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1567848

registered interest
date	17/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why asylum applicants are not permitted to apply for permission to work after six months in the UK, given the current labour shortages.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List.</p><p>It is important to distinguish between those who need protection and those seeking to work here who can apply for a work visa under the Immigration Rules. Asylum seekers do not need to make perilous journeys in order to seek employment in the UK. There are various safe and legal routes for those seeking to work in the UK under the Points Based System.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 01/02/2023 11:41:58 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1565254

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the deportation of (1) convicted offenders, or (2) overstayers, to countries with no, or limited, health and welfare systems, is likely to result in destitution for those individuals.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>All individuals subject to removal from the UK are provided with the opportunity to raise claims, including medical claims, which are fully considered and determined before they are returned to their country of nationality or another country.</p><p>Claims are carefully assessed on their individual merits and against a background of published country information notes and policy, which are available on Gov.UK.</p><p>The Home Office provides financial assistance through the Facilitated Return and Assisted Voluntary Return schemes to support individuals to return to their home country.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 23/01/2023 17:50:09 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1565255

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals have received payments from the Emergency Hardship Fund since it was set up following the Windrush scandal.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>In December 2018, the Home Office established an Urgent and Exceptional Payments (UEP) process under the Windrush Compensation Scheme. The policy has a very clear purpose to provide support to members of the Windrush cohort who have an urgent and exceptional need, where this cannot wait for the full compensation scheme decision.</p><p>The Home Office are committed to providing support as quickly as possible where it is needed. The number of individuals issued with an Urgent and Exceptional Payment is not currently published, the Home Office are working to publish that information shortly. The total value of Urgent and Exceptional Payments approved is published and as at the end of November 2022, the total amount paid out was £239,836.46.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 23/01/2023 17:48:11 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1565256

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of children born and living in the UK who have no official residence status; and what plans they have to address those cases.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>We do not hold data on the number of children born in the UK who do not have regularised status.</p><p> </p><p>There are provisions within the Immigration Rules which allow children who have been born in the UK and are subject to immigration control to make an application and regularise their status. On 22 June 2022 the Private Life Rules were changed to make it easier for children and young adults in this position to gain settled status. When the parent or guardian is making an application to regularise their child’s status, they can apply for a fee waiver where they are unable to afford the application fee, are destitute or at risk of imminent destitution, or their income is not sufficient to meet the needs of their child.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 23/01/2023 17:46:36 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1565257

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Lessons Learned Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the 30 recommendations made by the Windrush Lessons Learned Commission have so far been implemented.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>In her report last year, Wendy Williams concluded that 21 of her recommendations have been met or partially met. She acknowledged that the scale of the challenge she set the department was significant and that change on this scale takes time.</p><p>Since then, we have made further progress in delivering against Wendy Williams’ recommendations, including:</p><ul><li>In October 2022, the Home Office established the Office for the Independent Examiner of Complaints, and Moiram Ali was appointed as the Independent Examiner, subsequent to a public appointment recruitment process.</li><li>The Home Office has held over 200 engagement and outreach events across the country and the Windrush Help Teams have attended over 120 one-to-one surgeries to help people apply for documentation.</li><li>As of the end of October 2022, the Home Office had paid out or offered £59.58m in compensation to Windrush victims. In June 2022, the ‘Serving Diverse Communities – Acting on Our Values’ learning package was launched across the Home Office, this started with Recommendations 24 has been designed and is in the process of final review prior to implementation.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 23/01/2023 17:47:01 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1565258

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the backlog of applications for full compensation following mistakes by the Home Office regarding migration or residence status.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>The Windrush Compensation Scheme was launched in April 2019 to compensate members of the Windrush generation and their families for the losses and impacts they have suffered as a result of being unable to demonstrate their lawful immigration status in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The current number of claims that are awaiting a decision at all stages of the initial consideration process, referred to as ‘Work in Progress’ (WIP), for the Windrush Compensation Scheme is published in the Transparency Data release. The latest data was published on 13<sup>th</sup> January 2023 and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fwindrush-compensation-scheme-data-november-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CWini.Kirby1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C3a875839952d43a34e5108dafa04dfab%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638097196076163254%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9M2YIfAi6Ff1a3IkonDVeJHzmrml%2B8FgNSVxCOI8XUE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Windrush Compensation Scheme data: November 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. The relevant page is <em>WCS 05 - Total WIP and Age.</em></p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 23/01/2023 17:39:30 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1565259

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many persons are currently held in immigration detention.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes numbers of detainees in the Immigration Statistics quarterly release on gov.uk. The most recent published total of people in detention was for the end of September 2022, when there were 2,077 detainees held.</p><p>For more information about how this data should be interpreted, please see the ‘About the statistics’ section of the release.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 23/01/2023 14:14:01 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1551401

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	EU Countries: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to support (1) the EU, and (2) countries on the Mediterranean coast, with refugees in that region; and what plans they have, if any, to contribute to the EU’s proposed Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2022 answer text <p>The EU’s Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism is a temporary measure, open to the EU and Associated States, to which the UK is not a party.</p><p>We remain open to discussing greater UK-EU cooperation on migration issues. Meanwhile, the UK supports asylum-seekers through other means: between 2016 and September 2022, we resettled more than 26,000 individuals via refugee resettlement schemes – the third highest number in the world after the United States and Canada, and more than any other European country. Our focus will remain on helping people directly from regions of conflict and instability.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 30/12/2022 14:11:50 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1549169

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to the processing of asylum claims, what steps they are taking (1) to improve the quality of decision-making, (2) to prioritise the most vulnerable cases and those who have been waiting longest, and (3) to improve access to good quality legal advice for applicants.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office have an asylum transformation programme that will speed up and simplify decision making, reduce the time people spend in the asylum system and decrease the number of people who are awaiting an interview or decision. These initiatives include conducting shorter, more focused interviews or omitting interviews where it is appropriate to do so; streamlining decision templates for grants and refusals; and focusing on improving quality to ensure decisions are right first time.</p><p>We are currently concentrating on deciding older claims, high harm cases, those cases with extreme vulnerability, children and new flow cases, whilst those in receipt of support are a priority for Legacy cases.</p><p>All asylum claimants have the opportunity to be legally represented during their asylum claim, and legal aid funding is provided to those who need it.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 20/12/2022 16:21:01 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1549170

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many persons were held in immigration detention for (1) removal from the UK, and (2) assessment purposes, for the most recent date that data are available; and whether the Manston immigration centre is still overcrowded and therefore potentially a risk to health.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on people held in detention in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.</p><p>Data on those in detention relate to those in detention on the last day of the quarter. Reasons for detention are not published in the data.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Quarter</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of detainees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021 Q4</p></td><td><p>1,179</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 Q1</p></td><td><p>1,440</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 Q2</p></td><td><p>2,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 Q3</p></td><td><p>2,077</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 20/12/2022 17:38:35 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton