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1248281

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
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 publish the (a) terms of reference, (b) timetable and (c) scope of hotels and military barracks selected for the internal review into risk in relation to asylum seekers staying in hotels and military barracks.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	110852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The terms of reference for the review of initial asylum seeker accommodation during the Covid-19 pandemic are to:</p><ul><li><p>Conduct a rapid review of initial accommodation for single adult asylum seekers, including hotels and former military barracks, and provide assurance of compliance with public health guidelines to prevent the transmission of Covid 19.  This will include interviews with a wide range of interested parties including Local Authorities, Strategic Migration Partnerships, commercial providers, non-governmental organisations, asylum seekers and Government officials.</p></li><li><p>Provide advice and guidance to the Home Office, providers and individual accommodation units on best practice to prevent transmission of Covid 19</p></li></ul><p>This is a rapid review to assure ourselves of the health and safety of asylum seekers during the Covid 19 pandemic. A report is due by the end of the month and we will seek to publish a summary of the recommendations.</p><p>We chose sites across the UK that would best inform our national approach going forward. This has augmented our business as usual activity on risk and assessment of accommodation during this time of crisis.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 110853 question first answered 12/11/2020 15:26:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1248282

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
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 publish the decision-making process for the choice of hotels and military barracks selected for the internal review into risk in relation to asylum seekers staying in hotels and military barracks during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	110853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The terms of reference for the review of initial asylum seeker accommodation during the Covid-19 pandemic are to:</p><ul><li><p>Conduct a rapid review of initial accommodation for single adult asylum seekers, including hotels and former military barracks, and provide assurance of compliance with public health guidelines to prevent the transmission of Covid 19.  This will include interviews with a wide range of interested parties including Local Authorities, Strategic Migration Partnerships, commercial providers, non-governmental organisations, asylum seekers and Government officials.</p></li><li><p>Provide advice and guidance to the Home Office, providers and individual accommodation units on best practice to prevent transmission of Covid 19</p></li></ul><p>This is a rapid review to assure ourselves of the health and safety of asylum seekers during the Covid 19 pandemic. A report is due by the end of the month and we will seek to publish a summary of the recommendations.</p><p>We chose sites across the UK that would best inform our national approach going forward. This has augmented our business as usual activity on risk and assessment of accommodation during this time of crisis.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 110852 question first answered 12/11/2020 15:26:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1248295

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Turkey
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 14 July 2020 to Question 73764 on Visas: Turkey, when she plans to publish guidance for ECAA applicants who have been unable to return to the UK or renew their leave because of illness or travel restrictions due to covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	110767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to ensuring people are not unfairly impacted in terms of their immigration status as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p>Further guidance for European Communities Association Agreement (ECAA) applicants who have been unable to return to the UK or renew their leave because of illness or travel restrictions due to Covid-19 will be published shortly.</p><p>Under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, the UK’s commitments to Turkish nationals exercising rights under the ECAA will continue throughout the transition period. Turkish workers, business persons and their family members will be able to apply for entry clearance or extension of their stay in the UK until the end of 2020 under existing arrangements.</p><p>All applications, provided they were submitted before 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020, will be decided in accordance with the existing rules and guidance.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 110768 question first answered 09/11/2020 12:35:15 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1248296

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Turkey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that ECAA entry clearance applications received prior to 31 December 2020 are processed in accordance with the rules in force prior to 31 December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	110768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to ensuring people are not unfairly impacted in terms of their immigration status as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p>Further guidance for European Communities Association Agreement (ECAA) applicants who have been unable to return to the UK or renew their leave because of illness or travel restrictions due to Covid-19 will be published shortly.</p><p>Under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, the UK’s commitments to Turkish nationals exercising rights under the ECAA will continue throughout the transition period. Turkish workers, business persons and their family members will be able to apply for entry clearance or extension of their stay in the UK until the end of 2020 under existing arrangements.</p><p>All applications, provided they were submitted before 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020, will be decided in accordance with the existing rules and guidance.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 110767 question first answered 09/11/2020 12:35:15 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1248300

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Windrush Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals to automatically grant British citizenship to British born Windrush descendants whose families gained rights to settle in the UK under the Immigration Act 1971.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	110850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>Individuals born in the UK prior to 1 January 1983 are British citizens. A person born in the UK since 1983 will be a British citizen automatically if either parent was a British citizen or settled in the UK at the time of the birth. This includes any person whose parent was a member of the Windrush generation with indefinite leave to remain granted by the Immigration Act 1971.</p><p>A child born before 1 July 2006 will only acquire citizenship automatically through their father if their parents were married. There is a provision in nationality law for such a person to register as a British citizen if they would have become a British citizen automatically had their parents been married. This provision extends to individuals born in the UK to members of the Windrush generation that were granted indefinite leave to remain under the Immigration Act 1971. Those applying under this provision do not have to pay a registration fee.</p><p>The British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019 further provides that such a person may register as a British citizen without needing to meet the good character requirement. The Order specifically amends the British Nationality Act 1981 to address the Supreme Court’s finding that the good character requirement for registration under certain routes was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/11/2020 18:08:36 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1248310

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on deporting offenders who have grown up in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	110936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>Under the UK Borders Act 2007 passed by the last Labour Government, the Home Secretary has a duty to deport a foreign criminal who is convicted in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of 12 months or more unless an exception applies. Where the automatic deportation threshold is not met, the Home Office will consider deportation under the Immigration Act 1971 where the person is a serious or persistent offender. Currently, European Economic Area (EEA) nationals are deported in accordance with European Union (EU) law on the grounds of public policy or public security. The UK’s departure from the EU means that, in future, an EEA national who commits an offence after the end of the transition period (31 December 2020) will be considered under the same deportation thresholds that apply to non-EEA nationals.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/11/2020 15:30:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1247714

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Automatic Number Plate Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much additional funding will be allocated in the next Spending Review to the National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Service (NAS); how much overspend has occurred in the programme to date; how many missed deadlines have occurred in the programme to date; what plans she has to ensure public confidence in the delivery of the NAS; and what recent assessment she has made of the effect of that performance on the operation of the police services.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	110203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Service (NAS) is a national system replacing the current National ANPR Data Centre (NADC), used by Police Forces to interrogate ANPR data.</p><p>The department has submitted a bid to HMT as part of the spending review process and we are in active discussions about the amount of money that we should be investing in the National ANPR Service (NAS), both centrally and out to individual forces. We have shared with the Treasury the full cost of NAS and its potential replacement for the forthcoming year and for subsequent years, including what will flow centrally and what will flow through individual forces. We expect a decision on the funding settlement from HMT this month.</p><p>Programme costs are separated into 3 categories; first the cost of building and rolling out the NAS infrastructure, software and any related changes to the force systems; second costs for the programme team and; third the cost to maintain NAS system and its legacy system, National ANPR data centre (NADC). The costs for delivering the new NAS system is by far the most significant and, subject to commercial negotiation, the annual cost of NAS service following the commercial negotiations is likely to amount to c. £15 million per year and takes into account the costs of keeping legacy systems in place until the Minimal viable product (MVP) is delivered in Spring 2021 and programme costs. The negotiation has achieved future years reduction on service costs which benefit policing long term.</p><p>The current programme overspend is approximately £6.9m for this financial year and considers the costs of delivering the MVP and any programme costs. The additional in year costs are to focus on delivering the critical MVP, but an overall reduction in service costs has been achieved over the lifetime of the new contract presently being negotiated.</p><p>The programme set itself an original target of transitioning all users from the current NADC system and legacy local systems by Autumn 2020. We are now targeting a MVP in Spring 2021 with the legacy NADC system being retired in Spring 2022 once all forces have been transitioned across to NAS. Since the award of the G-Cloud contact in 2018 to the current delivery partner there have been 3 key releases to date. The current release is forecast to be 7 months later than originally planned.</p><p>Both during and since the programme reset in May 2016, where a review of the critical objectives of the programme that were set April 2015, it has undergone extensive assurance both internally within the department and externally through Cabinet Office, GDS and HMT.</p><p>The programme continues to build confidence in the delivery of the NAS through regular engagement with our Programme User Group and it’s subgroups, as well as, weekly update meetings with the NPCC ANPR Portfolio Change Lead. Programme teams also manage regular contact with forces and LEAS to provide updates in addition to weekly briefing notes to provide updates and progress. The SRO is in discussion with the ANPR Portfolio Lead about establishing a group of senior police representatives to manage the NAS roadmap into the future.</p><p>The Department remains committed to completing the delivery of NAS, realising the benefits of NAS and delivering police effectiveness and operational efficiency savings. These include cashable reduction in running costs through the decommissioning of legacy systems and a wide range of broader benefits such as reducing the time to identify a vehicles of interest, public time savings, improved searches and better intelligence sharing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 02/12/2020 16:07:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1247715

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometrics
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 she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's biometric programme; what (a) overspend and (b) underspend that programme generated in the latest period for which figures are available; what plans she has to help ensure public confidence in the development of biometrics; and what assessment she has made of the effect of the performance of the biometric programme on the operation of police services.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	110204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The biometric systems within the scope of the HOB Programme, IDENT1 (storing the Police fingerprint collection) and the National DNA database, are used on a daily basis by Police Forces and are fundamental to their operations.</p><p>HOB is delivering new capabilities that the Police are using to support their operations, and these have been well received. This includes Strategic Mobile capability, the ability for Police Forces to share DNA and fingerprint data with EU Member States under the Prüm Decisions, and HOB will very soon be delivering a replacement DNA Database which will be an important development for Policing and the Criminal Justice community.</p><p>In July the Home Office Biometrics (HOB) Programme completed its annual refresh of the Programme Business Case, which was approved by the Home Office Portfolio Investment Committee and subsequently submitted to the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. With regards to the HOB budget, an underspend of £1m was declared for financial year 2019/20.</p><p>HOB continues to involve Policing in all areas of the programme and provides regular updates on progress through a variety of forums and with the oversight and regulatory bodies for biometrics (for example the Biometrics Commissioner and Forensics Science Regulator). The programme also provides advice to the Permanent Secretary and Ministers with regular updates on the programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/11/2020 15:53:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1247716

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Law Enforcement Data Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much additional funding will be allocated in the next Spending Review to the National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP); what the overspend is on the programme to date; how many deadlines the programme has missed to date; what plans she has to ensure confidence in the delivery of the NLEDP; and what assessment she has made of the effect of that programme on the effectiveness of policing.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	110205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP) is replacing the Police National Computer (PNC) and Police National Database (PND) with the Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS).</p><p>The department has submitted a bid to HMT as part of the Spending Review which is ongoing.</p><p>The programme overspend is currently £45M. This excludes costs associated with risk and optimism bias.</p><p>The programme had expected to transition all users of PNC to LEDS by December 2021 and decommission PNC by June 2022. The programme is now targeting the transition of PNC users to LEDS by June 2023 and the decommission of PNC by December 2023.</p><p>The programme had expected to transition all users of PND to LEDS by June 2023 and decommission PND by December 2023. The programme is now targeting the transition of PND users to LEDS by September 2024 and the decommission of PND by March 2025.</p><p>The programme is exploring options for how the replacement of PNC and PND could potentially be delivered sooner.</p><p>The confidence in the delivery of LEDS is increasing with the implementation of a LEDS pilot service to 7 Police Forces allowing them to access Driving Licence Images at the roadside by Police issued mobile devices. The programme is planning for a wider roll-out of this capability from April 2021 onwards.</p><p>NLEDP has well documented benefits into how LEDS can support policing through efficiency and effectiveness savings. For example, since the LEDS pilot service went live it saves up to 66% of police time when performing a roadside identity check. The programme has also invested significant effort into reviewing the use of data, not just technology. The programme has completed a Data Protection Impact Assessment, consulted upon a new Parliamentary Code for LEDS data and established an independent group of privacy bodies to critique our work on data.</p><p>The programme has undergone extensive assurance, both internally within the department and externally throughout Cabinet Office and HMT. The programme has also recently appointed an External Review Team, with full support from senior Police Chiefs, which will review the full scope, remit and approach of the programme. Outcomes from this review will be agreed and taken forward with full co-operation of Home Office, Police Chiefs and Police IT Leads. This review will conclude in April 2021 with full involvement of Cabinet Office and Treasury.</p><p>The Department remains committed to completing the delivery of NLEDP, realising the benefits of LEDS and delivering police effectiveness and efficiency savings. These include cashable reduction in running costs and a wide range of broader benefits such as reducing the time to identify a person of interest, public time savings, improved searches and reduced training overheads.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/11/2020 15:57:28 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1247757

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Burton
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 seekers are currently being accommodated in hotels in Burton constituency; and how much that accommodation cost the public purse in the most recent period for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Kate Griffiths
uin	110257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2020 answer text <p>The number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority can be found at <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets%23asylum-support&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C59aaf422e5514cc57ab908d80ee3338c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637275716261597833&amp;sdata=6LwYz97z54ErYCJEkz%2FEUt7eu4MaMdlnEDmyvSsu3I0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support</a></p><p>Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential so we do not provide this information, however, total asylum spends are published as part of transparency data <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p><p>Data is published on a quarterly basis from 31<sup>st</sup> March 2014 with the latest information covering until 30th June 2020. The next quarterly figures are due to be released in November 2020</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/11/2020 17:03:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4773 label Biography information for Kate Kniveton