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1035013

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fadia Kiwan and Intisar al-Jabouri
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the visas of (a) Intisar al-Jabouri, member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq, and (b) Dr Fadia Kiwan, Director General of the Arab Women Organization, were delayed in advance of their attendance at an event in Parliament on the 5 December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	205233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases. All applications for a visa to travel to the UK are considered on their individual merits, in accordance with the Immigration Rules.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/01/2019 15:52:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1035015

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Politicians: Visas
	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 make an assessment of the effect of visa refusals for foreign parliamentarians on bilateral relations with those countries.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	205235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK engages with bilateral partners on a wide range of issues including any concerns which they may raise.</p><p>Foreign government Ministers visiting the UK on official visits are exempt from immigration control (including the visa requirement). In addition, all diplomats posted to the UK are exempt from the visa requirement.</p><p>Applications from Parliamentarians for visit visas are assessed against the published Immigration Rules (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules</a>)</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/01/2019 15:49:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1035111

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Politicians: Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many parliamentarians from overseas countries have had to (a) cancel and (b) delay travel to the UK as a result of (i) visa refusals, (ii) visa cancellations, and (iii) delays in the issuing of a visa in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	205238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collate or publish the information requested.</p><p>The available information relates to total entry clearance visas refused, published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a> .</p><p>Information published in the Migration Transparency data indicates that the vast majority of straightforward cases are processed within Service standards (see table Visa_01, at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a> )</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/01/2019 16:02:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1051461

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Politicians: Visas
	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 Answers of 4 January 2019 to Questions 205232, 205233 and 205235, if he will take steps to ensure timely visa application processes for invited participants in Parliamentary events.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	214528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Published data on entry clearance visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p><p>The vast majority of straightforward visa applications are processed within Service standards.</p><p>Additional services are available to assist with time-critical visits.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 07/02/2019 12:20:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

895411

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what immigration removals flights his Department plans to charter in each of the next three months.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	140042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on operational matters in respect of the Home Office charter flight programme.</p><p>I can confirm that the UK Government will not be chartering an aircraft for deportations to Jamaica in May.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 140043 question first answered 09/05/2018 16:50:31 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

895413

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department (a) has chartered and (b) plans to charter a flight with the designation PVT070.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	140043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on operational matters in respect of the Home Office charter flight programme.</p><p>I can confirm that the UK Government will not be chartering an aircraft for deportations to Jamaica in May.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 140042 question first answered 09/05/2018 16:50:31 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

927965

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Cameroon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has received any applications for asylum on the grounds of persecution because of political opinion from persons originating in Southern Cameroon within the last nine months.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	155757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on asylum claimants is held on both the asylum case file and the main immigration database. This will include personal details of claimants and relatives such as claimed dates and places of birth, claimed religion, claimed ethnicity, as well as details of their asylum claims. The way this information is stored is such that it is often not possible to report on these information fields without conducting a manual search of both paper and electronic records. Therefore, we cannot identify how many asylum claims have been granted or refused leave from specific parts of countries of origin or as a result of political opinion<br>Published data relating to the outcomes of asylum claims from each country (including Cameroon) can be found in tab as_02 at volume 1 of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/06/2018 11:37:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

973190

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much (a) revenue and (b) operating income Visas and Immigration derived from chargeable calls to its contact centres from outside the UK in the last period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	174654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office currently has a contract in place with Sitel UK Ltd for the provision of Contact Centre Services (both UK and International). It is not possible to provide the data requested due to commercial sensitivity.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/10/2018 15:56:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

720828

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 82 of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, entitled UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, if he will make it his policy to scrap the housing benefit cap in favour of more fundamental reform of the housing market.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	70649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>The benefit cap sets a limit on the total amount of welfare benefits that non-working households can receive.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that it is not fair for someone on benefits to be receiving more than many people in similar circumstances who are in work and we intend to continue this approach. Since the benefit cap was introduced in 2013, people in tens of thousands of households have moved into work. The new lower cap continues to build on that success by incentivising work.</p><p> </p><p>We believe that work greatly benefits people and families. Children can have their life chances and opportunities damaged as a result of living in households where no-one has worked for years and where no-one considers work is an option.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work to target services on the issues that prevent parents moving into work and cause instability in family life, to help workless families and their children overcome their problems and improve their lives.</p><p> </p><p>The recent White Paper from the Department for Communities and Local Government, “Fixing Our Broken Housing Market”, offers a comprehensive approach which tackles failure at every point in the system. Its starting point is to build more homes, which will slow the rise in housing costs, so that housing is more affordable, and which will bring the cost of renting down.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/04/2017 16:33:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown