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967503

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Sri Lanka
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many immigration applications from Sri Lankan nationals were granted in each year from 2008, broken down by ethnicity.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL9992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Unfortunately, the Department does not record this information in such a way as to allow us to report on the estimated number of immigration applications from Sri Lankan nationals in each year from 2008, broken down by ethnicity and this data could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/09/2018 11:16:38 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

967501

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Sri Lanka
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Sri Lankans (1) applied for asylum, and (2) had applications approved in each year since 2008, broken down by ethnicity.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL9991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications and initial decisions, broken down by nationality, in table as_01_q (volume 1 of the asylum tables) in the quarterly <em>Immigration Statistics</em> publication. The latest figures, up until June 2018, are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018</a></p><p>Data on ethnicity are not available.</p><p>Table 1: Asylum applications, initial decision, and grants on asylum applications from Sri Lankan nationals, 2008 to June 2018</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total applications </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Total initial decisions </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Total grants </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p>1,473</p></td><td><p>874</p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p>1,115</p></td><td><p>1,251</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>1,357</p></td><td><p>1,612</p></td><td><p>228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>1,756</p></td><td><p>1,604</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>1,744</p></td><td><p>1,384</p></td><td><p>333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>1,811</p></td><td><p>1,287</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>1,292</p></td><td><p>1,217</p></td><td><p>157</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>961</p></td><td><p>1,537</p></td><td><p>179</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>845</p></td><td><p>731</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>690</p></td><td><p>645</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018 (Jan-Jun)</strong></p></td><td><p>261</p></td><td><p>302</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. Grants include grants of asylum, discretionary leave, humanitarian protection, and grants under family and private life rules.</p><p>2. Decisions made in a given year does not necessarily relate to the number of applications in the same year. Applications are based on the date of application and decisions are based on the date of initial decision.</p><p>3. Data include main applicants only.</p><p>4. Data for 2018 include 6 months of data only (Jan-Jun). This is the latest period that is publically available.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/09/2018 13:39:43 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name HL991 Lord Naseby Annex A.xlsx title Table as_01_q (Vol 1 - Asylum Table)
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

1230920

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Offfice: Staff
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of Home Office staff based in central London were working from their office desks on 2 September.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL7691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office is only able to provide this information for 2 Marsham St where it is recorded.</p><p>On 2 September 2020, 173 members of Home Office staff were working in 2 Marsham Street office, which is 30 % of Covid compliant occupancy.</p><p>*Note: available desks is currently 577 due to social distancing. Desk numbers for Home Office staff in 2 Marsham Street total 2072 but due to social distancing this has been reduced to 577.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/09/2020 16:47:01 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

897104

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in relation to the new passport contract, when the original statement of the £120 million saving was made; and whether that figure included the anticipated adverse impact arising from the loss of UK taxes and increased costs from probable unemployment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL7528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>There is no requirement for large scale procurements to assess tax revenue impacts, other than to ensure bidders are tax compliant.</p><p>The new contract for design, manufacture and personalisation of the UK passport is worth approximately £260 million. This will deliver significant savings to passport customers and the UK tax payer when compared to the £400 million contract that was awarded in 2009.</p><p>The incumbent will continue to provide these passport services for at least another 18 months, and have publicly stated that they will bid for other work to help protect jobs after the current passport contract ends. Gemalto has also stated it expects to create up to 70 jobs in the UK across two locations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/05/2018 16:04:08 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

897103

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in relation to the new passport contract, whether the estimated figures supplied by Lord Naseby to the Prime Minister's Office, demonstrating a net loss of approximately £36 million rather than a saving of £120 million, were considered or evaluated.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL7527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>We do not agree with any suggestion that the new passport contract will generate a net loss.</p><p>The new passport contract is worth approximately £260 million. This is considerably lower than the current contract that was valued at £400 million when it was awarded in 2009.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/05/2018 16:04:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

897102

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the contract to appoint Gemalto to provide the new passport has been signed; and if not, when they anticipate that it will be signed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL7526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The contract for passport design, manufacture and personalisation services was signed between the Home Office and Gemalto UK Ltd on 18 April 2018.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/05/2018 16:03:01 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

897101

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 12 April (HL6775) stating that "all opportunities to supply passports or their components for EU governments must comply with the EU Procurement Directives", whether (1) France, (2) Germany, (3) Italy, and (4) Spain, are exempt from those directives.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL7525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>All EU member states are bound by EU Procurement Directives, and companies within the member states would have the opportunity to bid for the work as and when the government puts it out to tender.</p><p>If the service is available from a state owned company, then an exemption to running a tender with private companies applies. There is no state owned UK passport company, and therefore this exemption does not apply. It is not for the UK Government to comment on whether France, Germany, Italy or Spain has opted to apply for such an exemption.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/05/2018 16:03:40 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

874602

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions were held with the team of British export envoys concerning the new passport contract in respect of the likely impact on their role in promoting UK companies of issuing that contract to a French company in preference to a UK company.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL6822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>There have been no discussions with British export envoys concerning the next passport contract. This procurement has been a fair and open competition under UK law, in line with both EU and World Trade Organisation rules.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/04/2018 11:30:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

874601

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in relation to the new passport contract, what discussions the Home Office held with GCHQ on ensuring that Gemalto chips are protected from the risk of being reprogrammed with a Trojan virus.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL6821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Encryption technology used in the UK passport is owned by Her Majesty’s Government, and is not the responsibility of the passport manufacturer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/04/2018 12:34:59 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

874392

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, when preparing the tender documents for the new UK passport, they were aware that French passports are exclusively printed by a state organisation, and that British printers are therefore excluded from any opportunity to bid for a French passport production contract.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL6775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>Public contract tender opportunities in other countries have no bearing on the procurement of UK passport services. All opportunities to supply passports or their components for EU Governments must comply with the EU Procurement Directives.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/04/2018 14:47:50 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby