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1121396

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: National Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's policy on the criteria for awarding people awaiting a decision on their refugee status a national insurance number.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	244159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>Asylum Seekers are provided with a National Insurance number if they have permission to work. The rules allow those asylum seekers who have been waiting for 12 months through no fault of their own to take up employment in Shortage Occupation list roles.</p><p>Asylum Seekers who are granted leave to remain are provided with a National Insurance number by DWP as quickly as possible after their grant. We have worked with DWP to ensure National Insurance numbers are issued on the BRP to enable those with a right to work.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2019 12:26:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1121439

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the availability of ID scanning centres for EU citizens applying for settled status who do not have Android mobile phones in (a) Cambridge, (b) the East of England and (c) across the country.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	244133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The application process for the EU Settlement Scheme is straightforward and user-friendly, and it is accessible on any smartphone, tablet or computer using internet browsers.</p><p>There are multiple ways to have identity documents checked, including using the EU Exit: ID Document Check app or by posting identity documents to the Home Office. There are currently 50 locations nationwide where applicants can have their passport scanned and verified.</p><p>The ID document scanning service is provided at the discretion of each local authority. The Home Office would encourage as many local authorities as possible to offer the service, and we continue to work with local government bodies across the UK to increase the provision of this service by local authorities, including in the East of England.</p><p>Details of the service and the locations where this service is available can be found on Gov.UK at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-id-document-scanner-locations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-settlement-scheme-id-document-scanner-locations</a></p><p>The Home Secretary also announced that the EU Exit ID Document Check app will be available on iPhones by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2019 14:13:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1121442

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
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 7 March 2019 to Question 226712, what steps his Department is taking to give due consideration to the Public Sector Equality Duty in terms of the effect on Gypsy and Traveller communities during the review into how to criminalise the act of trespassing when setting up an unauthorised encampment.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	244190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>Acting on the findings of the last year’s Government consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments, where the majority of respondents believed that the Government should consider criminalising unauthorised encampments, the Home Office launched a review into whether this could be achieved.</p><p>All government departments have an ongoing responsibility to meet the Public Sector Equalities Duty (PSED) under the Equality Act 2010. As such, when formulating any policy changes following the consultation, ministers must have due regard to the three limbs of the PSED: (1) eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct prohibited by the Act, (2) advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not, and (3) foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/04/2019 12:35:41 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1121447

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah: Sanctions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the legal sanctions of proscribing Hezbollah in its entirety extends to UK nationals meeting with representatives of that organisation overseas.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	244056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>Proscription makes it a criminal offence to invite support for, or arrange, manage or assist in arranging or managing a meeting in support of a pro-scribed organisation. This offence does not have extra-territorial jurisdiction.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 24/04/2019 14:16:18 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1121452

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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, what assessment he has made of the safety of UK citizens who have been asked to travel to Sudan with family members as part of their visa application processes.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	244154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The FCO advise UK citizens against all but essential travel to the majority of Sudan and all travel to some parts of Sudan. They further advise that if a UK citizen is in Sudan, they should consider carefully whether their need to remain is essential and consider leaving the country by commercial means.</p><p>There is no requirement for UK Citizens to travel to another country as part of a family member’s visa application process. Furthermore, whilst some entry clearance applications should be made in the country or territory in which the applicant is living, there is discretion to allow an application to be made in another country in exceptional circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2019 12:19:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

1121457

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EEA Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place for looked after children or care leavers who are EEA nationals where parents retain parental rights but do not exercise their parental rights to apply for their children’s leave under the EU Settlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	244111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has put in place a comprehensive vulnerability strategy to ensure that the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) is accessible for all, including children in care.</p><p><br>The Home office has been engaging with relevant stakeholders such as the Department for Education, Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Children’s Services to assess the needs of this group and ensure they are supported.</p><p><br>For England, Scotland and Wales local authorities (LAs) and for Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trusts (HSCTs) will have responsibility in ensuring that applications are made on behalf of all looked after children for whom they have full parental responsibility and who are EEA citizens or family members and to assist with accessing services with status once granted.</p><p>If the child is cared for under shared care provisions, then it is LAs and HSCTs responsibility to ensure that the child, and their carers, are aware of the need to make an application to the EUSS, signposting and pointing them to practical support where needed.</p><p>LAs and HSCTs also have continuing duties to support care leavers and therefore have the responsibility to identify those eligible to apply to EUSS and to ensure that they make an application. Making an application to EUSS for those who are eligible and to keep an adequate record of applications and status granted should form part of the necessary pathway planning for care leavers ordinarily carried out by LAs and HSCTs in the discharge of their duties.</p><p>A child does not require consent from an adult in order to apply and can make their own application. However, children who have failed to make an application by the deadline as a result of a parent or guardian having failed to submit an application on their behalf would meet the criteria for being permissible to submit a late application.</p><p>It is not possible to apply for British citizenship under the EUSS. There is no requirement for any local authority to make an application for British citizenship on behalf of a looked after child: EEA and Swiss children, and the non-EEA children of EEA and Swiss citizens, can obtain the status they need to remain in the UK by making a free application to the EUSS. As there is no need for LAs or HSCTs to make applications for citizenship there is no reason why any of the costs of doing so should be incurred, unless the LA or HSCT voluntarily chooses to do so.</p><p>Obtaining identity documents should be a familiar process for LAs and HSCT due to these documents being required in other circumstances.</p><p><br>The Home Office has introduced a range of support including up to £9 mil-lion grant funding for voluntary and community organisations, assisted digital support and support via the EU Settlement Scheme Resolution Centre.</p><p><br>A New Burdens Assessment has also been produced in collaboration with key stakeholders representing local authorities and children’s social services to ensure they are funded to identify and support eligible EEA children and family members in care.</p><p><br>The EUSS has been designed to be streamlined and user-friendly, and the majority of applicants will be able to apply without the need for general advice from a lawyer on rights to enter or remain required as a result of the Bill.</p><p>As the scheme is free to apply and simple to navigate, it is not anticipated that applicants will need legal aid but it will be available to some particularly vulnerable individuals. Legislation will also be introduced to bring immigration matters for separated migrant children into the scope of legal aid, meaning this group will get support in securing their immigration rights. Legal aid may also be available through the Exceptional Case Funding scheme where a failure to provide legal aid would breach, or risk breaching, ECHR or enforceable EU law rights.</p><p>The Home Office has created and issued guidance about the EUSS to help LAs and HSCTs understand their responsibilities for supporting looked after children and care leavers and how to apply. The EUSS has been designed to be as simple as possible, but we have committed to working with applicants, and those supporting them, to ensure they obtain the status they need where required. The guidance is clear that where necessary, because of case complexity, or if there is any doubt about how to proceed, that the LA or HSCT may consider obtaining independent legal advice, in line with their own organisation’s processes and policies.</p><p><br>Some of the voluntary and community organisations who receive support from the grant funding will also be able to provide legal advice.</p><p>Swiss citizens continue to enjoy the same rights and status as EEA citizens while the UK remains a member of the EU. Like EEA citizens, they can protect those rights and obtain a permanent UK immigration status by applying to the EUSS by 31 December 2020.</p><p>In the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal eligible EEA and Swiss citizens, and their family members, resident in the UK by the date that the UK leaves the EU, will have until 31 December 2020 to make an application to the EUSS. However, the Government has confirmed that it will take a proportionate approach to those that miss the deadline and make provision for those with a good reason for missing it to apply later. A child whose parent or guardian fail to make an application on their behalf would meet this criteria.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 244112 244113 244114 244115 244116 244117 244119 244120 244121 question first answered 24/04/2019 12:05:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1121458

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EEA Nationals
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 Department’s document entitled EU Settlement Scheme: Looked After Children and Care Leavers. Local Authority and Health and Social Care Trusts Guidance, when applications are due under the scheme in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and what the status would be of children who are EEA citizens under care orders or care leavers in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	244112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has put in place a comprehensive vulnerability strategy to ensure that the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) is accessible for all, including children in care.</p><p><br>The Home office has been engaging with relevant stakeholders such as the Department for Education, Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Children’s Services to assess the needs of this group and ensure they are supported.</p><p><br>For England, Scotland and Wales local authorities (LAs) and for Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trusts (HSCTs) will have responsibility in ensuring that applications are made on behalf of all looked after children for whom they have full parental responsibility and who are EEA citizens or family members and to assist with accessing services with status once granted.</p><p>If the child is cared for under shared care provisions, then it is LAs and HSCTs responsibility to ensure that the child, and their carers, are aware of the need to make an application to the EUSS, signposting and pointing them to practical support where needed.</p><p>LAs and HSCTs also have continuing duties to support care leavers and therefore have the responsibility to identify those eligible to apply to EUSS and to ensure that they make an application. Making an application to EUSS for those who are eligible and to keep an adequate record of applications and status granted should form part of the necessary pathway planning for care leavers ordinarily carried out by LAs and HSCTs in the discharge of their duties.</p><p>A child does not require consent from an adult in order to apply and can make their own application. However, children who have failed to make an application by the deadline as a result of a parent or guardian having failed to submit an application on their behalf would meet the criteria for being permissible to submit a late application.</p><p>It is not possible to apply for British citizenship under the EUSS. There is no requirement for any local authority to make an application for British citizenship on behalf of a looked after child: EEA and Swiss children, and the non-EEA children of EEA and Swiss citizens, can obtain the status they need to remain in the UK by making a free application to the EUSS. As there is no need for LAs or HSCTs to make applications for citizenship there is no reason why any of the costs of doing so should be incurred, unless the LA or HSCT voluntarily chooses to do so.</p><p>Obtaining identity documents should be a familiar process for LAs and HSCT due to these documents being required in other circumstances.</p><p><br>The Home Office has introduced a range of support including up to £9 mil-lion grant funding for voluntary and community organisations, assisted digital support and support via the EU Settlement Scheme Resolution Centre.</p><p><br>A New Burdens Assessment has also been produced in collaboration with key stakeholders representing local authorities and children’s social services to ensure they are funded to identify and support eligible EEA children and family members in care.</p><p><br>The EUSS has been designed to be streamlined and user-friendly, and the majority of applicants will be able to apply without the need for general advice from a lawyer on rights to enter or remain required as a result of the Bill.</p><p>As the scheme is free to apply and simple to navigate, it is not anticipated that applicants will need legal aid but it will be available to some particularly vulnerable individuals. Legislation will also be introduced to bring immigration matters for separated migrant children into the scope of legal aid, meaning this group will get support in securing their immigration rights. Legal aid may also be available through the Exceptional Case Funding scheme where a failure to provide legal aid would breach, or risk breaching, ECHR or enforceable EU law rights.</p><p>The Home Office has created and issued guidance about the EUSS to help LAs and HSCTs understand their responsibilities for supporting looked after children and care leavers and how to apply. The EUSS has been designed to be as simple as possible, but we have committed to working with applicants, and those supporting them, to ensure they obtain the status they need where required. The guidance is clear that where necessary, because of case complexity, or if there is any doubt about how to proceed, that the LA or HSCT may consider obtaining independent legal advice, in line with their own organisation’s processes and policies.</p><p><br>Some of the voluntary and community organisations who receive support from the grant funding will also be able to provide legal advice.</p><p>Swiss citizens continue to enjoy the same rights and status as EEA citizens while the UK remains a member of the EU. Like EEA citizens, they can protect those rights and obtain a permanent UK immigration status by applying to the EUSS by 31 December 2020.</p><p>In the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal eligible EEA and Swiss citizens, and their family members, resident in the UK by the date that the UK leaves the EU, will have until 31 December 2020 to make an application to the EUSS. However, the Government has confirmed that it will take a proportionate approach to those that miss the deadline and make provision for those with a good reason for missing it to apply later. A child whose parent or guardian fail to make an application on their behalf would meet this criteria.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 244111 244113 244114 244115 244116 244117 244119 244120 244121 question first answered 24/04/2019 12:05:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1121463

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Foreign Nationals: Saudi Arabia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Saudi Arabian citizens or former Saudi Arabian citizens have been put under police protection in the UK since 2015; and how many of those have been put under police protection from October 2018 until now.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	243988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>It is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on the security arrangements for individuals. To do so could compromise the integrity of those arrangements and affect the security of the individuals concerned. This includes numbers related to those in receipt of protection measures.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 24/04/2019 11:55:14 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1121466

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Foreign Nationals: Saudi Arabia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints have been made to the police by Saudi Arabian citizens, or former Saudi Arabian citizens, who felt threatened or sought advice as a result of intimidation they believed was from the Saudi Arabian Government in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	243989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office do not hold this data and therefore cannot provide a <br>response to the request.</p><p>Whilst reported notifiable crimes are recorded and published annually in the crime statistics, recorded and published crimes do not go into the detail of the nationalities of individuals reporting these crimes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 24/04/2019 11:57:30 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1121468

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Foreign Nationals: Saudi Arabia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Saudi Arabian citizens were deported from the UK in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018; and how many such citizens have been deported from October 2018 to date.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	243990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The number of enforced returns from the UK by year and country of nationality is published in table rt_02 (returns data tables, volume 1) in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending December 2018’, available from the GOV.uk website at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781113/returns1-dec-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781113/returns1-dec-2018-tables.ods</a></p><p><br>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.</p><p>Information for January to March 2019 will be published in May 2019.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2019 12:29:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt