK, or their location within the UK. This is because the Home Office does not track the addresses of those granted refugee status, and refugees are free to move around the UK or leave.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/06/2023 09:53:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah