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1718806

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date	16/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people who have been served with notices of intent for removal to Rwanda are (a) women and (b) unaccompanied children.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	26697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the gender or age of those issued with a notice of intent.</p><p>The UK-Rwanda Treaty makes clear at Article 3 that the agreement reached between the governments of Rwanda and the UK does not cover unaccompanied children and that the UK Government shall not seek to relocate unaccompanied children under the age of 18.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 21/05/2024 15:34:42 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1718807

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
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 unaccompanied children are recorded as missing from asylum hotels as of 16 May 2024.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	26698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>There are no unaccompanied asylum-seeking children housed in hotels.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 21/05/2024 15:31:51 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1712762

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
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 press statement by the Prime Minister of 22 April 2024, with which airline commercial charter planes for specific slots to remove people to Rwanda have been booked.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	22967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department engages with commercial partners where required to deliver on its responsibilities. The details of any such discussions are both operationally and commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 25/04/2024 10:27:46 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1702549

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to publish guidance on the operation of section 8AA of the Immigration Act 1971.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	22745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>Guidance on the operation of section 8AA of the Immigration Act 1971 will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 29/04/2024 09:33:53 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1700272

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Brook House Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the start and end times were of the two day-time and one night-time lock-in periods at Brook House IRC as of (a) 12 April 2024 and (b) 1 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	21108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The dignity and welfare of residents across the entire immigration detention estate is of the utmost importance and the use of periods of time where individuals’ freedom of movement is restricted contributes to the maintenance of a safe and secure environment in our centres.</p><p>From 4 December 2023 the Home Office changed the lock-in times from 12.00pm-12:30pm and 5.00pm-5:30pm to 11:30am-12:30pm and 4:30pm-5:30pm. All residents need to be in their rooms for one hour between 11:30-12:30 and 4:30pm-5:30pm, with meal services provided at the end of these times. The Home Office requested this change to ensure that all residents are accounted for, that staff can conduct welfare checks on vulnerable residents, and that planned discharges can be carried out safely.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 22/04/2024 11:31:15 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1684777

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Bibby Stockholm
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used for selecting people to be accommodated on the Bibby Stockholm.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	11352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>We assess every individual against an agreed suitability criteria, guidance on this can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-requests-policy" target="_blank">Allocation of accommodation (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Each person’s suitability will be assessed at regular intervals and if they are no longer suitable for any reason, they will be moved to alternative accommodation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2024 15:08:29 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1684792

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Brook House Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data his Department holds on the (a) longest and (b) average length of time people are held in Brook House immigration removal centre.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	11354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on length of detention for people leaving detention is published in table Det_D03 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#detention" target="_blank">Detailed detention dataset’</a>. The latest data relates to the end of September 2023. However this data is not broken down by last place of detention as this does not show where an individual spent their time in detention. In some cases, an individual may have spent a period of time detained elsewhere before being moved to their last place of detention.</p><p>Data on people leaving detention by last place of detention is published in table Det_04c 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, this data is not broken down by length of detention, for the reason given above.</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=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> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2024 15:06:28 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1677858

registered interest
date	13/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation and Temporary Accommodation
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 Written Statement of 6 December 2023 on Signing of the Rwanda Treaty [HCWS101], what his timescale is for beginning relocation of asylum seekers to Rwanda; and what plans he has for accommodating asylum seekers who are not relocated to Rwanda in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	6837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The process of relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda will begin after the Treaty and the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill comes into force after having progressed through Parliament. The Treaty has been laid before Parliament under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 and the procedures under that Act must be complied with before the Treaty can be ratified and come into force.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Individuals whose asylum claims are declared inadmissible may be able to obtain support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 if they would otherwise be destitute. Certain individuals may also be able to obtain support under sections 98 and 95 of this Act. Such support may include accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 19/12/2023 11:57:45 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss